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not bad.

Not fond of the grafted on intro (assumption, here); it's pretentious.

It sounds like a different vocal take than the one I have heard in the past. I agree about the intro, even if it isn't grafted on, I always liked the way the song started originally, with the Rhythm King.

I can also hear some sort of very odd synthesizer in here, playing single notes, going from left to right, which I never heard before...

Is this a new (unheard/different) take of the song?

That's how I feel about 85% of Dennis' ballads.

(Ducks to avoid thrown stones.)

 :lol

It sounds strange in a way very similar to the new Break Away mix on The Warmth of the Sun. Perhaps I'm going to get used to it.

Not even kidding, though.

God I'm a sucker for a Denny Ballad, I love it.

Has me exited for the new comp


*Throws Stones* :) Kidding

What, you couldn't stop at stones? Just because I don't like Dennis' ballads!?

 :deadhorse

(I'm the horse.)

 ;)

i know what you mean.. but i too am a sucker for them most of time.  quiet piano in 8th note broken chords.. check! close mic'ed whispered lead vocal.. check!  bombastic over done daryl dragon string arrangement.. check!  love it..  ;D

Not as far as I know... but I'll ask of them as does know.

And remember -- the lyrics will always be something like:

-----

I love you
And my love for you
Is my love
Forever my love

So deep inside me welling up
My love for you inside me
So deep inside oh

I love you

-----

The second stanza there would be the impossibly huge buildup, with strings, choir and drums.

It would then all die down to just the voice and piano for the final, choked line.

Master wordsmith, Denny was not.

Except you forgot the part about it being like a big ol' tree.  ;D

I was thinking that maybe Dennis recorded a new vocal while the song was still considered to be on a Beach Boys-album. You know, just to let it differ from the Dennis single

I was listening to this after i  :smokin the other day and I just loved how much of a wall of sound he got for that tune....sure, the guitar sounds like it's doing much of the same, but it works with the other strings and percussion

It's different...but I'm digging it.

I wanna be in the room Brian's in when he first hears this....you think he's heard it since the recording?

It never occured to me that that lyric could be as mundane as "big ol' tree". I
always thought it was "big Oak tree" but I guess that would be equally improbable,
if slightly more literate. ::)

Was that Carl I hear near the end?

That would be something to see right. Doubt he knows about it though.


Thought I heard Carl too

Can anyone confirm or deny this?

Sounds like Dennis to me.

Nope, that's Dennis.

The 2CD Dennis Wilson bootleg i have from years ago (1990s) lists 'Lady' as a demo. [Correction: the bootleg that I DON'T have.]

This version is slightly different.

Maybe all the versions we've heard over the years have been the 'demo' and just assumed it's the same.

Can anyone compare this version to the actual single released in 1970?

Or could it just be that we're hearing, for the first time (and albeit remixed) a clean copy of the track ?

No.

How does the newest incarnation of 'Lady' relate to the version on the Aussie 1980-or-so 'Rarities' LP version?
 

Don -

I just picked up my copy of Rarities to double check - it is unfortunately a U.S. pressing, but I spent a minute looking at the cover before putting it back. Certainly beats the cover for "Summer Love Songs." Especially vinyl-sized..

This sounds to me like an alternate version, or an alternate mix. I am going to do an A/B between a few versions that I have. The vocal sounds different to me. As someone stated up thread, however, it could be an amalgam (same backing track, different vocal take, etc.)

b00ts

say, what else is on this Aussie rarities?

Um... problem here - there is no US pressing of the Australian Brian Wilson/Beach Boys Rarities album.

I again retract what I had written here. They just isolated the vocal more (among other remix elements), grafted the isolated string part on before the original beginning to highlight its beauty, and let the outro run longer, which revealed additional overdubbed vocal parts by Dennis, like those in the extended fade in the POB version of Only with You.
Very nice! :)

My understanding is that the Lady recording on the Aussie Rarities is what we would now call a "needle drop" - IE: they had a copy of the UK single and took a tape recording of the single being played. Do'ncha just love 70's technology??

that's what I assumed was on all the Landlocked boots and such....

If only they'd release the tv appearence in which Dennis performed Lady....And it'd be great to hear Sound of Free remastered. .....I have a feeling there's a lot there that we're not hearing....those early Dennis recordings in the 70s were so good, they all had their own personality: Slip on Through, Celebrate the News, I'm Goin Your Way, Forever, 4th of July, Cuddle Up, Sound of Free, Lady, It's About Time, etc.

This was done on 16 track, right?  I suspect this is the same take as the single, just a radically different mix with elements left out of the original and perhaps an entirely different lead vocal (on the same multitrack).  The intro is bothersome - it's just the same string track as comes in later, moved to the front - I always thought the way the original started so starkly was great, THEN having the strings come in adds a sudden lushness and romanticism.  Strings/starkness/strings doesn't really do it for me.  I'd like to know if the string intro is on the mutitrack or if this is a revisionist edit.

A remastered, remixed Sound of Free would be very sweet indeed. That David Frost performance of Fallin'in Love is a little stark and minimalist, but great (it doesn't circulate in any semblance of decent sound quality to my knowledge). I just skipped ahead and modified this, had to lend my voice to the
chorus of pain that no video exists of this exceptional, relaxed T.V. appearance by the band, with
Dennis' funny, mellow banter with Frost about Two Lane Blacktop, etc.

It sounds good on the Aussie Rarites (a totally different LP then the USA one) and even better on the Landlocked LP boot. I like the original much more but it's interesting to hear anything kind of new. I thought the vocal on the new one was different in parts and not as good pitch wise.

The album I am referring to is the Beach Boys Rarities LP - side 1 begins with a cover of "With a Little Help from My Friends," ends with "Celebrate the News." It has a blonde in a blue bikini on the cover. It's not Brian Wilson/Beach Boys rarities, just Beach Boys Rarities.

b00ts

That must be a rare Rarities!   :-D

Thanks to all for trying to comment on my question so diligently. As a result, I will listen to both the U.S.A. and the Aussie Rarities LPs.

I am quite sure that, had Lady been promoted rightly when it was finished, that the song could have been a huge hit. If only because the buyers would have been mostly of the female persuasion, hormones raging, etc. etc. etc.

I think that Lady is Dennis' best song. It's real pretty.

Unfortunately the video of their appearance performing "Fallin' In Love" aka "Lady" (plus "Vegetables" & "Forever") on David Frost was criminally wiped years ago.

It's easily among my top 5 Dennis songs. Let's see...

1. Cuddle Up
2. Lady
3. Little Bird
4. Forever
5. Tug of Love

It is indeed. I have a super clean version of Lady from 1971 and this one on Summer Love Songs sounds "crafted together". I did a whole interview with Steve M. about putting the Rarities LP together in 1981. If I find it, I will post it here.

Bob

"criminally wiped years ago"

whatcha mean?

I think he means they erased or recorded over the show; not an uncommon practice in those days. What a shame. Criminal!

I had to do something the night this was broadcast. I had my mom cassette tape it for me. I used to listen to it over and over. I still dream of seeing it one day.

Yep, same over here. Our TV stations broadcast many series that are considered 'classic' now. But in the '60s and '70s Ampex tape was expensive, and there was no concept of any longevity of a programme in the minds of people. Sadly, now there's a lot of regret.

Does anyone have a Mac-friendly version of this file, or a link to somewhere I can stream it?

AKA, download the free VLC (videolan client) software at http://www.videolan.org. I was able to play this file in OSX 10.5 using VLC.

b00ts

70s technology still used in the late 00s for the Murry Wilson reissue, except I guess they didn't use analog tape for that.

I agree with both of you. Here's mine:

1. Thoughts Of You
2. Lady
3. Cuddle Up
4. Love Remember Me
5. Tie - Moonshine or You And I

Based purely on emotion, not many artists EVER can match those.

While writing an article for ESQ I spoke to the David Frost Production company and they told me that they believed that the show where he performed "Lady" was indeed gone for good as far as they knew.  As I wrote, however, there is a complete audio tape of the TV appearance which makes the rounds. 

Sad to say, the only reason we had the David Frost clip of "Cool Cool Water" from 1970 for the "Endless Harmony" film was because a fellow I knew in Washington DC had worked on the Frost show back in the day, and he had dubbed a copy for himself of that one appearance because he liked it so much.

"Thoughts of You", that's another GREAT one. When I first heard the very final chords of Dennis' piano variations on "Thoughts" on the second disc of the POB reissue I was awestruck at how gorgeous that music was.

Interesting. At least that clip survives (glass half full outlook).

Alan, can you supply the details about this version of Lady/Fallin' in Love (I assume they're in the
liner notes but haven't bought the album yet). ???

They're not. There are some cool pictures though!

What liner notes ?

The pix are, with one exception, from the All Summer Long photoshoot.

Didn't they have early reel to reel recorders for taping TV then or was then a bit after?

Maybe it's because I'm so used to the original version, but I think they weakened the song a bit with this new mix.

I prefer the original opening, with just the stark rhythm -- the way the orchestration doesn't come in until after the first verse is very effective.

Also, Dennis's vocals are a lot more prominent in the original mix.

Bummer--the main reason I bought this CD is because of this song, and I'm a little disappointed with it.

I echo everyone by saying I don't like the strings in the beginning.

I have a slight preference for not adding the strings to the intro, but I don't care much either way on it. And I do think it's a great mix overall.

Again, I like both versions; I find them noticeably different. I think "Fallin' In Love" is one of those songs, such a great song, that it's hard to ruin it.

I think the string intro is beautiful, but I can also appreciate the starkness of the opening of the orig. version, both ways are cool to me. But I do prefer this new mix overall. Lady always seemed(to me) like a song with a very dramatic first minute and then it went nowhere. I think the new mix solves that to my ears, as the production grows larger in the second half of this new version, it just sounds more muscular to me, which i like. What blows my mind is that Capitol has placed a promo sticker on the front cover of the new BB's compilation touting the fact that there's a new Dennis song on it, that's the primary sales point that they decided on for this CD release...things have changed, never would have happened even two years ago.

That's pretty fantastic

I would love to see a 4CD Dennis box set with his BB songs and plenty of unreleased & rare stuff from 66-77

Jon, are you hopeful/involved in this already?

I agree with Jon - the second half of the song is so much stronger now. Those counterpoint "la-la-las" and humming are so lovely; really unlike anything else Dennis did.