Wednesday, May 23, 2018

“Friends” #47 5/18/1968

After the Beach Boys pulled the plug on their “Smile” album, they were in a period of seriously declining popularity. They canceled the rest of a concert tour after drawing a crowd of just 800 to the Singer Bowl, a 16,000 seat venue in Queens, NYC. But Brian Wilson pressed on and co-composed this rare waltz from a rock group. It became the title track from their poorest selling LP to date.


1 comment:

Tal Hartsfeld said...

Title song's a classic, though.
And there's even a bossa nova style track on the album at that
...although the album as a whole is a bit bland otherwise.