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   From: ted@loft.tnolan.com   
      
   In article ,   
   The old geezer   wrote:   
   > I think BW had enough to release with Smile with a little cooperation   
   >from Mike.  You had   
   >Good Vibrations   
   >H & V (Lp & Single edit)   
   >Vegetables   
   >Surf's Up (with a little fine tuning)   
   >Wonderful   
   >CabinEssence   
   >Do You Dig Worms?   
   >Wind Chimes   
   >Our Prayer/Gee   
   >(Mrs. O'Leary's Cow (with a little work)   
   >I Love To Say Da-Da/Cool,Cool Water (with a lotta work!)   
   >   
   >They coulda dropped the "bits & pieces " parts & used them for later   
   >albums.   
   >   
   >The album could have been finished by March/April/May of '67.   
   >   
   >Why (Well, we know why) didn't Brian take Mike aside & "Look, work   
   >with me on this, we'll release it & then you & I will get together &   
   >write an LP worth of hits (Wild Honey) so you get get your royalties"!   
   >   
   >Another thing that's always made me wonder....if Mike thought the   
   >Smile Lp was weird, how could he have given his O.K. to the Smiley   
   >Smile dysfunctional disaster/debacle.  Did he *really* think that it   
   >was an improvement over the original Smile????   
   >   
   >TOG   
      
   I've never believed that Mike killed Smile.  Sure he didn't like the lyrics,   
   but he sang them very well, even the "Crow flies uncover the cornfield"   
   stuff.  If Brian could have decided what Smile actually was and set out   
   straight-forwardly recording it, the guys would have been on board.   
      
   And, though it certainly wouldn't have "fit", they could have dropped   
   "Little Girl" onto an album to fill a hole and have an "includes the hit.."   
   selling point.   
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