1. Wild Honey
(2:37) [Brian Wilson/Mike Love]
2. Aren't You Glad
(2:15) [Brian Wilson/Mike Love]
3. I Was Made To Love Her
(2:04) [Cosby/Hardaway/Moy/Wonder]
4. Country Air
(2:19) [Brian Wilson/Mike Love]
5. A Thing or Two
(2:40) [Brian Wilson/Mike Love]
6. Darlin'
(2:11) [Brian Wilson/Mike Love]
7. I'd Love Just Once To See
You
(1:49) [Brian Wilson/Mike Love]
8. Here Comes The Night
(2:41) [Brian Wilson/Mike Love]
9. Let The Wind Blow
(2:19) [Brian Wilson/Mike Love]
10. How She Boogalooed It
(1:56) [Mike Love/Bruce Johnston/Alan
Jardine/Wilson]
11. Mama Says
(1:04) [Brian Wilson/Mike Love]
Singles:
Wild Honey b/w Wind Chimes (C 2028)
Darlin´ b/w Here Today (C 2068)
Production Infos:
Produced By The Beach Boys.
Songs Recorded At Brian Wilson's Home Studio.
Engineered By Jim Lockert, Second Engineer Bill Halverson
Album Infos:
The album is often called the BB "soul"
album.
The BB, for the first time since 1963, played on most of
the instrumental tracks on the album.
There is significant evidence that even after Smiley Smile
was released, Capitol asked Brian to finish Smile. Smiley
Smile was released as Brother 9001 and Wild Honey was slated
to be Brother 9003. What was going to be 9002 is unknown,
but one strong possibility, judging from Capitol´s
internal memos of 1967, is that it was supposed to be Smile.
Wild Honey - Oct. 13, 1967
On Oct.13, Capitol assigned a project number to a new Beach
Boys album, already titled WILD HONEY and planned for release
as Brother ST9003. Early in November, information was submitted
to Capitol about the album. The originallineup was:
Wild Honey/Here Comes The Night/Let the Wind Blow/I Was
Made to Love Her/The Letter (live version)/Darlin'/A Thing
or TwolAren't You Glad/Cool Cool Water/Game of Love/Lonely
Days.
Certainly a muchly different album, possibly one that wouldn't
have seemed quite so "thrown down." Note that
with the exception of "Been Way Too Long" (which
Brian must have considered unfinished since he would return
to it the following July), "With a Little Help from
My Friends" (which Bruce says was never intended for
release) and the untitled song, that's everything the group
had just recorded. Curiously, a I2th track, "Honey
Get Home" (possibly the untitled song?) was listed,
but crossed out. A marginal note indicates the first five
songs would have been on Side 1 of the album, leaving six
songs for Side 2. The album still was designated Brother
9003. Even more importantly, the album was to be credited
"Produced by BRIAN WLLSON"! Then something happened.
I can't say exactly what, but I can pinpoint the occurrence
as between Nov. 3 (when they completed the tracks for the
original WILD HONEY lineup) and Nov. 8 (when they started
recording additional songs). And the result was that Brother
Records died and Brian's original conception of the WILD
HONEY album was altered. A Nov. 15 Capitol memo referred
to the WILD HONEY album as Capitol 2859. The track list
was revised, dropping "The Letter," "Cool
Cool Water," "Game of Love" and "Lonely
Days," and adding a1l five songs recorded in the previous
week. And perhaps most significantly, the production credit
was changed to "Produced by THE BEACH BOYS."
I think your speculation that "Game of Love" may
have been a cover of the Mindbenders hit is quite plausible.
As for "Lonely Days", there's some kind of irony
that the Bee Gees also did a song with that title when they
were attempting to "toughen up" their image in
the early seventies. Also, given Brian's penchant for recycling
songs and song fragments, I began to wonder if the bridge
to "Crack At Your Love" may have had its origins
in this long lost Wild Honey track. "Crack" is
credited to Brian and Al Jardine, and there are a number
of other songs of the late sixties that Brian wrote with
Al.
When the WILD HONEY album was completed in November, Brian
and the group did not again enter the studio until March
of the next year.
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