The Beach Boys – “Don't Worry Baby” (1964)

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[beelzepug]

“Back then, everybody got screwed over.”

Yeah, but not by your own DAD! BTW, Don’t Worry Baby was the best song the group ever recorded, for my money.

[lilypad]

Good song but it has an anti Trump ad .

[plain talk]

"It didn’t capture the essence of ‘Be My Baby.’ If anything it captured Jody Reynolds’s ‘Endless Sleep.’"

Huh? "Don't Worry Baby" sounds nothing like that song you posted. I think I'll go with Brian Wilson's version of what inspired him. :-)

[sparklite2]

Be My Baby has no musical resonance I can see with Don’t Worry.

At any rate. by its essence, I meant both songs were founded and on dark events. The original version of Endless Sleep even had the girl drown!

[plain talk]

I see what Brian is talking about and I see it. It’s in the harmonies and quite obvious. I write songs. Occasionally I will know where the essence, mood or groove of a certain passage came from (in my mind). If I mentioned to someone and they listened to the two songs they might not even see a resemblance. But I know where the essence of the passage came from.

[sparklite2]

Speaking of that era, do you remember Popsicles, Icicles?
I’m convinced Ray Stevens got the inspiration for Guitarzan from the aforementioned. It was where they sang, “He loves bright stars and guitars and ...” Four years later, Guitarzan emerged.

[plain talk]

“Speaking of that era, do you remember Popsicles, Icicles?
I’m convinced Ray Stevens got the inspiration for Guitarzan from the aforementioned. It was where they sang, “He loves bright stars and guitars and ...” Four years later, Guitarzan emerged.”

You are killing me. :-) I had not heard those songs in dozens and dozens of years and just played them again.

The songs are quite different as you know but there is a lyric style in common. The use of the “He does this. He does that.” sort of thing. Thanks for posting that. I am still smiling.

[trisham]

Great song!!

[gigster]

You grew up in Detroit?[shudder] Detroit used to be the best city to grow up in in the 1960's and early 1970's. The neighborhoods were vibrant and the families were intact and productive. everyone that I knew had fathers that worked for a living and provided for their families. All the kids that I knew went to Detroit Public Schools and learned to read, write, and think logically and rationally. Detroit used to have the highest per capita income in the U. S. at the time when I lived there. Unfortunately, the Demo-Rats retained control and ruined it for everyone else.

[gigster]

I’ll put the Temptations, The Four Tops, and the Supremes up against the Beach Boys any day, to say nothing about Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder.