If the BBs were their current ages when the band started...

[CenturyDeprived]

Mike would be born in 1886
Brian, Al, and Bruce would be born in 1887
Denny would have been born in 1889
Carl would have been born in 1891
Dave would be born in 1893

Could a bunch of talented 70-something guys called The Beach Boys or The Beach Men, with the same songs, had any success in 1961? Even one hit?

[Emily]

Are their voices their then voices or their now voices?

[CenturyDeprived]

Are their voices their then voices or their now voices?

I guess in the case of Al, it would pretty much be the same But everyone would sound the way they do today. Maybe they'd have to just give Al all of the leads to ageless Jardine in order to get a hit.

[Emily]

Yeah. I was going to say that if they had their then voices, they'd just have to find some models for the photos and they'd be fine. Their now voices? Other than Al's, I don't really think the kids are going to run out and buy old man voices singing about surfing and gettin bugged while being real cool heads.

[joshferrell]

1. Viagra Viagra Viagra (till the nurses take the beds away)
2. Surfer Gran.
3.Burp City
4. Catch a Nap.
5. Good Viagra-tions
6. Help me Rhonda (I have fallen and can't get up)
7. She's going bald
8. I get around (on a walker)
9. In the back of my, wait I forgot....
10. Nursing Home girls
11. shut down (My kidneys have)
12. Barnyard (those were the good old days)
13. till I d

[CenturyDeprived]

1. Viagra Viagra Viagra (till the nurses take the beds away)
2. Surfer Gran.
3.Burp City
4. Catch a Nap.
5. Good Viagra-tions
6. Help me Rhonda (I have fallen and can't get up)
7. She's going bald
8. I get around (on a walker)
9. In the back of my, wait I forgot....
10. Nursing Home girls
11. shut down (My kidneys have)
12. Barnyard (those were the good old days)
13. till I d

 

I wonder if anyone born in the 1880s were actually on any hit records in the 1960s. 

Who's the earliest-born person on any BB recording? Would it be Jasper "Teeter Totter Love" Dailey, born in the year of the Titanic, 1912?

[joshferrell]

1. Viagra Viagra Viagra (till the nurses take the beds away)
2. Surfer Gran.
3.Burp City
4. Catch a Nap.
5. Good Viagra-tions
6. Help me Rhonda (I have fallen and can't get up)
7. She's going bald
8. I get around (on a walker)
9. In the back of my, wait I forgot....
10. Nursing Home girls
11. shut down (My kidneys have)
12. Barnyard (those were the good old days)
13. till I d

 

I wonder if anyone born in the 1880s were actually on any hit records in the 1960s. 

Who's the earliest-born person on any BB recording? Would it be Jasper "Teeter Totter Love" Dailey, born in the year of the Titanic, 1912?

I wonder if he's still alive...

[CenturyDeprived]

1. Viagra Viagra Viagra (till the nurses take the beds away)
2. Surfer Gran.
3.Burp City
4. Catch a Nap.
5. Good Viagra-tions
6. Help me Rhonda (I have fallen and can't get up)
7. She's going bald
8. I get around (on a walker)
9. In the back of my, wait I forgot....
10. Nursing Home girls
11. shut down (My kidneys have)
12. Barnyard (those were the good old days)
13. till I d

 

I wonder if anyone born in the 1880s were actually on any hit records in the 1960s. 

Who's the earliest-born person on any BB recording? Would it be Jasper "Teeter Totter Love" Dailey, born in the year of the Titanic, 1912?

I wonder if he's still alive...

Nope, sadly Jasper died in 1998.

http://www.angelfire.com/mn/smileshop/historyjasper.html

I do, however, have one to add to your list: Long Ball Texan

[Lonely Summer]

1 - That's Why God Made the Telegram
2 - I Get Around (in a wheelchair)
3 - Come Go With Me (to the retirement home)
4 - It's Gettin' Late (no kidding!)
5 - Baby Let Your Hair Turn Grey

[The Shift]

Mike would be born in 1886
Brian, Al, and Bruce would be born in 1887
Denny would have been born in 1889
Carl would have been born in 1891
Dave would be born in 1893

Could a bunch of talented 70-something guys called The Beach Boys or The Beach Men, with the same songs, had any success in 1961? Even one hit?

So I'm guessing no Carl & Dennis? Are we starting with Dave or Al? At what point do Bruce, Blondie and Ricky join?

More songs:

California Saga Holidays
Don't Go Near The Wethers
Heaven
Do You Remember?
Slippers On Through
I'm the Pied Pipe Smoker
Do You Remember?
I Went To Sleep
Do It Again
Do You Remember?
Do I Again
What'd You Say?
Getcha Backache
Caroline, Nurse
Rockin' Chair Music
I'll Get Around (to it)
Gout Vibrations
We's Goin' Bald
Fall Broke My Hip This Winter
Do You Remember?



And then there's this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-35747166
Some researchers have too much time on their hands…

[JK]

I wonder if anyone born in the 1880s were actually on any hit records in the 1960s. 

Closest I can get is Walter Brennan (1894-1974) who reached #5 on Billboard in 1962 with "Old Rivers".

(I see he had already had a US #30 two years earlier with "Dutchman's Gold".)

[joshferrell]

1. Viagra Viagra Viagra (till the nurses take the beds away)
2. Surfer Gran.
3.Burp City
4. Catch a Nap.
5. Good Viagra-tions
6. Help me Rhonda (I have fallen and can't get up)
7. She's going bald
8. I get around (on a walker)
9. In the back of my, wait I forgot....
10. Nursing Home girls
11. shut down (My kidneys have)
12. Barnyard (those were the good old days)
13. till I d

 

I wonder if anyone born in the 1880s were actually on any hit records in the 1960s. 

Who's the earliest-born person on any BB recording? Would it be Jasper "Teeter Totter Love" Dailey, born in the year of the Titanic, 1912?

I wonder if he's still alive...

Nope, sadly Jasper died in 1998.

http://www.angelfire.com/mn/smileshop/historyjasper.html

I do, however, have one to add to your list: Long Ball Texan

cool thanks...

[joshferrell]

well Laurel and Hardy went #2 on the UK charts with "Trail of the lonesome pine" in the 70's after they had died..
http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/20280/laurel-and-hardy/

[Magic Transistor Radio]

Or... What kind of music would Brian be making in 1907?

[CenturyDeprived]

Or... What kind of music would Brian be making in 1907?

Most certainly it would be something with a barbershop quartet twist to it, which was an existing genre in that era. That's assuming, of course, he'd be exposed to hearing a vocal harmony group in the absence of the yet-to-exist Four Freshmen.

[Magic Transistor Radio]

Or... What kind of music would Brian be making in 1907?

Most certainly it would be something with a barbershop quartet twist to it, which was an existing genre in that era. That's assuming, of course, he'd be exposed to hearing a vocal harmony group in the absence of the yet-to-exist Four Freshmen.

He would have mixed up beat Bach music with barbershop harmonies.

[SBonilla]

Folk music would have been the only plausible way to go: I could see Brian and the guitarists in the band whipping up a snappy arrangement of WALK RIGHT IN to compete the Rooftop Singers' version.
Al on lead vocals. Mike on "everybody's talkin' 'bout a new way of walkin'" Brian on "do you wanna lose your mind." Group harmonies on chorus tag and select spots.
A Hit or just a Bubbling Under?