Songs/lyrics Brian wrote by himself

[punkinhead]

We all know Brian loves to collaborate with others on lyrics, but really, you'd think a lot of the feelings he had in ideas for writing a song, he'd have a lot of impact on the words, but who knows. Really, I just wanted to make a good sized list of songs that Brian, by himself, wrote without any help from others. In thinking about this, I started with the Love You era, particularly, the second half. Also, with Adult Child not being officially released, it's hard to tell who helped on song credits, but then again, we can only assume based on the lyrics themselves, if they sound all Brian-y.

Solar System
the Night was so Young
I'll bet He's Nice
Let's Put Our Hearts Together
I wanna Pick You Up
Airplane
Love is a Woman
Roller Skating Child
Mona
Johnny Carson
Honkin' Down the Highway
Lines?
Everybody Wants to Live?
Life is For the Living?
Busy Doin' Nothin'
Little Pad
With Me tonight
Whistle In
TM Song
I Do (Castells)
Girls on the Beach
All Dressed up for School
Christmas Day (BB Christmas album)
On Christmas Day?
Girl Don't Tell Me
I'm Bugged at my old Man
Little girl I Once Knew
You're Welcome  
Can't Wait Too Long
Time To get Alone
This Whole World
Games Two can Play
Stoked  
The Baker Man
Luau
Judy
Til I Die
Lonely Days
Hey Little Tomboy
My Diane
It's Over Now
Still I Dream of It
The First Time
Baby Let Your Hair Grow
Little Children
Night Bloomin' Jasmine
Cry
Happy Days
Lana
Land Ahoy
Surfer Girl
Surfer Moon
Custom Machine
That Special Feeling?
I'm Begging you Please?
Too Much Sugar
Being with the One You Love
It's Trying to Say?
Just an Imitation?
Rollin' Up to Heaven (ding dang)
Sherry She Needs me?
Lazy Lizzie?
Marilyn Rovell?
Mike Come Back to LA
I'm a Man (June 1980)
My Solution
Stevie
Believe in Yourself
Good Kind of Love

[Andrew G. Doe]

"Sherry" had lyrics by Russ Titleman.

[Nicko]

Lonely Days is very debatable isn't it?

Also, it's surely possible that Landy contributed some lyrics to the Love You songs and other stuff from that era. That claim was made in Brian's autobiog anyway so it's entirely possible that it's untrue too.

Custom Machine as a Mike credit doesn't it?

[The Heartical Don]

Lonely Days is very debatable isn't it?

Also, it's surely possible that Landy contributed some lyrics to the Love You songs and other stuff from that era. That claim was made in Brian's autobiog anyway so it's entirely possible that it's untrue too.

Custom Machine as a Mike credit doesn't it?

I wouldn't think that Landy did any of the Love You lyrics. The rift between the naive and naughty joy on Love You, and the psychobabble that came later is too deep for me.

[bgas]

Most of the "hooks" in the Love You lyrics were written  By Mike Love; however, since none of the songs were really hits, he didn't claim them.
Once other artists really get into the songs, redo them and make them milllion sellers, Mike will have his next lawsuit. 

[punkinhead]

"Sherry" had lyrics by Russ Titleman.

oh yeah, good call

[punkinhead]

Lonely Days is very debatable isn't it?

Also, it's surely possible that Landy contributed some lyrics to the Love You songs and other stuff from that era. That claim was made in Brian's autobiog anyway so it's entirely possible that it's untrue too.

Custom Machine as a Mike credit doesn't it?

I felt like I read it on a couple different sources about Custom Machine, I was unsure too...i'm sure someone will correct me

[punkinhead]

Lonely Days is very debatable isn't it?

Also, it's surely possible that Landy contributed some lyrics to the Love You songs and other stuff from that era. That claim was made in Brian's autobiog anyway so it's entirely possible that it's untrue too.

Custom Machine as a Mike credit doesn't it?

I wouldn't think that Landy did any of the Love You lyrics. The rift between the naive and naughty joy on Love You, and the psychobabble that came later is too deep for me.

The lyrics on Love You only spell out one author to me: Brian Wilson. I could just spit out 5 different lyrics randomly, and it's just a known fact, 'hey, that's gotta be a BW lyrics.' haha.

I remember in his autobiography (been a few years since I read it), that songs he wrote with Landy early on, the Beach Boys wanted for later albums like the TM Song & Johnny Carson.

[Mikie]

What's this thread about again?  Songs that Brian wrote by himself?

[punkinhead]

right right   

I was just tryin to straighten things out about Landy's early 'contributions' to Brian's music, if there was any,

thus why I didn't really put down any song that had his credit (BW88), even though they took the credit off for the 2000 re-release.

[punkinhead]

btw, the songs that have question marks beside them are in question, if I could just get a yes or no about those, I'd be happy to cross em out or leaven em.

[Paulos]

'Luau' - written by Bruce Morgan.

[summerinparadise.flac]

Do we know that Baby Let Your Hair Grow Long is his? Seems odd for Brian to write a lyric thats such a consciouss throwback to an older song.

[Wirestone]

Brian was asked about BLYHGL in 88 and said he didn't make the connection between it and Caroline, No at all. He thinks long hair is sexy. So Tony picked up on it for PS, and BW later wrote his own song about it. There are some alternate lyrics for the song that are a rejected Landy rewrite, I believe.

I'm pretty comfortable crediting Brian with sole authorship on Love and Mercy. Landy seems to have written an extra verse, but it wasn't recorded. Brian wrote at least some of the lyrics on Melt Away, too.

More recently, three additions:

Walkin' Down the Path of Life
Believe in Yourself
Good Kind of Love

[Mikie]

Landy seems to have written an extra verse, but it wasn't recorded.

It wasn't recorded in the studio, but it was recorded live.  And how do you know whether Brian or Landy wrote it?

[Cam Mott]

I think the reason there were no LY tunes in Mike's lawsuit is because the suit was only about songs where Brian and Murry colluded to deny Mike his rights on songs published by Brian and Murry as Sea Of Tunes. Sea of Tunes had been sold to Irving by LY time and I believe the group had been their own publisher for some time before that [presumably not cheating themselves].

[Andrew G. Doe]

Brian was asked about BLYHGL in 88 and said he didn't make the connection between it and Caroline, No at all. He thinks long hair is sexy. So Tony picked up on it for PS, and BW later wrote his own song about it. There are some alternate lyrics for the song that are a rejected Landy rewrite, I believe.
More recently, three additions:

The original lyric makes no - or barely any - mention of hair, long or otherwise, as I recall. Been a while, so i stand to eb corrected.

Walkin' Down the Path of Life
Believe in Yourself
Good Kind of Love

The lyrics to "Path" aren't Brian's. 

[Wirestone]

how do you know whether Brian or Landy wrote it?

I said seems.

The lyrics to "Path" aren't Brian's.

He has a solo credit for the tune, so I was going from that. Scott's work?

[Andrew G. Doe]

how do you know whether Brian or Landy wrote it?

I said seems.

The lyrics to "Path" aren't Brian's.

He has a solo credit for the tune, so I was going from that. Scott's work?

Nope.

[♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇]

Huh...whose were they then?

[Runaways]

he mocks you with his knowledge!

[SloopJohnB]

Did Brian write "Message Man" by himself? If not, who is (are) the cowriter(s)?