The Jasper Dailey songs

[Fall Breaks]

The two songs that Brian wrote and recorded for Jasper Dailey in 1967, "Crack the Whip" and "When I Get Mad I Just Play My Drums", have they been booted? Has anyone heard them? What do they sound like? Smile-ish?

[SG7]

There's also a song called "Teeter Totter Love," somewhere in those vaults. Highly doubt any of the Jasper stuff will see the light of day.

[Andrew G. Doe]

Jasper, bless his memory, was a sweet man... and possibly the least talented singer I've ever heard.

[A Million Units In Jan!]

Teeter Totter love goes up
Teeter Totter love goes down
When I went up my Baby went up
Then she came down and I went flyin' off

Brilliant lyrics, dontyathink? 

I swear back in the early days of the SMiLE shop, someone posted on there talking about how they had heard the acetate of that. Then again, I remember a post from someone claiming to have heard the entire 'Barnyard Suite' featuring 'Barnyard Billy' himself.

[mikeyj]

I swear back in the early days of the SMiLE shop, someone posted on there talking about how they had heard the acetate of that. Then again, I remember a post from someone claiming to have heard the entire 'Barnyard Suite' featuring 'Barnyard Billy' himself.

Teeter Totter love was on Youtube a while back.. not sure if it's still up there?

[grillo]

I swear back in the early days of the SMiLE shop, someone posted on there talking about how they had heard the acetate of that. Then again, I remember a post from someone claiming to have heard the entire 'Barnyard Suite' featuring 'Barnyard Billy' himself.

Teeter Totter love was on Youtube a while back.. not sure if it's still up there?

Pretty sure that particular recording was an old doo-wop song, not anything to do with BW.

[mikeyj]

Pretty sure that particular recording was an old doo-wop song, not anything to do with BW.

Ah righteo... I wasn't really sure if it was legit

[Aegir]

I remember getting in an argument with the guy that posted those Remember the Zoo videos, specifically with Teeter Totter Love, saying that he's just confusing people. And this all leads back to AGD having it in the Unreleased Album section on his website, which is what inspired the guy to post those videos in the first place. It was never a Beach Boys album and people continuously referring to it "just for history" end up doing more damage and spreading more rumors. Any reference to it on the net, even THIS ONE, just serves to confuse people.

If you're reading this, Andrew, no offense, but we share a common goal - to stop people from thinking Remember the Zoo is real. We just have different ideas of how that should be done and I respect your way of doing so.

[Fall Breaks]

Jasper, bless his memory, was a sweet man... and possibly the least talented singer I've ever heard.

Does that mean that you've heard Crack the Whip and When I Get Mad? Was the music better than the singing?

[Andrew G. Doe]

I remember getting in an argument with the guy that posted those Remember the Zoo videos, specifically with Teeter Totter Love, saying that he's just confusing people. And this all leads back to AGD having it in the Unreleased Album section on his website, which is what inspired the guy to post those videos in the first place....

'Course, if he'd bothered to read the whole thing, he'd know it's a hoax. 

For future reference, I'm contemplating a BB "mthys & legends" section, and will definitely relocate Remember The Zoo there.

And then we'll have world peace...

[Andrew G. Doe]

Jasper, bless his memory, was a sweet man... and possibly the least talented singer I've ever heard.

Does that mean that you've heard Crack the Whip and When I Get Mad? Was the music better than the singing?

The tracks were laid down by The Crew... but even they couldn't cover for Jasper's voice. He was a lovely man, generous to a fault... but couldn't carry a tune iffn you sewed handles on it. I'm minded of Florence Foster Jenkins.

[Peter Reum]

Teeter Totter Love is a chant, not unlike You're Welcome, with the vocal being pretty much unlistenable. Jasper played it for me a few times back in the day. It has the chimes in it that You're Welcome has.

[Loaf]

Teeter Totter Love is a chant, not unlike You're Welcome, with the vocal being pretty much unlistenable. Jasper played it for me a few times back in the day. It has the chimes in it that You're Welcome has.

I would LOVE to hear it. You're Welcome is beautiful, and i'm a fan of people singing who can't sing "well". Like Dylan. And BW2008.

[A Million Units In Jan!]

I think that there are a couple of different types of 'not singing well'. The first is somebody like Dylan, who doesn't sound all that great, yet has a certain charm. The second type ( I imagine) is like Jasper, where it sounds horrible and no amount of great music or studio trickery can make it sound halfway decent.

[Fall Breaks]

Those songs really sound interesting! But here is the crucial question: Is his voice even worse than that of Dick "Stella By Starlight" Reynolds? 

[Andrew G. Doe]

Those songs really sound interesting! But here is the crucial question: Is his voice even worse than that of Dick "Stella By Starlight" Reynolds? 

Oh yes.

[Fall Breaks]

Those songs really sound interesting! But here is the crucial question: Is his voice even worse than that of Dick "Stella By Starlight" Reynolds? 

Oh yes.

 

[Alex]

Well, guess what? We've finally got Teeter-Totter Love!

[Jaspy]

"Teeter Totter Love" is a milestone from the SMiLE sessions!

Why?

It has vocals and it's finished!

[hypehat]

I did laugh hysterically for quite some time at it, but my god. It's TERRIBLE 

[Jonas]

I love the fact that this thread was found instead of starting a new one. I remember reading this one and I was thinking, man I bet these guys are just being harsh (especially AGD, we all know how HE is! )

But, my lord. I've gone through Discs 1-4 over and over and over all week...and to this day I dont think Ive gone through Teeter through the whole way...maybe once, but I was probably influenced...

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

I made a CD for the car and put Teeter Totter Love on 4 times in a row.

I don't think anything can bring me down so long as I've got that song playing in the background.

[joshferrell]

Those songs really sound interesting! But here is the crucial question: Is his voice even worse than that of Dick "Stella By Starlight" Reynolds? 

wow thosee vocals are pretty bad (no offence to the guy singing)

[Mark H.]

I think it' better than Battle Hymn of the Republic.  Kind of a Spike Jones thing going on.

[Mr. Cohen]

Say what you want, but I love Brian's kooky arrangement for the song.

It shows how, at this point, Brian could do anything that he felt like musically. I forget that, because all the Smile music is psychedelic/esoteric/mystical/classical. But if Brian wanted, he could've successfully been making cheesy '60s teeny pop tunes that would've charted.  That said, "Teeter Totter Love" could've used a bridge or something to make it seem more like a real song. It's basically that same 20 second section repeating over and over. Like "Fall Breaks", but cheerily mad instead of hauntingly mad.