“GIVE ME SOME ROOT BEER!”: 17 PARTICULARLY PECULIAR BEACH BOYS SONGS

1. “Chug-A-Lug” (1962)
The Beach Boys first hit the charts singing about three subjects: surfing, cars, and girls.
(Especially, in the very early days, surfing and cars.)

November 30, 2009 Keith Phipps
http://www.avclub.com/articles/give-me-some-root-beer-17-particularly-peculiar-be,35789/

ARCHITECTURE WEEK (GAUDI ETC)

Brian Wilson -> George Gershwin -> Miles Davis -> Antonio Gaudi -> BBC -> what's next?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/leicester/content/image_galleries/architecture_week_monica_fernandez_gallery.shtml

Gaudi Flickr slide show
http://www.flickr.com/search/show/?q=Gaudi&s=int

Antoni Gaudi (trumpet by Miles Davis)

1960 Concerto d'Aranjuez (Adagio)
Arranged by Gil Evans

1939 Written by: Joaquín Rodrigo


youtube.com/watch?v=Y_2r7dIMdmI&fmt=18

+ Saeta - from the Miles Davis/Gil Evans Sketces of Spain sessions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPpxcKNzbjs&fmt=18

+ wiki about Concerto d'Aranjuez
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concierto_de_Aranjuez

+ About Sketches_of_Spain from 1960
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sketches_of_Spain

Miles Davis "Summertime"

1958 Miles Davis, with 'psychodelicate harmonies' arranged by Gil Evans

1935 Written by George Gershwin, lyrics DuBose Heyward

youtube.com/watch?v=N090STPx-2M&fmt=18

COVERING CLASSICS BY THE GERSHWINS IS A DREAM JOB FOR BRIAN WILSON

QUOTE:

“Rhapsody in Blue” will be done a cappella, Wilson said, an artistic choice that should thrill fans of his vocals-only pieces, like the majestic “Our Prayer” from “Smile” or the soaring “One for the Boys” from “Brian Wilson.”

Foskett can’t wait for the vocal sessions to begin. “That’s where I’m really going to enjoy it,” he said. “As cool as the tracks are that we’ve laid down, I think the real genius of Brian’s touch and arrangement skills is going to come into play when he starts doing the vocals.”

November 27, 2009 Mark Wyckoff
http://www.vcstar.com/news/2009/nov/27/nice-work-if-you-can-get-it-covering-classics-by/

Endless Sky Promos

+ Endless Sky Vol. 1 promo- Wondermints
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISDp-dYUVHY&fmt=18

+ Endless Sky Vol. 2 promo - Dean Torrence Interview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8imgiI0_FeI&fmt=18

+ Endless Sky III - Van Dyke Parks promo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPEjux1BvAs&fmt=18

*http://endlessskyvideo.blogspot.com/

Mayra Andrade - Stória Stória

2009

Original?



youtube.com/watch?v=0qiMl1KQvy0&fmt=18

+ Entrevista a Mayra Andrade para o Músicas do Mundo, SIC Notícias
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAP7s9Dvj94&fmt=18

+ Música: Mayra Andrade
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg6s-cKmBLc&fmt=18

TOTALLY ZIPPED

Original: Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah

Performed by James Baskett (November 12, 1946)
Written by Ray Gilbert & Allie Wrubel
James Baskett played as Uncle Remus, in the Disney movie 'Song Of The South'. The song won an Oscar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwNExrHXMhg&fmt=18


Lyrics:

(It happened on one of those Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah days
Now thats the kind of day when you can't open your mouth
Without a song jumping right out of it)

Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah Zip-A-Dee-A
My oh my what a wonderful day
Plenty of sunshine headed my way
Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah Zip-A-Dee-A

Mister blue birds on my shoulder
It's the truth
It's actual
Everything is satisfactual

Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah Zip-A-Dee-A
Wonderful feeling
Wonderful Day
Yes Sir

Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah Zip-A-Dee-A
My oh my what a wonderful day
O plenty of sunshine headed my way
Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah Zip-A-Dee-A

Mister blue birds on my shoulder
Its the true--------------UH HUH!!!
Its actual
Everything is satisifactual

Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah Zip-A-Dee-A
Wonderful feeling
Feeling this way

Mister blue birds on my shoulder
It is the truth
It's action
Huh........Where is that blue bird?
MMMmm MMMmm
Everythin is satifaction

Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah Zip-A-Dee-A
Wonderful feeling
Wonderful Day



Covers:

Johnny Mercer & The Pied Pipers with Paul Weston & his Orchestra (1946)

Bing Crosby (1946)

by Sammy Kaye (1946)

Johnny Mercer had a #8 hit with his rendition of the song in 1947.

Connie Francis recorded the song in 1962 for her album Connie Francis sings Award Winning Motion Picture Hits

by Bob B. Soxx and The Blue Jeans (1962) (hitting #8 on the Hot 100 Pop hits in 1963)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKyIZ6h81CI&fmt=18

Dionne Warwick (1963)

Hollies (1964)

The Dave Clark Five recorded the song for their first UK album, A Session With the Dave Clark Five in 1964

Zeep Dee Doo Dap by Sir Henry and His Butlers (1964)

Doris Day (October 19, 1964) for her album With a smile and a song

Zeep a dee yeh by Johnny Hallyday (July 9, 1965)

The Hollies recorded it in 1965.

Louis Armstrong (1968) From an LP called Disney Songs The Satchmo Way in 1968
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z3bJHUVP2w&fmt=18

Slim Smith (1969)

The Jackson 5 (1969) on their 1st LP, Diana Ross Presents the Jackson 5
Live version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzQ_8rrIzMg&fmt=18

The Gaylettes, a Jamaican ska group, covered the song in the late 1960s.

Suzee Ikeda (October 1971)

The Singers Unlimited did a great version on their "Just In Time" album (1977)

Ray Charles Sings Disney's Zip A Dee Do Dah (1978 NBC Special)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP7j7U5rPG0&fmt=18

Actor Tom Hanks sings this song in the 1984 Touchstone Pictures fantasy film Splash

Harry Nilsson (1988)

Steve Miller (1988)

Ted Hawkins (1988)

Ric Ocasek (1991)

Michelle Shocked (1992) [medley with Jump Jim Crow]

Little Richard (1992)

Paula Abdul recorded the song with a pop twist to it. In Album "For Our Children" in 1992.

Paula Abdul (1993)

Sun Ra & His Intergalaxtic Arkestra (1995)

Fabulous Thunderbirds (1995)

Zippity Doo-Dah by Sara Hickman (1997)

Maria Muldaur (1998)

Mannheim Steamroller covered the song on their 1999 album, Mannheim Steamroller Meets the Mouse

Elizabeth Cook (April 1, 2003)

Jim Brickman (October 4, 2005)

Japanese singer Ami Suzuki sings this song for a Disney Music Store Japan special promotion in December 2006.

various...

10/8/2009 "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" On The Player Piano (J. Lawrence Cook)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbflPe69LeE

Vocal: SHOBI Cross Note / Piano:Steven (Tokyo Disneyland)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oznw3X8QRVM&fmt=18

Stevie Brock sings this song on DisneyMania Vol. 2 CD.

Aly & AJ sings this song on DisneyMania Vol. 3 CD.

Miley Cyrus sings this song on DisneyMania Vol. 4 CD.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah

+
http://www.coveringthemouse.com/labels/zip%20a%20dee%20doo%20dah.html

+
http://www.theforbidden-zone.com/scrolls/songofthesouth.shtml

Bob B Soxx & The Blue Jeans Zip-A-Dee Doo-Dah

NOV '62
Produced by: Phil Spector
Arranged by: Jack Nitzsche

1946 Written by: Ray Gilbert, Allie Wrubel

youtube.com/watch?v=uKyIZ6h81CI&fmt=18

The Esso Trinidad Steel Band - I Want You Back

1971

1969 Written by: The Corporation (Berry Gordy, Freddie Perren, Deke Richards, Alphonzo Mizell)

youtube.com/watch?v=-H_l7WtWTP0&fmt=18

+ Moko Jumbies ~ Esso Trinidad "Tripoli" Steel Band
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYIvWIlJaYc&fmt=18

THE DAY VAN DYKE PARKS WENT CALYPSO

When 80,000 barrels of oil spilled into the waters of the Santa Barbara Channel in January of 1969, the crude-splattered water, beaches, and birds along the California coast in its aftermath became the symbols of modern eco-disaster.

While the ensuing public outcry helped hasten the formalization of the environmental movement as we now know it, for musician Van Dyke Parks, the spill and “the revelation of ecology,” as he calls it, was a very personal, life-altering occasion. “It changed my M.O. and changed my very reason for being,” he says.

November 19, 2009 Denise Sullivan
http://www.crawdaddy.com/index.php/2009/11/19/the-day-van-dyke-parks-went-calypso/

Top 10 Surf Drag Vocal Music Songs

1960's





youtube.com/watch?v=4irXt8zQr_k&fmt=18

Darlin' (Darian on lead)

2009

1967 Written by: Brian Wilson, Mike Love



youtube.com/watch?v=SIpYRGIhMmA&fmt=18

+ She's Not The Little Girl I Once Knew (1:13)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzI_emuoWaY&fmt=18

KOKOMO

The truth behind that annoying hit song ''Kokomo'' -- Why people still love the Beach Boys tune that ruled that airwaves the summer of 1988

May 28, 2004 Scott Brown, Michael Endelman
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,640541,00.html

VAN DYKE PARKS: EIGENARTIG SCHÖN

Van Dyke Parks ist ein bescheidener Mann.

Stets hat er sich lieber im Hintergrund des großen Pop-Rummels gehalten, obwohl seine musikalischen Verdienste unschätzbar sind: als Komponist, Texter, Arrangeur, Produzent, Studiomusiker und Interpret.

216.11.2009 H.P. Daniels
http://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/pop/Van-Dyke-Parks-Kreuzberg-H-P-Daniels;art971,2951475

+

http://www.welt.de/die-welt/kultur/article5239250/Herr-der-Lieder-Van-Dyke-Parks-in-Berlin.html

+ Orangenkisten, Kunst und Popsongs

http://www.taz.de/regional/nord/bremen/artikel/?dig=2009%2F11%2F17%2Fa0019&cHash=3c314545e5

+

http://www.fr-online.de/in_und_ausland/kultur_und_medien/feuilleton/2088571_Komponist-Van-Dyke-Parks-Zwischen-Sicherheit-und-Zweifel.html

+ Konzertbericht: Van Dyke Parks live im Mousonturm in Frankfurt
http://www.regioactive.de/story/9315/konzertbericht_van_dyke_parks_live_im_mousonturm_in_frankfurt.html

+ Stille Nacht mit Einstein

http://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/Van-Dyke-Parks;art772,2948390

RINGO STARR RECRUITS PAUL MCCARTNEY FOR NEW ALBUM “Y NOT”

Ringo Starr grabbed a little help from his friends for his new album Y Not, due January 12th, 2010.

The Beatles drummer will be joined by his Fab Four bandmate Paul McCartney on a couple of tracks, including first single “Walk With Me,” which finds Macca and Starr sharing vocals.

Other guests and songwriters on Y Not, Ringo’s first album since 2008’s Liverpool 8, include Joe Walsh, Joss Stone, Van Dyke Parks, Ben Harper and Richard Marx.

11/19/09 Daniel Kreps
http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2009/11/19/ringo-starr-recruits-paul-mccartney-for-new-album-y-not/

the crystals uptown alt version

1962! (lead Lala Brooks)

Written by: Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil



youtube.com/watch?v=YqXovvss8Ko&fmt=18

LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC PRESENTS 'WEST COAST, LEFT COAST' FESTIVAL, 11/21 - 12/8

Quote:

Legendary California icon Brian Wilson performs in a special stripped-down setting, joined by other artists, including "King of California" Dave Alvin, as they share their West Coast-inspired and sun-soaked sounds in Songs of the Sun, December 6.

October8, 2009, BWW Newsdesk
http://losangeles.broadwayworld.com/article/Los_Angeles_Philharmonic_Presents_West_Coast_Left_Coast_Festival_1121_128_20091008

AT THE RADIANT RADISH

Indeed, in 1969 Brian Wilson was a part owner/operator of 'The Radiant Radish' health food store. It was reported that Brian would often open the 'Radish' at various different times of the day, sometimes in the wee hours of the morning, mostly not bothering to wear anything but his pajamas.

http://theradiantradish.blogspot.com/2008/01/radiant-radish.html


+ booksearch
Hollywood Dish

BBN BEST OF 2009 LISTS

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These were not always brand new, but ´published´ last year on this site

.Best of 2009: A Capella (10)
fave: University of Chicago's Voices In Your Head - Magic
Playlist:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=C200709CB545CB5E

.Best of 2009: AOR (20)
fave: Fruit Bats - Union Blanket

.Best of 2009: BB (10)
fave: "Sweet Mountain" American Spring

.Best of 2009: BB Covers (10)
fave: Stephen Newcombe - Surfs Up

.Best of 2009: Live (10)
fave: Brian Wilson's SMiLE Live 2004

.Best of 2009: Roots (10)
fave: Catherine Russell- My Man's An Undertaker

.Best of 2009: Tracks (10)
fave: Behind The Sounds: Wouldn't It Be Nice (in fact the whole series)

Nov 2009 Aumbop

Back Seat Driver - You're So Good To Me

2009 by Snugglefun

1965 Written by: Brian Wilson



youtube.com/watch?v=IosyOGLtnG8&fmt=18

THESE NUMBERS DON'T ADD UP

TV/MOVIE: The Prisoner

QUOTE:
The miniseries shows flashes of surreal playfulness: the only foods served at any occasion in the Village, for instance, are wraps. (You just knew they were evil.)
And the sound track is heavy on Brian Wilson's Smile, his opus begun around the time of the original Prisoner, which lends this version a dreamlike carnival tone.

Monday, Nov. 23, 2009, James Poniewozik
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1938714-1,00.html

+
http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/2008-12-6-the-fien-print/posts/tv-review-amc-s-the-prisoner

venice beach boys medley (again)

November 11th 2009

Surfer Girl, In My Room, Don't Worry Baby, God Only Knows, Good Vibrations, I Get Around, Surfin' USA, Barbara Ann

youtube.com/watch?v=xagxka33qYA&fmt=18

Pick up your fave!

+ Venice -Beach Boys medley in LA Jolla CA 16 sept '09
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46bbsXfve7c&fmt=18

+ Venice Beach Boys medley Hoogeveen (NL) on November 7th 2009.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMG5dH827JI&fmt=18

+ Venice- Beach Boys medley Hoogeveen november 7 '09
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkjyAqa8QiU&fmt=18

+ Venice Beach Boys medley Sittard on November 8th 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUzU8-vfIkU&fmt=18

The Beach Boys - "Wake The World"

1968

Written by: Brian Wilson/Al Jardine



youtube.com/watch?v=Vp3AH0odeAA&fmt=18

Brian Wilson - Dance, Dance, Dance (Westbury Music Hall)

nov 8, 2009

1965 Written by: Brian Wilson, Carl Wilson, Mike Love


youtube.com/watch?v=AnLsTbeXM2I&fmt=18