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Title: "Do You Like Worms" second verse...
Post by: Jim V. on April 02, 2012, 07:05:15 PM
Ok so this makes me look like a total idiot, but could somebody explain to me why on The SMiLE Sessions and the Good Vibrations box set, "Do You Like Worms" has that weird chant during the second verse, whereas on BWPS, "Roll Plymouth Rock" has the "once upon the Sandwich Isles..." lyrics. Obviously, The Beach Boys releases didn't have any verse lyrics recorded, but they still could have sequenced the track (at least on The SMiLE Sessions), like they did on BWPS. Personally, I prefer The SMiLE Sessions version. It works the best, aesthetically, to my ears.

Anyways, which is more "historically" correct? Were both arrangements tried by Brian in 1966/1967?


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Post by: Chocolate Shake Man on April 02, 2012, 07:32:55 PM
Seems to me that the chant was always on the second verse. The chant is also used in both verses on BWPS.


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Post by: Jim V. on April 02, 2012, 07:44:28 PM
I just listened to some of "Roll Plymouth Rock" on BWPS, I definitely don't hear the "bomp, doo-da, bomp dada" in either of the verses. Maybe I'm missing something...


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Post by: Chocolate Shake Man on April 02, 2012, 08:10:41 PM
I just listened to it, and I definitely did hear it or something like it. In both verses, unlike the original.


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Post by: Jim V. on April 02, 2012, 09:10:11 PM
I hear very faint background vocals on BWPS, but not quite the same. Just my take though.


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Post by: Chocolate Shake Man on April 03, 2012, 07:42:43 AM
You're right. It's much more in the background, but it is there.


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Post by: Roger Ryan on April 03, 2012, 01:46:29 PM
They were intended as background vocals originally, so it makes sense to have them buried behind the lead vocal on the BWPS version. More-than-likely, the same thing would have happened on a 1967 release had the song been finished.