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Title: Aumm... Post by: GoogaMooga on September 22, 2019, 01:05:35 AM When you play "This Whole World" by the Beach Boys, they go "Aumm-bop-diddit...", and I always think of the Buddhist mantra, "Aumm". Any connection there? Were the BB's getting all spiritual? Or is it just that it sounds good.
(https://pics.me.me/aumm-aumm-aumm-aumm-restaurant-pizzeria-aumm-aumm-on-capri-50402794.png) Title: Re: Aumm... Post by: JK on September 22, 2019, 01:41:45 AM Interesting! The closest I could get to the "aumm" sound as one of a number of nonsense syllables was in Dallas Frazier's "Elvira" from 1966:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wjevGsrCEc Title: Re: Aumm... Post by: c-man on September 22, 2019, 08:46:03 AM It's long been understood to be a meditation/doowop hybrid. Understood by me, at least. And rock writers such as Ken Barnes, who mentioned it back in the '70s.
Title: Re: Aumm... Post by: Debbie KL on September 22, 2019, 11:24:30 AM It's long been understood to be a meditation/doowop hybrid. Understood by me, at least. And rock writers such as Ken Barnes, who mentioned it back in the '70s. Agreed. It's hard to miss and was done perfectly. Title: Re: Aumm... Post by: Aum Bop Diddit on September 22, 2019, 08:03:37 PM That never occurred to me.... ;)
Title: Re: Aumm... Post by: SBonilla on September 23, 2019, 06:22:26 AM On a closely related Sunflower vocal arrangement, for ADD SOME MUSIC, Brian made use of Roy Orbison's ONLY THE LONELY (dum dum dum dum bee doo..) and The Cadillac's SPEEDO (bop bop a diddle it).
Title: Re: Aumm... Post by: hideyotsuburaya on September 23, 2019, 07:49:51 AM no, it's not a Buddhist mantra, how silly
it is AH-OOM the title of a song from a 1962 movie Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm in a fairy-tale sequence there it is a 'make-work' type song made up by the elves while they finish the cobblers shoe repairs over Christmas night (I think the score was written by Leigh Harline) very enchanting Title: Re: Aumm... Post by: JK on September 23, 2019, 10:46:56 AM no, it's not a Buddhist mantra, how silly it is AH-OOM the title of a song from a 1962 movie Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm in a fairy-tale sequence there it is a 'make-work' type song made up by the elves while they finish the cobblers shoe repairs over Christmas night (I think the score was written by Leigh Harline) very enchanting Here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEpwEjhMjPM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wonderful_World_of_the_Brothers_Grimm |