XPost: rec.music.artists.beach-boys   
   From: ted@loft.tnolan.com   
      
   In article <5fq40kF3dsgndU1@mid.individual.net>,   
   Brian Watson  wrote:   
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   >> Could you enumerate these "American standard" tracks from the albums   
   >> preceding   
   >> "Pet Sounds"?  I can't think of any except that "South Bay Surfers" was   
   >> based   
   >> on "Old Folks at Home" (Swanee River).   
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   >Not necessarily in chronological order; Summertime Blues on Surfin' Safari,   
   >In My Room on Surfer Girl, Why Do Fools Fall In Love on Shut Down Vol 2, A   
   >Young Man Is Gone (reworked Their Hearts Were Full Of Spring) from Little   
   >Deuce Coupe, Do Ya Wanna Dance from Today!, Then I Kissed Her from Summer   
   >Days. And the less than wonderful (in my opinion) Beach Boys Party has a   
   >couple too.   
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   >I guess one person's (ie, mine) American Standard is another person's Cover   
   >Version, but when each of these albums came out I found a song that I   
   >already knew well from my vantage point in the UK.   
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   >--   
   >Brian   
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   Ah, OK.  To me, and American Standard is something from Stephen Foster   
   up through the classic era of American popular song.  Sinatra sang   
   "American Standards" (and introduced some of them).   
      
   I would consider most of the songs you list (with the exception of   
   "Their Hearts Were Full of Spring") to be covers of old Doo-Wop and   
   rock tunes that Brian liked rather than American Standards.  That's   
   not to say some of them aren't very good.   
      
      
   				Ted   
      
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