SURFER PANZ
BIG DICE AND URS AT THE VERO BEACH STREET FEST
...I'LL DO ANYTHING TO MINIMIZE MY PAUNCH
So you "Rascals" don´t do "Busy Doin´ Nothing" in your show?
A lovely song.
Ummm...hebba. It just doesn't make the crowd wanna dance the swim, the quasimodo, the hitchhike, the watusi, the mashed potatos, the locomotion, the twist...I mean look at these lyrics:
Busy Doin' Nothin
"I had to fix a lot of things this morning
'Cause they were so scrambled
But now it's okay
I tell you I've got enough to do
The afternoon was filled up with phone calls
What a hot sticky day, yeah yeah yeah
The air is cooling down
Take all the time you need
It's a lovely night
If you decide to come
You're gonna do it right
Drive for a couple miles
You'll see a sign and turn left
For a couple blocks
Next is mine, you'll turn left on a little road
It's a bumpy one
You'll see a white fence
Move the gate and drive through on the left side
Come right in
And you'll find me in my house somewhere
Keeping busy while I wait
I get a lot of thoughts in the morning
I write 'em all down
If it wasn't for that
I'd forget 'em in a while
And lately I've been thinking Ôbout a good friend
I'd like to see more of, yeah yeah yeah
I think I'll make a call
I wrote a number down
But I lost it
So I searched through my pocket book
I couldn't find it
So I sat and concentrated on the number
And slowly it came to me
So I dialed it
And I let it ring a few times
There was no answer
So I let it ring a little more
Still no answer
So I hung up the telephone
Got some paper and sharpened up a pencil
And wrote a letter to my friend "
Sounds like some heavy narcotics here...don't it?
Like maybe Brian was waiting for Charlie Manson to come over....
Panzade, thanks for posting those lyrics. I KNOW you wouldn´t have played it...I attempted irony.
I don´t think he was on anything. I think he just dug his day.
It IS a lovely song though.
Yes it is...sometimes irony goes right over my head if it's something I care deeply about. I don't care very much for Brian's songs during his 3 years in bed.
Nice pictures, panzade! I especially like BD's face in that one! :-)
This might be repetitious since I did not read the entire thread; but a new musical "Good Vibrations" containing 30 Beachboy songs (a la "Mama Mia" and ABBA) is currently in previews on Broadway.
No kidding? Thanks for the tip.
I'm guessing this thread's gone dormant, but I couldn't resist adding a comment or 2 about the man I consider to be among the top 5 or so greatest musical geniuses (an assigned appellation that apparently hastened his late 60s emotional crises) of the last half of the 20th century, Mr. Brian Douglas Wilson. I think "Pet Sounds" is easily one of the top 5 pop/rock albums of all time. It bears repeated listening even now nearly 40(!!) years after it's creation. I still occasionally tear up listening to one of the most obscure "Pet Sounds" cuts, "Don't Talk" and got a huge chuckle when the coda from "I Know There's An Answer" was borrowed for a rather bizarre TV commercial a few years ago featuring Dennis Hopper. I was so thrilled at Brian Wilson conquering his demons to finish "Smile" and hope that he has achieved some measure of the inner peace he so richly deserves having brought so many waves of tasty sounds and harmonies to us all these years.
Setanta wrote:Heard on WLS, the King of AM Radio in the sixties for more than half the country:[/i]
Really? Half the country? Weren't they broadcasting out of Chicago?
http://www.wlshistory.com/
The early 1920's. Birth of commercial radio as we know it today. In the Midwest, Sears-Roebuck and Company had flirted with the new medium by buying time on radio stations to address and target the lucrative farming market. By 1923, it was apparent to Sears that they needed their own broadcast outlet to continue their relationship with the farmers. As a result, the company started the Sears-Roebuck Agricultural Foundation, designed to be a clearinghouse for information and assistance through its Farm and Home Service Departments. In order to carry out the foundation, Sears originally did a farm program beginning on March 21, 1924, with its first assigned call letters WBBX, from the studios of WMAQ Radio.
WLS really reached a lot of territory.
