the beach boys - original instrumental 1965

[kb4uf]

I'm going to see Brian next week!

[BustardBuzzard]

Rock On, Brian!

[DaddyBog]

@BustardBuzzard  amen Bro !!!!!!!

[skipde]

Images are backwards! Music is forwards.............

[begbieboy]

Anyone got Darlin's backing track? I'd kill for it! Anyways these three are awesome.

[truthasfineprint]

@begbieboy get ahold of Stack o tracks. i think darlin backing track is the first cut

[begbieboy]

@truthasfineprint Thanks for your interest, but I already know that. Unfortunately, in my country they don't sell any BB record that it's not Pet Sounds and I haven't found much of the Stack O'Tracks on the internet, that's why I'm asking this.

Anyway thank you very much. Cheers

[chidodave77]

Awsome music!

[1964BeatlesFreak]

The backing track of "Help Me, Rhonda" shows unbelievable power! Would have made a great record, even with no vocals!

[spacepatrolman]

@1964BeatlesFreak It wasnt on the stack o tracks album just the CD

[stupullen]

(YAWN!) California girls with the vocals removed...

[colindominy]

This is the best rock music ever made - period. Especially the iconic track California Girls .. both in harmony-singing + the beauty & depth of this stand-alone instrumental version. Folks .. also have a listen to the alternate version of Help Me Rhonda as well .. the one with the piano bridge & sax extras, which Brian almost released in 1965. Aspiring young muso's of today don't need no college degree .. just do a course in Brian Wilson Music .. that's all they need ...

[WhiteElephantLives]

These are really interesting to listen to - proof (as if it were needed!) that there were also some excellent musical arrangements beneath those beautifully layered vocals.

[elizabetha37]

de lo mejor que se pueda escuchar ,, casi como los beatles

[FrogTheFrogFrog]

Great. Thanks!

[DubleJMcFly]

is there any way anyone can get me the dl link for this? thank you very much

[colindominy]

@DubleJMcFly : digital music is OK, but you can't beat owning the CDs. I suggest you get hold of the Capitol re-issue "Stack 'O Tracks" .. still available. Fantastic .. I got my copy way back in the late 70s .. & I still play it every day. Also the Capitol re-issues of the albums from the mid 60s .. they're all still available. oh .. and don't forget .. that "Endless Harmony" CD .. for wonderful alternate tracks + one-out very-rare demo's by BW of embryonic versions of his classic songs.

[1goodvibrations]

i think i have downloaded almost all the beach boys instrumental versions available on youtube but is there an instrumental version of "fun, fun, fun" out there?

[BeachBoysGuy1]

Yes there is. and it's amazing to hear a chorus of saxaphones playing in the background. Brian rules and always has.

John Hunter Phillips

[1goodvibrations]

oh, really, i haven't come across it. could you give me the link if you have it? thanks

[colindominy]

Man..this "California Girls" instrumental piece still sends shivers up my spine, everytime I play it at home, or hear it elsewhere, such as here on your site, Julian. It's one of the most amazing pieces of music I've ever heard. Along with Brian's later "Our Prayer", the "Smile" opening-piece. The "Help Me Rhonda" instrumental backing-track here is similarly powerful, but for different kind of reasons - a lovely up-beat rhythm, nice chord changes + BW-special-unique combined instrument-riffs.

[spacepatrolman]

Phil ochs wrote a record review of the records of that year and he said the beach boys reached a new level of production with californis girls and barry sadler reached a new level of musical death with the ballad of the green berets.

[carlmoore19]

In case it's not been mentioned already: This is like "Stack o Tracks" record, which had some Beach Boys songs without the vocals. In the video I am commenting, you hear "California Girls", "Help Me Rhonda", "You're So Good to Me" in this treatment. I only see "You're So Good to Me" in listing I found on Wikipedia.

[spacepatrolman]

Help me rhonda wasnt on the stack o tracks lp and it wasnt on the british import either [only on the cd ] If I remmeber correctly california girls wasnt either.

[spacepatrolman]

CALIFORNIA GIRLS wasnt on the original stack o tracks lp I have british import copy its not on that either is it on the cd i FORGET[ you have to watch your ass because if you sell bootlegs on the street you can get arrested by the fbi its ok to listen to videos in youtube though .

[nc51heel]

sweet. thanks for the post.

[chersch5]

Kinda off subject... but can you imagine living in a world that would have never experienced the tracks recorded by The Wrecking Crew and The Funk Brothers?? Or the studios that gave out this unbelievable sound? Those two session musician groups and Gold Star Recording Studios and Hitsville simply changed America artistry. Thanks so much for this vid upload. The California Girls track really made my day.

[RonaldVaughan]

BTW,until recently I had on eBay listed

a REAL Gold Star jacket!

Contact me w/offer if you want it. It was

given to me by Johnette ("Concrete Blonde") Napolitano in 1982......she worked at that studio for a while.

GOLD STAR original jackets have NEVER

been on sale to the public. Dave Gold

only made $125 black replicas available.

Mine's the real deal....wine-red satin!

Great condition,needs only a little dry-

cleaning (from 27 years in storage,LOL!)

[spacepatrolman]

If you look at the book on shakeltons voyage to antartica in 1918 they have pictures of them listening to 78s what were they listening to not rock around the clock [ maybee freeze around the clock ] .

[at0miklust]

i love how California Girls just builds into this huge pop explosion - thanks for uploading :)

[fluffythecat2]

nice

my world feels better listening to the instrumental backing

thanks julian

[regentv980]

super to here complex arangements

[colindominy]

A CLOSE listen to this original "California Girls" backing-track will instantly reveal to the uninitiated, just why Brian Wilson is acknowledged world-wide as the greatest musical talent of the 20th Century - bar none ! This is Brian at his absolute best ! The "Help Me Rhonda" backing track is a cute knock-out too - but it came along earlier in Brian's evolution, and so 'lacks' the later sophistication of "Calif Girls". As for "You're So Good To Me" - well, it's from Pet Sounds - 'nuff said !!

[RonaldVaughan]

BOTH Beach Boys harmony AND backing tracks

(done by legendary session musicians) were

GREAT!!

I agree...BRIAN WILSON = genius songwriter!!

[weezadam]

actually "You're so good to me" is from Summer Days and Summer Nights, their last studio LP released in the summer of 1965, not Pet Sounds.

[huskernation9]

I say this because basically john and paul blew brian away(in his eyes) and he reduced himself to loading up on lsd25 and playing in his kids sandbox

[1newmajority]

See...the mark of a real genius....

[exworthy2009]

this is the best

[travisdoucettemusic]

Is that a mistake at 6:31 or is that quick chord change in the acoustic intentional?

[hujjesb]

I love the beach boys they remind me of the best years of my life ,.my good times pretty girls yeh wish I could start all over again ,.would change nothing ,.beach boys the best,.

[ALK95]

The instrumention with the Beach Boys and the Beatles always blows me away. Especially from the mid sixties. Brian Wilson was brilliant.

[1newmajority]

I have a question. I'm 28 years old. In my opinion the greatest music era was in this order; 30s-40s Blues/Jazz/Big Band; 60s-70s Motown/Rock; late 80s-mid 90s Hip Hop/Grundge; 1910-20s Ragtime; 70s-80s Disco/Love Songs.

I write this to show my love for truly good music over the last hundred years.

But what I don't get is the love of the Beattles. They have tracks that are good. But why is everyone so in love with them? Give me the Beach Boys and The Doors over the Beattles any time.

[huskernation9]

You love brian wilson so much ask HIM what he thinks of john lennon and paul mccartney.some people just dont wanna give them their due cuz they are plated so much they feel that have to go to the "whats so great about the beatles" card...sigh...brian wilson was brilliant though

[1newmajority]

He said the same thing. In an interview a number of years ago...he said he never understood why the Beattles were loved so much. Ironically in the late 60s...the Beach Boys were voted the number one band of all time in......England.

[elasticmoon]

There is no formulaic reason... the music of The Beatles makes a lot of people happy, and moves them emotionally. How and why probably changes from person to person.

What one person finds musically challenging and satisfying to listen to another person can resent and find boring. The Beatles sound managed to please a lot of people.

[stumptacular]

what you are saying has some truth to it, however with any art that has mass appeal it usually contains some level of universally recognized mastery over the technical or conceptual aspects... some of the greats had it all... people travelled for weeks by foot to see leonardo da vincis mona lisa in its day... i think that bands like the beatles and BBs both started out HUNGRY and HURTING and WORKed very very hard... unbelievably hard...True masters

[punkrockefeller]

u tard, these r the beach boys.

[RonaldVaughan]

Shades of "Stack-O-Tracks",LOL!!

[huskernation9]

Im just stunned by the beauty of the melodies

[janestreetmusic]

The WRECKING CREW backed up Nancy Sinatra at The Viper Room one night..They were Great!

[olton7]

simply the best brian wilson showed the beatles how to do it all hail brian

[huskernation9]

I think john and paul were still better but man brian wilson by 1965-66 had pulled about equal to the beatles

[carthridge7]

no, he blew past them with Good Vibrations

[godwhyisthistaken]

cool pics

[RonaldVaughan]

This is "California Girls". Probably from

"Stack-o-Tracks". Probably the so-called

"Wrecking Crew",LOL!!

I get off on great instrumentals....

[belisariusorb]

Muy buenos todos los temas... de donde los has sacado?

[mfsbrz]

I can feel Hal's hammers here! Baang, baang, baang, dooorrdoooodoooo pang! This is absolutely great! Brasses, drums, basses! All in perfect match! Brian is the best!

[xwsftassell]

Tip-top.

[pianorman]

...might even be Glen Campbell on 12-string electric - he often played on their sessions (and was a Beach Boy for a short time)

[garginshmunkle]

It's him for sure.

[raiphdude7]

Who ever it is, THANK YOU JULIANSOUNDS FOR PUTTING THIS UP

[C4Toalla]

This is gotta be "The Wrecking Crew" backing?..Leon Russell on organ??

[pianorman]

That would be my guess...he was on most of them, Hal on drums, Carol Kaye on bass

[pianorman]

Checking out other songs, it's a possibility, too, that it could be Don Randi - he did session work on organ around this time. It would sure be nice to be able to go back and just be a fly on the wall in that studio, seeing the Wrecking Crew at work, Darlene Love, and whoever else happened in.