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Post by johnstewart on Jul 29, 2014 19:48:43 GMT
What was the single appearance in the flesh by the Beach boys for TOTP? Memory seems to insist someone said it was DO IT AGAIN 1968. I also recall studying some paper work which said something about a promo featuring the beach boys larking about round a swimming pool used for GOOD VIBRATIONS. sounds like maybe they used the promo for SLOOP JOHN B redubbed? The live clip where Mike Love is playing a pedal steel is clearly 68 plus due to the beards. Think that one was used on some kind of later advert for an LP?
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Post by harveywilliams on Jul 30, 2014 12:34:32 GMT
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Post by Alan Turrell on Jul 30, 2014 18:36:07 GMT
Thanks for posting the link Harvey i'd like to see that what a shame it's missing , i remember buying Tears in the morning at my local record shop back in 1970 it was one of many singles they had that didn't sell very well at the time so they put them on a revolving stand and sold loads of these records for 10p just to get rid of them ,personally i think this period of the Beach Boys is slightly underated i think there early 70s period is brilliant with albums like Sunflower,Surfs Up and Holland having some very classy songs . |
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Post by garyfreeman on Jul 31, 2014 13:34:14 GMT
Hi John. I think that you will find that the first "in the flesh" appearance was indeed DO IT AGAIN for the 1968 Christmas show. They also recorded Darlin, which was a hit in 1968 ,for the same show but it was left on the cutting room floor. There are some stills knocking about on the net of the do it again performance or at least (and more likely ) the rehearsal. There is a rumour in beach boys circles that the TEARS IN THE MORNING " TOTP clip exists and is held by REELIN IN THE YEARS PRODUCTIONS. Appart from the 1970 tears in the morning appearance the beach boys also appeared on totp in 1972 singing "MESS OF HELP TO STAND ALONE" not to be confussed with the whistle test appearance which still exists.
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Post by Patrick Coles on Jul 31, 2014 17:44:54 GMT
'Tears in The Morning' - featuring Bruce Johnson on lead vocal & (if I remember correctly) Mike Love playing a smallish 'squeeze box' type accordion thing was in the short lived TOTP 'album track spot' (I think a seventies Beach Boys poster photo was of this TOTP show - it was on a wall in a sitcom, possibly ITV's; 'Man About The House' series) - This spot featuring album tracks that were not always singles (tho' some where) also featured The Moody Blues doing 'Question' and The Hollies doing 'Too Young To be Married' in 1970
this interesting 'album track spot' idea didn't last very long sadly....TOTP soon was back to just the popular chart hits...and then ever and ever lighter pop hits, on to the all out 'party' atmosphere that gradually saw the show lose more and more viewers over time...and ultimately must have led to the show's demise
Re The Beach Boys:
circa 1969 - 1973 saw them at their most 'serious' as a Pop/Rock group outfit (as opposed to being Brian's band) with the albums; '20/20', 'Sunflower' (my own fav BB album of all), Surfs Up', 'Carl and The Passions: So Tough' (odd title that !), & finally 'Holland' - each featured the entire group with Brian Wilson's role cut back alot to just the occasional (but often key) songs including some from the aborted 'Smile' project of 1966-67, while production credits went to the band as opposed to Brian - Carl, Dennis, Alan, & Bruce especially shone in this period as writers & more featured as lead vocalists
After the UK chart topper 'Do it Again', Carl's take on 'I Can Hear Music' & Alan's version of 'Cottonfields', were all decent hits some great (if sadly overlooked) singles then were; 'Bluebirds Over The Mountain', 'Breakaway', 'Tears in the Morning', 'Deirdre' (a Bruce & Brian Wilson co-write sung again by Bruce), 'Long Promised Road', 'Don't Go Near The Water', 'You Need A Mess of Help To Stand Alone', 'Sail on Sailor' & Al's 'California Saga: California'
strangely I don't think Brian's superb 'Marcella' (1972) was ever issued as a single in the UK.
The (then) surprise massive success of USA Capitol's 'Endless Summer' compilation, then after UK Capitol's '20 Golden Greats' saw them largely turn into a nostalgia act thereafter - with the odd album exception - and be mega successful, but that 1969-73 period yielded some very underrated more 'contemporary' BB albums & fine if 'flop' singles with all band members contributing decent (if now largely forgotten by many) more mature style songs that went far beyond sun, surf, girls, racing hot rods, cars, teen romance, good times & beach parties.. ..(great tho' that is of course !)
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2014 19:11:43 GMT
I Can Hear Music and Cottonfields are two of my favourite Beach Boys records actually. The former is apparently one of Brian's as well. I remember them being big hits at the time and were a sort of Indian Summer for the ggroup hit-wise in the UK. A shame they aren't ones which get played that much nowadays.
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Post by Richard Marple on Jul 31, 2014 19:23:47 GMT
I Can Hear Music and Cottonfields are two of my favourite Beach Boys records actually. The former is apparently one of Brian's as well. I remember them being big hits at the time and were a sort of Indian Summer for the group's hit-wise in the UK. A shame they aren't ones which get played that much nowadays. Interestingly both were covered by soon to be famous pianoists earning some pin money as sessionists. |
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Post by Patrick Coles on Aug 1, 2014 9:13:08 GMT
There were two Beach Boys versions of 'Cottonfields' - the album version on '20/20' being the first in 1969 produced by Brian Wilson it's a bit slower and the style is a bit more 'Spector-ish', while later a 1970 faster more 'free flowing' single version was the hit - the UK version of 'Sunflower' on Stateside has that tacked on at the start where it opens the album perfectly having a great pedal steel guitar intro and outro.
Alan Jardine was their group 'folky' inspiring them to cover 'Sloop John B' back in 1966 and then doing 'Cottonfields'
one thing I loved was Alan and Mike's California Saga:'The Beaks of Eagles' suite on 'Holland' inspired by Robinson Jeffers' poem with spoken passages read by Mike that concludes with Alan's 'California Saga: California' (where Al even got Brian Wilson to get up out of bed to sing the intro line; 'on my way to sunny California, on my way to spend another sunny day...')
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Post by garyfreeman on Aug 1, 2014 10:00:12 GMT
Patrick, great observation !! the poster was indeed on the wall of one of the girls bedrooms in MAN ABOUT THE HOUSE, together with a poster of BEACH BOY Bruce Johnston!!
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Post by johnstewart on Aug 19, 2014 16:41:36 GMT
Thanks for all the great replies pleased with the response to this thread. I did previously mention what I read was the SLOOP JOHN B promo in another thread. I'm sure it's used on the BBC4 shown beach boys recent doc. The band are running round the edge of a pool near a jetty with a hut. Later they carry surfboards which are then comically replaced by a band member. I thought I read notes or something in RC that said the BBC dubbed GOOD VIBRATIONS over it for TOTP at the time of release.
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