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Author Topic: Many (new) Archival Photos Of The Beach Boys Live in Oklahoma, April 13 1969  (Read 16056 times)
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« on: January 09, 2013, 10:45:12 AM »

First, this is a rush job so apologies in advance for any typos, mistakes, or if this photo collection has already been posted on the board somewhere else. I was excited to find these and get some other sets of eyes on them! If these have been seen before, or cause any issues, let me know immediately.

Beach Boys gold has been found in Oklahoma.  Smiley

After the Ida B 1964 video surfaced, I did some further researching and searching, and came up with a photo archive from the same Oklahoma historical society which made available the Ida B film archives. And lo and behold, there was a collection of just over two dozen Beach Boys photos from their visit there in April 1969! I had never seen these, I hope that is the same for the other fans reading this post.

These seem to come from a few sources, one is a photographer from the OK parks service (or something...), another is former Oklahoma governor and then-lieutenant governor George Nigh who is actually in quite a few of the photos and somewhat resembles Glen Campbell), and others are from a photographer from a long-gone area newspaper.

According to Andrew's concert date listings, The Beach Boys were in Oklahoma on April 13, 1969, which was a Sunday. They made at least four appearances, and I believe at least three of them if not all four can be seen in the photos.

Also, according to a report from a fan who was there, The Beach Boys played at the "S. Arch Thompson Auditorium" at the McAlester (OK) High School, and that show according to that fan started at 8:30 in the morning. They invited the band and the band actually showed up, as innocent as that according to that fan's memory.

From Andrew's list, still on that same Sunday 4/13/69, the Boys played at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary at McAlester, and those photos are the more obvious to ID of the lot. Then there was a stop at the Children's Memorial Hospital - again, not too difficult to ID those - and a "Decency Rally" that seems to have been pulled together by or involving Lt. Gov. Nigh. That rally was reported the next day in the local papers (issue dated Monday April 14 '69) as having had a successful turnout.

I'll post the photos grouped as best as I can by the location or event, and the ones which are unknown I'm hoping someone can ID. This again shows what a valuable and great resource BB's fans have with Andrew's gig and timeline resources - Thanks! And all of these came from the Oklahoma Historical Society, where I believe you can purchase or license the non-watermarked versions of these for official publication.

These I believe to be from the 8:30am high school gig:




Photos from the penitentiary at McAlester:









Possibly from the Children's Hospital:




Unknown, possibly the Decency Rally or more shots from the other events:







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« Reply #1 on: January 09, 2013, 10:48:33 AM »

Wow, now there are some great shots there! All from a period that is less well seen than the usual suspects.
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« Reply #2 on: January 09, 2013, 10:50:12 AM »

Magnificent!


Oh, and let the caption contest begin:



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« Reply #3 on: January 09, 2013, 10:51:16 AM »

Wow, what a human history of music as healing, a deep literary tradition going back at least to (but much further) to Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy. Mike playing guitar. Making the kids smile!  Talk about moments that bring a tear to the eye. Guitarfool, you have done a great service to history and to the fans of spiritual music and magic moments. Thank you.
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« Reply #4 on: January 09, 2013, 11:28:28 AM »

Beach Boys Unplugged!
Amazing stuff, thanks Craig.
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« Reply #5 on: January 09, 2013, 11:38:48 AM »

Magnificent!


Oh, and let the caption contest begin:



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Pretty interesting. I can't remember seeing Mike playing a guitar before
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« Reply #6 on: January 09, 2013, 11:40:06 AM »

Magnificent!


Oh, and let the caption contest begin:



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« Reply #7 on: January 09, 2013, 11:56:04 AM »

Stuff just keeps surfacing, eh?  Cool, Guitarfool!

Bruce's chisel chin in those pictures looks bigger than Jay Leno's!

Best caption so far is by Paulos!   Grin
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« Reply #8 on: January 09, 2013, 06:04:44 PM »

Great stuff, GF2002!  Thanks so much for finding and posting! 
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« Reply #9 on: January 09, 2013, 06:48:36 PM »

Magnificent!


Oh, and let the caption contest begin:



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Well, he is playing a G chord...That's gotta count for something.
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« Reply #10 on: January 09, 2013, 07:01:40 PM »

A chimpanzee could play an open G chord.
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« Reply #11 on: January 09, 2013, 07:33:00 PM »

Great find man!

(now we know how Mike Love was able to write songs on his own ... or was he just posing ?!?)

Is it just me, or does it look like they have rented instruments? Never seen them play with this stuff before.

Who's the older cowboy guy ?
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« Reply #12 on: January 09, 2013, 07:38:59 PM »


Oh, and let the caption contest begin:




"... and that's when I came up with the idea to change 'that's where we used to go' to 'that's where we wanna go' ..."
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« Reply #13 on: January 09, 2013, 07:47:54 PM »

A chimpanzee could play an open G chord.
I think you mean a monkey's uncle.
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« Reply #14 on: January 09, 2013, 07:56:34 PM »



And then I said to Paul, "Why don't you make a Beach Boys'  thing out of it, like a 'California Girls' kind of thing, you know, the Ukraine girls..."
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« Reply #15 on: January 09, 2013, 08:07:32 PM »

Awesome stuff! Were these part of Carl's 'conscientious objector' public service?
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« Reply #16 on: January 09, 2013, 08:11:53 PM »

Great find man!


Who's the older cowboy guy ?

Del Smith, Oklahoma Journal Staff Photographer
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« Reply #17 on: January 09, 2013, 09:02:05 PM »



Great photo! Looks like Mike and Del Smith are having a spirited argument over whose hat is better.
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« Reply #18 on: January 09, 2013, 10:19:24 PM »

Magnificent!


Oh, and let the caption contest begin:



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« Reply #19 on: January 09, 2013, 11:45:16 PM »

Magnificent!


Oh, and let the caption contest begin:



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« Reply #20 on: January 10, 2013, 01:53:51 AM »

Great pictures! Bruce looks very cool with the sideburns.
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« Reply #21 on: January 10, 2013, 04:01:53 AM »

Great photos!! Interesting to see the BBs playing in their street clothes.  As photos from other shows in 1969 and even early 1970 attest they were still playing the vast majority of shows at this time in their white uniforms.  Indeed I have photos of them in Florida earlier on this tour with them in the uniforms and Mike in his Maharishi robes.  The African American gentleman in some photos is Joe Hicks-who was a Brother Records artist and opened for them a lot in 1969 (He was on the European tour in May-June too).
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« Reply #22 on: January 10, 2013, 07:25:01 AM »

Great find man!


Who's the older cowboy guy ?

Del Smith, Oklahoma Journal Staff Photographer

OOps!  Major faux pas.  Going back again, I find that I have misread the captions I found for these pictures( what an idiot!) and this guy is NOT Del Smith, but is "unidentified". 
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« Reply #23 on: January 10, 2013, 06:43:34 PM »

Oh, and let the caption contest begin:

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« Reply #24 on: January 11, 2013, 01:17:27 PM »

Oh, and let the caption contest begin:


Fans: "Play Classical Gas!"
Mike: "Uhh, well, I could play it but I'd rather sing something for you."
Fans: "We want Classical Gas!"
Mike: "Uhh, well, I would but I can't remember what key it's in."
Fans: "A MINOR!"
Mike: "Oh sh*t..."

Keep in mind the exact same scenario played out again in the late 1980's as Mike was shooting the Kokomo video and a group of fans watching the video shoot began asking him to play "Yakety Sax"...
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