Beach Boys & Walt Whitman

[rasmus skotte]

Third entry from top (by Søren Hattesen Balle from Aalborg University):
http://www.hum.aau.dk/~i12bent/Future_Lectures/Karlstad06.html

[rasmus skotte]

Beach Boys and Whitman 'met' once via Brian & Kalinich' poetry album: A World Of Peace from where Leaves Of Grass is based upon a Whitman poem
(according to Andrew Doe). I suspect that Mr. Hattesen wouldn't know about this connection - not until september at least.

[Andrew G. Doe]

Beach Boys and Whitman 'met' once via Brian & Kalinich' poetry album: A World Of Peace from where Leaves Of Grass is based upon a Whitman poem
(according to Andrew Doe). I suspect that Mr. Hattesen wouldn't know about this connection - not until september at least.

"Leaves of Grass" is the bonus track on A World Of Peace Must Come - produced by Carl for Stevie K's band at the time (1968), Zarathustra & Thelibis. Not truly a part of the album.

[rasmus skotte]

Does anyone know which Whitman poem inspired Leaves Of Grass? The still unreleased Carl Wilson production of that song
(thanks Andrew - and that would still be a kind of meeting between WW & BB?) could have been a great extra bonus on A World Of Peace Must Come!

[lance]

Whitman's magnum opus was Leaves of Grass. Not sure if it was a poem, but it was a very well-known book of poetry.

[Andrew G. Doe]

The original - 1855 - edition had titles, just 12 unnamed poems, so strictly speaking you could call it a poem sequence.

[lance]

Well, the one you buy now is friggin' huge.

[Andrew G. Doe]

Yeah, Walt kept tinkering with it right up to his death. Get a hold of the original 1855 edition to see how it originally was. Wonderful stuff.