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I know there's already one for songs but what's the corniest video or t.v. appearance you've ever seen from the guys? these two tie for me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MdwhxyYDXE and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBFsJk6PWu0

Jesus wept.

Corniest.?  The old fart tryin to rap.. Summer of Poop ! 8)

Brian's acting on The New Leave It To Beaver is brilliant compared to his brief skit on SNL.

"The tin woodsman, that was the tin woodsman; I should've asked him for his autograph!"
(http://i41.tinypic.com/2lx9kt2.png)
I couldn't find the full skit, only this screenshot.

I've always wanted to see that clip and can't find it  :(  :lol

I have the entire video, but it's coded with DRM.

I'd be happy to edit it and put up Brian's parts on YouTube if anybody has any ideas on how to get around the DRM.
Feel free to PM me.

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

Brian at the height of his Landy-induced brainwashing

Gotta be the Latter. The first one isn't too bad, but Brian isn't a very good actor. Plus he doesn't sound right there.

Still, the corniest of the corny with the Beach Boys is their Baywatch appearance!


I like that song. But Brian does look really awkward there, very unnatural

this made me all sad

This recently-uploaded (new to Youtube) live lip-synced version of "Looking Back With Love" deserves a mention.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lknTlS4R56s

Anything from 'Full House'.

Kokomo, Landy influenced Brian, Mullets, Stamos and Forever, Barbara Ann, The Beach Boys Huddle....the list is endless! >:(

Yes - I almost forgot about the Al Jardine football huddle + Mike Love walking down the beach and awkwardly talking to the camera - both corny gems from "An American Band".

Why was this video made? It is so cheesy. What "look" was Mike going for - and he revisited it on the 1974 New Year's Rockin' Eve! Do you think Dennis could've made a better attempt at keeping up with Hal Blaine? Not a keyboard in sight for a keyboard-driven song. With all those quasi-go go dancers in those cubicles doing these exotic "moves".... it reminds me of some kind of brothel and the guys anticipating some action. Embarrassing.

http://youtu.be/DJ1UqDnY7as

That Jack Benny skit deserves a mention too. they looked so uncomfortable  :-[

Not a video but a TV show. Kraft Music Hall , NBC TV 2/16/69. That was the directors vision, not the bands.

So, somebody wasn't enamored with the Friends or impending 20/20 material, huh?

As corny as that California Girls video is, I simply LOVE it. It may be dated, but IMO it's dated in a good way. It just screams mid-1960s, just leaning into the edge of proto-psychedelia.  It's one of my fave Beach Boys live clips ever, actually.

By the way: someone (in the Youtube comments section) states that the video is from 1968, but that date can't be correct, right? 

Try looking at the post two below yours... which is a polite way of saying, try reading the entire thread before making such a statement.

Alternatively, I could just shrug, say "f*** it" and stop posting accurate dates, as patently no-one takes any notice of them.  ;D

One more time - Kraft Music Hall, NBC TV

2/16/69

Thanks for the info, AGD  :) I missed your previous posting of the date, I didn't realize what it was in reference to since it didn't have my original question quoted.  But wow... while I guess the early 1969 date does make sense (based on the BBs' hairstyles/clothes), it is pretty odd for them to be performing a 4-year old single with that much elaborate stage setup for it (the likes of which I would think would be normally reserved for a new single a band would be promoting). I guess it makes even more sense considering that "new" BB  material at the time wasn't stirring up tons of interest.

Their appearance wasn't just reserved for performing a single from '65, as they also performed their then new single "I Can Hear Music" during the show (Rusten, 2009, p. 32).


References

Rusten, I. (2009). The Beach Boys: Television and film. Endless Summer Quarterly, 21(4), 14-41.

I just looked up this performance on IMDB, and awesome that this same show also included a segment Don Adams (Maxwell Smart); too bad the BBs never did a skit with him. Has anyone seen the "I Can Hear Music" performance? (I didn't see it on Youtube). I can't imagine it would have the same "California Girls" setup with the giant staircases.
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I thought the appearance from 1969 is pretty cool myself. Dennis must've been in his glory with all those babes bopping nearby.

I've only seen clips of The Beach Boys on "Full House" but never put much stock in them. I realize that for a certain generation, shows like "Full House", "Saved By The Bell", "Family Matters", "Perfect Strangers" etc. were a ubiquitous and cringeworthy presence. I guess I should consider myself lucky that I missed all those and just had "The Brady Bunch"....and no one can convince me that the Davy Jones and Joe Namath appearances were corny. Nope. No sir.

It's possible that the closest Don Adams ever got to The Beach Boys in this episode was when he stood next to Don Rickles as he (Rickles) introduced the band.

Has everyone forgot about their appearance on the Red Skelton show doing The Things We Did Last Summer? Full House doesn`t hold a candle to that slice of forced-at-gunpoint-to-perform Murry Wilson cornbread.

This is painful on so many levels.

Right there is why the BB's couldn't sell records or draw crowds in '69.

I'm surprised Mike Love didn't convince them to appear on the Brady Bunch Variety Hour knowing him  ::)

Whoa I didn't even know there was a second leave it to beaver show, and besides the cheesy dance skit Brian doesn't make a half bad teacher

I really dig that "California Girls" 'performance' from 1969, too. I think the set is really cool, I like the dancing, and the way everyone was dressed.

For better or for worse, I think they fit in perfectly with the culture around them.

Do you really think so? Perfectly with the culture around them? Since I'm the one who originally posted that I thought the video was cheesy and embarrassing, and a couple of people thought it was cool, well, I'm perplexed by that.

Take another look at the way they were dressed, especially Mike. Take a look at the lame dancing in place. Take a look at Dennis, who was supposed to be the cool one, who looks like he's about to come in his pants. Now, close your eyes and think of 1969 and The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Doors, The Band, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Glen Campbell, Simon & Garfunkel, Jimi Hendrix, The Grateful Dead, The Bee Gees, and Sonny & Cher. Now, which culture did they fit in with again?

I'm gonna steal some statistics from Moon Dawg and Disney Boy (1985) from the Surf's Up thread...Friends peaked at #126, 20/20 at #68, and Sunflower at #151. The attendance at the live shows was dwindling. The group was soon to be dropped by their record company. The sad and ironic thing was, there was some good material on those three aforementioned albums. But the Beach Boys image was killing them. A video/TV performance like that above "California Girls" didn't do them any favors.

Hey, Bubbly waves, I'm not coming down on you; just felt like posting something, that's all...

I am kind of surprised there are people here who refuse to acknowledge that The Beach Boys have been (routinely!) really fucking corny. Sometimes this is their own fault -- they just seem like corny dudes in general -- and sometimes it's not; the end result is the same however.

I really do think so.

Most of those bands you named were gritty, rock bands. The Beach Boys were never like that.
However, those weren't the only popular bands back in 1969. There were people like the Zombies, the Association, Gary Puckett & the Union Gap Band, Herman's Hermits, Tommy Roe, the Turtles, the Monkees, the Archies, the Bee Gees, and, hell, even the Ventures scored a hit.
These bands were similar to them, aesthetically and musically, and they managed to keep moving and releasing hit records.



I look at this issue a little differently. I don't so much blame the Beach Boys image that they were putting off as much as I blame them for playing their old hits. At a time when bands were cranking out new material at breakneck paces, here was the Beach Boys playing an old hit from 1965. Nowadays, four years doesn't seem that big a gap, but, back then, things were moving so quickly, they must have seemed simply irrelevant. Where was the new songs?

I'm only assuming on those points. I wasn't around back then - maybe things weren't as fast as they seem in retrospect. Maybe they didn't even get to choose the song they performed.

Bubbly Waves, you're absolutely right about "California Girls" maybe not being the best choice of songs. I was gonna mention that, too.

As far as the bands/culture I compared the group to...Not all of them I listed were gritty rock bands. But, they were among the most popular, and that's why I chose them. In many threads on this board, we question why The Beach Boys fell of the proverbial map, when the group - including Brian - continued to churn out great material in that 1967-1973 era. And, we'll compare them to some of those other groups and say, "the Beach Boys' music was better than theirs; why were they (the other groups) so popular and not the Beach Boys?"

We're frequently having those Beach Boys vs. Beatles threads comparing the two on a year by year, album by album basis. On many of those threads the Beach Boys come out on top (in our opinions) in years when The Beatles trounced The Beach Boys in sales. Why was that? The Beach Boys were fighting a huge image problem.

Daryl Dragon said it best: "I don't think The Beach Boys are supposed to be hip. I think they're supposed to move you emotionally whether you like it or not."

http://youtu.be/X7PjuaM4mR8?t=6m26s (http://youtu.be/X7PjuaM4mR8?t=6m26s)

Performed sometime during the Kraft Music Hall show as the band also featured their then new single "I Can Hear Music."

One of the best things you have written!

Yea I didn't know that either  :lol