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Title: More info on the new BW album Post by: ♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇 on June 07, 2007, 08:07:16 AM Taken from this here site...
Quote The thing Brian Wilson seemed most excited about, when I interviewed him last week, was a new studio project— another concept album. He has been working over the past year with Van Dyke Parks on what he called a “narrative album” based on the classic children’s book The Little Prince. “I’m doing the narration,” he said. “It’ll be a bunch of songs interrupted by a narrator who tells the story— the idea is to present a complete narrative.” He explained that the narrator is named “Lucky Old Sun,” and asked if I remembered the old song. He sang a few bars: “That lucky old sun, he’s got nothin’ to do, but roll around heaven all day.” Wilson reminded me that he had released a children’s album along with Holland in 1973. I replied that it seemed to me that much of his work has a childlike quality to it; Smile, for instance, has both lyrical and musical references to children’s songs. “Yeah,” he said. I asked: What’s that about? Where does that come from? “From my heart,” he said. Simple. A children's album?! VDP writing the lyrics?! Title: Re: More info on the new BW album Post by: SloopJohnB on June 07, 2007, 08:20:48 AM Seems coherent! "Mt. Vernon & Fairway" is one of Brian's favorite tracks, and VDP has already made children albums & books... :)
Edit: a little more info here: http://www.dailybulletin.com/entertainment/ci_6059351 (http://www.dailybulletin.com/entertainment/ci_6059351) Quote "I'm currently writing a new narrative concept with a theme song and some individual records, like eight or 10 records. We're going to take that to London in September," Wilson said. Title: Re: More info on the new BW album Post by: ♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇 on June 07, 2007, 08:36:13 AM Wonder if he'll use his "grinch" voice for the narration? :lol
Title: Re: More info on the new BW album Post by: pixletwin on June 07, 2007, 01:52:22 PM Cool. In light of the BW/VDP rennaissance that has been going on it will be really interesting to see how it works out.
Title: Re: More info on the new BW album Post by: The Shift on June 07, 2007, 02:13:43 PM That's a very good read, many thanks guys for posting the info.
Leaves me a little choked though as I have four tickets for the opening night at the RFH, London, but turns out I'll be in California (of all places!), hiking the John Muir Trail! Last time I was hiking in the US Wilson released GIOMH, SMiLE and toured the UK. Seems our paths aren't always meant to cross! Title: Re: More info on the new BW album Post by: Pretty Funky on June 07, 2007, 06:20:07 PM I didn't know but VDP was involved in a series of books adapted from the stories of Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit in the early 80s. A album based on the first "Jump" seems to have been well received. Some samples here.
http://www.amazon.com/Jump-Van-Dyke-Parks/dp/B000005JAF Title: Re: More info on the new BW album Post by: chris.metcalfe on June 08, 2007, 04:07:02 AM 'Jump' is a fantastic record, especially on vinyl! Bought it when it came out and always liked it.
Title: Re: More info on the new BW album Post by: Dan Lega on June 08, 2007, 08:47:33 AM Taken from this here site... Quote The thing Brian Wilson seemed most excited about... A children's album?! VDP writing the lyrics?! Can you please tell me where this info came from? Is there supposed to be a link? Or were you talking about "The Smiley Smile Message Board" when you say "Taken from this here site..."? Love and merci, Dan Lega Title: Re: More info on the new BW album Post by: Don't Back Down on June 08, 2007, 08:49:25 AM Taken from this here site... Quote The thing Brian Wilson seemed most excited about... A children's album?! VDP writing the lyrics?! Can you please tell me where this info came from? Is there supposed to be a link? Or were you talking about "The Smiley Smile Message Board" when you say "Taken from this here site..."? Love and merci, Dan Lega http://www.smileysmile.net/index.php/van_dyke_parks_on_new_bw_album From the news-feed at the bottom of the message board Title: Re: More info on the new BW album Post by: LostArt on June 08, 2007, 09:25:12 AM Can you please tell me where this info came from? Is there supposed to be a link? Or were you talking about "The Smiley Smile Message Board" when you say "Taken from this here site..."? Love and merci, Dan Lega Yesterday's Monterey County Weekly http://www.montereycountyweekly.com/issues/Issue.06-07-2007/cover/Article.cover_story/print Title: Re: More info on the new BW album Post by: Dan Lega on June 08, 2007, 11:13:46 AM Thanks, guys! Love and merci, Dan Lega |