MLT Club Member David Herrick
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That last scene got my hopes up for some closure on Rowena’s story, but alas we’ll all just have to write that one ourselves.
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Yes, Jung, I hear the similarity too. Over 60 unreleased songs… wow!
So if she left home to meet a man from the motor trade, but he doesn’t know where she is, what happened to her?
From the first time I heard “She’s Leaving Home” and the line “meeting a man from the motor trade”, I pictured a guy on a motorcycle, and in my mind the plot continued in the Shangri-Las song “Leader of the Pack”. (“Lookoutlookoutlookoutlookout!”)
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As long as we’ve got a bit of a surf vibe going, here’s an entry into that genre from an east coast group:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEHmM7IjSjE
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I hadn’t heard “Spirit of America”, Jung, until just now. Very lovely, with a strong doo-wop feel. It wasn’t on MY copy of Endless Summer, though.
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Thanks for sharing that song, Joe. It actually sounded pretty good for the first couple of minutes. It reminded me a little of the “Chariots of Fire” theme song. But then from my perspective it degenerated into a cacophony. Meh. But at least now I am experienced.
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Thanks for posting that Atlantics video, Howard. I would have thought surf music would have had some staying power in Australia, given that virtually the entire population lives near the coast.
And Joe, I’m not offended at all by that Hendrix quote either. Actually I wasn’t familiar with it, which probably explains why I’ve heard tons of surf music over the years, but have never knowingly heard anything at all by Hendrix. He’s just never been on my radar.
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Endless Summer was the first, and until just a few years ago the only, Beach Boys album I ever had. Virtually every early hit song in a single two-album compilation. I could just listen to it over and over!
Graham, do you know about a British group from the 60’s called Tony Rivers and the Castaways, and later called Harmony Grass? They wrote some songs with a very strong Brian Wilson influence. You can check out their album “This Is Us” (as Harmony Grass) on YouTube. A free sample:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dejY830WuXc
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Syndicated humor columnist Dave Barry once wrote that he could never decipher the first line of Help Me Rhonda, and that the best he could come up with was “Well, since she put me down, I’ve got owls pukin’ in my bed.”
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I love ABBA! B and B were great at writing catchy songs, and A and A were great singers. They developed their own unique sound and style, and they were one of the most commercially successful groups of the 70’s. All thumbs up!
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Ah, yes, I remember when we discussed this then-upcoming movie a while back. I was planning on catching it at its theatrical premiere in May, but then the world ended. Guess I’ll have to find it on-line.
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As much as I love the Beach Boys, I’ve never felt much of a need to see them live. I did catch them once, in 1991 (without Brian), at an amusement park near Cincinnati where we used to go every year when I was a kid. The concert was included with the price of admission that day, so how could I say no to riding roller coasters all day and then relaxing in the evening to a different kind of good vibrations?
Trivia note: it was the same amusement park where episodes of both the Brady Bunch and the Partridge Family were filmed in the early 70’s.
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Graham, I certainly didn’t mean to imply that the Beatles’ covers weren’t awesome in their own right. I just meant (and correct me if I’m wrong) they didn’t extensively modify the vocal arrangements of the originals.
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Graham, I don’t think I had heard the first two covers you mentioned, so I checked them out. I love both of the originals, but I’ve got to say the Beach Boys versions are superior, especially Hushabye!
There aren’t a lot of artists I know who can not only write great new songs, but can also come up with fresh vocal arrangements of old songs that blow the originals out of the water. All I can think of offhand are Brian Wilson, John Phillips, and of course Mona and Lisa.
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That’s lovely, Jung! It makes me think of Simon and Garfunkel’s recording of El Condor Pasa, and ABBA’s Fernando, both of which I guess we could add to the list if those are indeed flutes.
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Sure, Howard, we can include recorders, piccolos, etc. Anything in the nebulously defined “flute family”.
