The Beach Boys

[Mistermoonlight]

Groovin' on the harmonies. It's as if if the Everly Brothers had been quintuplets:

[Mistermoonlight]

I have had this song stuck in my head all day long. How cool to come back home and find this alternate take version of it on YouTube:

[KyleEl]

Their slow songs play on my favorite pop radio station.

Before there were 'N Sync and the Backstreet Boys, there were The Lettermen, The Four Lads, the Brothers Four, The Vogues ...
So much great harmony.

[Mistermoonlight]

Brian Wilson said two of his big influences were The Four Freshmen and Chuck Berry (think car songs.)

Here are the Four Freshmen doing Wilson's 'Surfer Girl.'



And adding Chuck Berry:



You come up with this equation: The Four Freshmen + Chuck Berry = The Beach Boys



And as a bonus, here's a rare track of the Beach Boys doing the same song with Status Quo:

[KyleEl]

I like The Four Freshmen too. I think. I can't remember what they did right now.

[KyleEl]

Apr 5, 2012 22:18:00 GMT -5 Mistermoonlight said:

Groovin' on the harmonies. It's as if if the Everly Brothers had been quintuplets:

I heard The Everly Brothers on the radio this morning. The DJ said something about someone saying they sounded like they should be called Everly.

[avp60685]

here's a fun song that i love of theirs:

[Mistermoonlight]

Oh wow, what a great memory. I'd forgotten that the Beach Boys were on this song. I saw it in the theater as a kid when it first came out. And what a perfect addition here, with our TE monkey clause.

Here's the version as it appeared in the movie, with Annette Funicello and the Beach Boys:

[Mistermoonlight]

Fascinating background on the evolution of the song "Sloop John B."

[KyleEl]

It's weird that a radio station I used to listen to played "Good Vibrations" and yet it didn't seem loud. I did ask a national DJ if they played "Fun, Fun, Fun" shortly before they started adding the louder stuff and was told no. The local station was sneaking songs into commercial breaks.

In theory, the station was supposed to be easy listening, though a lot of what they played was louder than what I wanted to hear. The music supplier went under not long after that. My current station gets most of its music from a source that learned not to ignore the great standards, even as it adds more and more weird stuff.

I think I'm correct that my station plays "Kokomo", "In My Room", "God Only Knows", "Little Surfer Girl".

[avp60685]

another fun song:



and some of their greatest hits in this one:

[TheFlashFan]

I see the beach boys live one time up here in minnesota years ago was cool see one of fav bands live.

[KyleEl]

I heard "Little Surfer Girl" this morning.

[Mistermoonlight]

"Little Surfer Girl" was always one of those songs I could put on when I was spinning in a club and count on it to get all of the couples onto the dance floor every time.

Here's another one of my favorites:

[avp60685]

i haven't heard that one so thanks for sharing moon

[KyleEl]

My favorite pop radio station played Brian Wilson's "I Got Rhythm" yesterday.

I don't like that because the great standards shouldn't be redone as rock and roll.

Yes, I get that new versions of old songs are one way to get young people to hear these great songs and rejuvenate this type of music, but still ...

[KyleEl]

My radio station is playing "God Only Knows".

Or was.

[melissa197833]

Fan here I'm always listening to the radio station by me here on long island called 101.1 plays old music.

[KyleEl]

My radio station just played "Sloop John B".

The clock radio turns itself off after 20 minutes but I had it on for Mike Huckabee.

[Mistermoonlight]

May 4, 2012 14:15:03 GMT -5 KyleEl said:

My radio station is playing "God Only Knows".

Or was.

Paul McCartney has called "God Only Knows" the best song ever written, and confessed that every time he hears it, it makes him cry. Bono said in 2006 "the string arrangement on 'God Only Knows' is fact and proof of angels."



For an idea of what Brian Wilson means to the history of music, check out this magical evening on video. Lyle Lovett's haunting soulfull version of "God Only Knows" (07:03) especially makes me think about this place, all of the friends we've managed to salvage, and what they mean to me. Warning, this bit of video will not only inspire you, it may make you weep:



I just found out today that Brian said in an autobiography that it was a John Sebastian song that inspired "God Only Knows" which shows how musical influences work. Sebastian is one of my favorite artists, too. And it was Brian's "Pet Sounds" album that inspired the Beatles to do "Sgt. Pepper."

Brian never said which Sebastian song it was, but I have a feeling it was this one:

[KyleEl]

I was reading George Will. He said there was no Rhonda.

[Mistermoonlight]

Actually George Will didn't say that, Brian Wilson did. Will only reported it. And if 'Help Me Rhonda' is a work of fiction, created about no one in particular, give me a dozen Brian Wilson songs any day.

Surf's up!

[KyleEl]

Jul 10, 2012 21:52:17 GMT -5 Mistermoonlight said:

Actually George Will didn't say that, Brian Wilson did. Will only reported it.

Well, sure, if you want to get technical. I only remembered it was in his column but didn't remember where HE got it.

I heard "Sloop John B" this morning on the radio.

[TheFlashFan]

oh bye the way I like the song Kokomo bye them too good song.

[KyleEl]

Apr 23, 2012 16:20:08 GMT -5 KyleEl said:

I heard "Little Surfer Girl" this morning.

This morning too. It has been a while.

[KyleEl]

I heard "God Only Knows" this morning, and "Help Me Rhonda" was the Name That Tune song one day this week. The local morning show is more ... lively. It shouldn't be as people are just getting up and maybe don't want it so loud.

[TheFlashFan]

another song I like bye them is surfin usa very good song.

[KyleEl]

I heard "God Only Knows" this morning and on the local morning show "Help Me Rhonda" one day last week.

[TheFlashFan]

been a fan of there music well since I was a kid.

[KyleEl]

I never heard "That's Why God Made the Radio" before.

And certainly not on my radio station.