My Love a.k.a. Our Love Is Coming Down

[Jay]

I just heard this incredible track yesterday for the first time. Does anybody have any information on it? When was it recorded? Who played on it? Why wasn't it ever finished?

[smile-holland]

ehm... it was finished. That is, unless it was a hurriedly copy-paste job they did on the the POB legacy edition. It is part of "Love Remember Me" (track 4, 2nd CD)


I think this specific part was recorded around 1977 with the Double Rock Baptist Choir.

[The Shift]

Funny you should say that –  it DOES sound spliced on to me. Both halves of the song are incredible - some of the best stuff in the entire BBs and related repertoire - but somehow they aren't the most comfy of fits, together.

Maybe Jon S. can shed some light? 

[c-man]

I just heard this incredible track yesterday for the first time. Does anybody have any information on it? When was it recorded? Who played on it? Why wasn't it ever finished?

You haven't heard the Sony Legacy Edition of POB/Bambu that came out last year??
Or are you referring to the early '70s DW outtake that goes something like "My love...deeper than the ocean"?

[Jon Stebbins]

Funny you should say that –  it DOES sound spliced on to me. Both halves of the song are incredible - some of the best t=stuff in the entire BBs and related repertoire - but somehow they aren't the most comfy of fits, together.

Maybe Jon S. can shed some light? 

DW's edits(BW's too) were often a little less than slick, to me it adds to the organic and slightly frayed quality of some things to great effect. LRM had the A section virtually intact, which in itself was already both messy and glorious, (Hanlon used a rough reference cassette of a '77 Dennis mix which he had unbelievably saved for all those years. This was his guide in mixing the A section multi-track , i was blown away when he pulled that cassette out) There were multiple B sections available, Dennis had recorded several. Hanlon overlaid multiple elements of these various b-sections in the way he(and Gregg) believed Dennis was headed with this track. FYI- Hanlon originally engineered and played guitar on the track in '77 so his sense of how it should be assembled was strong. This was one that kind of fit together in a fairly obvious way. And I agree it could have been pro-tooled into a much slicker, smoother form, but that was never the goal with these tracks. The goal was to get the DW sound, warts and all.

[king of anglia]

Just the idea of all these songs sitting unheard but for a few people for 30 years is crazy. What else is there?

[c-man]

I just heard this incredible track yesterday for the first time. Does anybody have any information on it? When was it recorded? Who played on it? Why wasn't it ever finished?

To answer your questions (except for the last one)...go to:
www.beachboysarchives.com
Click on the "Bambu" button on the left, follow the Adobe link, and scroll to page 46.

[Jay]

Man, am I embarrassed now.  I don't think I've ever really listened to Love Remember Me before. Sorry guys.  By the way, is it just me or is this track basically a reworked version of the melody to the earlier outtake, Carry Me Home, from Holland?

[MBE]

Man, am I embarrassed now.  I don't think I've ever really listened to Love Remember Me before. Sorry guys.  By the way, is it just me or is this track basically a reworked version of the melody to the earlier outtake, Carry Me Home, from Holland?

I think both songs are very good examples of Dennis' style but other then that I don't hear too much in common.

[Jay]

To me, the lines "carry me home, to my daddy" and "our love, is coming down on you"(I can't remember the exact lyric) sound similar.

[Jay]

I just heard this incredible track yesterday for the first time. Does anybody have any information on it? When was it recorded? Who played on it? Why wasn't it ever finished?

To answer your questions (except for the last one)...go to:
www.beachboysarchives.com
Click on the "Bambu" button on the left, follow the Adobe link, and scroll to page 46.

That is a GREAT article. 

[c-man]

I just heard this incredible track yesterday for the first time. Does anybody have any information on it? When was it recorded? Who played on it? Why wasn't it ever finished?

To answer your questions (except for the last one)...go to:
www.beachboysarchives.com
Click on the "Bambu" button on the left, follow the Adobe link, and scroll to page 46.

That is a GREAT article. 

Thanks.  It's a labor of love.

[Jay]

I just heard this incredible track yesterday for the first time. Does anybody have any information on it? When was it recorded? Who played on it? Why wasn't it ever finished?

To answer your questions (except for the last one)...go to:
www.beachboysarchives.com
Click on the "Bambu" button on the left, follow the Adobe link, and scroll to page 46.

That is a GREAT article. 

Thanks.  It's a labor of love.

It must have taken a long time and a lot of effort to do. As a Dennis/Beach Boy fan it's much appreciated. 

[Shane]

I took a quick look at the beachboysarchives website article, and I just about fell out of my chair.  Several of Dennis' solo works features JAMES JAMERSON on bass??!??!  I truly had no idea.....wow.....

[MBE]

To me, the lines "carry me home, to my daddy" and "our love, is coming down on you"(I can't remember the exact lyric) sound similar.

I see what you mean as far as his phrasing.

[Andrew G. Doe]

I took a quick look at the beachboysarchives website article, and I just about fell out of my chair.  Several of Dennis' solo works features JAMES JAMERSON on bass??!??!  I truly had no idea.....wow.....

Probably JJ junior.

[Jason]

Man, am I embarrassed now.   I don't think I've ever really listened to Love Remember Me before. Sorry guys.   By the way, is it just me or is this track basically a reworked version of the melody to the earlier outtake, Carry Me Home, from Holland?

Man, if even the tr00 fans on the forums can't be bothered to listen to archival stuff, we're really foda now!

[Alex]

Man, am I embarrassed now.  I don't think I've ever really listened to Love Remember Me before. Sorry guys.  By the way, is it just me or is this track basically a reworked version of the melody to the earlier outtake, Carry Me Home, from Holland?

I thought I read somewhere that Love Remember Me was a reworked version of I Don't Know. If that's true, then we've got ourselves another lost SMiLE-era track unearthed!

[Jason]

It is not.

The first part of Love Remember Me with the clarinet, acoustic guitar, and pained Dennis vocal was logged as "I Don't Know" on the session sheet and tape box. It has nothing in common with the 1967 I Don't Know, which was just a basic track.

[hypehat]

Something tells me the title 'I don't know' is rather literal...

[Jay]

I just noticed something about the "My Love" recording I have as bootlegged. On the bootleg version, the drums sound very different from the version issued as part of "Love Remember Me" on the POB/Babu cd. Was there more than one version of "My Love" recorded? Or is the poor sound quality playing with my ears?

[Dancing Bear]

I just noticed something about the "My Love" recording I have as bootlegged. On the bootleg version, the drums sound very different from the version issued as part of "Love Remember Me" on the POB/Babu cd. Was there more than one version of "My Love" recorded? Or is the poor sound quality playing with my ears?

Yeah, there's something 'better' in the bootlegged version.

[Jon Stebbins]

I just noticed something about the "My Love" recording I have as bootlegged. On the bootleg version, the drums sound very different from the version issued as part of "Love Remember Me" on the POB/Babu cd. Was there more than one version of "My Love" recorded? Or is the poor sound quality playing with my ears?

Did you read my post? I already answered your question way up this thread dude. "There were multiple B sections available, Dennis had recorded several." I'm sensing Jay is not a very thorough researcher...considering his orig. post that began this thread...and now this already answered question. Take a break from the bong brother.

[Ed Roach]

"Take a break from the bong brother."

Hey, come on, Jon...  Take the dude apart, but don't insult good old - wait, what was I defending???

[Howie Edelson]

How do you post nearly ONE THOUSAND times on a hardcore, in-depth Beach Boys message board -- yet HAVE NOT listened to 'Bambu" in it's entirety???

What are the odds?