Re: [bomp] Sloop John B(was drugs!)

[Owen Penglis <o-penglis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

on 17/9/02 10:40 PM, "James" <dye.jl@verizon.net> wrote:

>It isn't the greatest song in the world, but it's one of
> the first Beach Boys songs I ever remember hearing as a kid, it's an easy
> song for a child to remember (simple lyrics to remember and all, and what
> kid can't relate to being on a trip and wanting to go home? errrr... in the
> non-drug sense, I mean!)

At the moment I'm reading Alan Clayson's "Hamburg: the cradle of british
rock" and he speaks of Kingsize Taylor (or was it Tony Sheridan?) playing a
version of the song with really dirty lyrics ... now how could you dirty up
this tune?


> As for being on -Pet Sounds-, I wouldn't be surprised if the Beach Boys put
> it there because they knew it would be a difficult album compared to their
> usual stuff, and wanted a catchy single to rope people in, so to speak,
> without scaring them off. "Sloop John B" has the Pet Sounds "sound,"
> production-wise, but it isn't such a departure from their earlier hits like
> the rest of the album.

Agreed, I was always under the impression that after Caroline, No was
released as a single under Brian's name and flopped that the label pushed to
have Sloop John B included in the hope that Pet Sounds would sell with a
degree of familiarity.

Owen

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