Fascinating... :-)

[punkinhead]

Not having heard the '70 version of "Back Home" before, I was surprised they reused the verse melody from "Merry Christmas, Baby". While previously unreleased melodies were fair game for rewrites and re-recordings throughout the 60s and early 70s, I can't think of another Beach Boys track from this period that blatantly reuses a released song's melody. Maybe that's one of the reasons "Back Home" didn't make the cut until '76, by which time Brian rewrote the verse melody.

The 1975 recording of "Back Home" used on 15BO is melodically and lyrically almost identical to the version Brian cut at the same Western session as the track for "Run-Around Lover", June 14th 1963. Thus, not a re-write.  

Wait, is this post stating that the sunflower era version of Back Home borrows from Merry Christmas Baby?  and the 75 cut of Back Home borrows from Run-Around Lover? Or is it stating that the 75 version is identical to the version cut at the same place and/or date as where Run-Around Lover was cut?  

I think didn't read this in context.

The released 15 BIG ONES version of "Back Home" uses the same verse melody that Brian used back when he first cut the song back in '63 (apparently recorded during the same session in which he cut "Run-around Lover"); the unreleased version of "Back Home" from 1970 changes the verse melody to the one already used in "Merry Christmas, Baby". Therefore, Brian returned to his original melody when reworking the song for release on 15 BIG ONES.

good call, thanks. i needed some clarification. man, run around lover and back home at ONE sessions?
Two fantastic cuts that SHOULD have been on BB albums/singles.
Run-Around Lover is actually one of my favorite early productions.

[Andrew G. Doe]

June 14th 1963, at Gold Star, 11.30am-2.30pm.

Musicians were:

Hal Blaine
Carol Kaye
David Gates
Jay Migliori
Steve Douglas
Brian Wilson

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this was the first time Brian used Gold Star, and is his first documented use of any of the Wrecking Crew (both Hal & Carol claim to have played on "Surfin' USA": the AFM sheet and the memory of one David Marks say they didn't).

[Awesoman]

OK, so who's the dweeb singing that "lead vocal" on the alternate version of "Your Imagination"? 

[Andrew G. Doe]

OK, so who's the dweeb singing that "lead vocal" on the alternate version of "Your Imagination"? 

I'm guessing... Joe Thomas ?

[ReggieDunbar]

OK, so who's the dweeb singing that "lead vocal" on the alternate version of "Your Imagination"? 

I'm guessing... Joe Thomas ?

Compare the intro guitar to alternate Your Imagination and I Can Hear Music (Kathy Troccoli) both produced by Thomas....

//RD

[Awesoman]

No clue as to who this person is that has been uploading all this material to Youtube, but they have quite the collection of unreleased content.  Although there are definitely some gems to be found in there, I can understand why most of this stuff was never released.  Some of it is just plain lousy.  And when you consider some of the material that actually found its way onto the group's albums, that is saying a lot.