The Beach Boys made "good" use of the strange musical device known as a theremin on this 1966 No. 1 hit
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The Real Instrument Behind The Sound In 'Good Vibrations' : All ...  Feb 7, 2013 ... It's one of the most recognizable sounds in pop music. ... That high-pitched sound in The Beach Boys' 1966 masterpiece "Good ... Theremin's creation, but made it a lot simpler for non-experts to hit ... Tanner's instrument  like the theremin  was used in science ... That sliding is known as a portamento.
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Good Vibrations by The Beach Boys Songfacts  Good Vibrations by The Beach Boys song meaning, lyric interpretation, video and ... Good Vibrations by The Beach Boys. Album: Smiley SmileReleased: 1966Charted: 1. 1 .... Brian Wilson called this song "the summation of my musical vision. .... Mike Love used the Theremin in order to make the strange high pitch sounds.
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Early Beach Boys1962-1966 | The Pop History Dig  Jun 14, 2010 ... By June 1962 they had made a demo tape of songs including ... In the early 1960s, the Beach Boys hit upon a kind of magical if ... Surfin USA even outsold a number of the group's singles at the time, .... In 1988, the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame called Wilson one of the few undis- puted geniuses in pop music.
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Clara Rockmore: How the theramin went from impressing Lenin to ...  Mar 9, 2016 ... A Theremin is a musical instrument played without actually touching any part of the device and was one of ... Google has dedicated today's Google Doodle to a pioneer of the strange musical instrument .... The Beach Boys used a variation of the original Theremin in their hit song "Good Vibrations" in 1966.
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Good Vibrations - Wikipedia  "Good Vibrations" is a song composed and produced by Brian Wilson with words by Mike Love ... Initiated during the sessions for the album Pet Sounds (1966), it was not ... "Good Vibrations" was voted number one in the Mojo's "Top 100 Records of All ... The Beach Boys' leader Brian Wilson was responsible for the musical...
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Jan and Dean Band Surf City Song - See California  Surf City was written by Brian Wilson and Jan Berry, recorded by Jan and Dean, and was a #1 hit record in July 1963 for two ... the song and even got Brian Wilson into the studio to sing with the duo. Jan & Brian sang the lead together (doubling). Brian & Dean sang background falsetto parts, providing a unique sound that...
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The Beach Boys - Wikipedia  The Beach Boys are an American rock band formed in Hawthorne, California in 1961. .... Inspired by the simple structure and vocals of the rhythm and blues songs he .... The magazine praised Love's lead vocal and said the song had strong hit potential. .... Originally by the Regents, it became one of the Beach Boys' most...
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Early Beach Boys1962-1966 | The Pop History Dig  Jun 14, 2010 ... By June 1962 they had made a demo tape of songs including .... The Beach Boys had a previous Top Ten Christmas hit in 1963 with The Little...
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Hittin' The Web with The Allman Brothers Band :: Where Music Plus ...  Keith Richards Roger Daltrey Andrea Bocelli ... Bobby McFerrin Don't worry about that one song; some of his singing etc. was too cool. ... Luciano Pavarotti
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The Beach Boys Reviews  I've been listening to The Beach Boys perhaps longer than any other group on this ... Dance, Dance, Dance is not only a great danceable tune, but the ... Nonetheless, Brian did coordinate so that all of his best ideas made it onto .... The non-ballads are all fine too: some great pop songs in Catch a Wave, Little Deuce Coupe,...
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The 10 Best Novelty Songs of the '70s - Oldies Music - About.com  Here are the greatest novelty hits of the 1970s. ... attempt to transfer his success to "serious" songs during the tumultuous Nixon years, ... The Man in Black already had a once-in-a-lifetime novelty hit the previous ... "My Girl Bill," Jim Stafford ... associate him with "Johnny B. Goode," proof that talent and good songwriting...
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Better: The Beach Boys Or David Lee Roth? - 104.3 K-Hits Chicago  Jul 7, 2015 ... The song "California Girls" has been a hit on the charts twice and ... Lee Roth version is that Beach Boy Carl Wilson sings backup vocals on that...
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Factacular : More Albums - Missing Word  Oct 12, 2008 ... Tambourine -- Mr. ___ Man -- The Byrds (1965) Turn! -- Turn! ___ Turn! ... Easy -- The Ballad of ___ Rider -- The Byrds (1969) Hyde -- Dr. Byrds...
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J! Archive - Show #4365, aired 2003-07-18  This 1965 song heard here almost didn't get used in favor of one called "Mr. Kiss ... Scheduled to set sail in 2004, its logo is seen here (QM2)...
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Beach Boys B-sides gave us many memorable melodies  Jun 4, 2012 ... Brian Wilson was churning out classics too rapidly for the singles' ... that release continued the progress shown on the Surfer Girl LP, the first ... Well, it did reach #1 as the flip of Help Me, Rhonda. ... Side 2 gave us back-to-back wonders, LET HIM RUN WILD, the B-side of California Girls, and YOU'RE SO...
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Beatles Songwriting & Recording Database: The White Album  (Lennon/McCartney). PAUL 1968: "Chuck Berry once did a song called 'Back In The USA,' which is very ... PAUL 1984: "I wrote that as a kind of Beach Boys parody. ..... "The interesting thing for me on 'Julia' is the finger-picking (guitar) style.
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The Greatest Hits of 1966  ... best music. The Year is 1966 ... The Beach Boys - Wouldn't It Be Nice - 09-66 - Capitol The Beatles ... Eric Burdon & The Animals - See See Rider - 10-66 - MGM ... The Mindbenders - A Groovy Kind Of Love - 05-66 - Fontana .... Get to know MORE about the U.S. and UK top 20 charts from 1954 up to 'the present day' (ie.
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NOVELTY SONGS  Novelty songs have always been a fixture on the popular music charts--and they ... throughout the 1960s and 1970s, although only enjoying one major hit, the ... of the 1960s, song parodies had become the leading form of novelty recording. ... Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" (#1; 1960)--and self-deprecation (e.g., Larry Verne's "Mr.
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Route 66 - Pinterest  From 1962 and Acker Bilk - Stranger On The Shore - when instrumental songs could and did still hit the No 1 slot on Billboard. One of my very top favorites: MR.
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Mixes  Nine Kinds of Pie  Anyway, the Tokens recorded a hit version of the Peretti-Creatore-Weiss ... This recording appears as a b-side to R.E.M.'s The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite ..... The Beach Boys' first mega hit borrows its melody from Chuck Berry's Sweet Little...
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The Beach Boys - Wikipedia  The Beach Boys are an American rock band formed in Hawthorne, California in 1961. The group's original lineup consisted of brothers Brian, Dennis, and Carl Wilson, their cousin Mike Love, and their friend Al Jardine. They emerged at the vanguard of the "California Sound", initially performing ... In 1966, the Pet Sounds album and "Good Vibrations" single vaulted the...