in my room - german version

[LeeDempsey]

Assume In My Room was the only song they cut in German? Brad implied more but surely they would have surfaced by now if Boyd & Linett Invetigations had turned anything up?

So the project must have been scrapped at an early stage - if a German language release was really intended  they would have needed a B-side.

They could have used one of the instrumental tracks off of the first three albums as the B-side.  The precedent had already been set with the "Spirit of America" / "Boogie Woodie" KFWB promotional 45.

Lee

[shelter]

And as the Beach Boys didn't have a longer German stint before as the Beatles had, their pronunciation is very hard to understand, you have to really concentrate to get what they sing. No way that would have been a hit.

It seems that whenever Brian tried to sing in a different language he never even bothered to get the pronunciation right. Just listen to the "adieu" in 'Surf's Up' and the Spanish words in 'Mexican Girl'.

[Fall Breaks]

And as the Beach Boys didn't have a longer German stint before as the Beatles had, their pronunciation is very hard to understand, you have to really concentrate to get what they sing. No way that would have been a hit.

It seems that whenever Brian tried to sing in a different language he never even bothered to get the pronunciation right. Just listen to the "adieu" in 'Surf's Up' and the Spanish words in 'Mexican Girl'.

Not to mention "At My Window".

[Micha]

And as the Beach Boys didn't have a longer German stint before as the Beatles had, their pronunciation is very hard to understand, you have to really concentrate to get what they sing. No way that would have been a hit.

It seems that whenever Brian tried to sing in a different language he never even bothered to get the pronunciation right. Just listen to the "adieu" in 'Surf's Up' and the Spanish words in 'Mexican Girl'.

Not to mention "At My Window".

Whoever wrote down "fuhnetr" for Brian failed to explain what he meant with "uh".

[Mikie]

Well, somebody (or somebodies) who spoke German well probably heard the interpretation and suggested to Brian that it wasn't quite good enough for release. Brian probably thought it was too much trouble after all to get it perfect and gave up on it. I admire him giving it a try. For somebody who was doing an entire song which wasn't in their native language, it still sounded pretty good.

Not sure what you meant on your last post, Lee.

[Micha]

Not sure what you meant on your last post, Lee.

He means they could have picked one of the many instrumentals recorded at the time for use as a b-side, had the decided to release it back then. Like "Boogie Woodie" or "The Rocking Surfer".

[LeeDempsey]

Not sure what you meant on your last post, Lee.

He means they could have picked one of the many instrumentals recorded at the time for use as a b-side, had the decided to release it back then. Like "Boogie Woodie" or "The Rocking Surfer".

Correct.  They didn't necessarily need to record two songs in German -- just release an instrumental on the b-side.

Lee

[dogear]

Not sure what you meant on your last post, Lee.

He means they could have picked one of the many instrumentals recorded at the time for use as a b-side, had the decided to release it back then. Like "Boogie Woodie" or "The Rocking Surfer".

Correct.  They didn't necessarily need to record two songs in German -- just release an instrumental on the b-side.

Lee

To compete with The Beatles they would have had to.