Working titles: What they mean and cool stories behind them

[schiaffino]

Updated inventory list:

• Dumb angel=Smile
• In my childhood=You still believe in me
• Old man and the baby=Let's go away for a while
• I hate rock n roll=Let him run wild
• You're Grass, And I'm A Power Mower/We Don't Know/Oh Yeah/(Yeah) I Dig The Girls =California Girls
• rendevouze=do it again
• run James run=pet sounds
• sail plane song=loop de loop
• beatrice from baltimore-you need a mess of help
• Goody Connie Won't You Come Back Home = Surf City
• The Big Beat = Do You Remember?
• Good Humour Man = The Rocking Surfer
• (When Summer Comes) Get A Chance With You = The New Girl In school
• Memphis Beach = Carl's Big Chance
• The Summer Moon = The Surfer Moon
• Mike Come Back To L.A. = Some Of Your Love
• Do You Like Worms = Plymouth Rock
• Rabbit's Foot =  Our Car Club

Anyone knows if Wouldnt it be nice had a different working title?

[Andrew G. Doe]

Updated inventory list:

• Dumb angel=Smile
• In my childhood=You still believe in me
• Old man and the baby=Let's go away for a while
• I hate rock n roll=Let him run wild
• You're Grass, And I'm A Power Mower/We Don't Know/Oh Yeah/(Yeah) I Dig The Girls =California Girls
• rendevouze=do it again
• run James run=pet sounds
• sail plane song=loop de loop
• beatrice from baltimore-you need a mess of help
• Goody Connie Won't You Come Back Home = Two Girls For Every Boy = Surf City
• The Big Beat = Do You Remember?
• Good Humour Man = The Rocking Surfer
• (When Summer Comes) Get A Chance With You = The New Girl In school
• Memphis Beach = Carl's Big Chance
• The Summer Moon = The Surfer Moon
• Mike Come Back To L.A. = Some Of Your Love
• Do You Like Worms = Plymouth Rock
• Rabbit's Foot =  Our Car Club

Anyone knows if Wouldnt it be nice had a different working title?

FTFY.  

Also:
"Old Movie" = "4th of July" and "Cuddle Up"
"Carol K" = "Salt Lake City"
"Highschool" = "Almost Summer"
Freckles = Pacific Ocean Blue
California Feeling = Winds Of Change = MIU
Landlocked = Surf's Up
Add Some Music = Sunflower
Group Therapy = Pick Ya Up At Eight = 15 Big Ones
Summer's Gone = TWGMTR

[metal flake paint]

When was the working title "Memphis Beach" first mentioned/written? The earliest I can trace it to is the two-fer booklet for LDC/ASL.

The reason I ask is that I hear the track slated as Memphis Beat and Detroit Beat rather than Beach.

Actually, the piano track bears a resemblance to this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmirnSeD5hc