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Post by rjm on Jan 12, 2024 20:27:17 GMT -5
It’s always been a guilty pleasure of mine, but of all the things from their appearance to put up on the MS YouTube!😂
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Post by nts1drums on Jan 12, 2024 20:30:13 GMT -5
Well at the very least this means that Angel Come Home performance will probably be out at any moment so there’s always that to look forward to.
Honestly I prefer the Wild Honey version of HCTN but the disco one doesn’t deserve its hate. I would’ve liked a 7-8 minute version though lol.
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Post by Mikie on Jan 12, 2024 23:24:26 GMT -5
Damn you for making get this stuff out and scan it....LOL!!
I was waiting for you to do it first, but you never showed up! I knew you were going to post something here eventually. Hey Bob, how many of those HCTN blue vinyl promos do you think were signed? Way back when I remember somebody saying that it was hit or miss which signatures you were going to get, that not all band members signed all of the copies.
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Post by petsite on Jan 12, 2024 23:44:04 GMT -5
Damn you for making get this stuff out and scan it....LOL!!
I was waiting for you to do it first, but you never showed up! I knew were going to post something here eventually. Hey Bob, how many of those HCTN blue vinyl promos do you think were signed? Way back when I remember somebody saying that it was hit or miss which signatures you were going to get, that not all band members signed all of the copies. I saw all of those signed ones going around back then. They were sent out to radio stations etc. I got my promo discs from the radio station KILT that I hung around a lot at that time. They weren't going to play that version of the song. I got Alan and Bruce to sign my copy on October 5, 1979 at their hotel before they went on to play at The Summit here in Houston.
Here is a photo of Bruce and Brian backstage at the SUMMIT that night. I will remember that outfit Brian had on forever. Bruce said he was in Texas so he wore his URBAN COWBOY shirt. And I can tell you what I remember from that show is the group performed HAWAII and Brian sang the falsetto on the chorus and didn't do too bad of a job. That and when Bruce showed me their new song that was going to be the title track to their next LP KTSA.
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Post by AGD on Jan 13, 2024 1:26:45 GMT -5
With "Here Comes The Night-1979", the Beach Boys did what they had never done before--hop on a bandwagon. I've always loved the Wild Honey album version of the song, but when I first heard this in 1979, I immediately thought the exact same thing. At the time, I remember thinking that The Beach Boys were late to the game with it* and I lost a little respect for them because I figured they'd sold out and were hard up for new hit material. Song remakes are OK if they're better than the original, but not a Disco version. A month or two after Bruce's return to the band in the Summer of '78, he thought it was a good idea for The Boys to do a Disco record. Since he had released a disco version of "Pipeline" the previous year and it went way up the charts, Bruce brought in his friend Curt Becher and produced HCTN and it was released in February 1979. *Per Wiki: "Disco started declining as a major trend in popular music in the United States following "Disco Demolition Night" in July, 1979, and it continued to sharply decline in popularity in the U.S. during the early 1980s. However, it remained popular in Italy and some European countries throughout the 1980s". I can't really say I dislike it though, edited or non-edited version. Probably because the song itself is good. It does rock. Carl's vocal saves it. Charted at #33 in the UK, but didn't chart at all in the US.
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Post by Mikie on Jan 13, 2024 1:44:38 GMT -5
I've always loved the Wild Honey album version of the song, but when I first heard this in 1979, I immediately thought the exact same thing. At the time, I remember thinking that The Beach Boys were late to the game with it* and I lost a little respect for them because I figured they'd sold out and were hard up for new hit material. Song remakes are OK if they're better than the original, but not a Disco version. A month or two after Bruce's return to the band in the Summer of '78, he thought it was a good idea for The Boys to do a Disco record. Since he had released a disco version of "Pipeline" the previous year and it went way up the charts, Bruce brought in his friend Curt Becher and produced HCTN and it was released in February 1979. *Per Wiki: "Disco started declining as a major trend in popular music in the United States following "Disco Demolition Night" in July, 1979, and it continued to sharply decline in popularity in the U.S. during the early 1980s. However, it remained popular in Italy and some European countries throughout the 1980s". I can't really say I dislike it though, edited or non-edited version. Probably because the song itself is good. It does rock. Carl's vocal saves it. Charted at #33 in the UK, but didn't chart at all in the US. You know I was being sarcastic. Didn't do shit in the U.S.
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Post by petsite on Jan 13, 2024 1:51:24 GMT -5
Here is a kick in the butt. In mid-1979, my Aunt and cousins came over to visit us in Houston from (drum roll please).........London.
My youngest cousin was a DJ for dances and he was amazed that I had so many different versions of Here Comes The Night. He said he got requests for that song when he did dances. So out to my favorite record store we went and he took a 45, the 12" Disco Single and I gave him a promo copy of LA. He thought he came across a buried treasure as he said he had a hard time finding that song and at dances he would play a cassette he made from another DJ's Disco Single.
It was wild.
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Post by petsite on Jan 13, 2024 2:01:12 GMT -5
Charted at #33 in the UK, but didn't chart at all in the US. You know I was being sarcastic. Didn't do shit in the U.S. Mikie, peaked at number 44 so it did chart.
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Post by AGD on Jan 13, 2024 2:01:45 GMT -5
That's odd... because I bought the 12" disco single when released in a tiny record store in Aldershot.
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Post by petsite on Jan 13, 2024 3:10:43 GMT -5
That's odd... because I bought the 12" disco single when released in a tiny record store in Aldershot. Don't know what to tell you on this.
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Post by E on Jan 13, 2024 5:18:51 GMT -5
I've come to learn to live with it so much that it now appears on my alt. LA - though it's the shorter version. The Eagles, of course, came up with Disco Strangler, which was a piece of shit. Yeah, I would have liked it had they come up with a new song that uses elements of the form, like the Stones did (which I think is one of their finer moments from this period) - or maybe Brian and Mike already had with Matchpoint, which is kind of disco-lite and is another song I didn't like at first but have come to learn to live with and remains on my alt. MIU
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Post by Al S on Jan 13, 2024 17:32:07 GMT -5
You know I was being sarcastic. Didn't do shit in the U.S. Mikie, peaked at number 44 so it did chart.
That's Quicksand, right?
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Post by Al S on Jan 13, 2024 17:45:28 GMT -5
And before anyone asks, here are the CDs that the single version of HCTN is on. For me, the best sounding version is on the second CD. It is a Japanese version of CD #1 from the UK. They got the masters from the UK, but did not put it thru the NO-NOISE filters. The last two sound like the ending came from a vinyl single.
I believe the single version also appears on the UK compilation The Best of the Beach Boys: 1970–1986, which was the pom version of Best of the Bro years. I don't have a copy (weirdly enough, as most locally manufactured BB product in Australia was based on the UK editions due to EMI ownership of Capitol) - if someone else is able to confirm, big thanks!
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Post by John Manning on Jan 13, 2024 18:17:35 GMT -5
And before anyone asks, here are the CDs that the single version of HCTN is on. For me, the best sounding version is on the second CD. It is a Japanese version of CD #1 from the UK. They got the masters from the UK, but did not put it thru the NO-NOISE filters. The last two sound like the ending came from a vinyl single.
I believe the single version also appears on the UK compilation The Best of the Beach Boys: 1970–1986, which was the pom version of Best of the Bro years. I don't have a copy (weirdly enough, as most locally manufactured BB product in Australia was based on the UK editions due to EMI ownership of Capitol) - if someone else is able to confirm, big thanks! Track 16. Currently £22.99 & £6.20 delivery on Amazon UK.
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Post by Mikie on Jan 13, 2024 19:00:58 GMT -5
You know I was being sarcastic. Didn't do shit in the U.S. Mikie, peaked at number 44 so it did chart.
Would you please point me in the direction of that info? I can only see that it charted in the UK, Bruce's favorite place.
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Post by petsite on Jan 13, 2024 20:12:10 GMT -5
Mikie, peaked at number 44 so it did chart.
Would you please point me in the direction of that info? I can only see that it charted in the UK, Bruce's favorite place. "Here Comes the Night" is a song by the American rock band the Beach Boys from their 1967 album Wild Honey. Written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love, the group later rerecorded the track for their 1979 album, L.A. (Light Album), as a disco song lasting nearly eleven minutes. A four-minute edit of this version was released as a single on February 19, 1979 and reached number 44 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.
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Post by Al S on Jan 13, 2024 21:54:03 GMT -5
I believe the single version also appears on the UK compilation The Best of the Beach Boys: 1970–1986, which was the pom version of Best of the Bro years. I don't have a copy (weirdly enough, as most locally manufactured BB product in Australia was based on the UK editions due to EMI ownership of Capitol) - if someone else is able to confirm, big thanks! Track 16. Currently £22.99 & £6.20 delivery on Amazon UK. Thanks and LOL!
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Post by Mikie on Jan 13, 2024 22:31:40 GMT -5
Would you please point me in the direction of that info? I can only see that it charted in the UK, Bruce's favorite place. "Here Comes the Night" is a song by the American rock band the Beach Boys from their 1967 album Wild Honey. Written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love, the group later rerecorded the track for their 1979 album, L.A. (Light Album), as a disco song lasting nearly eleven minutes. A four-minute edit of this version was released as a single on February 19, 1979 and reached number 44 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.
That's "Here Comes The Night!" I already knew that charted. I was talking about Bruce Johnston's "Pipeline" in 1977.
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Post by petsite on Jan 13, 2024 22:59:05 GMT -5
"Here Comes the Night" is a song by the American rock band the Beach Boys from their 1967 album Wild Honey. Written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love, the group later rerecorded the track for their 1979 album, L.A. (Light Album), as a disco song lasting nearly eleven minutes. A four-minute edit of this version was released as a single on February 19, 1979 and reached number 44 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.
That's "Here Comes The Night!" I already knew that charted. I was talking about Bruce Johnston's "Pipeline" in 1977. Sorry, I got sidelined. I thought you meant HCTN. So I guess there is no need to post this.......but why the hell not .
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Post by karmafrog on Jan 14, 2024 3:08:28 GMT -5
I unapologetically love disco HCTN and have since the first time I heard it play on the radio. Contemporaneously, I had LA Light at home and I remember my junior high bud and I would play Stratego all the time and he demanded to have the 11 minute version as gaming music. He'd ask for it over and over again. He never tired of it and I didn't either.
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Post by Paul JB on Jan 14, 2024 11:12:17 GMT -5
That billboard chart is eye opening. Years ago I was of the opinion The Beach Boys were late to the game but I was wrong. I clearly remember Steve Dahl blowing up the record's in Chicago, being a Milwaukee native it was all over the tv and radio in Wisconsin too. Kids were wearing disco sucks t-shirts around the same time. But even in 1980 I remember the disco song Funky Town all over the radio. The billboard chart is FULL of disco hits. Village People, In The Navy is still climbing on that chart. So why wasn’t Here Comes The Night a hit? Was it the same reason Sunflower wasn’t a hit? A perpetual marketing/ identity crisis?
I didn’t like disco during its peak run but did like certain acts/ songs, like many by KC and the Sunshine Band,…, Blondie, Heart of Glass,…Bee Gees, earlier disco..ish songs so naturally when I brought LA the disco song leading off side 2 wasn’t a deal breaker. I thought it was great. Now 40 some years later put it up against dozens of songs on that chart and it’s a head scratch that it wasn’t huge in comparison. The Beach Boys are best known for their vocals and the disco HCTN has great vocals and a great dance beat for anyone that may enjoy a great dance beat. So what gives?
I also remember seeing the OP midnight special in real time and was elated The Beach Boys hosted. The dorks dancing in the foreground are horrible however. I remember dorks like that during a Blondie performance wearing see through plastic pants. It may have been Heart of Glass.
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Post by Mikie on Jan 14, 2024 13:06:38 GMT -5
That billboard chart is eye opening. Years ago I was of the opinion The Beach Boys were late to the game but I was wrong. I clearly remember Steve Dahl blowing up the record's in Chicago, being a Milwaukee native it was all over the tv and radio in Wisconsin too. Kids were wearing disco sucks t-shirts around the same time. But even in 1980 I remember the disco song Funky Town all over the radio. The billboard chart is FULL of disco hits. Village People, In The Navy is still climbing on that chart. So why wasn’t Here Comes The Night a hit? Was it the same reason Sunflower wasn’t a hit? A perpetual marketing/ identity crisis? I didn’t like disco during its peak run but did like certain acts/ songs, like many by KC and the Sunshine Band,…, Blondie, Heart of Glass,…Bee Gees, earlier disco..ish songs so naturally when I brought LA the disco song leading off side 2 wasn’t a deal breaker. I thought it was great. Now 40 some years later put it up against dozens of songs on that chart and it’s a head scratch that it wasn’t huge in comparison. The Beach Boys are best known for their vocals and the disco HCTN has great vocals and a great dance beat for anyone that may enjoy a great dance beat. So what gives? I also remember seeing the OP midnight special in real time and was elated The Beach Boys hosted. The dorks dancing in the foreground are horrible however. I remember dorks like that during a Blondie performance wearing see through plastic pants. It may have been Heart of Glass. You brought back vivid memories, Paul. MTV and Saturday Night Live and Solid Gold and Soul Train and American Bandstand. I used to stay up late for The Midnight Special. I also remember people saying "Disco is dead" in the early 80's.
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Post by jk on Jan 14, 2024 15:32:14 GMT -5
Good to see The Euclid Surf Band at #81. They have this gorgeous track on The Warmth of the Sun tribute comp, "There's No Surf In Cleveland". Now that's one highly recommended album:
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Post by jk on Jan 14, 2024 15:51:39 GMT -5
I was averse to disco at the time. (I had a lot of catching up to do musically in the mid to late seventies.) It was some of the later more funk-driven disco songs (Patrice Rushen's "Forget Me Nots", Narada Michael Walden's "I Shoulda Loved Ya"), and not least their jaw-dropping bass lines, that converted me for life.
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Post by petsite on Jan 14, 2024 16:17:39 GMT -5
Good to see The Euclid Surf Band at #81. They have this gorgeous track on The Warmth of the Sun tribute comp, "There's No Surf In Cleveland". Now that's one highly recommended album: One of favorite BB style tracks ever. I still have the 12 inch single from KILT I got after they said they weren't going to play it. My other fave is one that Bruce Johnston tore apart in Rolling Stone as stealing from the Beach Boys, Beach Baby by First Class.
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