Friday, June 01, 2012

The Beach Boys - Forever


















Loveliness.  And then there's more loveliness with the American Spring version, sung by Brian Wilson's wife at the time, Marilyn Rovell -



And finally, there's this version -



Remember during the Kokomo sessions, when one Beach Boy said to another, incredulously but resigned - "I mean, from Pet Sounds to this crap?"

8 comments:

emmett said...

"If you remember the Kokomo sessions, you weren't there."

gregcondon said...

"smile? more like grimace!"

davyh said...

Dennis Wilson, the least celebrated of them all...but oh, what a song.

Anonymous said...

though one shouldn't play the BB/D. Wilson against marvin gaye i regard marvin g.'s "forever" as slightly better.

quod est demonstrandum:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ5e43t_9KY

dennis w. was the better surfer though....

ano. 2

JohnnyDiego said...

If that's Brian's wife what is brother Dennis doing with her in every picture?

JohnnyDiego said...

Anonymous liked the Marvin Gaye/Marvelettes song better than Dennis Wilson's version.
Well Marvin's "Forever" is a completely different song and was released five years earlier.

Sheridan Dupre said...

I think I'd be more surprised if Dennis Wilson *wasn't* with someone else's wife...

Talcum X said...

The best Beach Boys song for me is God Only Knows. I usually hate adverts but I'm eternally grateful to the new Volkswagen one for allowing me to rediscover it.

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