"Get The Boot" track confusion...

[TheLazenby]

I'm trying to reconstruct the original version of "Sun Flower" using Get The Boot (the only source for two of the tracks, from what I can tell)... but I'm confused, because the track list on the cover seems to be wrong.

The tracklist on the cover is:
10) Back Home (demo version)
11) Back Home (Sunflower outtake)
12) Walkin' (Sunflower outtake)

The thing is though, track 10 is a whole different song, track 11 is a demo of Back Home, and track 12 is a finished version of Back Home.  Where the hell is "Walkin'" at?  (Track 13 is "It's A New Day", just as the cover says.)

Is there any other source for the apparently nonexistent "Walkin'"?  I need that for the Sun Flower disc!

[Andrew G. Doe]

If track 10 has someone saying "I don't wanna sing this ******* thing" (or something like that) - that's "Walkin'". 

[TheLazenby]

Oh, okay!  Yes, track 10 starts with Brian saying "I don't want to sing."

[runnersdialzero]

Is the piano "demo" of "Back Home" from the Sunflower period, as well? I know it was originally recorded much earlier, I think for the "Surfer Girl" album, so I wasn't sure.

Interesting that the final 15 Big Ones version sounds a lot closer to the older Surfer Girl take and not the later Sunflower take.

[Andrew G. Doe]

Is the piano "demo" of "Back Home" from the Sunflower period, as well? I know it was originally recorded much earlier, I think for the "Surfer Girl" album, so I wasn't sure.

Interesting that the final 15 Big Ones version sounds a lot closer to the older Surfer Girl take and not the later Sunflower take.

The GTB demo is from 1969/70. The first recording was 6/14/63, at Gold Star: same session as the basic track for "Run-Around Lover". Might have been Brian's first session there.

[Jason]

The 1970 version of Back Home is really, really cool. Very down-home, country attitude on that version. Like H&V, Brian did the version most people know but Al was born to sing it.

[TheLazenby]

Hearing the compiled album (I put together a 2-fer of "Sun Flower" and "Add Some Music"), I'm actually kinda glad that "Walkin'" and "Back Home" disappeared.  I know it's wrong to judge from unfinished tracks, but they just seem... I dunno, inconsequential.

[Bicyclerider]

If you're trying to reconstruct the "original" sunflower - i.e. Add some Music - then Back Home and Walkin' should not be on it - they were never in the track listings, just on a comp reel for consideration for the album.

[Andrew G. Doe]

The 'original' tracklisting for Add Some Music was as follows:


Side 1
Susie Cincinnati
Good Time
Our Sweet Love
Tears In The Morning (original mix)
When Girls Get Together (track)
Slip On Through

Side 2
Add Some Music To Your Day
Take A Load Off Your Feet
This Whole World
I Just Got My Pay
At My Window
Fallin' In Love