The Beach Boys - Add some music to your day

Canción perteneciente al disco 'Sunflower' (1970)

ADD SOME MUSIC [TO YOUR DAY] (B.Wilson/J.Knott/M.Love)
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The sunday mornin' gospel goes good with the soul
There's blues, folk, and country, and rock like a rollin' stone
The world could come together as one
If everybody under the sun
Add some music to your day
(Add some music, add some add some music to your day)

You'll hear it while you're walkin' by a neighbor's home
You'll hear it faintly in the distance when you're on the phone
You're sittin' in a dentist's chair
And they've got music for you there
To add some music
To your day

Add some music music everywhere
Add some add some add some add some music
Your doctor knows it keeps you calm
Your preacher adds it to his psalms
So add some music
To your day

Music
When you're alone
Is like a companion
For your lonely soul

When day is over
I close my tired eyes
Music is in my soul

At a movie you can feel it touching your heart
And on every day of the summertime
You'll hear children chasing ice cream carts
They'll play it on your wedding day
There must be 'bout a million ways
To add some music
To your day

Add some music to your day
Add some music to your day
Add some music to your day
Add some music to your day
Add some music to your day

Category:

Music

Tags:

• brian
• carl
• dennis
• wilson
• mike
• love
• al
• jardine
• bruce
• johnston

[mrperez666]

Why did this record bomb in America? I don't get it. The years 1966 up to 1973 were creatively some of the greatest music i've heard from this group. ...and this record TOPPED OUT AT #151 ON THE CHARTS!!! Why??!!

This was their worst performing album until MIU almost 10 years later.

The American public have their ears up their asses

[806samuel]

DITTO!!! SUNFLOWER IS THE BEST

[Argonaut121]

I have always been pretty disheartened by the fact that this album, and their others of the same era, didn't do well. I guess it was a combination of the stereotypes they were confronting as a band and the fact that the late 60's seemed to discredit music that didn't have a "message". Truly, this song can cheer me up no matter how foul a mood I'm in. Maybe it's a bit naive, but that is sop much a part of its charm. And how beautifully sung and produced!

[Jody07984]

There's no WAY this LP should have tanked. It's an awesome LP, one of their best, I feel.

[bandsmackdab]

Add some music. A wonderful song by Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys. Ohhh i like the close harmony. Makes me feel so good!!

[jamesah123]

One of their all time best.

[JuxtaposeMystery]

@806samuel no it isnt

[ClubViking63]

@mrperez666 You have to be in sync with the time, that is all.....

Does not matter if you can make good music, if the audience prefers another style,

then you will be forgotten.

That was the trouble for the Beach Boys at the late 60´s and early 70´s.

[thevoiceoftheBBs]

Thanks, PeterP, glad you enjoyed my comments....the Sunflower album is the first production that was really focused on ALL BBs, including Bruce, and the first album where we would see DW's real talent emerge. It would take another six solid years to see him step out and give us "Pacific Ocean Blue," but it really started with Sunflower. The more I listen to todays music--the more I realize how much talent was displayed in those early works..many on 4 tracks--and no Pro Tools to tune the vocals!

[thevoiceoftheBBs]

Thanks for all your kind words, folks. Add Some Music & Sunflower are as good 41 years after their release--as they were then. Now, with all the excitement over the SMiLE set--maybe folks will check out the other less known BB catalog & give "Sunflower" it's just due. Fred/Nashville, TN.

To the person who is going to see M&B in Atlanta in September, tell em hi for me. I saw 'em in Huntsville, AL several months ago & they sounded great...band does well but still no Carl and DW. RIP, my brothers

[peterp21]

Is this the only song where all 6 sang lead, or at least a semi-lead? Mike on the verses, Bruce finishes two of the verses, Carl at the bridge, Brian with "When day is over", Al with the "ice cream carts", and Dennis with "Add some music just add some music like" at each verse.

[peterp21]

@thevoiceoftheBBs I like this better than Pet Sounds too. I get that Pet Sounds is an "important" album and that might cloud some folks' opinion of it (i.e., they *should* like it or be a musical cretin), but Sunflower is more accessible and has more variety to it. PS is a bit lugubrious and slow, and the sound of much of the album is very baroque.