Who wrote "Awake"?

[pixletwin]

I know it was the B-side to Spring's single "Now That Everything Is Said" but I want to know who wrote the song and does Brian sing on the demo?

 

[the captain]

There is a demo with Brian singing. I am not sure who wrote it.

[warnakey]

I was wrong.

[XY]

Floyd Tucker wrote it and there's a beautiful solo demo by Brian - just piano & double tracked lead. Shows that his involvement was a bit more than just sporadic. Later he claimed that he had nothing to do with the cover songs on AS.

[Andrew G. Doe]

Floyd Tucker wrote it and there's a beautiful solo demo by Brian - just piano & double tracked lead. Shows that his involvement was a bit more than just sporadic. Later he claimed that he had nothing to do with the cover songs on AS.

Triple-tracked. Sandler produced the released version, his only solo production credit of that project. I once wrote something about Brian's gaining in enthusiasm as the Spring project as it unfolded, only to be told by Steve Desper a few years later that I'd got it exactly 180 degrees wrong - he started out really interested, then lost interest (as usual). Steve was of the opinion that the finished album was maybe 5%-10% Brian (pointing out that "5% of Brian Wilson is better than 100% of most people"), and even Marilyn, when I put the same question to her, agreed that 25% was the top figure.

[MBE]

Sandler makes it sound like Brian was there at least half the time.

[pixletwin]

Thanks for answering my question everyone... So many interesting little factoids. 

[Custom Machine]

When the Spring album was released, Brian called the Wolfman Jack show and said he had just produced a new album by his wife and her sister.  He repeatedly stated, "It's better than Pet Sounds, Wolfman."

[the captain]

When the Spring album was released, Brian called the Wolfman Jack show and said he had just produced a new album by his wife and her sister.  He repeatedly stated, "It's better than Pet Sounds, Wolfman."

And that, folks, is why I put so little credence in anything BW has ever said. I don't take it with just a grain of salt--but a sandbox full.

[MBE]

Well Brian really did love his wife's voice so maybe at the time the excitement made him think it was better. It is among the finest albums he worked on.