THE PUZZLE OF BRIAN WILSON’S SMILE

IN A RADIO PROGRAM broadcast on BBC Radio 1 in the early 1990s, Beach Boys band member Bruce Johnston was asked about the status of Brian Wilson’s legendary unfinished album Smile. This is what he said:

"It’s not far from completion. That could be completed if he wanted to put the energy into it. I don’t think I’d attempt to do it. ’Cause it’s not my work, you know. I’d rather he did it. It’s in fragments. It’s just a bunch of fragments. And they’re really good, really superb . . . fragments."

2005 Nov 11 - Rob C. Wegman
http://www.princeton.edu/~rwegman/lectures/smile.htm

LOVE AND MERCY

An old interview from 2005

Fifteen minutes on the phone with Brian Wilson.
Where do you even begin? And which Brian Wilson are we talking about?

2010-09-20
wordpress.hotpress.com/petermurphy/2010/09/20/love-and-mercy/

I also stumbled on these classical voices:

> Tom & Josh - Love & Mercy

Cosimo Matassa Interview

2005





Interview

Stephen Fairweather's 'Love You - Stack-O-Tracks'

Online: Stephen Fairweather's 'Love You - Stack-O-Tracks'

As far as we knew, the 'BBB Love You' event (Dec 10th, 2005 @ Lutterworth) was the first time this album could be heard in its entirety in one live performance.

(tip: Honkin' Down The Highway)

Stephen Fairweather
http://www.beachboysbritain.org.uk/loveyou.html

+ The Beach Boys Top 25 Best Most-Overlooked Singles
http://talkaboutpoppopmusic.blogspot.com/2009/10/beach-boys-top-20-most-overlooked.html

Sufjan Stevens . ❅ . O Come, O Come Emmanuel

2005

It is a translation of the Catholic Latin text ("Veni, veni, Emmanuel") by John Mason Neale in the mid-19th century ( wiki )

youtube.com/watch?v=qbq1cnpe7Kc&fmt=18

~ Ding Dong
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPb8339gebc

Van Dyke Parks - On The Rolling Sea When Jesus Speak To Me

1970

196? Written by: Joseph Spence



youtube.com/watch?v=8rErS_vznXs&fmt=18

+ Joseph Spence wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Spence_(musician)

+ Timothy White – “Van Dyke Parks and B’rer Rabbit” (1985)
http://beatpatrol.wordpress.com/2009/12/02/timothy-white-van-dyke-parks-and-brer-rabbit-1985/

+ Van Dyke Parks Remembers Harry Nilsson (2005)
http://fortheloveofharry.blogspot.com/2009/12/van-dyke-parks-remembers-harry-nilsson.html

Saint Etienne 'Side Streets'

2005

original



youtube.com/watch?v=IsVWl28LttI&fmt=18

Ben Lee - Catch My Disease

2005

Ben Lee original



youtube.com/watch?v=ZZToNNTnaj8&fmt=18

+ lyrics Catch My Disease
http://kitten-monkey.blogspot.com/2006/06/and-thats-way-i-like-it.html

+ Ben Lee "Numb"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NYbapv59Uw&fmt=18

PURPLE CHICK PRESENTS: THE BEACH BOYS SMILE

Intro: After the official release of Brian Wilson Presents Smile (BWPS) in 2004, you would have thought that the last thing I would have wanted to hear was yet another Smile mix by a fan.
I've heard Smile done just about every way possible in fan mixes.

2005 nov Review by Ronniehttp://www.earcandymag.com/purplechicksmile-2005.htm

Brian Wilson's 'Smile' Live In Concert

(2005 Aug 23 / NPR.org)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4182988

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