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| From | Andrew Hickey <stealthmunchkin@gmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: SMILE |
| Date | Tue, 28 Sep 2004 20:02:56 +0100 |
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> Does anyone know if all the music/lyrics were written back in '67, or was
> some of the stuff "brand new"? I am thinking particulary about some of the
> shorter links between more well known songs where the music sounds more
> like recent BW solo stuff and the lyrics are not as opaque as in typical VD
> Parks' style (eg the link between "Wonderful" and "Child is the Father of
> the Man").
Hmm... I'm not sure what you mean here. The *very* short links (the
ones that are a couple of bars long) were created by Darian Sahanaja
and Paul Mertens (who incidentally isn't getting nearly the credit he
should be for his wonderful orchestrations on this and on Brian's last
album) based on phrases from the songs. However, the specific track
you refer to (Song For The Children) is a full track. The backing
track was recorded in 66 and has been bootlegged as Look. Whether the
lyrics and vocal melody were written then or are new now is only known
by Brian and Van Dyke...
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