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| The Beach Boys – Lonely Sea Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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In response to xl5ron, "Lonely Sea" was featured in the 1965 surf/beach epic, GIRLS ON THE BEACH, along with the title song and "Little Honda". The movie has never been available on DVD or VHS and the last time I remember this being shown on TV was on AMC about ten years ago. For more on the movie, go to the IMDB:
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| The Beach Boys – Lonely Sea Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Haunting, sad, beautiful -- those words apply to so many Brian Wilson melodies that they are almost cliches, but hell, since I don't feel like getting out the thesaurus, I'll just say that this song is haunting, sad and beautful, and is the first such song released by the Beach Boys. "Surfer Girl" was written in 1962, about a year earlier and before they had their Capitol contract, and a primitive version was recorded that year in family friend Hite Morgan's small makeshift studio, but was not released to the public until the huge resurgence of interest in the band in the mid-1970's. The lead vocal is an early example of Brian's clear, high falsetto ballad style, and this is also the only song I know of by the Beach Boys where the bridge is spoken by Brian. This rare "dramatic" device came as a direct result of Elvis' 1960 recording of "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" and is slightly embarrassing upon the first few listenings to the song, but only slightly. You'll get over it. |
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| The Beach Boys – Farmer's Daughter Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Although a very early and very simple Beach Boys song, this ode to rural traveling salesmen contains a really good melody and is one of the few listenable songs off of the BB's sophomore effort, "Surfin' USA", along with the title track, Shut Down, and the first of Brian's really good ballads, Lonely Sea. |
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| The Beach Boys – Good Timin' Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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This is my favorite post-1960's Beach Boys song and contains some truly great background "ooohh's" over the lead vocal, sung by Carl Wilson when released in 1978. Brian wrote this in the early 1970's as almost a re-write of "Surfer Girl", and indeed, it is in the same key (D) and on the fade-out, you can hear the first four wordless high-harmony notes of the intro to "Surfer Girl" coyingly being sung. The harmonies, although beautiful, are among the simplest of any Beach Boys recording and the lead vocal IS the shortest and easiest to sing of any song in the Beach Boys' entire repertoire. |
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| The Beach Boys – Chapel Of Love Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Written by the formidable writing team of Phil Spector, Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry, this song was originally recorded in 1964 by Spector protege girl groups the Crystals and the Ronettes. Spector, being the brilliant but occasional dumbass he was, refused to release the song, so co-writers Greenwich and Barry arranged themselves for the song to be recorded by another girl group, not affiliated with Spector, the Dixie Cups. It was a huge #1 hit. |
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| The Beach Boys – Come Go With Me Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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I am one of the very few people left in America whose favorite music is the Beach Boys. Most real BB fans today are in the UK, Japan, or Australia, where melody and harmony are still appreciated and where the violent and negative AUSTN culture has not completely taken over, as it has here. Still, the Del-Vikings' version is by far the best, and if you disagree with that, you are disagreeing with every member of the Beach Boys, including Al Jardine, who sang lead and who brought the song into the band. Most people under 40 years of age can't appreciate that the beauty of the original recording, and the beauty of most R&R and R&B recordings from the '50's and '60's, lies EXACTLY in the lack of sonic studio perfection and clarity (due to the limited studio resources of the time) and in that the performance itself was not overly polished or overly produced as it would be if recorded today. In the 1950's, one-hit wonder doo-wop groups such as the Del-Vikings did not have the opportunity for multiple takes and so the raw doo-wop feel comes through. That's what makes the original so great and what makes surviving members Al, Mike Love and Bruce Johnston and 99% of people over 40 overwhelmingly prefer the original. For a bit of a fictionalized but still interesting portrayal of the song originally being recorded, rent 1978's "American Hot Wax", the story of Alan Freed, the pioneering DJ of the 1950's credited with coining the term "rock and roll". |
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| The Beach Boys – Caroline No Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Along with "Warmth of the Sun", this is one of the most beautiful melodies Brian ever wrote. It has the distinction of being the only song/single during Brian's tenure with the group to ever be released as a Brian Wilson solo recording, |
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| The Beach Boys – All Dressed Up For School Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Recorded in 1964, this was about the most risque song ever recorded by the Beach Boys in their halcyon youth of the 1960's. It remained unreleased until 1990, when Capitol Records finally decided to do the right thing and release all of the BB's Capitol releases on CD, two albums per (except for "Pet Sounds", for which a separate CD with bonus tracks was released). This song was featured as a bonus track on the "Little Deuce Coupe"/"All Summer Long" twofer CD and is one of the best Beach Boys songs never to be a hit single. This song rocks! Although unreleased for 25 years after it was written, a very similar melody was used for the verse in 1972's "Marcella". |
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| The Beach Boys – Bluebirds Over The Mountain Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Written and performed by rockabilly singer Ersel Hickey, this song was also covered by Ritchie Valens in 1958. I haven't heard either of those versions, but the Beach Boys version sucks. I hate this song. |
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| The Beach Boys – Be True To Your School (Single) Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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The single version is distinguished in many ways from the album version, with two changes being the most obvious. In the single, a trio of "cheerleaders" add "Do it again, do it again, we like it, we like it" and "Push 'em back, push 'em back, way back" at the end of certain lines in the song. These girls are The Honeys, composed of Brian Wilson's wife Marilyn Rovell (mother of Wendy and Carnie), her sister Diane, and a friend whose name I forget. The other big difference is that the single has an instrumental bridge, while the album version has no bridge at all. To this day, this song remains one of the group's most energetic and to a great extent, the lyrics are still applicable, even in the violent AUSTN (African-American Urban Street Thug) culture pervading MTV and today's American public schools. |
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| The Beach Boys – Blueberry Hill Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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This song was originally written in 1940, mostly by band leader Vincent Rose, for Gene Autry to sing in his 1941 western "The Singing Hill". For his efforts, ASCAP gave Rose a posthumous award for the most performed song originally from a motion picture. |
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| The Beach Boys – Barbara Ann Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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This song was written in 1959 by Fred Fassert and was originally recorded by The Regents. The meaning? A guy goes to a sock-hop and flips for a babe named Barbara Ann, who first gets him rockin' and a-rollin' and later that night, rockin' and a-reelin'. |
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| The Beach Boys – The Warmth Of The Sun Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Bobo, as McMahon used to say to Carson on the Tonight Show, "You are correct, sir!" The only thing I would add is that the much-maligned Mike Love contributed greatly to the lyric, if not writing the majority of it. This is arguably the single most beautiful melody that Brian Wilson ever wrote. |
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| The Beach Boys – And Your Dream Comes True Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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This song was Brian Wilson's tribute to the complex 4-part harmonies of the Four Freshmen, the single largest musical influence on the Beach Boys. Although not a direct rip-off like "A Young Man Is Gone", it was nevertheless inspired by Bobby Troup's (yeah, the same guy on the 1970's paramedic show "Emergency!") "Their Hearts Were Full of Spring", one of the few a cappella tracks that the Four Freshmen ever recorded. |
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| The Beach Boys – 409 Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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This song was written in 1962 by Brian Wilson, with lyrics by his friend Gary Usher. The song was a paean (that's "tribute" for most of you that post to this site - duh, recent American public high school "grads" or those in the process of being dumbed down) to the great Chevy 409 engine, at that time the most powerful on the streets. |
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| Led Zeppelin – When the Levee Breaks Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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I have one thing in common (as many of us do these days) with Memphis Minnie, Kansas Joe, and other authentic blues players, and that is being authentically unemployed. So yesterday morning at 5 a.m., right before going to sleep, I watched a documentary on the History Channel about the history of the MS River. They were mentioning the great floods along the river in 1927 and the levees breaking and I wondered if this inspired the writing of this song. Shernuff, it did. I knew this as soon as I saw that Kansas Joe recorded this in 1929, and it is likely that the song was written in 1927 by Memphis Minnie, same year as the flooding. So to put all of the speculation on the song's origin to rest once and for all: http://www.mrjumbo.com/contents/delta99/3delta/1friars/levee.html
If there are any more posts as to the meaning/origin of this song, I kill ya. If anyone disagrees with me about this, I kill ya. And most of all, if you don't remember the psycho recruit in Bill Murray's "Stripes", I kill ya. |
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