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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.

Surfin
Surfin Safari
Surfin USA
Surfer Girl
Barbara Ann
Fun Fun Fun
Come Go With Me
409
Shut Down
Little Deuce Coupe
Sloop John B
California Girls
I get Around
Help Me Rhonda
Warm California Sun
Wipe Out
Walk Don't Run

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.

Hear Hear...well said.

Really? Half the country? Weren't they broadcasting out of Chicago?

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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.

"Wouldn't It be Nice " was a harbinger of a more complex sound for the Boys. Here's an interesting video showing Brian creating the complex layers of sound.

In My Room with sappy orchestration