Beach Boys Songs With Sound Effects

Uh......no.  No it isn't.  The train noise was taken either from the master tape or directly off this record:



I know because I was immersed in trains in the 60's and my Mom bought me the record around '65 or '66. I hadn't heard 'Caroline No' yet until around 1972 when I bought the Pet Sounds/C&TP 2-fer album. I recognized the same train sound right away when I heard 'Caroline No'. I ain't joshin'. Check out Youtube and listen to the record! Brian recorded this and over-dubbed Banana & Louie barking.  

This train noise thing is off the subject of animals, but as long as we're here - I recognize the car squealing brakes and crash sound that Jan and Dean used on "Deadman's Curve," and the mono mix of "Old Ladies Seldom Power Shift" as being taken directly from  an old record - "Transfusion" by Nervous Norvus in 1956. 

Stephen, it's the first track on the album, "Scene One: Train #58 - The Owl At Edison, California". When you hear it, it'll be obvious.

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After I heard them messing around with the car wreck sounds, then I realized it was even used in the mix in the released version of Dead Man’s Curve. 

Somebody posted the following songfacts.com: It’s interesting, but I can’t vouch for its accuracy.

“In the 1950s, an audio recording happened to be made duringa car crash. In that crash, someone died. Their scream can be heard at the point of impact.

For years, the recording was used as a sound effect. The most famous use was in Jan & Dean's song 'Dead Man's Curve.' The crash audio is cut up and repeated in bits and pieces, in the song, with at least one full repetition that included the scream.

The Tennessee Department of (Highway?) Safety ran drunk driving commercials in the 60's that included the crash audio. These were played during the holidays to reduce traffic fatalities due to drunken drivers.

I remember that one year there was a public announcement over the local television, that the audio would nol longer be used and the commercials containing the audio would no longer be aired. The reason was that including the death of a person in a commercial was inapproriate and they apologized.”

All the stories you have to tell are fascinating, Stephen.

Snoring sound effects on I Went To Sleep.

(I could recreate that right now, as Steph’s nodded off lying next to me… )

I’ll bet Steph won’t be happy that you broadcasted that tidbit of information. 😁

Yeah, maybe too much information but we won't say anything, John. 

Yeah, I remember reading that the neighbors were upset that it was in the middle of the night, but I don’t remember exactly the time.

Smile - Wood shop sounds. Munching vegetables. Fire. 

Yep! And at the end of "Do It Again" the same hammering sound.

Vegetables. Is that McCartney chewing on celery? And drinking a glass of water (or carrot juice). Yeah!

Fire (Mrs. O'Leary's Cow). The wrinkling Saran shrink wrap or foil to get the crackling fire sounds. And the high pitched violins or whatever they were to get the sound of a fire truck(s). The drums to get the effect of falling stuff and the various whistles I guess signifying the firemen & policemen.