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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Smile_(The_Beach_Boys_album)Smile (The Beach Boys album) - Wikipedia

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   5 days ago · The album was produced and almost entirely composed by Brian Wilson with guest lyricist and assistant arranger Van Dyke Parks, both of whom conceived the project as a riposte to the British sensibilities that had dominated popular music of the era.

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2. oldtimemusic.com › w3 › the-meaning-behind-the-songThe Meaning Behind The Song: Sail On, Sailor by The Beach ...

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   May 13, 2024 · Written by Ray Kennedy, Jack Rieley, Van Dyke Parks, Tandyn Almer, and Brian Wilson, “Sail On, Sailor” is a timeless classic by American rock band The Beach Boys. Featured on their 1973 album “Holland,” the song has continued to resonate with audiences through the years, making it one of the Beach Boys’ perennial favorites.

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   Who is Van Dyke Parks?

   • There, he was introduced to Van Dyke Parks, a 23-year-old professional songwriter, arranger, session musician, and former child actor. [nb 4] Parks had moved to Los Angeles a few years earlier, hoping to compose the scores to Disney films, but instead lent his services to the Byrds and MGM pop groups the Mojo Men and Harper's Bizarre.

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   Did Van Dyke Parks answer the General Inquisition?

   • The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on April 14, 2015. Parks, Van Dyke (December 2011). " 'Twas Brillig: Van Dyke Parks answers the general inquisition (viz "author" Mike Eder et al) on the Beach Boys' reunion and Smile ". Bananastan. Archived from the original on May 13, 2013.

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   What did Wilson think about Smile & Van Dyke?

   • Parks said that Wilson envisioned Smile as experimenting with "the mind-expanding possibilities of music and the mind-expanding properties of drugs". Van Dyke had a lot of knowledge about America. I gave him hardly any direction. We wanted to get back to basics and try something simple.

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   Why did parks dislike Wilson's music?

   • Parks supported that his associations with the spiritual aspect of Wilson's work were "inescapable", but professed that he disliked writing lyrics that dealt with religious belief, believing it gave the appearance of "trying to be uppity".

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4. oldtimemusic.com › w3 › the-meaning-behind-the-songThe Meaning Behind The Song: Sail On, Sailor by KGB (1975)

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   May 7, 2024 · “Sail On, Sailor,” originally known as a Beach Boys track, has a rather tortured history. Legend has it that Van Dyke Parks drew a demo out of Brian Wilson after a difficult writing session in 1971. Brian then showed the tune to Ray Kennedy and Tandyn Almer at a party, and Ray promptly wrote lyrics for it.

5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Brian_WilsonBrian Wilson - Wikipedia

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   2 days ago · 1942–1961: Background and musical training Childhood Brian Douglas Wilson was born on June 20, 1942, at Centinela Hospital Medical Center in Inglewood, California, the first child of Audree Neva (née Korthof) and Murry Wilson, a machinist who later pursued songwriting part-time. His ancestry includes Dutch, Scottish, English, German, Irish, and Swedish origins. Wilson's two younger brothers ...

6. www.udiscovermusic.com › stories › rufus-wainwright‘Rufus Wainwright’: How The Singer-Songwriter’s Debut Bucked ...

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   May 19, 2024 · Wainwright’s big break came in 1995 after his demo found its way – via his father – to Van Dyke Parks, an idiosyncratic singer/songwriter/arranger who had worked with the Beach Boys.

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7. www.nytimes.com › 2024/05/20 › artsThe (Very Brief) Return of Gastr del Sol - The New York Times

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   May 20, 2024 · “And after this really austere set of spiky improvisations, he put Van Dyke Parks’s ‘Discover America’ on the sound system. That was the sense of range one hopes for in a collaborator.”

8. www.latimes.com › entertainment-arts › musicHow Steve Albini changed rock music, in 12 essential songs

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   May 9, 2024 · Not a serrated guitar in sight — just Newsom’s voice, her harp and Van Dyke Parks’ pinprick orchestral arrangements, each recorded with such precision and intimacy that listening feels like...