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I was reading an interview with Brian Wilson from the late 80's, and he mentions a song called "Boys, Girls". Brian says that it was "a hell of a commercial little song, but we threw it in the can". Supposedly this was around the late 70's to early 80's. Has anyone heard of this particular piece of music? Is "Boys,Girls" an alternative title for a different song?
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Yes...there's an AFM sheet for a KTSA session on Oct.19, 1979 for "Boys & Girls", and another one for a Nov. 18, 1980 session for "Candlesticks", "Boys And Girls", and "Up Again" (both sessions at Western Recorders). No indication that anything beyond scratch vocals were recorded for either version. Guess Brian liked it enough to recut it a year later, in a version probably produced by himself (the earlier version would be a BJ production).
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At one point, it was listed under the title "Boys and Girls Living Together."
We have the unfinished backing track from the KTSA sessions. Very nice, upbeat, with some cool changes. It was one of the tracks I brought along for the listening session when Steve Desper and I went to Susan Lang's fan gathering in Connecticut some years ago.
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The title is mentioned in the Wilson Project book as a possible title for a Wilson-Usher colaboration. So maybe Brian wanted to record his old song with GU
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Quote from: Alan Boyd on June 21, 2010, 12:28:09 PM
At one point, it was listed under the title "Boys and Girls Living Together."
We have the unfinished backing track from the KTSA sessions. Very nice, upbeat, with some cool changes. It was one of the tracks I brought along for the listening session when Steve Desper and I went to Susan Lang's fan gathering in Connecticut some years ago.
From the musician lineup on the AFM contract, the 1980 version may be a little fuller, and more "Brian-esque", with accordion and two saxophones, in addition to drums, bass, guitar and keyboards.
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I figured I'd bring this topic back because I was gonna make a thread about it. And instead of just clogging the site with another thread here goes.
Anyways, does anybody know if the 1980 version of "Boys And Girls" was ever completed to any reasonable level? For instance, were vocals recorded? The fact that Brian was still talking about this song nearly ten years after it was first recorded (incompletely) shows that it must have been a pretty decent song in his mind. So anyways, anybody got any info?
And also, for anybody who has heard either version (the 1979 instrumental or the 1980 version), are either of them any good?
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