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Post by KenWorthing on Feb 13, 2024 11:58:06 GMT -5
Didn't David Leaf or Brad Elliot mention in the Smiley Smile/Wild Honey Booklet from 1990, that there was a version of Wonderful in the vault with Brian on Harpsichord? "In the Beach Boys’ vaults, there is a version of this song that features Brian at the harpsichord. It is heartbreakingly beautiful. Even as released, it’s a terrific song, and as you listen to the melody and the skilled lyrics, you can only begin to imagine what this would have sounded like fully produced. Nonetheless, Carl turns in a very touching vocal, and this is one of the best cuts on the record. The bizarre laughing interlude (kind of a higher Beach Boys’ Party!) was an extremely unusual idea, even for 1967". The version that Leaf is talking about here - it's the Smile version, correct? Or something else... with bizarre laughing interlude .. it sounds like it's something else. Maybe I'm misremembering it. Getting old. Losing the plot. I dunno.
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Post by petsite on Feb 13, 2024 12:24:20 GMT -5
He is talking about the SMiLE version of the song.
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Post by Mopp on Feb 13, 2024 12:48:24 GMT -5
"In the Beach Boys’ vaults, there is a version of this song that features Brian at the harpsichord. It is heartbreakingly beautiful. Even as released, it’s a terrific song, and as you listen to the melody and the skilled lyrics, you can only begin to imagine what this would have sounded like fully produced. Nonetheless, Carl turns in a very touching vocal, and this is one of the best cuts on the record. The bizarre laughing interlude (kind of a higher Beach Boys’ Party!) was an extremely unusual idea, even for 1967". The version that Leaf is talking about here - it's the Smile version, correct? Or something else... with bizarre laughing interlude .. it sounds like it's something else. Maybe I'm misremembering it. Getting old. Losing the plot. I dunno. He's talking about the Smiley Smile version from the word "Nonetheless" onward. The first half is about the first recorded version
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Post by jwb on Feb 13, 2024 14:07:02 GMT -5
This comp and the Pet Sounds Sessions box set are the two best comps the band ever put out. Definitely worth owning both of them and I would also throw in the Smile Sessions Box as well.
Good Vibrations Box Set got me into their 70s stuff and it is still my favorite disc from that set (disc 4)
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Post by petsite on Feb 13, 2024 15:20:22 GMT -5
This was funny. Back in 2015, someone had a presskit for the 1997 PS box on sale on ebay. I bought it for like $30. It was the UK version so it had color photos.
When it arrived, the seller included a note saying he thought I might want THIS. It was a little second box. Inside that box were the 4 discs from the set. They were UK only promos. One was scratched up a little, but all were playable.
Best $30.00 I had spent in a while.
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Post by AGD on Feb 13, 2024 15:25:26 GMT -5
Interesting. My UK promo set was four cassettes.
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Post by petsite on Feb 13, 2024 15:37:20 GMT -5
Interesting. My UK promo set was four cassettes. They look like this:
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Post by jay on Feb 13, 2024 17:03:02 GMT -5
To echo commenter Blend42: "This is the definitive version of the Mt Vernon & Fairway EP music for me. I prefer it without the narration." I've always been confused over that "Better Get Back In Bed" edit. It's different from the twofer, or the recent box set.
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Post by Mikie on Feb 13, 2024 18:30:20 GMT -5
This comp and the Pet Sounds Sessions box set are the two best comps the band ever put out. Definitely worth owning both of them and I would also throw in the Smile Sessions Box as well. Good Vibrations Box Set got me into their 70s stuff and it is still my favorite disc from that set (disc 4) As far as 70's material, the 'Ten Years of Harmony' set was also excellent. And of course this one, which is one of the all-time best:
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Post by petsite on Feb 15, 2024 0:01:07 GMT -5
The tape they were tracking down was a copy someone made of the following as it no longer resided in The Beach Boys tape vault in 1993:
December 18, 1966:
At Columbia studio A in Los Angeles, Brian spends a second day compiling Smile recordings. The contents of this second tape are:
'Prayer' (mix from October 4th) 'Wonderful' (October 6th) 'Cabinessence' (October 11th) 'Cabinessence' (December 6th) 'Child Is Father Of The Man' (October 12th; two versions) 'Do You Like Worms' (October 18th)
I've noted this when it's been posted here before, but these dates aren't correct. In order they were 10/04, 10/06, 10/11, 10/12, 10/13, 10/18. None of it was compiled in December. It's no secret that engineer Tom Murphy made a lot of rough mixes of unreleased material while cataloguing the group's tapes in the late 70s, and it's often from copies of those that bootleg material leaked out over the following decade. That particular Smile reel was stolen, as were a lot of the 1/4" tapes, but Tom thankfully made a safety copy of it that's since been used for official releases. There were others that also had access to the SMiLE material. They were assembling the SMiLE material starting with LA thru TEN YEARS OF HARMONY. So a lot of people had there hand on the tapes.
Lee interviewed Mark a year after the box came out in 1994, and Mark related this story to him for ESQ:
Lee Dempsey: I can recall someone at a record swap telling me a story of a guy offering to sell him the master tape of Brian's demo of "Wonderful".
Mark Linett: A mono mixdown of that is the only thing we have. Strangely enough on that, there's a compiled 3-track reel in the library that is suppose to at the end of it contain " Wonderful" "Sunshine" and something else, and those three songs have been snipped off with no explanation. They are just gone.
In about 1978, somebody working for the Beach Boy, I think they were researching Smile material-made a copy of a two-track that contained, in part, the mix of "Wonderful" that you're talking about. He wrote down the numbers. He's had the copy of this tape all these years and loaned it to me for the box because the tape that it refers to is gone, and has been gone for a long time.
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