Brian's Late 60s Waltzes

[James Hughes-Clarke]

I can't think of anything off the top of my head in 5/8 or 7/8.

That's one thing Brian and Frank Zappa didn't have in common!

The only odd-metre bar I can find in a BB song (there may be others) is the 5/4 at 2:04 in "Deirdre". Steve Desper alone knows what happened there...  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWR_qL_mxo0

Or how about "I'd Love Just Once to See You" just after the 1:00 mark?  What time sig. would that be?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KWi5N9UGrY

There's also an odd 5/4 bar in When a Man Needs a Woman, at 1:26

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gazmQ49HmTs

[JK]

I can't think of anything off the top of my head in 5/8 or 7/8.

That's one thing Brian and Frank Zappa didn't have in common!

The only odd-metre bar I can find in a BB song (there may be others) is the 5/4 at 2:04 in "Deirdre". Steve Desper alone knows what happened there...  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWR_qL_mxo0

Or how about "I'd Love Just Once to See You" just after the 1:00 mark?  What time sig. would that be?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KWi5N9UGrY

There's also an odd 5/4 bar in When a Man Needs a Woman, at 1:26

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gazmQ49HmTs

Yes indeed!

[rasmus skotte]

A couple of unreleased recordings:

On Top Of Old Smokey (with Macca)

Carnival

Another Macca-related waltz-recording (allegedly opening a version of Pisces Brothers):

Happy Birthday Mike Love (India, '68).
And speaking of the now sadly missed Cory Wells. One og Brian's greatest and maybe the first of his regular waltz (3/4) compositions and productions:

The Redwood version of Time To Get Alone!