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| Blondie Chaplin with Brian Wilson |
Just before I pack away my Brian Wilson memories and take them up to my cerebral attic, I thought I'd just briefly mention a personal favourite of mine (tho' not, interestingly, one of Wilson's). Taken from their 1973 album, Holland, it's a Van Dyke Parks collaboration whose lead vocal was sung by neither Brian Wilson, Carl Wilson or indeed Mike Love. Blondie Chaplin, for it is he, was both a time served Beach Boy and a Rolling Stone (and how many people can say that?). Maybe when the dust (or should I say sand?) has settled I'll write a few words about one of rock and roll's unsung heroes. Until then, here is one of the band's most luxuriant, plaintive cries...
The Beach Boys - Sail On, Sailor (1973)
And Blondie's Beach Boys and earlier Rockets colleague Rikki Fataar was in the Rutles. What a pair.
ReplyDeleteIndeed he was. With the African connection, is it a story you've already told, Ernesto?
DeleteDon't think so, but I also told it wrong. They were in The Flames not The Rockets (The Flames were the big 'Cape Malay' band of the 1960s, The Rockets took the crown in the 1970s)
DeleteNice - think I've heard that one on the radio but probably didn't put it down as being a Beach Boys song.
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