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Post by jk on Aug 26, 2023 6:44:12 GMT -5
Time for a new project (folks I'm lost without a project). This new one has a strong Beach Boys connection but unlike the stickied "BB Timeline" refrains from actually linking their songs. The connection is in the timing. The idea is to feature a song, a single where possible, released on the day each BB single was first released, as documented in AGD's Shows & Sessions (without which I would most certainly be lost). It will give an idea of what else was happening at the time and hopefully provide something of a context, or an extra dimension. "Surfin'" was first released on 27 November 1961 (as Candix 331), a date it shares with the release of Showcase, the second studio album by Patsy Cline, recorded with The Jordanaires. The last track on side one, "Seven Lonely Days", had been a top ten hit in 1953 for Bonnie Lou, a country-to-pop crossover artist like Ms Cline: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patsy_Cline
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Post by jk on Aug 27, 2023 4:23:53 GMT -5
Like its predecessor, "Surfin' Safari" b/w "409" (released 4 June 1962) is paired here with an LP, this time by the Man in Black, containing a track the Boys would themselves tackle more than six years later. Once again, the chosen track is the closer on side one. From The Sound of Johnny Cash, this is "Cotton Fields (The Cotton Song)": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Cash
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Post by jk on Aug 28, 2023 12:37:30 GMT -5
And I thought I'd sail through this thread! Well, the only real option open to me for 4 March 1963, the date "Surfin’ U.S.A." was first released, is that it was the day Frankie Laine recorded the Mann-Weil song "Don't Make My Baby Blue". Produced by Terry Melcher and arranged by Jack Nitzsche, it features a stunning if brief fuzz guitar solo allegedly courtesy of Glen Campbell: There is one more, admittedly less reliable option. A lone YouTuber has proposed 4 March of that year as the otherwise unconfirmed date of release of country star Cowboy Copas's "Goodbye Kisses". Tragically, 5 March 1963 is the date he, Hawkshaw Hawkins and Patsy Cline from our first post died in a plane crash after playing a charity gig... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy_Copas
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Post by jk on Aug 30, 2023 6:57:29 GMT -5
Only four posts in and we're out of chronological order already. "Ten Little Indians", surely one of the shortest singles ever (which is probably why I missed it), was released on 26 November 1962 in the company of the only slightly higher charting 45 "The Ballad Of Jed Clampett" by Flatt and Scruggs: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ballad_of_Jed_Clampett
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Post by filledeplage on Aug 30, 2023 7:13:35 GMT -5
Only four posts in and we're out of chronological order already. "Ten Little Indians", surely one of the shortest singles ever (which is probably why I missed it), was released on 26 November 1962 in the company of the only slightly higher charting 45 "The Ballad Of Jed Clampett" by Flatt and Scruggs: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ballad_of_Jed_Clampett
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Post by jk on Sept 1, 2023 3:11:49 GMT -5
I recall a friend of mine singing a ribald version of that song in about 1968 but I never watched the series... Well, this pairing-up business is not as plain sailing as I envisaged! Indeed, "Surfer Girl" b/w "Little Deuce Coupe" is combined with a postponed release, that of Introducing… The Beatles, the renamed US version of the Please Please Me album ( sans title-track single and B-side). To quote its wiki, "Preparations for the LP's release continued in late June and early July 1963, including the manufacturing of masters and metal parts and the printing of 6,000 front covers. But, despite the claims of many older Beatles books and discographies that Introducing... The Beatles was first released on 22 July 1963, no documentation exists to confirm that the album was released at any time in 1963." So, no video this time. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introducing..._The_Beatles
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Post by jk on Sept 3, 2023 5:23:48 GMT -5
"Be True To Your School" b/w "In My Room" shares a release date with a posthumous country hit for Patsy Cline: Title: When You Need A Laugh / I'll Sail My Ship Alone Artist: Patsy Cline Format: 45 Label: Decca Cat. Num.: 31552 Rel. Year: 1963 02:48 September 5, 1962 [14:00-18:00] NA 12194 / 112597 When You Need A Laugh (Hank Cochran) 02:29 February 7, 1963 [19:00-22:00] NA 12374 / 113163 I'll Sail My Ship Alone (Sydney Nathan, Henry Bernard, Morry Burns, Henry Thurston) Owen Bradley (pdr, mgr), Patsy Cline (v), The Jordanaires (bkv), Randy Hughes (g), Ray Edenton (rg), Grady Martin (eg, dir), Rita Faye Wilson (ahp), Floyd Cramer, Pig Robbins (p), Bob Moore (b), Harold Bradley, Wayne Moss (ebx), Buddy Harman (d), Byron Bach, Brenton Banks, George Binkley III, Cecil Brower, Howard Carpenter, Solie Fott, Nancy Hearn, Lillian Hunt, Martin Katahn, Mildred Onk, Verne Richardson, Gary Williams (vn), Bill McElhiney (arr) NOTES: Released 28 October 1963. "When You Need A Laugh" peaked at #47 Billboard Country and #41 Cash Box Country. [ Source]
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Post by jk on Sept 4, 2023 2:56:00 GMT -5
The Boys meet The Beatles -- again. "Little Saint Nick" b/w "The Lord's Prayer" first saw the light of day on 9 December 1963. That same Monday, the release of "Roll Over Beethoven" b/w "Please Mister Postman" "completed a perfect run of five great 1963 Beatles singles selected by Capitol's Paul White for release in Canada, and this was amazingly before any Beatles single had been released by Capitol in the USA" ( source). As I can't stand the A-side (one of the Fabs' worst covers in my view), here's their first-rate take on The Marvelettes' "Please Mister Postman", with the song's original lyrics intact ("deliver ze letter, ze sooner ze better"):
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Post by jk on Sept 5, 2023 7:24:51 GMT -5
"Fun, Fun, Fun" (4 February 1964) is another to be released simultaneously with a Beatles 45, namely "Komm gib mir deine Hand" (the German version of "I Want To Hold Your Hand")...
…with on the other side "Sie liebt dich", which inevitably reminds me of this:
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Post by jk on Sept 6, 2023 4:42:35 GMT -5
"I Get Around" b/w "Don't Worry, Baby", in my view the greatest double-sider ever, gets paired (on 11 May 1964) with yet another simultaneous Beatles release -- the Fabs seem to be very well documented! The US EP Four by the Beatles brings to mind the words "worth" and "milk", not necessarily in that order (see the wiki): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Boy
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Post by jk on Sept 7, 2023 4:34:10 GMT -5
"When I Grow Up (To Be A Man)" b/w "She Knows Me Too Well" (24 August 1964) breaks the Beatles run of twin releases, being paired with the Jagger-Richards composition "As Tears Go By", which gave Marianne Faithfull a top ten hit in the UK and Canada: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_Tears_Go_By_(song)
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Post by jk on Sept 8, 2023 3:03:43 GMT -5
Released on 26 October 1964, "Dance, Dance, Dance" b/w "The Warmth Of The Sun" finds itself in the company of a curious album by Serge Gainsbourg (of "Je t'aime" fame) called Gainsbourg Percussions, whose opening track, "Joanna", is an uncredited cover of Babatunde Olatunji's "Kiyakiya (Why Do You Run Away?)" from the 1959 LP Drums of Passion: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gainsbourg_Percussions
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Post by jk on Sept 9, 2023 3:42:16 GMT -5
Released on 9 November 1964 together with its Yuletide parent album, "The Man With All the Toys" b/w "Blue Christmas" is joined here by a third Patsy Cline record, an EP whose title track is "Someday (You'll Want Me To Want You)": patsyclinediscography.com/patsy-cline-extended-plays.php
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Post by jk on Sept 10, 2023 3:14:40 GMT -5
"Do You Wanna Dance" b/w "Please Let Me Wonder" was released on 15 February 1965, coinciding with the US single release of "Eight Days A Week" from the UK album Beatles for Sale of three months earlier. I can only assume US Capitol knew what it was doing with these twinned releases, although it seems self-defeating. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_Days_a_Week
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Post by jk on Sept 11, 2023 2:33:06 GMT -5
After pinning my hopes on some early versions of Simon & Garfunkel songs that ultimately proved unfindable, the one recording (not even a release!) I could find to twin with "Help Me, Rhonda" b/w "Kiss Me, Baby" is a poem read by its author, Kathleen Raine, on April 5th, 1965 (see here). I'm not much of a poetry person but I know Ms Raine from the first edition of her book on William Blake in the World of Art Library series. This recording of "The Eternal Child" (whose text is nowhere to be found online) may have been made later -- it's #22 on the list in the YouTube blurb: As for a connection between Blake and Brian, the post by Tom Tobben reproduced here makes fascinating reading. (As does much of the rest of that page.)
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Post by jk on Sept 11, 2023 8:33:41 GMT -5
As for a connection between Blake and Brian, the post by Tom Tobben reproduced here makes fascinating reading. (As does much of the rest of that page.) Still with that link, this 13-year-old post by Ang Jones is interesting (my emphasis): "There is a recording of an actor (not sure whom) reading the Wordsworth poem that contains the line 'the child is father of the man' ('My Heart Leaps Up') whilst the music plays in the background. "William Blake's 'Jerusalem' referred to the belief that Jesus visited the British Isles. This idea of Britain as a potential Jerusalem in some ways is similar not only to the Promised Land of the Bible but the El Dorado legend, the idea that there is some magical place, a Utopia, which one day we can perhaps reach." What music plays in the background? "Surf’s Up", perhaps the track on the GV30 box set? Or a bootleg version of "CIFOTM"? I'll keep looking, although it's real needle-in-haystack stuff.
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Post by jk on Sept 12, 2023 6:33:05 GMT -5
The twin release with "California Girls" b/w "Let Him Run Wild" (12 July 1965) has a closer BB connection. That was the day this album by Terry Melcher's mother was released. From Doris Day's Sentimental Journey, this is "I Had The Craziest Dream / I Don't Want To Walk Without You": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Day%27s_Sentimental_Journey
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Post by Steve Mayo on Sept 12, 2023 6:55:08 GMT -5
"Do You Wanna Dance" b/w "Please Let Me Wonder" was released on 15 February 1964, coinciding with the US single release of "Eight Days A Week" from the UK album Beatles for Sale of three months earlier. I can only assume I’m US Capitol knew what it was doing with these twinned releases, although it seems self-defeating. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_Days_a_Weekthat should be 1965 i think. 😊
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Post by jk on Sept 12, 2023 9:27:41 GMT -5
"Do You Wanna Dance" b/w "Please Let Me Wonder" was released on 15 February 1964, coinciding with the US single release of "Eight Days A Week" from the UK album Beatles for Sale of three months earlier. that should be 1965 i think. 😊 Eek. Thank you, sir. That would be a banning offence on a less enlightened music forum. And thanks for checking out this thread!
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Post by jk on Sept 13, 2023 12:51:56 GMT -5
At last -- a twin I can really warm to! Released on 22 November 1965 and marking Stevie Wonder's musical entrance into manhood, the joyous "Uptight (Everything’s Alright)" makes a magnificent partner for "The Little Girl I Once Knew" b/w "There's No Other (Like My Baby)": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uptight_(Everything%27s_Alright)
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Post by jk on Sept 14, 2023 5:49:14 GMT -5
If you thought the poem was a strange bedfellow for a Beach Boys 45, cop a load of this. "Barbara Ann" b/w "Girl, Don't Tell Me", released on 20 December 1965, is paired with a film, one that uploader Mark Campbell describes as "terrible", its one redeeming feature being the giant spiders, which he considers "extremely well done, and very creepy": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_of_My_Success_(1965_film)
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Post by jk on Sept 15, 2023 2:21:15 GMT -5
On firmer ground now with the release on 7 March 1966 of The Who's "A Legal Matter" on the same day as the BW solo single "Caroline, No" b/w "Summer Means New Love". As a commenter points out, "The song's subject matter was a little too close to home at the time for Roger, so Pete sang it himself": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Legal_Matter
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Post by jk on Sept 16, 2023 5:47:08 GMT -5
"Sloop John B" b/w "You're So Good To Me" (21 March 1966) finds itself paired with this Dutch ballad. Sung by Conny Stuart, its title translates as "It's Over". The lyrics and music are by two national icons. Annie M.G. Schmidt (1911–1995) is revered by my family for her books and songs for children. Harry Bannink (1929–1999) wrote the music to many of her lyrics. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conny_Stuart
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Post by jk on Sept 17, 2023 3:24:15 GMT -5
I realize my use of "b/w" has been questionable in some cases, for which my apologies. So, better late than never... The release of "Wouldn't It Be Nice"/"God Only Knows" on 18 July 1966 coincided with that of Road Runner, a Motown album by Jr. Walker & the All Stars. This is the title track (more or less), which is one of (so far) two "twins" I used to have on vinyl (more specifically, their 1965 debut album Shotgun), the other being Stevie's "Uptight" on a Motown comp: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_Runner_(Junior_Walker_album)
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Post by jk on Sept 18, 2023 2:43:22 GMT -5
"Good Vibrations", the greatest single bar none in my view, saw the light of day on 10 October 1966 in the company of Simon & Garfunkel's Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme. My favourite track from this, the duo's third album, is "Homeward Bound": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsley,_Sage,_Rosemary_and_Thyme
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