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The GV (early take) which can be found on the smileysmile/wildhoney cd is great, it has such a funky chorus but what's the deal with the lyrics?
Obviously its before Mike got his lyrics down but half of it is already written anyway and didn't Mike say he was the one to come up with the boy/girl scenario in the song because the lyrics already say " I bet I know what she's like, and I can feel how right she'd be for me" or was he just talking about "I'm picking up good vibrations, she's giving me excitations "
Did Brian write the lyrics for this early take?
And who's singing in it, to me it sounds like Carl on lead and Brian backing.

Those lyrics were written by Tony Asher, and they were only ever intended as a placeholder, as per "Scrambled eggs". Lead vocal is generally agreed to be Brian, but there are dissenting voices.

i was watching a beach boys movie did you know that the original version of "good vbariotns was just brian yelping "good good good good good googd vibrations" over and over and over over bouncy chorus section echo chamber HERE yeah, well, it needed a hook. and then mike love rescued it from being aimless drug music by bothering to write the entire rest of the song himself?

Woh I was so sure that was carl.
So if it was Tony Asher's idea for the song to be about a boy/girl relationship why do Mike Love take credit for it  :lol

Sorry, I'm, 180% wrong - it is Carl. My bad.

Thank god, I was getting scared I couldn't tell the difference between their voices  :lol , but Carl's and even Dennis's  falsetto do sound a lot like Brian's.

see you need something people can understand. what can people understand? sex. boy/girl, you know? boys like girls and girls like boys. people understand this. woo woo machines... they don't understand. they hear it and think, this is ego music, what is this? it's crazy acid alliteration ego music. this song needs something i can understand like a girl/boy theme with hooky chorus reinforcing this thematic element. before mike love, good vibrations was just a jew's harp, a cello, and a theremin. mike had to tell brian, we need something people can understand, like pianos and bass and drums and organs...

wait are you saying thats not brian

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qz2SabvaOjQ

Yea thats Brian, It can get pretty confusing can't it.

 :lol sorry I confused myself, It's Carl
sorry bout that

You shocked me there for a moment. Glad to know I was right in assuming it's Carl.

I'll slightly refine that:

verse - Carl

chorus - Brian.

Sorry for the confusion. Source for this info is impeccable.

WHAT!? I always thought that was Brian!

It sounds like both of them really. No, wait, it's Brian. It has to be! Or...? Carl doesn't sing like that, does he?

Yeah, me too - swung between the two, but was eventually presented with compelling evidence.

Please present us with the evidence as well!

Carl & Brian on the verse and chorus, Brians vocals are stronger and louder mixed. Brian is singing along alone with the theremin in one place, the uee ooo ooo ooo

Wow I've always thought that was all Brian too, just singing in a Carl-like voice.

That's not Brian?

 :o

I'm truly shocked

Why is the first line always missing from this early version?

I suspect that the mic input wasn't "punched in" soon enough and nobody felt it was necessary to redo the opening line since it was just a demo run-through. I have a feeling that Asher's original opening line is lost as a result and Mike's "I love the colorful clothes she wears..." was substituted for the BWPS version because no one could remember what Asher's line was.

That's a shame. I always assumed Asher did write the opening line.

Sure... but not right now.

Because it's not there ?  ;D

Wow...all this time I thought it was Brian as well!!!

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Andrew G. Doe, ladies and genitals!

I remember first getting into teh boiz and listening to the opening of this over and over, and I swear I could hear a voice going on in there. Shame Asher's original opening line is lost to time. :(

More recently, I've thought Carl did the verses, too. Not shocked to hear someone say evidence has been brought forth as to it being Carl. Still puzzled by the slight Southern accent or whatever the hell is going on there, but ah well. Maybe it was just a matter of, "Hay, this isn't a final vocal, I'm gonna dick around a bit. Tee hee." - Carl Wilson

Also, wasn't the story (well, someone's story, anyway) that Dennis was meant to sing the verses of the final "Good Vibrations" but became ill and Carl substituted? Or was that a bunch of bullmerda?

I can't imagine Dennis singing something in such a high key...

Ah, one of those knowledges.  :)

Whats wrong? Its BOTH of them, same as with god only knows with Brian, Carl is mixed low bellow singing unison eith Brian and as with God only knows Brian went with Carl only in the end.

Listen again to the verses... check the enunciation... that's Carl.

Always the same excuse. Sorry lads, inside information. Cough, hush, hush!

The version of GV I love is the one on SOT, which is fully developed but done in one take ala Pet Sounds The middle section has that funky flute and bass harmonica. Wish we had a version of this with vox. I'm guessing this was the template from which the edit version grew.

Had this version been finished and ended up on Pet Sounds as originally planned, I wonder if it would taken the place of Here Today?

President Bush used to meet with his CIA chiefs once a week.  He'd start every meeting by asking, 'why haven't we found bin Laden yet?'  And always got the same answer: 'because he's hiding, sir.'

 ;D

I never heard Carl sound like that not even on Darlin were he has his nasal Brianish voice, he is in there but bellow Brian.