misswonderly3 Posted June 1, 2011 Share Posted June 1, 2011 Ah, young love. Making sure when you're making out that there are no adults around. After nearly a month of solid rain (an oxymoron, if you think about it), we are finally having some sunny days in Ontario. I like rain, and even I was getting tired of it. So, I hate to be so predictable, but it's time for the Beach Boys, lulling us with The Warmth of the Sun : (I have to say, the video of the beach that accompanies this does not look very warm, or sunny. I'd want to be wearing a "hoodie" if I were strolling along its scenic but chilly-looking sands.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted June 1, 2011 Share Posted June 1, 2011 This may be the best pure harmony of any Beach Boys song. From Gil Scott-heron to "Warmth of the Sun"---eclectic is an understatement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.Bogle Posted June 1, 2011 Share Posted June 1, 2011 A 'let's find a good place to make out' song must have been a no brainer with teens buying the 45s. We're in the middle of a heat wave, been at or near 90 degrees for the last few days and it's supposed to continue until the end of the week. The water looks inviting, but that rocky beach doesn't. Fine white sand is the way to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.Bogle Posted June 1, 2011 Share Posted June 1, 2011 Rock 'n' Rollers, they're all the same. Mott the Hoople with All the Way from Memphis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted June 1, 2011 Share Posted June 1, 2011 Brian's beach and surf songs were inspired by what he saw at Manhattan Beach (not to be confused with Manhattan), which was close to his Hawthorne home. This does not look like Manhattan Beach. Edited by: finance on Jun 1, 2011 3:45 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cujas Posted June 1, 2011 Share Posted June 1, 2011 It's must be summer because I started playing "Endless Summer" in the car--finished with Barry White from all spring. Everytime I think of the summer holidays, I remember the time that the Sec of the Interior Watts didn't want to let The Beach Boys play at the DC Monument. It seemed to me to be unAmerican--The Beach Boys are the American Dream Group--they wrote and sang all about it. But the whole thing turned out all right--as Mike Love had supported Bush and they got to play after all. "Keep An Eye on Summer"-- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cujas Posted June 1, 2011 Share Posted June 1, 2011 C. Bogle--reportedly Brian wrote *The Warmth of the Sun* as a reflective memory about The Assassination of President Kennedy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted June 2, 2011 Share Posted June 2, 2011 In case you think that the beach Boys have no connection to black music, listen to "Darling". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted June 2, 2011 Share Posted June 2, 2011 Yes, I know the song. Wild Honey is under-rated. Darlin' is not the only "soul-ish" sounding tune on the album; they also do quite a nice cover of Stevie Wonder's I Was Made to Love Her . Here is a sweet pretty little tune by Conor Oberst ("Bright Eyes"). I know nobody around here has heard of him, but he's a good song-writer nonetheless. An almost too luscious melody, complete with chick singers and strings, here's Make a Plan to Love Me : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvTJwHFWsYA&feature=related Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted June 2, 2011 Share Posted June 2, 2011 Since you corrected me (not "Darling", "Darlin'"), I'll correct you. It is "I Was MADE to Love Her". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted June 2, 2011 Share Posted June 2, 2011 Beat you to it, I edited "born" to "made". Either way, it's a good song. (Anyway, I'm not sure if omitting a "g" from a word ending in "ing" - like correctin' - consitutes an error per sec.) Edited by: misswonderly on Jun 2, 2011 9:58 AM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted June 2, 2011 Share Posted June 2, 2011 In the spirit of free association, if you want to hear a great, obscure Motown song, listen to "Can You Love a Poor Boy?" (sung by Smokey, written by Stevie) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted June 2, 2011 Share Posted June 2, 2011 If RO made an "error" like that, sprocket man would jump all over him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.Bogle Posted June 2, 2011 Share Posted June 2, 2011 I didn't realize that about The Warmth of the Sun. Interesting. I remember the Endless Summer CD, because just after I bought it I had to have some serious dental work and I listened to it while recovering. Very soothing music. Funny what one remembers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.Bogle Posted June 2, 2011 Share Posted June 2, 2011 I had heard of L7 and knew a bit about them, but never got much further. Just happened to see some of their videos while surfin' the web. This one has some good punky attitude and a hilarious theme. L7 playing S h i t l i s t. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cujas Posted June 2, 2011 Share Posted June 2, 2011 I don't know what you mean by "black" Music. But rock 'n roll is black music and that's definitely what the Beach Boys were doing. Miss--"Surfin' USA" is a Chuck Berry song that Brian wrote the lyrics to and re-arranged. All the top acts in rock 'n roll learned how to play rock by listening to Chuck Berry. In all their early albums, The Beatles, The Stones and The Animals--just to name a few--recorded Chuck Berry songs to show how much they knew about rock 'n roll. The Beatles also incluede Little Ricard in the mix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted June 2, 2011 Share Posted June 2, 2011 You didn't mention that the Berry song was "Sweet Little Sixteen", which was a geographical list song, just as was "Surfin' USA". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cujas Posted June 2, 2011 Share Posted June 2, 2011 Other thing about Brian is his religious regard for Phil Spector. I was listening to Al Jardine's version of "And Then He Kissed Her" yesterday. Next to the Four Freshmen, I suppose Spector had the most influence on his style. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 When I was a kid, my older brother taught me how to play chess. But really, I think he was just bored and wanted to play it with someone, anyone, because I invariably lost. At first I didn't care, I just liked the idea of the game, the shape of the chess pieces. But as the weeks progressed and I'd lose just about every game to him, I started getting increasingly frustrated and angry. The backdrop to our chess-playing escapades was the top 30 radio station at the time, which played many of the songs that have been posted on this thread. But the one I remember most, I don't know why, is Dionne Warwick's Do You Know the Way to San Jose? , which seemed to get more air time than any other hit, at least at the time we were playing chess. I came to hate that song, associated as it was with my losing chess streak. It seemed to me that Dionne was somehow mocking me, daring me to win at least one chess game. Now I like it. But I'm no better at chess. ps - if the Sharks had made it to the Stanley Cup play-offs, hockey fans everywhere would be humming this tune. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 I especially liked the Hal David line, "...and all the stars that never were are parking cars or pumping gas".......(I hope the handle isn't missing) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.Bogle Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 The secret is right there in the song, use the San Jose gambit. Or go with the Checkmates, Ltd. Dionne certainly knew her way around a perfect pop song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.Bogle Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 I guess a real country song is like classic film, noir, or pornography-you may not be able to give an exact definition, but you know it when you see or hear it. Dale Watson singing A Real County Song. For some reason there's 80 seconds of "dead air" at the end. That's a no no. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cujas Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 That's probably why she ended up with Barry Manilow. In 1979 he produced her only platinum album. I saw both of them, separately, at the same local venue and they talked about each other. Fyi--Dionne said her favorite Bacharach/David song was: "Train, & Boats & Planes"?????--Then after singing that and a very brief B/D medley--she spent the evening trying to sing Cole Porter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 Never heard of Dale Watson - looked him up, he sounds like the real thing ( ie a real country singer singing real country songs.) Here's an offering for finance, who apparently has never heard of either David Bowie nor his famous song "Heroes" : Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 I certainly HAVE heard of David Bowie. He was the son of Jim Bowie, and he could also wield a pretty mean knife. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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