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Title: My SMiLE tracklist (oldies but goodies!) Post by: BiG GRiN on September 12, 2008, 07:55:27 PM I made this tracklist with songs from my iTunes Library and infos I collected on the web, specially from Van Dyke Parks web site;
All the songs had had a big influence in the begining of SMiLE. - "Gee" by The Crows/Jan & Dean - "El Paso" by Marty Robbins - "Peace In The Valley" by The Patuxent Partners - "Roll Columbia Roll (Gran Coulee Dam)" by Woody Guthrie - "Old Mc Donald" various versions - "Barnyard Blues" by Original Dixieland Jazz Band - "The Old Master Painter" by Dick Haymes - "You Are My Sunshine" by Jimmie Davis - "Waiting for a train" by Jimmie Rodgers - "I've been working on the railroad" by The Tinseltown Players - "Home on the range" by Gene Autry/Roy Rodgers - "Frere Jacques/Brother John" by Fred Koch - "Long Ago Tomorrow" by Burt Bacharach - "I Wanna Be Around" by Julie London - "In Old Chicago" (the story of Mrs O Leary's Cow) 1937 MOVIE by Henry King * - "Cool Water" by The Sons Of The Pioneers - "Blue Hawaii" by Henri Mancini/Elvis Presley - "Ukulele Lady" by Duke Kamoku - "The Pirates Of Penzance: I'm A Pirate King" by D'Oyly Carte Opera Company And Orchestra - "Long Long Ago" by Jerry Gray And His Orchestra/Ellen & John Wright * During the scene of the great fire, you can hear bells and whistles, really close to "Fire intro"! Title: Re: My SMiLE tracklist (oldies but goodies!) Post by: Sheriff John Stone on September 12, 2008, 08:20:04 PM Very impressive! And you even sequenced it. :police:
Title: Re: My SMiLE tracklist (oldies but goodies!) Post by: Jay on September 12, 2008, 09:15:11 PM I wouldn't mind having a CD copy of that. ;)
Title: Re: My SMiLE tracklist (oldies but goodies!) Post by: Andrew G. Doe on September 12, 2008, 10:07:16 PM Outstanding idea - well done. :)
Title: Re: My SMiLE tracklist (oldies but goodies!) Post by: Boiled Egg on September 15, 2008, 01:26:21 AM inspired.
Title: Re: My SMiLE tracklist (oldies but goodies!) Post by: JB Wilojarston on September 15, 2008, 06:18:58 AM Not only were these songs inspirational but there are also Rhythm and Blues quotes in several songs songs from Smile forward:
Get A Job - SHE'S GOING BALD Little Egypt - SHE'S GOING BALD (ascending chromatic dimished chords in middle section) Hey! Ba-ba-re-bop - WONDERFUL Work With Me Henry/Dance With Me Henry - WONDERFUL Tweedle Dee - COOL COOL WATER Speedo - THIS WHOLE WORLD Finger Poppin' Time - DO IT AGAIN Title: Re: My SMiLE tracklist (oldies but goodies!) Post by: Bill Tobelman on September 18, 2008, 07:34:01 PM It's as if Brian got his inspiration for SMiLE from a record store.
Cool idea. Title: Re: My SMiLE tracklist (oldies but goodies!) Post by: Bill Tobelman on September 18, 2008, 07:50:12 PM But Van Dyke Parks was going for a Walt Whitman, e.e. cummings, Mark Twain approach. It would seem that SMiLE is very library & bookstore oriented as well.
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