The Beach Boys: Doin' it Again

Well, I came into the studio and I saw Brian sitting there

and I thought, "Wow, that is cool, he is back in his role as producer."

Hanging around this piano, having Brian throw parts out

and watching Al and Brian trying to get out

of singing the higher parts, it was so great!

Instead of being a force from the past, we are now going to

reassert our place, I think our rightful place, in history.

# It's automatic When I talk with old friends

# The conversation turns to girls we knew

# When their hair was soft and long

# And the beach was the place to go

# The suntanned bodies and waves of sunshine

# The California girls

# And a beautiful coastline Warmed up weather

# Let's get together and do it again.

-# Doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo

-Bam, bam

-# Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo

-Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam

-# Doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo

-Bam, bam

-# Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo

-Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam

-# Doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo

-Ooh, ooh, ooh

# Dum-dee-doo-rum

-# Doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo

-Bam, bam

-# Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo

-Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam... #

That is what distinguishes us.

Not just musical logic, not just technically, but spiritually.

It is like the expression of all of our collective souls coming together,

all in the context of harmony and positivity.

-# Come and do it again

-Bam, bam

-# Doo, doo-doo-doo-doo-doo

-Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam

-# Doo, doo

-Bam, bam

-# Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo

-Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam

-# Doo, doo

-Oooh, oooh

# Dum-dee-doo-rum

-# Doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo

-Bam, bam

-# Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo

-Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam

-# Doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo

-Bam, bam

-# Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo

-Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam

-# Doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo

-Bam, bam

-# Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo

-Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam

-# Doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo

-Ooh, ooh, ooh

# Dum-dee-doo-rum

# Doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo

# Do it again! #

Do it again!

Michael Edward Love!

# Doo-doo-doo, doo, doo, doo, doo

# Doo-doo-doo, doo, doo, doo, doo

# Wooo, ahhh...

# Doo, doo, doo... #

It all started at Hawthorne High,

where Brian and I went to high school,

in about 1957.

And we'd have student body assemblies.

One day, we were entertained by a group of kids from the high school.

And I thought, "What a great sound, what a wonderful, youthful sound

"I'm hearing." Similar to what I'd been hearing from the Four Freshmen

or the Hi Lows.

And I'm thinking, "Boy, that's really nice, but it's fresh,

"it's not so stilted, it's got more imagination."

I had met Brian before on campus,

but I didn't know who the short kid was,

little 12-year-old kid who was playing guitar.

I thought, "He's too young to be a member of this student body,"

you know. So, they sang this beautiful Bermuda Shorts,

and I'm going, "That's pretty cute," you know? "That's really neat.

"Who's that kid on the guitar?"

It turned out, "Well, that's Carl Wilson."

That was my introduction to the beautiful falsetto voice of Brian's.

We all hung out at this place called the Foster's Freeze,

in Hawthorne,

so I saw Brian one day and said, "Hey, let's get together."

# How about doin' it just like... #

We spent our Freshman year in different colleges,

so when I came back to California the following year,

I had an El Camino, and lo and behold, we're crossing campus,

and there's Brian.

# Remeber those nights we spent just you and I

# Little did we know how the time would fly. #

Brian said, "Hey, why don't we just go to my place

and my cousin Mike, you know, he sings a great baritone.

"My little brother Carl can really sing, too."

# Whoa...

# The good times never have to end. #

Drove over to Brian's place, met all the guys,

we're standing around the upright piano,

and it's like magic.

# For their hearts

# Were full

# Of spring... #

My first memory of Brian Wilson singing

was on my grandmother Wilson's lap singing Danny Boy

at a Christmas get together with the Wilsons and the Loves.

Even at nine, ten years old, when Brian sang,

oh, my God, it was like, so special, it was like an angel.

He was channelling something from another realm.

Well, in my view, each one of the Wilsons was a musical genius

in their own right, really.

First of all, the mom, Audree.

She sat us down individually and taught us how to play

Boogie Woogie on the piano.

She said that she was so poor

when she was a kid that they couldn't afford a piano,

but she wanted to play the piano in the worst way,

so she would practice on the kitchen table,

fingerings and stuff.

And she said the first time she actually got to sit down

at a piano, she was able to play.

And she taught us that Boogie Woogie stuff,

which I believe really made us tight.

When we had that one element in common, Audree teaching us

that piano stuff, when we got together to play our songs,

it made us a lot tighter.

# Come on on safari...

# Early in the mornin' We'll be startin' out

# Some honeys will be comin' along

# We're loading up our woody With our boards inside

# And heading out singing our song. #

-We had a great engineer, too.

-Chuck Britz.

Didn't give him any credit, or enough credit, I should say.

-He got the sound.

-He did.

Mike would carry on for a half hour about this in that it make us

all laugh and Chuck's going,

"Hey, guys, I've got to go bowling in about two hours."

And Mike goes, "All right, OK."

# At Huntington and Malibu they're shootin' the peer... #

I moved out here 1956 or '57.

I was about seven or eight years old.

And as fate would have it, it was across the street

from the three Wilson brothers - Dennis, Carl and Brian.

They were two different neighbourhoods.

The street we lived on was the border between Hawthorne,

California, and Inglewood.

I was on the Inglewood side and they were on the Hawthorne side,

directly across the street from each other.

And the first thing I remember when we moved in was Dennis and Carl...

Let's see, Carl must've been, I don't know,

ten or so and Dennis was maybe 12.

And they were throwing garbage and junk across the street saying,

"Hawthorne rules, Inglewood sucks!"

So, that was my introduction to the neighbourhood -

these two kids across the street throwing garbage across the street.

It was hilarious. And it turned out to be Dennis and Carl.

And I was there constantly, so I was like one of their...

I was like the fourth Wilson brother.

And I was especially intrigued by the musical aspect of the family.

They would have sing-alongs on Sunday.

One of my greatest memories was sitting on the floor

in their music room and having

the brothers and cousin Mike standing around me

singing harmonies.

Around that time, Carl and I were learning how to play

West Coast rhythm and blues.

And we had this strum down.

And it was this certain little strum thing that Brian liked.

He wanted to hear that strumming sound with his Surfer Girl song.

# Little surfer, little one

# Made my heart come all undone

# Do you love me?

# Do you, surfer girl?

# My little surfer girl. #

When we got to the bridge in Surfer Girl,

Carl would do sort of a little...

That's when he would do his little arpeggio.

Let's say maybe in Surfin' USA I would be doing...

And Carl would be going...

Or...

# And then he... #

That will be Carl's part.

# To sing... #

Something like that. And I would just be doing...

HE HUMS

That would be my part.

And Carl would be chucking on chord.

And part of the song would be doing the same exact thing, maybe.

We will both be going like...

Together.

Carl's brother, Dennis Wilson,

hadn't played the drums ever in his life.

We handed him the sticks and he was just like a natural.

It just brought all of it together, with the pounding rhythm.

He was very passionate about everything he did.

We incorporated that with Brian's songs, the surf instrumental style,

and his beautiful harmony arrangements,

Mike's clever words.

And the rest is history, I guess.

-# Surfin' USA

-Wooo...

-# At Haggerty's and Swami's

-Inside, outside, USA

-# Pacific Palisades

-Inside, outside, USA

-# San Onofre and Sunset

-Inside, outside, USA

-# Redondo Beach, LA

-Inside, outside, USA

-# All over La Jolla

-Inside, outside, USA

-# And Waimea Bay

-Inside, outside

# Everybody has gone surfin'

# Surfin' USA! #

It was kind of cool. It was a lot of physical energy

and competition to do as well as you could.

You know, "I'm going to show that guy I can..." You know,

"I can do four sets a night, no problem."

So, there was some really...

..ego driven energy and...

that just...

I think it was a very macho thing.

I mean, sure, we were doing beautiful harmonies,

but there was also an undercurrent of sheer, raw power,

and it was primordial. It was very basic, but it really, really worked.

# Little deuce coupe You don't know what I got

# You don't know what I got

# Little deuce coupe You don't know what I got

# Well, I'm not braggin', babe, so don't put me down

# Deuce coupe

# But I've got the fastest set of wheels in town

-# Deuce coup

-When something comes up to me

# He don't even try

# Cos if it had a set of wings, man, I know she could fly

# She's my little deuce coupe You don't know what I got

# Little deuce coupe You don't know what I got

# Little deuce coupe with the flat head mill

-# Deuce coup

-But she'll walk a Thunderbird

-# Like she's standing still

-Deuce coup

# She's ported and relieved And she's stroked and board

# She'll do 140 At the top end floored

# She's my little deuce coupe You don't know what I got.

# My little deuce coupe You don't know what I got

# She's got a competition clutch with the four on the floor

# Purrs like a kitten Till the lake pipes roar

# And if that ain't enough to make you flip your lid

# There's one more thing I got the pink slip, daddy!

# Coming off the line when the light turns green

# Well, she blows 'em out of the water like you never seen

# I get pushed out of shape and it's hard to steer

# When I get rubber in all four gears

# She's my little deuce coupe

You don't know what I got

# My Little deuce coupe You don't know what I got

# She's my Little deuce coupe You don't know what I got

# Little deuce coupe You don't know what I got

# She's my little deuce coupe

# You don't know what I got.

# Little deuce coupe You don't know what I got. #

I think they're in for a hell of a concert.

Let's go!

So, Murry and Audree decide to go on vacation and they left

some food money for the boys

to subsist on, you know, while they were gone.

I can't believe they left us there all alone

without any supervision, when I think about it.

The guys spent all the money in the first couple of days.

'Go!'

And I suggested, "Why don't we take this thing just one step further?

"Why don't we go out and rent some instruments?"

I think it was Mike that suggested that maybe

I could ask my mother if she could finance

the...the rental equipment,

which at that time, was pretty...pretty daunting.

So, I said, "Look, if we are going to do this,

"we're going to have to go...we're going to have to audition for her.

"Otherwise, I don't know what... I can't just ask for 300 bucks."

So, we all sat around in a circle on the floor and sang Surfin'.

# Got up this morning Turned on my radio

# I was checking on the surfing scene to see if I would go.

# And when the DJ tells me that the surfin' is fine... #

We got the song down pretty good, so we played it for the Wilsons

when they came back home. We got a favourable response.

And he said he'd go meet his publisher friend up in Hollywood

and arrange for a session for us to record it.

We got the word the KFWB had added it to the playlist.

The deal was, there were like four or five songs they played

and the one that got the most call-ins

would be the featured song of the next week.

My mom and Brian, Dennis and Carl's dad are brother and sister,

and she is one of eight kids.

And so all the cousins, all of us, you know, everybody, Alan,

everybody's friends, high school, we all called in.

It was like thousands of people calling in on this.

Or hundreds, anyway. And so we won. Easily.

And so we got featured the next week and that kind of gave us a start.

# Bop, dip-dip-dip-dip Bop, bop, dip-dip-dip... #

Hearing it on the radio the first time, that was amazing.

Brian and Dennis were telling stories,

they heard in their car, you know, on the car radio,

and they were shouting at the top of their lungs and out the windows.

And the neighbours would say, you know, they had heard it.

It was just...

You know, it was a cool feeling.

# Surfing is the only life The only way for me

# Bop, dip-dip-dip...#

We did Surfin' with Al Jardine, then Al quit.

I wasn't so sure I was going to have a future doing that,

because I was pretty motivated to get my degree.

And, um... But I shared the excitement with the guys.

I remember watching Bonanza in my pyjamas one Sunday night

and these guys came knocking at the door and asked me

to do the demos for Capitol Records with them.

Cos they were pretty sure Capitol was going to sign us by that time.

David was the original signatory, along with Brian, Dennis, Carl Wilson

and Mike love on the Capitol record's contract.

I mean, Surfin' was a minor hit and was played...

and it was successful in a couple...in a few markets.

But it was a very small label.

Our next song was everywhere released on radio, it was Surfin' Safari

on one side and 409 on the other.

# Early in the mornin' We'll be startin' out

# Some honeys will be comin' along. #

First five albums, two or three tours

and we worked our butts off promoting the band.

Played, like Mike said, all these little...crappy little venues,

like on the roof of Broadway department stores

and that kind of stuff.

-Radio stations.

-Yeah, a lot of radio stations.

It was a lot of work, I mean, four sets a night, you know.

And travelling in a station wagon with a U-Haul trailer

with our equipment.

We would finish four sets at a high school dance,

pack the station wagon up and drive 800 miles to the next gig, you know.

So, we worked really hard.

# Catch a wave and you're sitting on top of the world. #

We were driving to a show one day and Sherry came on the radio

and Brian said, "Let's learn that when we get to the gig."

We went in the bathroom and learned it before the show.

-I don't know if... Remember that?

-Yeah.

-Sherry baby.

First time we heard it was on the way there.

-I think we did Papa-oom-mow-mow, I'm not sure.

-Papa-oom-mow-mow.

-Papa-oom-mow-mow. I think we did What I Say.

-Yeah.

-Kansas City, Louie Louie.

-Kansas City, Louie Louie.

-A lot of instrumentals.

-Johnny B Goode.

-Johnny B Goode, yes.

# Tach it up, tach it up Buddy gonna shut you down. #

Towards the end of the summer, things got very difficult

between David and Murry.

And it just fell apart.

You know, getting the call from Brian

was kind of a wake-up call for me.

I realised, "Yeah, I really do miss this, and I miss these guys."

You know? And, uh... The bug, I got the bug.

# Well, she got her daddy's car

# And she cruised through the hamburger stand now

# Seems she forgot all about the library

# Like she told her old man now

# And with the radio blasting

# Goes cruising just as fast as she can now

# And she'll have fun, fun, fun

# Till her daddy takes the T-Bird away

# Fun, fun, fun till her daddy takes the T-bird away. #

There's nothing like it, you know, when you hear Brian's falsetto,

Mike's baritone and Carl and me in the middle.

Oooh! I mean, you could hear it.

It blew my mind that he could have four parts in his head

and it was all I could do to learn and hang on to one.

And he has got four.

So, you know, you can't mess with Brian when it comes to harmony.

# Well, you knew all along

# That your dad was getting wise to you now

# You shouldn't have lied now You shouldn't have lied

# And since he took your set of keys,

# You've been thinking That your fun is all through now

# You shouldn't have lied now You shouldn't have lied

# But you can come along with me

# Cos we got a lot of things to do now

# You shouldn't have lied now You shouldn't have lied

# And we'll have fun, fun, fun now that Daddy took the T-bird away

# Fun, fun, fun now that Daddy took the T-bird away. #

You know, I was mainly just a singer and lyricist.

And maybe a hookman.

Like, to come up with a hook idea here and there.

For me, Chuck Berry was such an inspiration lyrically

because of the way that he formed his words

and how his guitar licks kind of moved those along.

And the vignettes that he was describing that were taking place

in various areas of life.

When he did a song like...

"When I got on a city bus and found me a vacant seat,

"I thought I saw my future bride walking down the street,

"I shouted to the driver, 'Hey, conductor, you must slow down,

'I think I see her, please, let me off the bus.'"

Well, when we came up with Fun, Fun, Fun, I said,

"Well, she got her daddy's car

"and she cruised through the hamburger stand now.

"Seems she forgot all about the library."

So, it's alliteration, it's syncopation,

it's all this good stuff.

And because of Brian's ability to craft the harmonies,

he came up with a whole unique sound.

It was a lot of fun to create those songs

and even more fun to hear them on the radio.

In fact, I remember Brian being so impulsive that

when we would do a song with Western Recorders

and finish the song, whatever song it was,

he'd go to the radio station

and have it played on the air just so we could hear it played back.

Which is... You know, the record company would be crazy because,

"Hey, wait a minute, we want to get it all set up to promote and release

"and all this kind of stuff." "Uh-uh." Immediate gratification.

# Round, round, get around I get around

# Yeah

# Get around, round, round, I get around

# I get around Get around, round, round

# I get around From town to town

# Get around, round, round I get around

# I'm a real cool head

# Get around, round, round I get around

# I'm makin' real good bread

# Get around, round, round I get around

# I'm gettin' bugged drivin' up and down the same olds strip

# I gotta find a new place where the kids are hip

# My buddies and me are getting real well-known

# Yeah, the bad guys know us and they leave us alone

# I get around # Get around, round, round

# I get around From town to town

# Get around, round, round I get around

I'm a real cool head

# Get around, round, round I get around

# I make real good bread

# Get around, round, round I get around

Round... Get around, round, round

# We always take my car because it's never been beat

# And we've never missed yet with the girls we meet

# None of the guys go steady Cos it wouldn't be right

# To leave your best girl home on a Saturday night

# I get around Get around, round, round

# I get around From town to town

# Get around, round, round I get around

# I'm a real cool head

# Get around, round, round I get around

# I'm making real good bread

# Get around, round, round I get around

# I get around Round...

# Wee-oh, wee-oh, wee-oh...

# Round, round, get around, I get around

# Get around, round, round I get around

# Get around, round, round I get around

# Get around, round, round I get around

# Get around, round, round I get around

# Get around, round, round I get around. #

At that point, Brian Wilson had several jobs.

He wrote the songs, you know, with a lot of good, cool writers

and several of the songs, of course, with Mike Love.

So, he wrote it, he arranged it, he produced it, he's sang it

and he had to go on the road.

So, you can't do that. You just totally collapse.

And before that happened,

Glen Campbell came in our band for three months.

Then, his career kind of started and Mike called me, Mike Love,

do I know anyone?

And I called ten people, they couldn't make it,

so I wound up getting on a plane two or three hours later

and the first Beach Boy concert - April 9, 1965 -

that I sang onstage took place in New Orleans.

# Help me, Rhonda, please, get her out of my heart. #

Carl probably was 17, we were at the Hilton Hawaiian Village.

I had been in the band about 12.5 minutes,

so, of course, I was already famous.

And this lady ran up to us, she said,

"Oh, you guys are the Beach Boys, right?"

And I said, puffed up, you know, "Of course, yes we are." She said,

"Oh, that's great, could you get us two towels and two chairs?"

Well, Brian was just pointing out, California Girls was done right here.

Mike was standing almost right where you are, facing the booth,

singing California Girls.

And Brian was in the studio with Chuck Britz, the engineer.

And when they were doing the track prior to doing the vocals,

I was out in the hallway writing the words out.

It was like a real simultaneous thing.

We knew from the beginning that one was going to be good.

I mean, they were all good.

Everything we were doing was pretty good.

# Well, East Coast girls are hip

# I really dig those styles they wear

# And the Southern girls with the way they talk

# They knock me out when I'm down there

# The Midwest farmers' daughters

# Really make you feel all right

# And the Northern girls with the way they kiss

# They keep their boyfriends warm at night #

Everybody sing!

# I wish they all could be California

# I wish they all could be California

# I wish they all could be California girls

# The West Coast has the sunshine

# And the girls all get so tan

# I dig a French bikini on Hawaii Island

# Dolls by a palm tree in the sand

# I've been all around this great big world

# And I've seen all kind of girls

# But I couldn't wait to get back in the States

# Back to the cutest girls in the world

# I wish they all could be California

# I wish they all could be California

# I wish they all could be

# California girls

# I wish they all could be California

# I wish they all could be California

# I wish they all could be California

# I wish they all could be California

# I wish they all could be California

# I wish they all could be California

# I wish they all could be California

# I wish they all could be California

# I wish they all could be California

# I wish they all could be California

# I wish they all could be California

# I wish they all could be... #

We sounded good on that one!

We pitched sounds and I tried to make a sketchbook that represented

my whole life. And I did.

I heard Rubber Soul and that was, like, such a mind blower to me

that I wanted to try to top it.

I felt challenged by it, you know.

I told the guys I wanted to write an album,

a different kind of an album than we were used to doing.

We all worked our buns off doing the harmonies.

Like, I started calling him Stalin Of The Studio.

# Good night, oh, baby

# Sleep tight, baby

# Good night, oh, baby.

# Good night, baby, good night Sleep tight. #

In 1966, I decided to go to England

and so Derek Taylor set up some interviews and Kim Fowley,

my dear friend from high school, wacky, wonderful guy,

met me in London and I did all of these interviews

with the two Pet Sounds albums that I brought,

unreleased in England,

and Kim introduced me to Keith Moon,

who would have left The Who in a heartbeat

if he could be in the Beach boys.

Anyway, so, the last night I went out

and I came in and in my suite, I walk in,

and there is Lennon and McCartney, waiting to hear Pet Sounds.

So, I put it on.

They made me play it again and then I found out later

that they kind of distilled the vibe of Wouldn't It Be Nice

into the Revolver album for Here, There And Everywhere.

Paul and I have known each other since 1966.

And he came to one of my recording sessions in 1966.

With Derek Taylor there, his publicist, the Beatles' publicist.

And he...he just talk to me for a bit and then he left.

And then I saw him again in 1980...1979.

He came over to my house in Bel Air with his wife, Linda,

and his two kids.

And they played the piano for a half hour and then they left.

And then I met him again in 1990...2003 in London.

And then I got to know him a little bit.

And then I saw him again.

He came to a couple of my concerts in England, in London,

and we talked and talked and talked all night one night.

# I keep looking for a place

# To fit in where I can speak my mind

# And I've been trying hard to find

# The people that I won't leave behind

# They say I got brains but they ain't doing me no good

# I wish they could

# Each time things start to happen to me

# I think I've got something good going for myself

# But what goes wrong... #

Good Vibrations. Take one.

Good Vibrations.

I know when I heard the mix, the final mix, I said to the band,

"This is either number one or the career is over."

How the heck is this song going to relate to ordinary mortals?

I was a frustrated artist

and producer that wanted to do something great like Spector.

I wanted to do something good like Phil Spector.

-Brian, where did you get the idea for theremin?

-Theremin?

-Yeah.

-Carl.

-Really?

-He said, "Why don't we use a theremin and a cello?"

-Get out!

-Honest.

-Carl Wilson said that?

-Yeah.

-A theremin?

Carl suggested using a theremin and a cello bow.

-God, I never knew that.

-Yeah, absolutely.

It went to number one,

and on the basis of Good Vibrations being number one in England,

we were voted in 1966 in a music trade magazine in England

the number one group in Great Britain, number two being

the Beatles, number three being The Stones.

Somebody just uncovered some old 16mm footage,

black and white footage of the Good Vibrations session.

I'm anxious to have a look at it.

Let's hear the guitars, please, in B.

GUITAR STRUMMING

OK, that's fine, let's make it.

-Take one.

-Al, let's go, man. Here we go.

Let's play hard and strong, all the way.

One. Two. One, two, three.

Let's hit real hard on the very last A flat. Boom!

Watch me on that part.

Are we ready? Let's go.

Take five, Good Vibrations.

# I'm pickin' up good vibrations

# She's givin' me excitations

-# I'm pickin' up good vibrations

-Bop, bop, good vibrations

-# She's givin' me excitations

-Bop, bop, excitations

# Good, good, good, good vibrations

# She's givin' me excitations

# Good, good, good, good vibrations

# She's givin' me excitations

# Close my eyes She is somehow closer now

# Softly smile I know she must be kind

# When I look in her eyes

# She goes with me to a blossom world

# I'm pickin' up good vibrations

# She's givin' me excitations

-# I'm pickin' up good vibrations

-Bop, bop, good vibrations

-# She's givin' me excitations

-Bop, bop, excitations

-# Good, good, good, good vibrations

-Bop, bop, good vibrations

-# She's givin' me excitations

-Bop, bop, excitations

-# Good, good, good, good vibrations

-Bop, bop, good vibrations

-# She's givin' me excitations

-Bop, bop, exci...

# Tations...

# Aaaaaaaah

# Good vibrations

# I don't know where but she sends me there

# Ah, my, my, what a sensation

# My, my, my, what an elation

# My, my, my, what...

# Gotta keep those lovin' good vibrations

# A-happenin' with her

# Gotta keep those lovin' good vibrations

# A-happenin' with her

# Gotta keep those lovin' good vibrations

# A-happenin'...

# Aaaaaaah!

-# Good, good, good, good vibrations

-Bop, bop, good vibrations

-# She's givin' me excitations

-Bop, bop, excitations

-# Good, good, good, good vibrations

-Bop, bop, good vibrations

# Na-na-na-na-na, na-na-na

# Na-na-na-na-na, na-na-na

# Do-do-do-do-do, do-do-do

# Do-do-do-do-do, do-do-do... #

While we are making the takes, Bob,

we won't be able to have that camera going.

If they told me back in the '60s we would be doing this in 2012,

I would say, "You're crazy. You're crazy."

Well, Pet Sounds was a labour of love,

it took quite a few months to get that done.

This new one came real fast and spontaneous.

We really did a good job.

# Dooo... #

Mike still has his lyrical genius, yeah.

He wrote some good lyrics for this album and he's really wonderful.

We love each other and it comes out in the music in our harmonies,

"I love."

# We've got beaches in mind

# Man, it's been too much time

# Woke me up before dawn

# Wish I could sleep some more so I could carry on

# With the dream I've been meaning to make come true

# And that is to get away with you. #

Brian is really writing great stuff now.

And it gives me that feeling that we've turned a corner,

a little bit of a corner on this one.

It could be very special.

It was a revelation, a miracle that you could just start right up again.

Standing around the mic together like that,

I describe it as a bubble of consciousness.

When it is just right, we became one person.

And as a result, we suck in the audience, they come into our bubble.

I couldn't believe how well their voices still held up, you know?

Michael's singing voice is still strong like it was.

Bruce and mine and Al's voices were, you know, right on the dime.

# Dit, dit, dooo

# Dit, dit, dooo... #

Right on, let's record.

And I think it sound like 1965 when you hear the playback

of all the voices, all the parts,

the vocal parts that Brian came up with.

And it is really amazing to hear that back.

It makes you feel like, "Wow, there is no lapse in time."

It is kind of like seamless, you know?

From where we were last time we were together till now.

-And perpetual.

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

# Spring vacation

# Good vibration

# Summer weather

# We're back together! #

We have been working for a few months on it.

We put a lot of love in our harmonies, you know?

We have some really, really good love in there.

# Hey, what's it to ya?

# Better alleluia. #

There is something extra special there that...

that just keeps coming through.

# Tuning in the latest star... #

Brian Wilson and Michael, they were born with writing magic.

And there is this really great song,

it's called That's Why God Made The Radio.

I think the harmonies are pretty good. They're pretty rich.

You know? A lot of them.

So, if you like harmony, man, this is going to knock your socks off.

Just as good as 50 years ago, believe it or not.

-# That's why God made the radio

-That's why God made...

# That's why God made...

# So tune right in everywhere you go

# He waved His hand Gave us rock 'n' roll

# The soundtrack of falling in love

# Falling in love Falling in...

# That's why God made the radio

# Feel the music in the air

# Find a song to take us there

# It's paradise when I Lift up my antenna

# Receiving your signal like a prayer

# Like a prayer

-# That's why God made the radio

-That's why God made...

# So tune right in everywhere you go

# He waved His hand Gave us rock 'n' roll

# The soundtrack of falling in love

# Falling in love Falling in...

# That's why God made the radio

-# Making this night of celebration

-Celebration

# Spreading the love and sunshine

# To a whole new generation

# A whole new generation

# That's why God made...

# That's why God made...

# That's why God made the radio

# That's why God made...

# That's why God made...

# That's why God made the radio

# For falling in love

# That's why God made...

# That's why God made...

# That's why God made the radio

# That's why God made...

# That's why God made...

# That's why God made the radio

# For falling in love

# That's why God made...

# That's why God made...

# That's why God made the radio. #

Hey, all right!

Thank you so much.

# Summer's gone

# Summer's gone away

# Gone away

# With yesterday

# Aah-ooh

# Old friends have grown

# They've gone there separate ways

# Our dreams... #

Dennis' life was flat out pretty much all the way

from the day I met him.

He was always coming over to the house and dragging me out

on some adventure.

And just I didn't know what to expect from day to day.

It was always great.

And he just carried that through his whole life -

when he got his driver's licence, when he got his drums.

He loved being a Beach Boy.

He just had a way of making everyone that he came in contact with

feel special.

And just everyone loved him.

Later on, he started writing some really, really soulful songs.

Gut-wrenching soul.

Just from the heart.

And they're pretty impressive. He surprised everyone.

# If every word I said could make you laugh

# I'd talk forever

# Together, my love

# I ask the sky just what we had

# It shone forever

# Together, my love. #

Dennis and I used to ride motorcycles

and he took it up to Death Valley.

And so he rides his motorcycle down a mine,

you know, just choog, choog, choog...

And he runs into some minors and, "What are you guys doing?"

"Well, we're digging for gold." "Oh, have you found any gold yet?"

"No, we haven't found any gold."

Dennis comes back a week later with the motorcycle -

choog-a-choog-a-choog.

"Have you guys found any gold yet?"

And the miners said, "No."

He said, "Well, I brought you something for the mine."

He brings them a gold album to hang on the wall of the mine

so they had some gold in the mine.

# Forever

# Forever... #

# I sailed an ocean An unsettled ocean

# Through restful waters And deep commotion

# Often frightened

# Unenlightened

# Sail on, sail on, sailor

# I wrest the waters Fine Neptune's waters

# Sailed through the sorrows of life's marauders

# Unrepenting, often empty

# Sail on, sail on, sailor

Caught like a sewer rat alone but I sale

Bought like a crust of bread But, oh, do I wail

# Seldom stumble, never crumble

# Try to tumble, life's a rumble

# Feel the stingin' I've been given

# Never-ending, unrelenting

# Heartbreak searing, always fearing

# Never caring, persevering

# Sail on, sail on, sailor

# I work the seaways

# The gale-swept seaways

# Past shipwrecked daughters of wicked waters

# Uninspired, drenched and tired

# Wail on, wail on, sailor

# Always needing, ever bleeding

# Never feeding all my feelings

# Damn the thunder, must I blunder

# There's no wonder all I'm under

# Stop the crying and the lying

# And the sighing and my dying

# Sail on, sail on, sailor

# Sail on, sail on, sailor

# Sail on, sail on, sailor

# Sail on, sail on, sail on...

-# Sail on, sail on, sailor

-Sail on! Sail on, sail on!

Brian Wilson.

Nice one. Woo!

Nice work, Brian, nice work.

We lost Carl in... I think '98 it was.

And I thought, "Man, it might be time to close up shop for now."

But, you know, there is always that thing,

the music is just bigger than any of us.

# I may not always love you

# But as long as there are stars above you

# You'll never need to doubt it

# I'll make you so sure about it

# God only knows what I'd be without you. #

Carl was a gentle soul. He was a very good person.

He was probably one of the better singers in the business.

He was a really good singer.

And he was my brother, of course, my little brother.

And he took directions beautifully in the studio.

He learned songs very quickly and did very good job on them.

I wanted to protect him, yeah, I wanted to be good to him,

cos he was my brother, my little brother.

# God only knows what I'd be without you

# God only knows what I'd be without you

# God only knows what I'd be without you

# God only knows what I'd be without you

# God only knows what I'd be without you

# God only knows what I'd be without you

# Everyone, everyone

# God only knows what I'd be without you

# God only knows what I'd be without you. #

That was...

One, two... One, two, three.

# If everybody had an ocean across the USA

# Then everybody be surfin' like Californ-I-A

# You'd see 'em wearin' their baggies Huarache sandals, too

# A bushy, bushy blonde hairdo Surfin' USA

-# You'd catch 'em surfing at Del Mar

-Inside, outside, USA

-# Ventura County line

-Inside, outside, USA

-# Santa Cruz and Trestles

-Inside, outside, USA

-# Australia's Narrabeen

-Inside, outside, USA

-# All over Manhattan

-Inside, outside, USA

-# And down Doheny way

-Inside, outside, USA

# Everybody's gone surfin' Surfin' USA

# We'll be planning out of route

# We're gonna to take real soon

# We're waxin' down our surf boards

# We can't wait for June

# We'll all be gone for the summer

# We're on safari to stay

# Tell the teacher were surfin' Surfin' USA

-# At Haggerty's and Swami's

-Inside, outside, USA

-# Pacific Palisades

-Inside, outside, USA

-# San Onofre and Sunset

-Inside, outside, USA

-# Redondo Beach, LA

-Inside, outside, USA

-# All over La Jolla

-Inside, outside USA

-# At Waimea Bay

-Inside, outside, USA

# Everybody's gone surfin' Surfin' USA! #

All right!

# Everybody's has gone surfin' Surfin' USA

Everybody's gone surfin' Surfin' USA

Yeah, everybody is gone surfin' Surfin' USA! #

CHEERS AND APPLAUSE

We didn't think we'd even last another year.

Who would've thought that I'd be sitting here 50 years later.

THEY HUM HARMONIES

# There's a story told

# A very gentle boy

# And the girl who wore his ring

# Through the wintry snow

# The world they new was one

# For their hearts were full of spring. #

Good night, thank you very much.

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