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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Aumm...
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on: September 23, 2019, 07:49:51 AM
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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
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Al's show in Florida cancelled!
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on: August 15, 2019, 07:12:41 AM
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regarding Carls age when he sang God Only Knows, there could be a spontaneous audience debate, I suppose (that'd make even Al reticent)
because the simple birth-session years don't tell the story so accurately
Carl was 19 years 4 months old, having been born in December of '46, with the GOK sessions completed in april '66
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Terry Melcher
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on: July 24, 2019, 08:43:13 AM
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if one listens to (Brians production of) WHY DO FOOLS FALL IN LOVE? by California Music (mid-'70s) where Terry Melcher sings the line "Get back, Loretta" you'll understand the same voice heard on SNJ
HEY LITTLE COBRA was just brought up (because Terry sings on it) and that's a song when it comes on an oldies station I can't resist singing along with, the inane hot rod lyrics are such a joyous challenge (to remember extemporaneously), "The stingrays and jags are so far behind I took my cobra out of gear and let it coast to the line". Then I burst into laughter, foolish fun
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Terry Melcher
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on: July 24, 2019, 06:55:31 AM
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"I had no idea about this. Can you point out any specific examples/timecodes of Terry's voice in SNJ? "
the two lines in SOMEWHERE NEAR JAPAN that Terry Melcher sings himself are "My engine's all burnt out, my crew has all...."
his voice has this kind of a tenor howling quality to it, not exactly nasal, for lack of a better way to describe. once you realize it you'll notice it all over PR & Raiders records background vocals, and IMO it worked terrifically together w/ Mark Lindsay
the very first time I played Still Cruisin' when CD came out I said to myself "What is Terry Melcher doing singing verse on a Beach Boys recording?", his voice always jumps out at me. Then I looked and realized he produced SNJ
In the new movie "CHARLIE SAYS" Terry Melcher (and Dennis) are portrayed. They are both there (somewhat briefly) not because they add anything substantial to the story the movie wants to tell (which is the girls of mansons family imprisoned in solitary confinement are still spouting his insane apocalyptic blather even years afterwards, prefaced by "Charlie says.....", and their treatment), but because the association with the famous was a turning point for Manson and can't be written out. BTW the film is excellent IMO and even contains a surprise ending, something that'd be impossible for anyone who reads up on the horrible Manson story
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Terry Melcher
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on: July 23, 2019, 08:46:13 AM
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the very last things Terry produced for PR & Raiders were their Christmas album (Past & Present, on which you can hear him sing a lot) and then finally the 45 version of PEACE OF MIND
Then the Mark & Terry relationship was severed (Mark produced himself the next 45's CINDERELLA SUNSHINE & TOO MUCH TALK, with the Goin' To Memphis album being handled by Chips Moman), and the following void for Terry somehow got filled with increased association w/ Dennis, plus interest in Charles Manson both songs and as a possible recording artist (1968)
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Terry Melcher
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on: July 23, 2019, 08:02:54 AM
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Terry Melcher sang lead vocal on Bruce & Terry's (previously unreleased 45) recording of HELP ME, RHONDA. The old story has it that Brian told Terry the Beach Boys were going to re-record it as a single (at that point only the album HMR version was done) and he'd prefer B&T scrap their plans to do the same then, which Terry complied. You can hear this unreleased recording on a recent CD compilation for B&T, where Terry clearly sings the opening song line as "Well since she put me down I went out to relieve my head"
On SOMEWHERE NEAR JAPAN Terry sings a few lines too. His voice is unmistakable, the same voice one hears singing along with Mark Lindsay on a number of Paul Revere & Raiders tunes which he of course produced
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Honkin' Down the Highway Single/LOVE YOU Marketing
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on: July 19, 2019, 08:38:14 AM
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Mike Love's offense has a double thrust - #1 to get Brian off of Redwood time and onto the Beach Boys album production. #2 came next, when he heard the recorded DARLIN' track (for Redwood) and realizing how good it was and wanting it back for the Beach Boys
those two things although separate motives were joined (and accomplished unfortunately) when he led the way in halting further Redwood recording. Despite the DARLIN' title lyric having inspired Brian from Danny Hutton's conversational jargon
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Honkin' Down the Highway Single/LOVE YOU Marketing
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on: July 18, 2019, 09:25:22 AM
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DARLIN' was commandeered by Mike from a planned/produced Redwood single into a Beach Boys product. The exact same thing doesn't necessarily apply to TIME TO GET ALONE
No doubt Brian did not foresee an issue coming with DARLIN' since the melody was already appropriated from an earlier outside production THINKING 'BOUT YOU BABY for Sharon Marie which came out as a Brian produced Capitol 45 a couple years year. Ironically Sharon Marie (Esparza) was a girlfriend of Mike's then (i.e., it's OK for Brian to give away a song they composed to an outsider as long as it's one of Mike's girls LOL)
Redwood vocals were recorded for both songs but the ones for DARLIN' were erased, presumably forever, when the Beach Boys replaced them. TIME TO GET ALONE was to be the Redwood B-side and their vocals weren't immediately erased since the song was not a Beach Boys priority like DARLIN' was. With the loss of DARLIN' as their entry onto Brother records Redwood abandoned their association (supposedly they really wanted a full album of songs, not just a 45, and Mike told Danny Hutton that Brian simply doesn't have time for that production), and TTGA as a Redwood product finished or otherwise was left behind. The Redwood TTGA vocals can be found today on a Three Dog Night anthology CD. Later on of course the Beach Boys needing Brian produced material for 20/20 album used that Redwood backing track for new vocals
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: why are songs repeated on the early albums, ie. \
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on: March 22, 2019, 07:21:53 AM
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their fans, if not the record buying public in general, are entitled to value-for-money when buying a new 45 not the same old flip-side that it seems a joke. we got love was mastered but not released at that time which could've been the flip to child of winter instead of SC
"It is when music publishers and record companies make the effort to seize upon or create opportunities for their copyrights."
still sounds like we don't want to bother spending the money (for a new flip-side) as articulated by accountants (creative type perhaps) instead of a music artist
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: why are songs repeated on the early albums, ie. \
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on: March 21, 2019, 01:36:22 PM
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"That's not what was Reprise was doing with Susie Cincinnati."
sure it was
same difference - saving money. capitol did it ("exploiting catalog" = saving money, or trying to make more on what you already have out there). reprise did it so as not to master anything new on a 45 they probably had little confidence in it the time, and save the flipside new mastering expense
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: No Endless Summer
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on: March 14, 2019, 08:20:48 AM
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a point probably not lost on the suits @ Capitol records, but Endless Summer was a double LP of the old mixes, no new remastering and certainly no songs in stereo for the first time. Yet a huge success although technically retarded. It took the new CD era to motivate somebody finally dig out the old multi's and stage tapes
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