My SMiLE tracklist (oldies but goodies!)

[BiG GRiN]

I made this tracklist with songs from my iTunes Library and infos I collected on the web, specially from Van Dyke Parks web site;
All the songs had had a big influence in the begining of SMiLE.


- "Gee" by The Crows/Jan & Dean
- "El Paso" by Marty Robbins
- "Peace In The Valley" by The Patuxent Partners
- "Roll Columbia Roll (Gran Coulee Dam)" by Woody Guthrie
- "Old Mc Donald" various versions
- "Barnyard Blues" by Original Dixieland Jazz Band
- "The Old Master Painter" by Dick Haymes
- "You Are My Sunshine" by Jimmie Davis
- "Waiting for a train" by Jimmie Rodgers
- "I've been working on the railroad" by The Tinseltown Players
- "Home on the range" by Gene Autry/Roy Rodgers
- "Frere Jacques/Brother John" by Fred Koch
- "Long Ago Tomorrow" by Burt Bacharach
- "I Wanna Be Around" by Julie London
- "In Old Chicago" (the story of Mrs O Leary's Cow) 1937 MOVIE by Henry King *
- "Cool Water" by The Sons Of The Pioneers
- "Blue Hawaii" by Henri Mancini/Elvis Presley
- "Ukulele Lady" by Duke Kamoku
- "The Pirates Of Penzance: I'm A Pirate King" by D'Oyly Carte Opera Company And Orchestra
- "Long Long Ago" by Jerry Gray And His Orchestra/Ellen & John Wright

* During the scene of the great fire, you can hear bells and whistles, really close to "Fire intro"!

[Sheriff John Stone]

Very impressive! And you even sequenced it.

[Jay]

I wouldn't mind having a CD copy of that. 

[Andrew G. Doe]

Outstanding idea - well done. 

[Boiled Egg]

inspired.

[JB Wilojarston]

Not only were these songs inspirational but there are also  Rhythm and Blues quotes in several songs songs from Smile forward:

Get A Job - SHE'S GOING BALD
Little Egypt - SHE'S GOING BALD (ascending chromatic dimished chords in middle section)
Hey! Ba-ba-re-bop - WONDERFUL
Work With Me Henry/Dance With Me Henry - WONDERFUL
Tweedle Dee - COOL COOL WATER
Speedo - THIS WHOLE WORLD
Finger Poppin' Time - DO IT AGAIN

[Bill Tobelman]

It's as if Brian got his inspiration for SMiLE from a record store.

Cool idea.

[Bill Tobelman]

But Van Dyke Parks was going for a Walt Whitman, e.e. cummings, Mark Twain approach. It would seem that SMiLE is very library & bookstore oriented as well.