The Jasper Dailey songs

[shelter]

I like this song. It sounds like an early 60s bubblegum novelty hit, sung by a punk rock singer.

[endofposts]

I heard it online, though I don't have the boxed set yet.  It creeped me out a little because Jasper's voice reminds me of Murry.

[Chris Brown]

The track is awesome and groovy, and obviously the singing is awful but in a humorous way.  Those lyrics are just horrendous though!  I doubt Brian took more than 30 seconds to think of those.

Too bad an acetate was the only source they had, I would have loved to hear that track sans vocals.

[JohnMill]

The track is awesome and groovy, and obviously the singing is awful but in a humorous way.  Those lyrics are just horrendous though!  I doubt Brian took more than 30 seconds to think of those.

Too bad an acetate was the only source they had, I would have loved to hear that track sans vocals.

That being said they still have some of that sardonic SMiLE wit to them.  I mean the images of someone flying off a teeter totter isn't too far removed from the image of someone eating a candy bar wrapper. 

[The Song Of The Grange]

In a way, Teeter Totter Love has been one of the highlights for me because it is one of those long lost tracks I thought I would never ever hear. And it was recorded at a key time for Smile, when the album was starting to fall apart and deadlines were being missed. I think I heard someplace that Brian took the 3 songs to a record company and the suits were less than amused.

[Fall Breaks]

In a way, Teeter Totter Love has been one of the highlights for me because it is one of those long lost tracks I thought I would never ever hear.

Agreed, it's great to finally hear it. My first thought on hearing the vocals was that it sounded like a parody of Jim Ford (whose voice I really like)!

[astroray]

Im thinking Brian got his "Faraway Land Of Night / Child of Winter" voice from Jasper.

[The Demon]

I like this song. It sounds like an early 60s bubblegum novelty hit, sung by a punk rock singer.

Yes!  I thought it was hysterical.  One of my favorite tracks on the box set.

[onkster]

Can't recall where I read it, but did Mike maybe come up with those lyrics? I could swear that, at the least, the idea of "teeter totter love" was his idea.

The overall sound, to me, is like late 50s/early 60s Disney version of rock and roll--like something you'd see in one of those cheap comedies (no, I'm not referring to "The Monkey's Uncle" in this case): goofy instrumentation, nothing especially hard-hitting...

[shelter]

Can't recall where I read it, but did Mike maybe come up with those lyrics?

"Lyrics & music by Brian Wilson", according to the Smile Sessions book.

[Matt H]

Anyone know if "Crack The Whip," and "When I Get Mad I Just Play My Drums," are still in existence?  I would love to hear those too, but probably would never get released.

[Aegir]

Then she came down, and I went flyin' OFF

[Andrew G. Doe]

Anyone know if "Crack The Whip," and "When I Get Mad I Just Play My Drums," are still in existence?  I would love to hear those too, but probably would never get released.

Jasper didn't have them in 1985 - just "T-TL".

[The Shift]

I heard it online, though I don't have the boxed set yet.  It creeped me out a little because Jasper's voice reminds me of Murry.

Not sure it sounds like Murry, but I think it sounds like the kind of thing that Murry might have enjoyed listening to, and perhaps the kind of thing he might have aspired to composing.

And I can't help but think that Brian has a very soft spot for that kinda music - I mean, the music his father would have liked. The big band stuff of Life is For the Living, right through to the recent Gershwin thing.  Do we all have this tendency to adopt our parents' likes/ Will I be buying Shirley Bassey records in a decade or two???

[Curtis Leon]

Anyone know if "Crack The Whip," and "When I Get Mad I Just Play My Drums," are still in existence?  I would love to hear those too, but probably would never get released.

Jasper didn't have them in 1985 - just "T-TL".

Are the backing tracks still available, at least?

[Chris Brown]

Anyone know if "Crack The Whip," and "When I Get Mad I Just Play My Drums," are still in existence?  I would love to hear those too, but probably would never get released.

Jasper didn't have them in 1985 - just "T-TL".

Are the backing tracks still available, at least?

Nope - even "Teeter Totter Love" was sourced from an acetate.  None of the multis are known to exist.

[Autotune]

Im thinking Brian got his "Faraway Land Of Night / Child of Winter" voice from Jasper.

Well, he uses a pied piper-like voice in the original Little St. Nick
He probably got that in childhood

[Cam Mott]

I thought Jasper's wife had a tape. Is that another thing that did not pan out?

[TheLazenby]

Do you think, now that this song is available, that whoever thought up the faux "Remember The Zoo?" tracklist regrets including it? :-P

Damn... if that album did exist, side 2 would've been NUTS.  "Tones", a 1966 version of "He Couldn't Get His Poor Old Body To Move", "Teeter Totter Love", a Tomorrow Never Knows-type track with animal noises over it.... and people questioned Smile?!

[BiNNS]

I finally received my box set on xmas and i got around to listening to Teeter Totter Love lastnight. Personally, i love it. I played it for my girlfriend today in the car and she too loved it. She said it reminded her of Sesame Street.

[Billgoodman]

Yeah, I really like it too for that same reason!

[PhilCohen]

Apparently, the "Teeter Totter Love" acetate was obtained from Marylin Rovell's present-day husband.

[Mooger Fooger]

That would make sense, because the tape copy of the acetate appears on page x of "The Smile File" with the caption "One that got away", by that patronizing author of children's books who also apparently regularly crosses the line, Dwight Cavanagh.

[SBonilla]

I heard it online, though I don't have the boxed set yet.  It creeped me out a little because Jasper's voice reminds me of Murry.

Not sure it sounds like Murry, but I think it sounds like the kind of thing that Murry might have enjoyed listening to, and perhaps the kind of thing he might have aspired to composing.

And I can't help but think that Brian has a very soft spot for that kinda music - I mean, the music his father would have liked. The big band stuff of Life is For the Living, right through to the recent Gershwin thing.  Do we all have this tendency to adopt our parents' likes/ Will I be buying Shirley Bassey records in a decade or two???

Check out your parent's likes; it might not be a bad thing.  Two great albums that Shirley did with the amazing arranger Johnny Harris are: SOMETHING & SOMETING ELSE.

[Winston Wrong]

Do you think, now that this song is available, that whoever thought up the faux "Remember The Zoo?" tracklist regrets including it? :-P

Damn... if that album did exist, side 2 would've been NUTS.  "Tones", a 1966 version of "He Couldn't Get His Poor Old Body To Move", "Teeter Totter Love", a Tomorrow Never Knows-type track with animal noises over it.... and people questioned Smile?!

LOL funniest post of the year!