Correcting the Beach Boy liner notes Thread (thanks Mitchell)

[al]

Has any Pet Sounds issue correctly identified Al as one of the "I Know There's An Answer" lead singers?

Both the Pet Sounds box set and the 1999 mono/stereo twofer have this one correct. "Mike and Alan on the verses, Brian on the choruses".

So does the DVD-A.

[Jason]

And of course, "Summertime Blues" - Carl on at least one of the vocals, and according to the engineer voice-over on UM1, "Ni[c]k."

David is audible on Summertime Blues too. Probably his only lead.

[c-man]

Isn't the recording date of "Surfin' Safari" in the booklet way too late...like after the release date of the 45?  Tell me, how did THAT happen?

[37!ws]

"Louie, Louie" -- definitely Carl singing

You sure?

Yup. Listen to the vowels, the "sh" sounds and the "ch" sounds. Now...compare to the concert rehearsal of the same song. Terribly obvious.

[37!ws]

Pom Pom Play Girl:  Carl has the lead.

Which means that the comment about Girl Don't Tell Me being Carl's first lead is also incorrect.

If you're talking about Brian's comment on the back of the SD(ASN!!) cover, then, well, it's not necessarily incorrect. Brian doesn't say it's Carl's first lead, but that it's the first song he wrote that Carl LIKED to sing. Carl had three other leads, two of them covers; the third was pretty much filler.

[Jeff Mason]

Nope, David Leaf said that in his notes about GDTM.

[Aegir]

This isn't necessarily an "error", but it's still wrong..

You know those blurbs by Brian about each album? Well, on the Friends/20/20 twofer, in the one where he's describing the songs on Friends, he mentions how great Al sung on Cotton Fields, which as we all know is not on Friends!