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Author Topic: Here's a new YouTube video: 'The Girl From New York City'  (Read 532 times)
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« on: May 24, 2023, 01:56:23 PM »
Memorial Day weekend is coming up, so let's get the Summer season going with a new video. It's for an early favorite of mine 'The Girl From New York City' from 1965's 'Summer Days (and Summer Nights!!)'.
I hope you enjoy watching it as much as I enjoyed making it.

The Girl From New York City    https://youtu.be/NH35Bgc5Hy8
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« Reply #1 on: May 24, 2023, 02:35:22 PM »
That was pretty freakin' good!
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« Reply #2 on: May 24, 2023, 04:56:03 PM »
Perfect video for that song!
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« Reply #3 on: May 24, 2023, 08:07:11 PM »
As always, wonderful pop art choices, balanced perfectly between Roy Lichtenstein and the gals in the Archie comics! We're having a bunch of "June gloom in May" here in SoCal right now--with luck the birth of this video will sweep all of that away and get summer underway! 3D
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« Reply #4 on: May 25, 2023, 03:37:52 AM »
Yes!  3D
I always loved that song and actually wouldn't have had a problem had the Beach Boys done a couple of more songs in this R'n'B-flavored sound around this time. Mike's lead is wonderful and I believe this may be the first time a Bruce falsetto was featured on a Beach Boys recording.
It's interesting that the album (Summer Days and Summer Nights) starts with two 'answer'-songs (this one and "Amusement Parks U. S. A."). I wonder if that was just a coincidence or if Brian had something else in mind with that.


For completeness sake:

The Ad-Libs - The Boy from New York City:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TPYmeSqLjc



Freddy Cannon - Palisades Park:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXz0L7K4Fo4
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