June 17, 2025 • 41 mins
We lost another great one, Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys.
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Hey, they've called. They've called, They've called, they've called.
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Uh yeah, he was uh said you gotta go watch
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Speaker 1 (01:56):
Yeah. A lot of his stuff was buzz Head Radio.
But he said that Medford has their big cruise on
Father's Day weekend as well, and he mentioned that I
had mentioned that we had mentioned that we were going
to try to go live at the ENID cruise, but
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you pooped out. You didn't want a cruise On Friday night,
I was too hot and I went I did Dave.
I went live Saturday night. I wasn't cruising, but I
was standing there filming the car so.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
And then Saturday I had to go to we had
to go do stuff in Okholm City, kid stuff.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
So yeah, I probably went live for I don't know,
thirty minutes.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
No, wow, So it was Saturday as good as or
Friday wasn't that good. I don't think there's that m.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
I couldn't really tell. I think we were too far
down on Friday. Saturday was like packed. It was like
a normal big that's good. And I don't know Friday
may have been, but we just I don't know. For
some reason, I don't know that everybody goes all away
them to Broadway all the time.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
I heard they're giving a lot of tickets.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
A lot a lot people got tickets for radios too loud,
A lot of people sounds like I got tickets for
exhaust being not altered altered and then don't Yeah, but
she asked, she you know, she said, could you guys
be a bigger presence? Which I think if you wanted
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to get back to a normal seventies, sixties, seventies eighties crews,
you're gonna have to do that, because a twenty twenties
crewis there's nothing but peeling out motorcycle screaming, trucks blasting.
I mean, it's nobody wants to take their nice classic
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cars out because they're afraid they'll get hit. And then
you can't hardly breathe if you're watching on the side
of the road because of all the peel outs.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Yeah, and those guys, if they're not careful, they could.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Get get out of control and kill somebody.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Yeah, so everywhere they'll quit, they'll it'll shut it down,
that happens.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Yeah, So I think hopefully with the police being a
heavy presence, it'll discourage the younger crowd that doesn't understand
what cruising is from ever attending again, and maybe they'll
just not come back.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
And yeah, those tickets are hefty, like five hundred bucks.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Yeah yeah, so yeah, yeah, it's it's kind of a
bummer to get out there and watch the cars cruising
and there literally are no classic cars. I mean yeah,
like almost there was almost none.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
I mean, yeah, nobody wants to no I mean he
I don't think he got a you won't take his
car out there, but anyway.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Anyway, so anyway, but it was it was packed a
lot of a lot of cars, even though they you know,
weren't classics, but hopefully we'll start cruising back that way.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Yeah, and it was cooler too, So I think Friday
night I didn't. It's just too dang hot. I don't
have an ac money Carls anyway, So that aunt eatingly Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
So uh and that was I didn't really get any
email that I think I needed to respond to. I uh,
and I didn't. I forgot to tell you at Callahans
And I don't want to ruin the surprise. But we
got a gift from Kirk Trenari. Oh and we will
divulge it on the next Facebook Live. Oh it's part
of the seventies collection. Oh cool, Thanks anyway, Thanks, Kurt,
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appreciate that. It's a I'm trying to find the message
where he contacted me for addresses. I can't find it.
I've looked through texts and Facebook messages and emails.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
He may have messaged me.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
No, he messaged me somewhere, but I can't. I don't
know where's at. So so that's so, Kurt, that's why
I didn't respond and let you know that i'd gotten it.
But I'll track that down somewhere. Okay, cool anyway, And
I don't know where the heck Gretchen is she's off
goofing off being a blockhead.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Somewhere chasing her dog or something, who knows.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
But yeah, so we are back. It's kind of almost
back to normal again.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Back to almost normal because last week was live so
that was and.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Then three weeks of four weeks of vacations and double
recordings and yeah, yeah, so so anyway, so tonight's episode,
I mean, I have not seen a death bring about
the amount of comments and social media that Brian Wilson's
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death did in quite a while. I mean, yeah, it's uh,
he affected a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Did not really, Yeah, I was kind of a spy
all the famous people coming out talking about how big
of an influence he was, and I guess he really was.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Yeah, so unfortunately, So tonight's episode is gonna be about
the Beach Boys because the Beach Boys were a group
and had lots of lots of albums in the seventies.
They were way way more popular in the sixties and
way way less popular in the eighties. I think, I
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don't know, they had a couple, but they were the
coolest when they were in the seventies. And why is that, mister.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Willer, because that's the greatest decade Norton man, Yes it was.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
And unfortunately, I don't think I heard of a single
dang album from the seventies. From the seventies now, I.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Mean, every time I think of the Beach Boys, it's
all that sixties music. Yeah, you know, which we did
listen to.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
We did listen to. Yeah, but this.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Is the seventies buzz, not the sixties bus.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
So exactly. So the one thing I will say is
I kind of went through a heavy fifties phase in
the seventies. Yeah, and that's why I liked Happy Days,
and I had a Sean On album and and my
mom had all the I didn't have to buy Beach
Boy albums because my mom had them all and so
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so yeah, so I listened to so Beach Boys were
like the epitome. I mean, they had the sound. You
could not think of surf music and not think of
the Beach Boys or Jan and Deine. I think they were.
Janadine was kind of up there in the same Sometimes
you'd get confused as to which which one was which sometimes, Yeah, but.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
I did not realize that three of them were brothers.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Oh you did, You've never seen any of the movies. Yeah,
there's a really really good and it may have been
like a mini series.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
About the Beach Boys.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
About the Beach Boys, and it talked about basically from
when they were in high school and the garage band
and their dad Murray being their manager, and so yeah,
you got all the creasy details of how crazy guy
talk about a band with a lot of problems.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Problem. Yeah it was.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
It's I mean KOOKI members.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
So they were three brothers and Brian, Dennis and Carl
that was in order of age, and then their cousin
Mike Love and their friend Al Jardine were the original.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
U and then Alan Mike are still alive.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Correct and Mike. After Carl Wilson passed away. I think
in ninety eight, Mike Love got they gave him permission
to use the Beach Boy's name, and so when he
comes to Ena and he's been to his his version
of the Beach Boys has been to Eni twice. And
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I think Johnston, I think Johnston maybe is in that band.
So there's more than just so there's like at least
two original not original original, but in Mike Loves and
then Brian Wilson was touring, but I don't think he
had anybody other than him, well in his version of
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the band.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Probably not, because the two brothers were dead, and.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Then he might have had some like late members that. Yeah,
they're one of those bands that had so many different
members over the decades and then some members would leave
and then like ten years later they'd come back.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
And yeah, I didn't I didn't realize Glenn Campbell's.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Yeah, we've for some reason. I think we've talked about.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
That before, Glenn Campbell being the beach.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Being, being a beg or not a beach.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
A beach boy, A little different, well, sort of a
little different.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Not for very long.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Yeah, it's a few months because Brian was what was Brian?
What happened? I forgot. I don't know why. He may
have been checked in somewhere. He was having he had
mental health issues.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Yeah, he didn't like the I don't think he liked
the crowds and the fame and the I think he
just wanted to sit at home and write songs and
be left alone.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
So and he did that. He did a lot.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Yeah. So they were from Hawthorne, California, started in nineteen
sixty one, the early Hits, which the ones that we
listened to as kids, Surfing USA, Fun, Fun, Fun helped me, Ronda.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Had me Run, Happy Run, and then.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Pet Sounds, which I never really got. Pet Sounds, I
mean it's now that I'm older, but back then, I
don't know. Came out in nineteen sixty six. It's one
of the most influential albums of all time. But then
we cruise into nineteen seventy, Yeah, and everything changed. It's
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a little bit different then, not quite the beachy Beach
Boys of old.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
And then the late seventies was even even different or
more different than the early seventies. I mean they I
guess they were just transitioning.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Yeah, which a lot of bands did. But yeah, it
would have been hard to have. I think they had
seven albums in the seventies.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Maybe, yeah, one, two, three, four, five, six, For they
had La Am I U, Carl and the Passions, holland Sunflower,
Love You Surfs Up. So it was what six at least.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
And then their label, one of their labels, was putting
out live and compilation as well. So anyway, so in
nineteen seventy they came out with Sunflower. It was critically acclaimed,
but a commercial flop. And that's kind of why, you know,
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it's just growing up in the seventies, they weren't really
ever played on like Top forty radio. You could hear
him on like what's funny is in the seventies. The
fifties was the oldiest station. Yeah, you know that's you
could hear them on the fifties and sixties oldies station,
but you just rarely ever heard their music on regular
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Top forty radio in the seventies.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
I mean, they weren't mybhele house. I mean I wouldn't
get to run out and buy Beach Boys album I.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Will say, other if my mom had not have had
a lot of Beach Boy albums. Yeah, I don't know
that I would ever had a Beach Boy.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Album, but I do. I do like your music. Oh yeah,
I mean they're and Brian Wilson is apparently all that
arranging and the producing that he did was a big deal.
He was, Yeah I got some I got a top ten.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Of seventies songs. Yeah, that's funny. I do too. So
we'll see, how see if they coincide. What do you got?
You're going to start from topp or bottom.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Let's starting number ten. See if this good. This is
from the La album came out in March of seventy nine.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Now that's interesting because this goes back to their be
the Beachy sound. Well, it's kind of funny how they
it kind of ebbed and flowed. Sometimes they'd be beachy
and then sometimes they'd go off the rail. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Oh yeah, there's one coming up, this next one.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
It's a little creepy anyway. That's a good time there,
very cool, very cool.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Number. You want me to just keep going?
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Yeah, let's just okay a number nine because some of
these songs people are are gonna have never heard. I
have a feeling.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Yeah, this is hate. Little tomboy sit here on my things,
Hey buddy, Yeah, it's little creepy wisten.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
No mustaps. Put away your baseball.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Men, you living days on.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
You could your places. You can see.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
That Connie turned into a girl.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Yeah, I'm waiting to go over too well today.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Yeah, so that's hey, little tomboy. They came off of
the m I U album that came out in seventy two. This,
this next one is called Marcella. It's off the Carl
and the Passions album.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
I see this the should have been on the top forty.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
But.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Well in seven, yeah, I meant.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Song and six is shaken.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Uh little Marcella. I kind of like that one number
seven now. And by the way, this list was put
together by a guy named Chris Propfi. He's got a
YouTube channel. It's called uh Musically Obsessed, And so I'm
giving him props for this list because I had no
I had, you know, if I was gonna put my
favorite together, I couldn't think of any songs from the
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seventies of the Beach Boys. What was this?
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Was this one?
Speaker 3 (16:54):
My Diane?
Speaker 1 (16:56):
You're Diane, not my Dan.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
This came out seventy eight.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Years now.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
Yeah, thinking, so that's my Diane.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
You could have wrote that to your Diane.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Oh yeah, she'd like that. Maybe I'll send that to her.
Everybody's wondering at my dad. No, that was my first wife.
Santa and Sannah.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Now, this one is probably the most well known from
the seventh This is like one of their most requested,
like when they go on to her concerts and stuff.
Even though one of the Beach Boys isn't singing on
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this one. It's one of the two new guys that
they got in the group from Flames.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Oh, Blondie, Chaplain, Yeah Sad, the song.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
That stod.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
It's kind a cool song.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Yeah, it's a good song.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Uh. Number five is Forever.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Yeah, and pretty much all these songs are on the
list that I had to.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
The Sunflower album came out in seventy.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
Every word I said could make you.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
You can tell they had a little, a little beatle
inv in some of these songs.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Yeah, ask the Scott just run away here it show forever.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Get the song I s to it.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
That's pretty cool. Then we have let us go on
this way.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
You get too bit away through the Ringer.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Came up to Love You album seventy seven.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
Let slip through my big gass. Going to school isn't
my fondest desire. Let's see class, she said, that's gonna
go by God. Please let's go on this.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Little quirky okay this song. Uh well, I was downloading this,
I noticed that a album came is on right now.
It's on sale on e It's for sale on eBay.
Uh huh for two hundred and twenty five dollars.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
The vinyl yes really yeah, it's.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Called Surf Surfs Up is the album. The song is uh,
fuel flows.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Reens.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
So August of seventy one, this album came out Little Cabin,
I don't I don't remember the song.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
I've heard this song somewhere, but it wasn't like in
the seventies. Although I've seen like every beach Boy movie,
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mini series, documentary, and so I'm sure they've I'm sure
all these songs were in most of those.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
I've seen none of those. This next one is number two.
Adds some music to your day, that's a good idea.
The song flower.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
Gospel goes good with this song this country and Lackers.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Yeah, they definitely had the harmonizing thing.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
There was a guy that I got a list from.
He had written a long article and kind of talked
about all of the seventies albums, and that was his
number one.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Had some music to you to, Yeah. And then this
guy's number one, the surfs Up off the Surfs Up
album August is seventy one.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Of lass aristography.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
The man you could say, Hi, that's Brian Wilson. I'm
pretty sure. All right, So there you go. That's one
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lest I came up with.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Very cool. Now, I do you have any other songs
on there?
Speaker 2 (23:22):
No, but I can probably finally.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
I mean, I've got some on my phone. I'm just
not sure. Let me see. How did you ever did
you run across the Johnny Carson.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
The song Johnny Carson the beach Boy song? Uh huh No,
I did not see if.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
A little bit there. Yeah, so they had Carson, they
had a few weird, weird songs, and then there was
a student. So then I guess one of their albums
they got a new was it producer or manager, but
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he kind of talked him into writing songs about like
upevil and the commentary of the political Yeah. So here
was student demonstration time.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
Oh out with Berkeley Free Speech and later on in
People's Parks and change students demonstration spark down.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
The Ala Easta where police spelser rast the Special Riots
quality and as.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Huh, that's kind of cool. I think I could do
without the sirens.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Kind kind of different. So yeah, it is kind of
you know, when you've got it, be like Boston or
you know, you you you really like a group because
they've got this sound, and then for them to even
like for me, for Fleetwood Mac, when Tuss came out, yeah,
I was like oh no, no, no, no, no no no,
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I mean, I know, as a musician you want to
try different things. But yeah, so I think that I
think that's why they lost a little bit of their popularity.
They're in the seventies because they weren't. They weren't the
surfing songs that everybody was used to.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
I guess only one of them really actually served all the.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Eight Yeah, Dennis. Dennis was any drowned. Yeah, I mean,
the the only true surfer is the one.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
That, yeah, trown. He was the one that had the
running with the Mansons.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
He Yeah, he let the literally let the Mansons live
with him for a while. Yeah, I think they ran up.
I think they spent about one hundred thousand dollars of
his money. And and see that's all in that movie.
I think it was like it was like a made
for TV movie, but it was like two two hour
episodes or something, and it's it goes into the detail
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of the Mansons and all of Brian's mental problems and
how Murray, their dad was really controlling in the beginning.
And it's really good, really good. You have to have
to check it out. It was super popular. It's been
I can't remember what year it came out. It's been
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a while, but.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
It's kind of sad. I mean, the whole deal is
kind of sad.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Super sad.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Yeah, the two dying so young.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
And I remember when Dennis died, that was like a
big big deal. Are we still recording? Yeah, so yeah,
when he drowned, that was that was a big deal.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
I don't know what that was.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Yeah. So so Dennis was the only surfer. He was
also kind of turned actor. He was in some Hollywood films.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
It was a good looking guy.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
He was had the hair. And he dated Oh here,
that's funny. He dated Christine mcvee, McVeigh, m v McNay, McGee, mcvee.
I think it's Yeah, they dated for I think about
three years and then their breakup and something else that
kind of drove him to start drinking. And that's kind
of when he went over the edge and the band
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said either you get cleaned up or you're out of
the band. And so he starred in the nineteen seventy
one cult classic two Lane Blacktop. So if you'd like
to see any of his acting ability, check that out.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
I know that movie.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Brian Wilson. Yeah, he was isolated because of mental health struggles,
which nobody talked about in the seventies, so nobody really
knew what was up with him. At one point he
was under the care of the controversial therapist named Eugene Landy,
who exerted total control over him. And so in that movie,
that's a big deal. It is like this guy basically
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controlled his every movement and wouldn't let people come in
and talk to him. And HiT's a crazy they got
a crazy story. Yeah, and he's the father of the
Wilson sisters Brian, Yeah, Yeah, pretty interesting. Yeah, even though
this wasn't exactly in the seventies. They were asked to
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perform at the White House on July fourth, nineteen eighty,
after originally being banned by the National Park Service for
being too low brown. I remember that that was a
big deal. That was a big controversy. And then yeah,
so Charles Manson briefly lived with Dennis Wilson and the
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Beach Boys. So did you know that Charles Manson was
a singer, guitar player and singer. So he wrote a
song called never Learn Not To Love that the Beach
Boys actually performed and recorded and released on their sixty
nine album.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Yeah, they changed the title.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Yeah, so I was going to listen to that.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
I probably should have downloaded that.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Yeah that was close enough sixty nine. Yeah, so that
would have been a little creepy.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
And then you know, do you see where they buried
doing us at sea?
Speaker 5 (30:08):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (30:08):
I kind of forgotten about that, and I did not
realize that, you don't. Being buried at sea is reserved
for people in the navy or the Coastguard. And the
president President Reagan had to step in the little buried
at sea. I don't know why you wanted to be
buried at sea so bad and not cremated. I mean,
you can cremate somebody and throw them in the ocean,
but a body, you know, his whole body, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
We might have to check on that. That's funny that
you say that, because it seems like I just ran
across something that said that anybody. I could swear I
just ran across an article that said anybody could be
buried at sea.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Maybe they changed it.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Yeah, you just have to have something about you know,
how you're wrapped up and so many miles or so
many feet off of shore. I mean, that's funny because
it listed like five things that are required, but it
said anybody can be buried at sea, but you have to,
you know, adhere to these whatever number of.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Things they maybe they changed it now.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Yeah, interesting, check it out. A lot of bodies laying
down at the bottom of the ocean there, U.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Bean laden.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Yeah. So seventy was Sunflower, critically acclaimed commercial flop. It
showed that Brian wasn't the only genius in the band.
Carl Dennis and even Bruce Johnson stepped in with their creativity.
Seventy one was surfs Up. That one got people talking.
The title track, originally recorded in the Smile sessions was
(31:45):
eerie and poetic Till I Die was Brian's haunting reflection
on mortality, and that's when they started getting a little
more serious, not as beachy and fun. Seventy two to
seventy three was Karl and Passions and so Carl and
the Passions I believe was the name of the band
before they became the Beach Boys. Oh really. Yeah. They
(32:11):
brought two new members, Blondie Chaplain and Ricky Fatar, adding
soul funk and Southern African or South African vibes. That's
where they recorded Sale on Sailor and then seventy six
was fifteen Big Ones. The band brought Brian back to
the front, literally calling him, calling it his return to form.
(32:32):
So when they signed with their new record label in
the seventies, the record label said, we'll sign you, but
you have to guarantee that Brian Wilson is going to
write so many songs and perform on so many songs,
and so they kind of had to include him. They
had to keep him. I guess he'd bloomed up to
(32:55):
like three hundred and thirty three pounds at one point
and then they got him back down to like a one
hundred and eighty five or something.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
But yeah, you're right, that was the Beach Boys name before.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
It was the Beach Boys before the Beach Boys. So
the nineteen seventy six album, it was a mix of
oldie covers and new material. The public see, I loved
seeing Brian back again, and the critics weren't convinced. But
It's Okay was the standout song on that, And then
seventy seven was The Beach Boys Love You seventy seven.
(33:27):
There you go. So I've been going through all of
the I mean I literally have, I literally writing my book,
have gone through every Week's Top one hundred in nineteen
seventy seven. Oh yeah, and I don't there was not
(33:47):
there was in the top one hundred. I don't think
there was one Beatles song or beach why don't keep
changing their name was I don't think there was one
beach Boy song in the entire seventies.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Well, it makes sense because we didn't listen to.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Not seventies in seventy and they had, but they had
an album out. It was a cult favorite. It's a
cult favorite today, all Moog synths and Brian's rawvoy songs
about roller skates, Solar Systems and Johnny Carson. And then
seventy eight was the m IU album recorded in Iowa,
(34:20):
of all places. It was the opposite of pet Sounds.
It was light, breezy and kind of cheesy, and the
critics hated it. Mike Love loved it.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
So anyway, yeah, yeah, So the La album came out
in seventy nine, and for some.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Reason, I don't know why, I don't have that one
on here. I don't know why either.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
Yeah, they did have some core artwork on their their
album covers Album Covers. Yeah, so seventy seven is that
when the story takes place.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
Of my book.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Oh yeah, it's summer of seventy seven. Yeah, So I
was going through wanting songs for a certain reason, and
I just got on Billboard's Top one hundred and so
it has a calendar at the top, and so I
would like click on like May, and then click on
like the third week, and it would bring up all
(35:15):
hundred songs. So I'd look through them. And the funny
thing is, you know, if you click on the next week,
really it was never really that different than the week before.
There might only been fifteen songs that were different. Everything
else was like maybe in a different position. But so
I pretty much and I went through it. By the
time I got done, i'd gone through every week in
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nineteen seventy seven. So Elvis, Elvis had a few songs
in there, Fleetwood Mac had a lot. Boston, even though
their album came out in seventy six, they charted several
of their songs in seventy seven.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Oh yeah, see that.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
So, yeah, it was a mix. There was a huge
mix a disco and rock and roll and easy listening
and pretty cool. But I don't I'm gonna have to
I don't think there was one Beach Boys song that
I can think of anyway, So I think that's most
(36:15):
of the stuff I got. I forgot to mention at
the beginning. Oh no, here I got a little more.
But I forgot to mention at the beginning of the
show that Christopher Todd has stuck a fork in it.
That's all that, and.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
He is he's finally done with the album, finally done.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
With the album. And I guess what he did was,
you know, like on live albums, it's just one big,
long song. There's no most live albums, there's not like
a gap in between the songs. That's kind of how
his album is. So he was asking people that follow him,
you know, do you think there needs to be fade
ins and fade outs between the songs? And no, you
(37:02):
don't say, you know, no, if you wrote it so
there's not, then I wouldn't. I'd print it the way
you wrote it.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
Yeah, and they it all told, they're all connected connected.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
Yeah, it's kind of like a story story. Yeah. So
so anyway, we will keep you guys updated on that.
I don't know that he's posted it publicly.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
As of the other night when he was asking that
question yet.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
Yeah. So anyway, so kudos. Okay, So just to give
you everybody an update on the Beach Boys. Of course,
Brian Wilson passed away. What this this month?
Speaker 2 (37:44):
Yeah, last last week.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
Last week, born in forty two. He had a rough
road and he had recently I guess he lost his
wife last well in twenty two. Yeah, and so he
was living under a conservatorship due to his health issues.
It kind of looked like he'd had a stroke if
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you ever if he saw him anywhere, it just he
was performing, but his art. He wouldn't like move his arm,
and he kind of looked like he had But anyway,
so he has passed away. Mike Love the Forever front man.
He's still touring under the Beach Boy's name, like I said, yeah,
so Bruce Johnston is touring with him. He still wears
(38:26):
his cap and loves the song Kokomo, which would be
Mike Love.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
Yeah. And so I when they came to Ian at
the first time, I went as a photographer, So I've
got a lot of pictures of Mike playing up to
my camera. Al Jardine performed solo and sometimes with Brian,
or did with Brian. He was the peacemaker of the
group still passionate about the band's legacy. Carl Wilson sadly
(38:58):
passed away from cancer and ninety eight. He was the
heart and soul of the group during the seventies. And
then Dennis Wilson, the wild Child, drowned in eighty three
at the age of thirty nine, and he was the
true rock star. Yeah, the one that was going to
burn out rather than fade away. Better it a buy
(39:18):
out than a fade away, which he did. So anyway,
there you go. You guys let us know if you
guys were big Beach Boy fans of the seventies era,
did you guys buy the albums? You guys have the albums.
If you do have the albums, what were your favorite
(39:38):
songs during this episode? It's got me kind of there's
some of those songs like Johnny Carson and some of
those that are different that I might want to delve
with Apple. The keill thing about Apple Music is I
can download all their albums and just listen to them,
don't have to buy them. So I think I'll go
(39:58):
on a Beach Boy spree. And I listened to.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
From the sixties and the seventies and the eighties.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
And sixties, seventies, eighties nine, I think, yeah, I you know.
That's one thing I did not check is like, how
how long did they keep putting out albums? I don't
know when their last album was.
Speaker 2 (40:14):
That's a good question.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
I know they did a lot of best of and
think lives and things like that, but I don't know
if they I don't know if they went into the
ats or teens or I just I do knew.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
I would imagine they did.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
In one form or another. Yeah, you'd probably think, Okay, so, well,
how are you doing all the time over there?
Speaker 2 (40:38):
I can't tell. I care. I can't read it that
far away.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
Too far away. Okay, well you guys let us know.
You guys can hit us up at five eight zho
five four one three eight o five. Don't forget or
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(41:03):
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ordering T shirts, and we're gonna get out of here.
Speaker 3 (41:10):
Cherators
It should be hello, is anybody out there? Well, we
got to we got a record field going on there.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
It's quick at night, all right, So yeah, that's probably
gonna sound funny, so I'll have to got it.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
I over I overlay it.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Oh you do?
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Yeah, okay, everybody Todd's house and everything fall.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
To par Okay, get there. So the ponditor went out
when I got as soon as I got back to Alaska.
Mm hmm. I finally turned to a c on yesterday
because Cindy's coming to thot. Well, I'll start to start
to get the house cool down, you know. And of
course it didn't come on, and then find out if
it was a damn raccoon's bit of chewy wire.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
And then.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
The other day I'm sitting on the toilet and I
heard a crack. Oh what the hell has a hat?
I gotta go on the heiders. Now I broke the
damn toilet seat, and now it pinches me. And then
that there, the little lever inside there came apart. Oh my, okay, you.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Leave for vacation and see what happened, and.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Everything's falling apart. Dogs and cats living together Jesus with.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
So now we're Uh, Todd has no monitor for his compute,
but we're staring at the TV screen across the room.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
So anyway, somehow we've got it bandage together and we're
on the air. You guys hit us up at five
eight oho five four one three five or buzzi pusimedia
dot com. Where's my where's my stinking note?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
At?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
J're what note there? It is?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Still you still got to use that cheetion.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
No, just it's comforting to have it there.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Okay, Well, I'm glad. You're glad. You're comfortable.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Hey, they've called. They've called, They've called, they've called.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Uh yeah, he was uh said you gotta go watch
Mission Impossible at the theater.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Yeah. A lot of his stuff was buzz Head Radio.
But he said that Medford has their big cruise on
Father's Day weekend as well, and he mentioned that I
had mentioned that we had mentioned that we were going
to try to go live at the ENID cruise, but
(02:16):
you pooped out. You didn't want a cruise On Friday night,
I was too hot and I went I did Dave.
I went live Saturday night. I wasn't cruising, but I
was standing there filming the car so.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
And then Saturday I had to go to we had
to go do stuff in Okholm City, kid stuff.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
So yeah, I probably went live for I don't know,
thirty minutes.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
No, wow, So it was Saturday as good as or
Friday wasn't that good. I don't think there's that m.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
I couldn't really tell. I think we were too far
down on Friday. Saturday was like packed. It was like
a normal big that's good. And I don't know Friday
may have been, but we just I don't know. For
some reason, I don't know that everybody goes all away
them to Broadway all the time.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
I heard they're giving a lot of tickets.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
A lot a lot people got tickets for radios too loud,
A lot of people sounds like I got tickets for
exhaust being not altered altered and then don't Yeah, but
she asked, she you know, she said, could you guys
be a bigger presence? Which I think if you wanted
(03:27):
to get back to a normal seventies, sixties, seventies eighties crews,
you're gonna have to do that, because a twenty twenties
crewis there's nothing but peeling out motorcycle screaming, trucks blasting.
I mean, it's nobody wants to take their nice classic
(03:49):
cars out because they're afraid they'll get hit. And then
you can't hardly breathe if you're watching on the side
of the road because of all the peel outs.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Yeah, and those guys, if they're not careful, they could.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Get get out of control and kill somebody.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Yeah, so everywhere they'll quit, they'll it'll shut it down,
that happens.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Yeah, So I think hopefully with the police being a
heavy presence, it'll discourage the younger crowd that doesn't understand
what cruising is from ever attending again, and maybe they'll
just not come back.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
And yeah, those tickets are hefty, like five hundred bucks.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Yeah yeah, so yeah, yeah, it's it's kind of a
bummer to get out there and watch the cars cruising
and there literally are no classic cars. I mean yeah,
like almost there was almost none.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
I mean, yeah, nobody wants to no I mean he
I don't think he got a you won't take his
car out there, but anyway.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Anyway, so anyway, but it was it was packed a
lot of a lot of cars, even though they you know,
weren't classics, but hopefully we'll start cruising back that way.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Yeah, and it was cooler too, So I think Friday
night I didn't. It's just too dang hot. I don't
have an ac money Carls anyway, So that aunt eatingly Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
So uh and that was I didn't really get any
email that I think I needed to respond to. I uh,
and I didn't. I forgot to tell you at Callahans
And I don't want to ruin the surprise. But we
got a gift from Kirk Trenari. Oh and we will
divulge it on the next Facebook Live. Oh it's part
of the seventies collection. Oh cool, Thanks anyway, Thanks, Kurt,
(05:34):
appreciate that. It's a I'm trying to find the message
where he contacted me for addresses. I can't find it.
I've looked through texts and Facebook messages and emails.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
He may have messaged me.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
No, he messaged me somewhere, but I can't. I don't
know where's at. So so that's so, Kurt, that's why
I didn't respond and let you know that i'd gotten it.
But I'll track that down somewhere. Okay, cool anyway, And
I don't know where the heck Gretchen is she's off
goofing off being a blockhead.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Somewhere chasing her dog or something, who knows.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
But yeah, so we are back. It's kind of almost
back to normal again.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Back to almost normal because last week was live so
that was and.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Then three weeks of four weeks of vacations and double
recordings and yeah, yeah, so so anyway, so tonight's episode,
I mean, I have not seen a death bring about
the amount of comments and social media that Brian Wilson's
(06:43):
death did in quite a while. I mean, yeah, it's uh,
he affected a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Did not really, Yeah, I was kind of a spy
all the famous people coming out talking about how big
of an influence he was, and I guess he really was.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Yeah, so unfortunately, So tonight's episode is gonna be about
the Beach Boys because the Beach Boys were a group
and had lots of lots of albums in the seventies.
They were way way more popular in the sixties and
way way less popular in the eighties. I think, I
(07:18):
don't know, they had a couple, but they were the
coolest when they were in the seventies. And why is that, mister.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Willer, because that's the greatest decade Norton man, Yes it was.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
And unfortunately, I don't think I heard of a single
dang album from the seventies. From the seventies now, I.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Mean, every time I think of the Beach Boys, it's
all that sixties music. Yeah, you know, which we did
listen to.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
We did listen to. Yeah, but this.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Is the seventies buzz, not the sixties bus.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
So exactly. So the one thing I will say is
I kind of went through a heavy fifties phase in
the seventies. Yeah, and that's why I liked Happy Days,
and I had a Sean On album and and my
mom had all the I didn't have to buy Beach
Boy albums because my mom had them all and so
(08:11):
so yeah, so I listened to so Beach Boys were
like the epitome. I mean, they had the sound. You
could not think of surf music and not think of
the Beach Boys or Jan and Deine. I think they were.
Janadine was kind of up there in the same Sometimes
you'd get confused as to which which one was which sometimes, Yeah, but.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
I did not realize that three of them were brothers.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Oh you did, You've never seen any of the movies. Yeah,
there's a really really good and it may have been
like a mini series.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
About the Beach Boys.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
About the Beach Boys, and it talked about basically from
when they were in high school and the garage band
and their dad Murray being their manager, and so yeah,
you got all the creasy details of how crazy guy
talk about a band with a lot of problems.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Problem. Yeah it was.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
It's I mean KOOKI members.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
So they were three brothers and Brian, Dennis and Carl
that was in order of age, and then their cousin
Mike Love and their friend Al Jardine were the original.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
U and then Alan Mike are still alive.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Correct and Mike. After Carl Wilson passed away. I think
in ninety eight, Mike Love got they gave him permission
to use the Beach Boy's name, and so when he
comes to Ena and he's been to his his version
of the Beach Boys has been to Eni twice. And
(09:49):
I think Johnston, I think Johnston maybe is in that band.
So there's more than just so there's like at least
two original not original original, but in Mike Loves and
then Brian Wilson was touring, but I don't think he
had anybody other than him, well in his version of
(10:14):
the band.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Probably not, because the two brothers were dead, and.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Then he might have had some like late members that. Yeah,
they're one of those bands that had so many different
members over the decades and then some members would leave
and then like ten years later they'd come back.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
And yeah, I didn't I didn't realize Glenn Campbell's.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Yeah, we've for some reason. I think we've talked about.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
That before, Glenn Campbell being the beach.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Being, being a beg or not a beach.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
A beach boy, A little different, well, sort of a
little different.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Not for very long.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Yeah, it's a few months because Brian was what was Brian?
What happened? I forgot. I don't know why. He may
have been checked in somewhere. He was having he had
mental health issues.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Yeah, he didn't like the I don't think he liked
the crowds and the fame and the I think he
just wanted to sit at home and write songs and
be left alone.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
So and he did that. He did a lot.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Yeah. So they were from Hawthorne, California, started in nineteen
sixty one, the early Hits, which the ones that we
listened to as kids, Surfing USA, Fun, Fun, Fun helped me, Ronda.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Had me Run, Happy Run, and then.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Pet Sounds, which I never really got. Pet Sounds, I
mean it's now that I'm older, but back then, I
don't know. Came out in nineteen sixty six. It's one
of the most influential albums of all time. But then
we cruise into nineteen seventy, Yeah, and everything changed. It's
(11:51):
a little bit different then, not quite the beachy Beach
Boys of old.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
And then the late seventies was even even different or
more different than the early seventies. I mean they I
guess they were just transitioning.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Yeah, which a lot of bands did. But yeah, it
would have been hard to have. I think they had
seven albums in the seventies.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Maybe, yeah, one, two, three, four, five, six, For they
had La Am I U, Carl and the Passions, holland Sunflower,
Love You Surfs Up. So it was what six at least.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
And then their label, one of their labels, was putting
out live and compilation as well. So anyway, so in
nineteen seventy they came out with Sunflower. It was critically acclaimed,
but a commercial flop. And that's kind of why, you know,
(12:55):
it's just growing up in the seventies, they weren't really
ever played on like Top forty radio. You could hear
him on like what's funny is in the seventies. The
fifties was the oldiest station. Yeah, you know that's you
could hear them on the fifties and sixties oldies station,
but you just rarely ever heard their music on regular
(13:16):
Top forty radio in the seventies.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
I mean, they weren't mybhele house. I mean I wouldn't
get to run out and buy Beach Boys album I.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Will say, other if my mom had not have had
a lot of Beach Boy albums. Yeah, I don't know
that I would ever had a Beach Boy.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Album, but I do. I do like your music. Oh yeah,
I mean they're and Brian Wilson is apparently all that
arranging and the producing that he did was a big deal.
He was, Yeah I got some I got a top ten.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Of seventies songs. Yeah, that's funny. I do too. So
we'll see, how see if they coincide. What do you got?
You're going to start from topp or bottom.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Let's starting number ten. See if this good. This is
from the La album came out in March of seventy nine.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Now that's interesting because this goes back to their be
the Beachy sound. Well, it's kind of funny how they
it kind of ebbed and flowed. Sometimes they'd be beachy
and then sometimes they'd go off the rail. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Oh yeah, there's one coming up, this next one.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
It's a little creepy anyway. That's a good time there,
very cool, very cool.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Number. You want me to just keep going?
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Yeah, let's just okay a number nine because some of
these songs people are are gonna have never heard. I
have a feeling.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Yeah, this is hate. Little tomboy sit here on my things,
Hey buddy, Yeah, it's little creepy wisten.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
No mustaps. Put away your baseball.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Men, you living days on.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
You could your places. You can see.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
That Connie turned into a girl.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Yeah, I'm waiting to go over too well today.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Yeah, so that's hey, little tomboy. They came off of
the m I U album that came out in seventy two. This,
this next one is called Marcella. It's off the Carl
and the Passions album.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
I see this the should have been on the top forty.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
But.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Well in seven, yeah, I meant.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Song and six is shaken.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Uh little Marcella. I kind of like that one number
seven now. And by the way, this list was put
together by a guy named Chris Propfi. He's got a
YouTube channel. It's called uh Musically Obsessed, And so I'm
giving him props for this list because I had no
I had, you know, if I was gonna put my
favorite together, I couldn't think of any songs from the
(16:47):
seventies of the Beach Boys. What was this?
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Was this one?
Speaker 3 (16:54):
My Diane?
Speaker 1 (16:56):
You're Diane, not my Dan.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
This came out seventy eight.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Years now.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
Yeah, thinking, so that's my Diane.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
You could have wrote that to your Diane.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Oh yeah, she'd like that. Maybe I'll send that to her.
Everybody's wondering at my dad. No, that was my first wife.
Santa and Sannah.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Now, this one is probably the most well known from
the seventh This is like one of their most requested,
like when they go on to her concerts and stuff.
Even though one of the Beach Boys isn't singing on
(18:04):
this one. It's one of the two new guys that
they got in the group from Flames.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Oh, Blondie, Chaplain, Yeah Sad, the song.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
That stod.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
It's kind a cool song.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Yeah, it's a good song.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Uh. Number five is Forever.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Yeah, and pretty much all these songs are on the
list that I had to.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
The Sunflower album came out in seventy.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
Every word I said could make you.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
You can tell they had a little, a little beatle
inv in some of these songs.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Yeah, ask the Scott just run away here it show forever.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Get the song I s to it.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
That's pretty cool. Then we have let us go on
this way.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
You get too bit away through the Ringer.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Came up to Love You album seventy seven.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
Let slip through my big gass. Going to school isn't
my fondest desire. Let's see class, she said, that's gonna
go by God. Please let's go on this.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Little quirky okay this song. Uh well, I was downloading this,
I noticed that a album came is on right now.
It's on sale on e It's for sale on eBay.
Uh huh for two hundred and twenty five dollars.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
The vinyl yes really yeah, it's.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Called Surf Surfs Up is the album. The song is uh,
fuel flows.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Reens.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
So August of seventy one, this album came out Little Cabin,
I don't I don't remember the song.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
I've heard this song somewhere, but it wasn't like in
the seventies. Although I've seen like every beach Boy movie,
(21:28):
mini series, documentary, and so I'm sure they've I'm sure
all these songs were in most of those.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
I've seen none of those. This next one is number two.
Adds some music to your day, that's a good idea.
The song flower.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
Gospel goes good with this song this country and Lackers.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Yeah, they definitely had the harmonizing thing.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
There was a guy that I got a list from.
He had written a long article and kind of talked
about all of the seventies albums, and that was his
number one.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Had some music to you to, Yeah. And then this
guy's number one, the surfs Up off the Surfs Up
album August is seventy one.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Of lass aristography.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
The man you could say, Hi, that's Brian Wilson. I'm
pretty sure. All right, So there you go. That's one
(23:16):
lest I came up with.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Very cool. Now, I do you have any other songs
on there?
Speaker 2 (23:22):
No, but I can probably finally.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
I mean, I've got some on my phone. I'm just
not sure. Let me see. How did you ever did
you run across the Johnny Carson.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
The song Johnny Carson the beach Boy song? Uh huh No,
I did not see if.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
A little bit there. Yeah, so they had Carson, they
had a few weird, weird songs, and then there was
a student. So then I guess one of their albums
they got a new was it producer or manager, but
(24:32):
he kind of talked him into writing songs about like
upevil and the commentary of the political Yeah. So here
was student demonstration time.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
Oh out with Berkeley Free Speech and later on in
People's Parks and change students demonstration spark down.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
The Ala Easta where police spelser rast the Special Riots
quality and as.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Huh, that's kind of cool. I think I could do
without the sirens.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Kind kind of different. So yeah, it is kind of
you know, when you've got it, be like Boston or
you know, you you you really like a group because
they've got this sound, and then for them to even
like for me, for Fleetwood Mac, when Tuss came out, yeah,
I was like oh no, no, no, no, no no no,
(25:56):
I mean, I know, as a musician you want to
try different things. But yeah, so I think that I
think that's why they lost a little bit of their popularity.
They're in the seventies because they weren't. They weren't the
surfing songs that everybody was used to.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
I guess only one of them really actually served all the.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Eight Yeah, Dennis. Dennis was any drowned. Yeah, I mean,
the the only true surfer is the one.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
That, yeah, trown. He was the one that had the
running with the Mansons.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
He Yeah, he let the literally let the Mansons live
with him for a while. Yeah, I think they ran up.
I think they spent about one hundred thousand dollars of
his money. And and see that's all in that movie.
I think it was like it was like a made
for TV movie, but it was like two two hour
episodes or something, and it's it goes into the detail
(26:45):
of the Mansons and all of Brian's mental problems and
how Murray, their dad was really controlling in the beginning.
And it's really good, really good. You have to have
to check it out. It was super popular. It's been
I can't remember what year it came out. It's been
(27:05):
a while, but.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
It's kind of sad. I mean, the whole deal is
kind of sad.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Super sad.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Yeah, the two dying so young.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
And I remember when Dennis died, that was like a
big big deal. Are we still recording? Yeah, so yeah,
when he drowned, that was that was a big deal.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
I don't know what that was.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Yeah. So so Dennis was the only surfer. He was
also kind of turned actor. He was in some Hollywood films.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
It was a good looking guy.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
He was had the hair. And he dated Oh here,
that's funny. He dated Christine mcvee, McVeigh, m v McNay, McGee, mcvee.
I think it's Yeah, they dated for I think about
three years and then their breakup and something else that
kind of drove him to start drinking. And that's kind
of when he went over the edge and the band
(28:08):
said either you get cleaned up or you're out of
the band. And so he starred in the nineteen seventy
one cult classic two Lane Blacktop. So if you'd like
to see any of his acting ability, check that out.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
I know that movie.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Brian Wilson. Yeah, he was isolated because of mental health struggles,
which nobody talked about in the seventies, so nobody really
knew what was up with him. At one point he
was under the care of the controversial therapist named Eugene Landy,
who exerted total control over him. And so in that movie,
that's a big deal. It is like this guy basically
(28:50):
controlled his every movement and wouldn't let people come in
and talk to him. And HiT's a crazy they got
a crazy story. Yeah, and he's the father of the
Wilson sisters Brian, Yeah, Yeah, pretty interesting. Yeah, even though
this wasn't exactly in the seventies. They were asked to
(29:13):
perform at the White House on July fourth, nineteen eighty,
after originally being banned by the National Park Service for
being too low brown. I remember that that was a
big deal. That was a big controversy. And then yeah,
so Charles Manson briefly lived with Dennis Wilson and the
(29:36):
Beach Boys. So did you know that Charles Manson was
a singer, guitar player and singer. So he wrote a
song called never Learn Not To Love that the Beach
Boys actually performed and recorded and released on their sixty
nine album.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Yeah, they changed the title.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Yeah, so I was going to listen to that.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
I probably should have downloaded that.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Yeah that was close enough sixty nine. Yeah, so that
would have been a little creepy.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
And then you know, do you see where they buried
doing us at sea?
Speaker 5 (30:08):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (30:08):
I kind of forgotten about that, and I did not
realize that, you don't. Being buried at sea is reserved
for people in the navy or the Coastguard. And the
president President Reagan had to step in the little buried
at sea. I don't know why you wanted to be
buried at sea so bad and not cremated. I mean,
you can cremate somebody and throw them in the ocean,
but a body, you know, his whole body, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
We might have to check on that. That's funny that
you say that, because it seems like I just ran
across something that said that anybody. I could swear I
just ran across an article that said anybody could be
buried at sea.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Maybe they changed it.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Yeah, you just have to have something about you know,
how you're wrapped up and so many miles or so
many feet off of shore. I mean, that's funny because
it listed like five things that are required, but it
said anybody can be buried at sea, but you have to,
you know, adhere to these whatever number of.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Things they maybe they changed it now.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Yeah, interesting, check it out. A lot of bodies laying
down at the bottom of the ocean there, U.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Bean laden.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Yeah. So seventy was Sunflower, critically acclaimed commercial flop. It
showed that Brian wasn't the only genius in the band.
Carl Dennis and even Bruce Johnson stepped in with their creativity.
Seventy one was surfs Up. That one got people talking.
The title track, originally recorded in the Smile sessions was
(31:45):
eerie and poetic Till I Die was Brian's haunting reflection
on mortality, and that's when they started getting a little
more serious, not as beachy and fun. Seventy two to
seventy three was Karl and Passions and so Carl and
the Passions I believe was the name of the band
before they became the Beach Boys. Oh really. Yeah. They
(32:11):
brought two new members, Blondie Chaplain and Ricky Fatar, adding
soul funk and Southern African or South African vibes. That's
where they recorded Sale on Sailor and then seventy six
was fifteen Big Ones. The band brought Brian back to
the front, literally calling him, calling it his return to form.
(32:32):
So when they signed with their new record label in
the seventies, the record label said, we'll sign you, but
you have to guarantee that Brian Wilson is going to
write so many songs and perform on so many songs,
and so they kind of had to include him. They
had to keep him. I guess he'd bloomed up to
(32:55):
like three hundred and thirty three pounds at one point
and then they got him back down to like a one
hundred and eighty five or something.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
But yeah, you're right, that was the Beach Boys name before.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
It was the Beach Boys before the Beach Boys. So
the nineteen seventy six album, it was a mix of
oldie covers and new material. The public see, I loved
seeing Brian back again, and the critics weren't convinced. But
It's Okay was the standout song on that, And then
seventy seven was The Beach Boys Love You seventy seven.
(33:27):
There you go. So I've been going through all of
the I mean I literally have, I literally writing my book,
have gone through every Week's Top one hundred in nineteen
seventy seven. Oh yeah, and I don't there was not
(33:47):
there was in the top one hundred. I don't think
there was one Beatles song or beach why don't keep
changing their name was I don't think there was one
beach Boy song in the entire seventies.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Well, it makes sense because we didn't listen to.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Not seventies in seventy and they had, but they had
an album out. It was a cult favorite. It's a
cult favorite today, all Moog synths and Brian's rawvoy songs
about roller skates, Solar Systems and Johnny Carson. And then
seventy eight was the m IU album recorded in Iowa,
(34:20):
of all places. It was the opposite of pet Sounds.
It was light, breezy and kind of cheesy, and the
critics hated it. Mike Love loved it.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
So anyway, yeah, yeah, So the La album came out
in seventy nine, and for some.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Reason, I don't know why, I don't have that one
on here. I don't know why either.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
Yeah, they did have some core artwork on their their
album covers Album Covers. Yeah, so seventy seven is that
when the story takes place.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
Of my book.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Oh yeah, it's summer of seventy seven. Yeah, So I
was going through wanting songs for a certain reason, and
I just got on Billboard's Top one hundred and so
it has a calendar at the top, and so I
would like click on like May, and then click on
like the third week, and it would bring up all
(35:15):
hundred songs. So I'd look through them. And the funny
thing is, you know, if you click on the next week,
really it was never really that different than the week before.
There might only been fifteen songs that were different. Everything
else was like maybe in a different position. But so
I pretty much and I went through it. By the
time I got done, i'd gone through every week in
(35:36):
nineteen seventy seven. So Elvis, Elvis had a few songs
in there, Fleetwood Mac had a lot. Boston, even though
their album came out in seventy six, they charted several
of their songs in seventy seven.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Oh yeah, see that.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
So, yeah, it was a mix. There was a huge
mix a disco and rock and roll and easy listening
and pretty cool. But I don't I'm gonna have to
I don't think there was one Beach Boys song that
I can think of anyway, So I think that's most
(36:15):
of the stuff I got. I forgot to mention at
the beginning. Oh no, here I got a little more.
But I forgot to mention at the beginning of the
show that Christopher Todd has stuck a fork in it.
That's all that, and.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
He is he's finally done with the album, finally done.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
With the album. And I guess what he did was,
you know, like on live albums, it's just one big,
long song. There's no most live albums, there's not like
a gap in between the songs. That's kind of how
his album is. So he was asking people that follow him,
you know, do you think there needs to be fade
ins and fade outs between the songs? And no, you
(37:02):
don't say, you know, no, if you wrote it so
there's not, then I wouldn't. I'd print it the way
you wrote it.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
Yeah, and they it all told, they're all connected connected.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
Yeah, it's kind of like a story story. Yeah. So
so anyway, we will keep you guys updated on that.
I don't know that he's posted it publicly.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
As of the other night when he was asking that
question yet.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
Yeah. So anyway, so kudos. Okay, So just to give
you everybody an update on the Beach Boys. Of course,
Brian Wilson passed away. What this this month?
Speaker 2 (37:44):
Yeah, last last week.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
Last week, born in forty two. He had a rough
road and he had recently I guess he lost his
wife last well in twenty two. Yeah, and so he
was living under a conservatorship due to his health issues.
It kind of looked like he'd had a stroke if
(38:06):
you ever if he saw him anywhere, it just he
was performing, but his art. He wouldn't like move his arm,
and he kind of looked like he had But anyway,
so he has passed away. Mike Love the Forever front man.
He's still touring under the Beach Boy's name, like I said, yeah,
so Bruce Johnston is touring with him. He still wears
(38:26):
his cap and loves the song Kokomo, which would be
Mike Love.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
Yeah. And so I when they came to Ian at
the first time, I went as a photographer, So I've
got a lot of pictures of Mike playing up to
my camera. Al Jardine performed solo and sometimes with Brian,
or did with Brian. He was the peacemaker of the
group still passionate about the band's legacy. Carl Wilson sadly
(38:58):
passed away from cancer and ninety eight. He was the
heart and soul of the group during the seventies. And
then Dennis Wilson, the wild Child, drowned in eighty three
at the age of thirty nine, and he was the
true rock star. Yeah, the one that was going to
burn out rather than fade away. Better it a buy
(39:18):
out than a fade away, which he did. So anyway,
there you go. You guys let us know if you
guys were big Beach Boy fans of the seventies era,
did you guys buy the albums? You guys have the albums.
If you do have the albums, what were your favorite
(39:38):
songs during this episode? It's got me kind of there's
some of those songs like Johnny Carson and some of
those that are different that I might want to delve
with Apple. The keill thing about Apple Music is I
can download all their albums and just listen to them,
don't have to buy them. So I think I'll go
(39:58):
on a Beach Boy spree. And I listened to.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
From the sixties and the seventies and the eighties.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
And sixties, seventies, eighties nine, I think, yeah, I you know.
That's one thing I did not check is like, how
how long did they keep putting out albums? I don't
know when their last album was.
Speaker 2 (40:14):
That's a good question.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
I know they did a lot of best of and
think lives and things like that, but I don't know
if they I don't know if they went into the
ats or teens or I just I do knew.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
I would imagine they did.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
In one form or another. Yeah, you'd probably think, Okay, so, well,
how are you doing all the time over there?
Speaker 2 (40:38):
I can't tell. I care. I can't read it that
far away.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
Too far away. Okay, well you guys let us know.
You guys can hit us up at five eight zho
five four one three eight o five. Don't forget or
buzz at buzzidmedia dot com. Don't forget that. I am
going to be uploading more designs at zinkies dot com.
I got a new seventies buzz podcast design so really cool, guys,
(41:03):
go there, check it out. Appreciate everybody that has been
ordering T shirts, and we're gonna get out of here.
Speaker 3 (41:10):
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