Favoriting Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from August 27, 2015 Favoriting

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Favoriting August 27, 2015: American Puberty: Beach Boys on the Treacherous Road to Manhood (1962-65)

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Artist Track Album Year Comments
  Intro        
The Beach Boys  Surfer Girl   Favoriting Surfer Girl  1963  Lead Vocal: Brian Wilson 

Music behind DJ:
Jack Nitzsche 
The Lonely Surfer   Favoriting
The Lonely Surfer 
1963 
 
The Beach Boys  County Fair   Favoriting Surfin' Safari  1962  LV: Mike Love 
The Beach Boys  Ten Little Indians   Favoriting Surfin' Safari    LV: Mike Love 
The Beach Boys  Little Girl (You're My Miss America)   Favoriting Surfin' Safari    LV: Dennis Wilson written by Herb Alpert 
The Beach Boys  Cuckoo Clock   Favoriting Surfin' Safari    LV: Brian Wilson 
The Beach Boys  Moon Dawg   Favoriting Surfin' Safari     
The Beach Boys  Surfin' Safari   Favoriting Surfin' Safari    LV: Mike Love 
The Beach Boys  409   Favoriting Surfin' Safari    LV: Mike Love 

Music behind DJ:
Jack Nitzsche 
 
 
 
 
The Beach Boys  Farmer's Daughter   Favoriting Surfin' USA  1963  LV: Brian Wilson 
The Beach Boys  The Lonely Sea   Favoriting Surfin' USA    LV: Brian Wilson 
The Beach Boys  Noble Surfer   Favoriting Surfin' USA    LV: Mike Love 
The Beach Boys  Let's Go Trippin'   Favoriting Surfin' USA    by Dick Dale 
The Beach Boys  Surfer Moon   Favoriting Surfer Girl  1963  LV: Brian Wilson 
The Beach Boys  In My Room   Favoriting Surfer Girl    LV: Brian Wilson 
The Beach Boys  Surfer's Rule   Favoriting Surfer Girl    LV: Dennis and Brian Wilson 
The Beach Boys  Your Summer Dream   Favoriting Surfer Girl    LV: Brian Wilson 
Sharon Marie  Summertime   Favoriting Pet Projects: the Brian Wilson Productions  1963   
The Beach Boys  Our Car Club   Favoriting Little Deuce Coupe  1963  LV: Mike Love and Brian Wilson 
The Beach Boys  Ballad of Ole' Betsy   Favoriting Little Deuce Coupe    LV: Brian Wilson 
The Beach Boys  Spirit of America   Favoriting Little Deuce Coupe    LV: Brian Wilson 
The Beach Boys  A Young Man is Gone   Favoriting Little Deuce Coupe    based on The 4 Freshmen's arrangement of "Their Hearts Were Full of Spring" (by Bobby Troup) with new lyrics by Mike Love 
The Beach Boys  Cassius Love Vs. Sonny Wilson   Favoriting Shut Down Vol. 2  1964   

Music behind DJ:
The Beach Boys 
Stoked   Favoriting
Surfin' USA 
 
 
The Beach Boys  The Warmth of the Sun   Favoriting Shut Down Vol. 2  1964  LV: Brian Wilson 
  Help me Rhonda Sessions       with Murry Wilson 
Murry Wilson  The Warmth of the Sun   Favoriting The Many Moods of Murry Wilson  1967   
The Beach Boys  Don't Worry Baby   Favoriting Shut Down Vol. 2    LV: Brian Wilson 
The Beach Boys  This Car of Mine   Favoriting Shut Down Vol. 2    LV: Dennis Wilson 
The Beach Boys  Keep an Eye on Summer   Favoriting Shut Down Vol. 2    LV: Brian Wilson and Mike Love 

Music behind DJ:
The Beach Boys 
Shut Down, Part 2   Favoriting
Shut Down Vol. 2 
 
 
The Beach Boys  I Get Around   Favoriting All Summer Long  1964  LV: Brian Wilson and Mike Love 
The Beach Boys  All Summer Long   Favoriting All Summer Long    LV: Mike Love 
The Beach Boys  We'll Run Away   Favoriting All Summer Long    LV: Brian Wilson 
The Beach Boys  Girls on the Beach   Favoriting All Summer Long    LV: Brian and Dennis Wilson 
The Survivors  After the Game   Favoriting Pet Projects: the Brian Wilson Productions  1964  Brian & some friends 
The Beach Boys  When I Grow Up (To Be a Man)   Favoriting The Beach Boys Today!  1965  LV: Mike Love and Brian Wilson 
The Beach Boys  Please Let Me Wonder   Favoriting The Beach Boys Today!    LV: Brian Wilson and Mike Love 
The Beach Boys  In the Back of My Mind   Favoriting The Beach Boys Today!    LV: Dennis Wilson 
The Beach Boys  Kiss Me, Baby   Favoriting The Beach Boys Today!    LV: Brian Wilson and Mike Love 

Music behind DJ:
Jack Nitzsche 
Ebb Tide   Favoriting
The Lonely Surfer 
 
 
The Beach Boys  She Knows Me Too Well   Favoriting The Beach Boys Today!  1965  LV: Brian Wilson 
The Beach Boys  Girl Don't Tell Me   Favoriting Summer Days (and Summer Nights!)  1965  LV: Carl Wilson 
The Beach Boys  Let Him Run Wild   Favoriting Summer Days (and Summer Nights!)    LV: Brian Wilson 
The Beach Boys  Amusement Parks U.S.A.   Favoriting Summer Days (and Summer Nights!)    LV: Brian Wilson and Mike Love With Hal Blaine as the carnival barker 
The Beach Boys  Summer Means New Love   Favoriting Summer Days (and Summer Nights!)     
The Beach Boys  I'm Bugged At My Old Man   Favoriting Summer Days (and Summer Nights!)    LV: Brian Wilson On the original back cover notes, the listed lead vocalist is: "Too embarrassed." 
Glen Campbell  Guess I'm Dumb   Favoriting Pet Projects: the Brian Wilson Productions  1965   
The Beach Boys  There's No Other (Like My Baby)   Favoriting Party  1965  LV: Brian Wilson by Phil Spector, for the Crystals 
The Beach Boys  The Times They Are A Changin'   Favoriting Party    LV: Al Jardine 
The Beach Boys  She's Not the Little Girl I Once Knew   Favoriting She's Not the Little Girl I Once Knew 45"  1965   
 
The Beach Boys  And Your Dream Comes True   Favoriting Summer Days (and Summer Nights!)     


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Listener comments!

Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:35pm
Gary:

Ooo, looks like a great one
Avatar 6:50pm
Flash Strap:

Should be a good one, at the very least! Hi Gary!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:59pm
listener james from westwood:

Good Thursday, Flash and all!
Avatar 7:00pm
Flash Strap:

Hello again, Listener James!
Avatar 7:00pm
glenn:

still life with plaid and surfboard.
Avatar 7:01pm
Carmichael:

Hey look, it's David Marks! Heya Strap and fans.
Avatar 7:01pm
ndbob:

Evening Evan et al!
Avatar 7:02pm
Flash Strap:

Little Davy Marks indeed. Looks like a 1st grader. Hi Glenn, Carmichael, Bob!
Avatar 7:03pm
Carmichael:

I read his book The Lost Beach Boy. Pretty fascinating stuff about the early days and, of course, that bastard Murry Wilson.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:03pm
melinda:

Good evening!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:07pm
Bennett Cerf:

Someone ask for me?
Avatar 7:09pm
Flash Strap:

Hello Melinda! Great to see ya, Bennett ya maniac
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:10pm
listener james from westwood:

That was like the evil twin of "Palisades Park"!
Avatar 7:11pm
Flash Strap:

I love how it ends: "LOSER!"
Avatar 7:13pm
Flash Strap:

I think this is the first lead from Dennis. My second favorite voice in the gang.
Avatar 7:14pm
Carmichael:

Trying to remember if "At the Drive-In" was on SS. Guess I'll jut sit here and find out.
Avatar 7:14pm
Flash Strap:

Yeah, Carmichael. Murry is a piece of work. We'll be forced to deal with him in a bit
Avatar 7:16pm
ndbob:

great song tho the Gamblers original is better
Avatar 7:17pm
Flash Strap:

It's not on SS, and I can't remember what it is on.
Avatar 7:17pm
Carmichael:

Ya, maybe All Summer Long?
Avatar 7:17pm
Carmichael:

Or whatever that summer album was called.
Avatar 7:18pm
Flash Strap:

you're right
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:18pm
Gary:

Endless Summer?
Avatar 7:19pm
Carmichael:

Summer Days and Summer Nights?
Avatar 7:19pm
Flash Strap:

@bob: the Boys never have the best version of any surf instrumental
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:20pm
Gary:

The first time I heard "Surfin Safari" was on the American Graffiti soundtrack, which might have been the first LP I ever paid money for
Avatar 7:25pm
ndbob:

@Evan true
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:25pm
melinda:

I confess I was a bit dismayed to see that the whole show would be devoted to the Beach Boys but I'm enjoying this.
Avatar 7:31pm
Flash Strap:

I was pretty dismayed when I realized I felt like I had to do it. I had to do this one so I can do the next one, focusing on the later works. In doing so, I became nearly as obsessed with the early work
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:31pm
listener james from westwood:

I know "The Lonely Sea" from a fine cover that Ken Freedman probably has played most often on the station. A treat to hear the original!
Avatar 7:32pm
Flash Strap:

"ain't joshin'!"
  7:36pm
Dean:

The plaque in Hawthorne, CA, at the site of the home where the Wilsons grew up: http://bit.ly/1WVAglZ
  7:37pm
Dean:

Just realized I drove right past it on Monday heading to LAX.
Avatar 7:37pm
Flash Strap:

wow. Hi dean!
Avatar 7:38pm
Flash Strap:

here we have the 1st use of strings
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:39pm
Gary:

I misread that as "plague" ... but I see now that's not what that's a picture of :)
Avatar 7:41pm
Flash Strap:

Listen to Dennis shred those fading notes on "noooooooooooow"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:42pm
melinda:

The first mix tape I ever made, in 4th grade, featured a lot of Beach Boys early songs. Along with ABBA and Bette Davis Eyes.
  7:42pm
Dean:

And the home itself: https://www.flickr.com/photos/emmie-jan/6668391871/in/photostream/ The stream even includes a picture of the father's Whittier home, where he died in '73. I lived in Whittier at the time.
Avatar 7:44pm
Flash Strap:

Wow Melinda that tape sounds like a museum-worthy document. I love looking at old tapes like that, they tell so much. too much
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:44pm
Marcel M:

hello hello
Avatar 7:46pm
hyde:

when the dj tells me that the surfin' is fine, that's when i know my baby and i will have a good time
Avatar 7:47pm
Flash Strap:

Hello Marcel! and Hyde!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:50pm
melinda:

The tape lasted for many years but finally bit the dust. Too bad. Hearing 409 and Barbara Ann still brings back a bit of grade school angst. Would you believe 409 was played on Surface Noise this morning? Craziness!
Avatar 7:52pm
Flash Strap:

that is crazy. what is going on? summer is ending and we're all going mad
Avatar 7:54pm
ndbob:

I like the early Beach Boys material better then the later stuff
Avatar 7:54pm
ndbob:

tho I like the later stuff too
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:58pm
Uncle Michael:

How do?
Avatar 7:59pm
ndbob:

excellent first how Evan! catch the rest on the archive as always
Avatar 8:11pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Michael! Bye Bob!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:12pm
Uncle Michael:

I recently subjected myself to the entire Help Me Rhonda control room tape. Yowza.
Avatar 8:12pm
Flash Strap:

This song is informed by the JFK assassination, imbuing it with impossible subtextual emotional profundity
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:14pm
Uncle Michael:

"clear records"
Avatar 8:15pm
Flash Strap:

"I'm a genius too"
Avatar 8:15pm
Flash Strap:

"Forget who you are"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:15pm
Uncle Michael:

Murry Dearest
  8:16pm
MikeMike:

Thanks so much for ALL of these excellent shows; Explorers Room is the reason I became a WFMU donor.
Avatar 8:17pm
Flash Strap:

Kind of you to say MikeMike! Thanks for tuning in
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:17pm
Gary:

This is craziness :)
Avatar 8:18pm
Flash Strap:

Murry Dearest about sums up the garish melodrama
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:18pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Red light's on! Recording!
- just RELAX ! NOW !
...tragically Classic...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:20pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...when considering Brian Wilson's history &/or state, should never forget this...
Avatar 8:20pm
hyde:

times are changing. times are changing.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:20pm
Uncle Michael:

You slackers take five hours to make a hit now.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:21pm
melinda:

Don't Worry Baby is one of my favorites.
Avatar 8:21pm
Flash Strap:

@hyde: that part kills me, brings me to tears, really. it's a brave moment in a young man's life
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:22pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Keith Moon's favorite song.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:22pm
Gary:

This song is making me cry
Avatar 8:22pm
Flash Strap:

@melinda: it's a true masterpiece. totally transcends its subject matter
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:23pm
melinda:

Has anyone seen the recent Brian Wilson movie? I heard it was good.
Avatar 8:24pm
Flash Strap:

so did I. haven't seen it
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:24pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

The Beach Boys are out of Camelot, the Beatles are post-JFK.
Avatar 8:28pm
hyde:

i have not seen love and mercy either, but i probably will soon.
Avatar 8:32pm
hyde:

though sometimes a hot rod is just a hot rod
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:34pm
Uncle Michael:

Pacific Ocean Blue is a masterpiece.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:36pm
melinda:

This was on my mix tape too.....it's all coming back.
Avatar 8:37pm
Flash Strap:

I wholeheartedly agree, Uncle.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:38pm
Minnesota Jeff:

Whoa, catching the last half hour here live. Beach BOY-NAN-ZA!
Avatar 8:38pm
Flash Strap:

Rhonda Sessions, courtesy WFMU blog: blog.wfmu.org...
Avatar 8:39pm
Flash Strap:

Aloha Minnesota J!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:39pm
Minnesota Jeff:

Which guy is that on the far right in the surfboard photo??? Looks like a contest winner.
Avatar 8:41pm
Flash Strap:

It's David Marks, keeping Al Jardine's spot warm. He was an early member. He looks to be about 8 years old
Avatar 8:42pm
hyde:

I like Pacific Ocean Blue a lot, but the Dennis Wilson track I love the most is Forever from Sunflower.
Avatar 8:42pm
Flash Strap:

Man, Hyde: YES. That song is P E R F E C T
Avatar 8:47pm
Flash Strap:

This one approaches next-level
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:51pm
Minnesota Jeff:

I may be mistaken, but I believe Michael Shelly did a WFMU show where he did a lot of fake Beach Boys bands. Sound a likes and such.
Avatar 8:52pm
Flash Strap:

I should check that out, Jeff
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:54pm
Minnesota Jeff:

Well hell, Michael Shelley has an author of a new Beach Boys book this Saturday on his show! “Becoming the Beach Boys” author James Murphy
Avatar 8:55pm
hyde:

@Jeff heh, I just saw that too. Kismet.
Avatar 9:07pm
Flash Strap:

1st real Carl lead vocal! I love this one
Avatar 9:09pm
hyde:

yeah, i love this one too
Avatar 9:17pm
Flash Strap:

Man, this dad doesn't even know where it's at
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:18pm
Uncle Michael:

Oh man...you saved this for last, didn't you. It ducking SLAYS me.

And SO Bacharachish.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:19pm
Uncle Michael:

ducking typos.
Avatar 9:19pm
Flash Strap:

it's not for last, alas, but it is a slayer
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:20pm
Uncle Michael:

great!
Avatar 9:21pm
Flash Strap:

You're so right, it's maximum Bacharach. Glen sounds so OLD, too
Avatar 9:22pm
northguineahills:

Thank my lucky stars for archives, i regret not getting here sooner.
Avatar 9:23pm
Flash Strap:

Oh, hello NGH! Great to see you, late or ever
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:24pm
Uncle Michael:

I mined "Party" for my 2015 premium.
Avatar 9:25pm
Flash Strap:

it's such a weird little record. i love that it's all fake-live
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:26pm
Minnesota Jeff:

Yeah Michael, its a great premium. Glad you added the little intros to each song.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:27pm
Uncle Michael:

Aww...thanks, Jeff!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:31pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- man - those vocals on 'She's Not...' - let's hear somebody try & cover that & sing it...Sometimes the tape was sped up to sound higher - whatever...
Avatar 9:34pm
hyde:

thanks for the trip to the beach!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:34pm
Uncle Michael:

I'm pretty sure Glen was about 30 then.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:37pm
Uncle Michael:

Thanks for the show, Evan!
Avatar 9:38pm
Flash Strap:

Thanks for listening, all! Goodnight and see you next week
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