GRIN.MP3?????????

[warnakey]

I found an mp3 on a website that claims to be a "lost" smile track.

The page is http://www.surfinagain.com/smile_index.htm - the mp3 is here http://www.surfinagain.com/grin.mp3

has anyone ever heard this, heard of it, know anything about it???

I think its a fake.

[♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇]

Uhh...

[pixletwin]

Not unless Brian used crappy midi in the 60's. 

[Ebb and Flow]

Sounds like a synth/midi rendition of "I Wanna Be Around" which was a Smile track, though it's hard to tell without vocals.

Fortunately, Brian's arrangement was a little bit better than that one. 

[warnakey]

it doesn't sound like synth or midi.

Although I could be bamboozled. And it doesn't have any real resemblance to I Want To Be Around.

Oh well. I guess I could ask where the web site owner got it from.

[harveyw]

No midi, no synths. It's "Snowflakes On Laughing Gravy's Whiskers", the flip side of Laughing Gravy's (ie Dean Torrence's) version of Vegetables, released 1967.

And, for the record, it's absolutely marvellous.

[warnakey]

hey harvey, do you own that record? Is there any way we could be 100% positive of that?

[MBE]

That is one of the few Jan and Dean (Laughing Gravy) records I still need.

[SG7]

I don't think its a lost smile track but cute song though.

[warnakey]

I researched it, and wrote my conclusion on my blog as a follow up to my original finding. 

You can read it here

http://warnakeysbeachboysblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/something-big.html


The ironic thing about this grin.mp3 myth is the fact that it originated from a site titled "SuRFiN' AGAiN - The authorized International Jan & Dean website". In fact, I was able to get information about the song Snowflakes on Laughing Gravy's Whiskers from this very same site here.

http://www.surfinagain.com/archives4.htm


Therefore, the owner of the site knew very well what that track was, where it came from and that it was not a smile track.

What a lying jerk! 

Anyway, it seems like someone was just trying to throw some more wood into the figurative smile fire. Good tune though.