Smile Box set: Ghost melodies, clues, hints, and new mysteries

[runnersdialzero]

Not the same melody, either.

Holy f***, this version is creepy :O

[runnersdialzero]

Wait, teh hell is track 24 on here? Who's singing the Hawaiin chant section?

[NOLA SMiLE]

The conversation with regard to the "new" or "lost" melody for DYLW has been fascinating in the extreme for me. I am a newcomer to BW/BB fanhood, only having come to the music a bit less than 10 years ago. I accidentally found some internet discussion of SMiLE sometime in 2002 while surfing the net.

I have listened to the lost melody from my own Box Set. I have listened to my BWPS at the point where this new/lost melody would be/might be included (on Roll Plymouth Rock).  To my amateur ears, I conclude that the new/lost melody would have fit nicely as a counter-point melody to what's already on Roll Ply. Rock. I don't know if the lyrics could be made to fit the meter completely, but the melody fits.

Also, the upright double bass parts in that passage follow the new/lost melody.

All of this conversation reminds me that a very smart person once said that a work of art is never completed, but, merely abandoned.  SMiLE and BWPS are examples of Psychedelic Rock, and, as such, the artist has carte blanche to add layers of complexity to the music. This work is avant garde by its very nature. 

[leetwall97]

Another lost melody is the missing overdubs on Friday Night. I forget which track it is on which CD in the box set, but one of the hidden tracks is the workshop sound effects, and if you turn up the volume real loud, you can hear extra overdubs bleeding off from the headphones on the "musicians".

[The Cool One]

Where appears brian singing holidays (time mark)?

[Wrightfan]

Where appears brian singing holidays (time mark)?

1:22 to about 1:28