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stonehearted
Since the Pet Sounds/Beatles influence has been mentioned, there is also on YouTube a few minutes dedicated to the Pet Sounds/Sgt. Pepper connection.
As to how Pet Sounds might have sounded with Lennon, McCartney and Harrison singing those songs, even as a massive Beatles fan I would have to say not as good. The Beatles could blend their harmonies really well, but individually they really didn't have technically good singing voices, and the first to really take note of this fact and comment on it was their first biographer Hunter Davies, who was appalled while watching them recording in the studio one day at how out of tune their voices really were. It almost caused him to change his mind about doing their biography altogether.
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DandelionPowderman
Nothing any Beach Boy has sung has ever sent chills down my spine like John Lennon did.
I get your point, but their sense of harmonies was different than that of the Beach Boys. It dosen't mean it was poorer. Certainly not "out of tune"...
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GasLightStreet
Having listened to PET SOUNDS I have never heard the connection and have been outright dumbfounded by it.
But whatever. Not my pint of beer.
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DandelionPowderman
Nothing any Beach Boy has sung has ever sent chills down my spine like John Lennon did.
I get your point, but their sense of harmonies was different than that of the Beach Boys. It dosen't mean it was poorer. Certainly not "out of tune"...
I listen to a lot of sessions tapes.
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GasLightStreet
Having listened to PET SOUNDS I have never heard the connection and have been outright dumbfounded by it.
But whatever. Not my pint of beer.
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Come On
Why all the talk about the album ' Pet Sounds ' when ' Good Vibrations ' exists on another album?
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DandelionPowderman
Nothing any Beach Boy has sung has ever sent chills down my spine like John Lennon did.
I get your point, but their sense of harmonies was different than that of the Beach Boys. It dosen't mean it was poorer. Certainly not "out of tune"...
I listen to a lot of sessions tapes.
Smile?
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DandelionPowderman
Nothing any Beach Boy has sung has ever sent chills down my spine like John Lennon did.
I get your point, but their sense of harmonies was different than that of the Beach Boys. It dosen't mean it was poorer. Certainly not "out of tune"...
I listen to a lot of sessions tapes.
Smile?
Pepper.
Here is where Hunter Davies made his comment about their singing being out of tune, the March 21, 1967 vocal session for Getting Better. This was also the occasion where John Lennon accidentally consumed LSD in the studio:
Getting Better received its vocals on 21 March. Hunter Davies was at the session, and noted how the backing vocals sounded "flat, grainy and awfully disembodied. I remember thinking, 'Why am I such a big fan of theirs, why do I think they're good singers? They're completely out of tune!"
It is not known whether the out-of-tune vocals were left in the final mix - certainly some of the harmonies are off-key, though these may have been deliberately varispeeded. Either way, perhaps The Beatles had bigger things to worry about: a short way into the session, Lennon announced he was feeling ill and was taken onto the roof of Abbey Road by George Martin.
Taken from: [www.beatlesbible.com]
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stonehearted
Hunter Davies is just an author and a fan who was likely somewhat disillusioned by what he was seeing in the studio that day.
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stonehearted
It didn't seem like he was around musicians and their recording sessions before The Beatles. He was a few years older than The Beatles and he studied history and general arts when in college. He worked as a journalist writing features for the Sunday Times and then one of his novels was made into a movie. He met with Paul about possibly providing the theme song and then asked him about the possibility of a Beatles biography. He got the biography deal instead of the theme song.
Hunter Davies, Bill Wyman's age and with a look that says that he certainly didn't hang out with musicians in recording studios.
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stonehearted
Hunter Davies is just an author and a fan who was likely somewhat disillusioned by what he was seeing in the studio that day.