Topic: The Beach Boys (Read 155316 times)

Hello Goodbye · « **Reply #260 on:** February 04, 2011, 05:58:17 AM »

Bobber, you might think The Lennon sisters were square. But they were pretty hip in 1968 (play both at the same time)...


The Lennon Sisters - Green Tambourine


The Joshua Light Show - Liquid Loops (1969)

Far out, man!

Bobber · « **Reply #261 on:** February 04, 2011, 08:17:23 AM »

I can imagine the whole country being in love with them. I think they're pretty cool actually!

Hello Goodbye · « **Reply #262 on:** February 04, 2011, 06:28:30 PM »

They were cute too...

Hello Goodbye · « **Reply #263 on:** February 04, 2011, 07:37:48 PM »

Quote from: Bobber on February 04, 2011, 08:17:23 AM

I think they're pretty cool actually!

A whole lot cooler than The Lemon Pipers, Cor...


Lemon Pipers - Green Tambourine ('69)

Hello Goodbye · « **Reply #264 on:** February 04, 2011, 07:42:35 PM »

Back on topic now...

Joost, tomorrow is their big night. Any guesses which songs they'll include in their set?

Joost · « **Reply #265 on:** February 04, 2011, 08:12:20 PM »

Quote from: Hello Goodbye on February 04, 2011, 07:42:35 PM

Back on topic now...

Joost, tomorrow is their big night. Any guesses which songs they'll include in their set?

My guess: Their Hearts Were Full Of Spring, Good Vibrations, California Girls, Barbara Ann, plus one or two more of their greatest hits. They've got just 20 minutes.

Hello Goodbye · « **Reply #266 on:** February 05, 2011, 04:19:30 AM »

I hope they sing Help Me Rhonda too, Joost.

Joost · « **Reply #267 on:** February 05, 2011, 11:46:59 AM »

Quote from: Hello Goodbye on February 05, 2011, 04:19:30 AM

I hope they sing Help Me Rhonda too, Joost.

Seems to me that it was never one of their favorites to do, as throughout their history they often either didn't play it, or completely rearranged it (they did a heavier blues arrangement for a while, they changed the lyrics from first person to second person, they got Dennis to sing it instead of Al, etc.). But who knows, it would be cool if they'd let Al sing a song and Rhonda is his best known lead.

Hello Goodbye · « **Reply #268 on:** February 05, 2011, 05:19:30 PM »

Quote from: Joost on February 05, 2011, 11:46:59 AM

...it would be cool if they'd let Al sing a song and Rhonda is his best known lead.

That's just what I was thinking, Joost. Anyway, tonight's the night!

Hello Goodbye · « **Reply #269 on:** February 06, 2011, 05:30:34 AM »

California Girls
Sloop John B
Good Vibrations
Kokomo
Help Me Rhonda
Fun, Fun, Fun

Thank you Beach Boys!

...and thank you Reagan Foundation

Joost · « **Reply #270 on:** February 06, 2011, 01:05:24 PM »

Great to see Al on stage with those guys again, for the first time in 13 years. But the show was not very good. I thought they all looked just tired and not very into it.

Hello Goodbye · « **Reply #271 on:** February 12, 2011, 06:41:00 AM »

GO!


the beach boys - Little Honda - The Platinum Collec


The Beach Boys - Little Honda


Hondells - Little Honda

The Hondells

The Shindig Dancers, again!

I think that's Teri Garr on the right

Hello Goodbye · « **Reply #272 on:** February 12, 2011, 07:04:04 AM »


The Beach Boys - Sloop John B


Sloop John B by The Beach Boys live (1980)

And from 1958...


The Wreck Of The John B

The Kingston Trio

Joost · « **Reply #273 on:** February 12, 2011, 08:47:03 PM »

Quote from: Hello Goodbye on February 12, 2011, 06:41:00 AM

GO!

The Beach Boys - Little Honda (stereo)

The Beach Boys - Little Honda

Hondells - Little Honda

The Beach Boys were originally going to release 'Little Honda' as a single, but then a friend told Brian that he didn't think it would be a hit. Brian, insecure as ever, then decided to not release it as a single. So it was picked up by studio project The Hondells, who had a #9 hit with it.

Hello Goodbye · « **Reply #274 on:** February 12, 2011, 10:33:53 PM »

And Joost I, like many others at the time, thought we were listening to The Beach Boys when we heard The Hondells' Little Honda on the radio. A similar thing happened in early 1970 when we heard Come And Get It played on the radio. We all thought it was The Beatles.

Hello Goodbye · « **Reply #275 on:** February 12, 2011, 10:41:37 PM »

Histe Up The John B Sail


Cleveland Simmons Group - Sloop John B (1935)

Cleveland Simmons Group 1935

Nassau, Bahamas ca. 1900

Joost · « **Reply #276 on:** February 13, 2011, 12:10:43 AM »

Quote from: Hello Goodbye on February 12, 2011, 10:33:53 PM

And Joost I, like many others at the time, thought we were listening to The Beach Boys when we heard The Hondells' Little Honda on the radio.

Well, The Hondells were very closely related to The Beach Boys. They had the same producer, used some of the same session musicians, and the whole project was the brainchild of Gary Usher, a good friend of Brian who co-wrote several songs (including 'In My Room' and '409') with him. Brian Wilson himself even sang backups on The Hondells' second single, 'My Buddy Seat'.

Joost · « **Reply #277 on:** February 13, 2011, 12:26:28 AM »

Quote from: Hello Goodbye on February 12, 2011, 10:41:37 PM

Histe Up The John B Sail

Cleveland Simmons Group - Sloop John B (1935)

Cleveland Simmons Group 1935

Nassau, Bahamas ca. 1900

Another thing about 'Sloop John B.':
Almost every article you'll ever read about The Beach Boys' version of 'Sloop John B.' mentions that Brian Wilson (never a fan of folk music) recorded the song on the instigation of Al Jardine (a big Kingston Trio fan). And although that might be true, it is certainly not true that Al introduced him to the song. At best, he just refreshed Brian's memory, because the song had already been part of the group's repertoir five years earlier. I have a recording of a Beach Boys rehearsal from 1961 and they're already goofing around with the song, and it's been documented that they performed it during their first audition for record producer/publisher Hite Morgan that same year.

Hello Goodbye · « **Reply #278 on:** February 14, 2011, 02:52:41 AM »

Thank you, Joost. Sloop John B was a good song for The Beach Boys to perform. Even the 1935 recording by The Cleveland Simmons Group featured harmonies and canons typical of The Beach Boys.

Hello Goodbye · « **Reply #279 on:** February 14, 2011, 02:57:01 AM »

Here are the lyrics to The John B Sails published by Carl Sandburg in 1927...

THE JOHN B SAILS

O we come on the sloop John B.,
My gran'fadder an' me.
Round Nassau Town we did roam,
Drinking all night, we got in a fight,
I feel so break-up I want to go home!

REFRAIN
So hoist up the John B. sails,
See how de main-s'l set,
Send for de Capt'n ashore, Lemme go home!
Lemme go home! Lemme go home!
I feel so break-up I want to go home!

De first mate he got drunk,
Break up de people's trunk.
Constable come aboard an' take him away.
Mr. Johnstone, please let me alone.
I feel so break-up I want to go home! Refrain

De poor cook he got fits,
Tro' 'way all de grits,
Den he took an' eat up all o' my corn!
Lemme go home, I want to go home!
Dis is de worst trip since I been born! Refrain

Notes: John T. McCutcheon, cartoonist and kindly philosopher, and his wife Evelyn Shaw McCutcheon, mother and poet, learned to sing this on their Treasure Island in the West Indies. They tell of it, "Time and usage have given this song almost the dignity of a national anthem around Nassau. The weathered ribs of the historic craft lie imbedded in the sand at Governor's Harbor, whence an expedition, especially sent up for the purpose in l926, extracted a knee of horseflesh and a ring-bolt. These relics are now preserved and built into the Watch Tower, designed by Mr. Howard Shaw and built on our southern coast a couple of points east by north of the star Canopus."

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