Good Vibrations

Good Vibrations is the title of a song by the Beach Boys. This lavishly produced piece was the second million-seller and the group took place in 1966 one of the charts in the U.S. and the UK.

Genesis

Composer Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys remembers that his mother in his childhood, always spoke of having dogs could recognize by some people emanating bad vibes ( "bad vibrations" ) and therefore would bark. The play is about a protagonist who is attracted to a girl who encourages him to other activities. That was the basic idea for the title, which was implemented in stages starting in February 1966 as part of the studio work on the album Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys. The textual elaboration was difficult because the planned copywriter like Van Dyke Parks and Tony Asher were not available or text proposals were rejected as unsuitable. The musical supervision as a music producer had taken Brian Wilson.

The recordings

Therefore, initially focused on the music track that was scheduled for the first admission date February 17, 1966. To August 24, 1966, the text had been completed only by band member Mike Love, in " Good Vibrations " extended the working title " Vibrations". After take 26, a stereo mix, lay before an instrumental version of the coarse Music Track. The cast for the song was next to the Beach Boys from the studio musicians of the Wrecking Crew as Glen Campbell ( lead guitar ), Barney Kessel (guitar), Carol Kaye (bass ), Larry Knechtel ( Hammond organ ), Don Randi (harpsichord ) or Hal Blaine (drums). The game played by Jessie Ehrlich Cello is used experimentally as a rhythm instrument. These musicians were ordered individually by Brian Wilson and their sound often spend hours perfecting what the studio costs increased. Coarse song texts emerged on February 18, the resulting recording was initially postponed so that the band could again focus on the production of Pet Sounds on February 25.

With a time interval that track was reviewed on 24 May to 18 June and further processed to reset this recording then until August 24, 1966 again. On that day, the various portions of the recording were summarized in the form of a musical collage and copied with the text today - now this was already the 18th recording session. The hochtonigen parts of the music track created with an electric Tannerin, played by and named after its inventor, Paul Tanner, who had worked with Glenn Miller as a trombonist and was now working at UCLA. The device can generate sine waves span four octaves. This unusual instrument was referred to in the music magazine Rolling Stone as " psychedelic " part of the song. " A theremin, a device that produces similar sounds, was not used. Already in early May 1966, decided to Good Vibrations but not to use for the album Pet Sounds, which was released on May 16, 1966.

It was only on September 21, 1966 was, exactly seven months after the start of production, the final mix of the song in the Columbia Recording Studios. Overall, it took 22 recording sessions in six recording studios of Los Angeles, four of which in the final mix ( Western Recorders Studio 3 from February, Gold Star Studio in April, Sunset Sound in May, Columbia Recording Studios in September ) were represented by Good Vibrations. Since each studio has its characteristic sound, the different recording sessions will still be heard today. In order to perfect the song, recording 94 hours were required. These were - on production costs of $ 50,000, alone, the use of Tannerin devoured $ 15,000 - then unusually high. This was the first pop song was created, which was composed of a variety of takes from various studios and completed the single with the all-time high production costs. An official stereo version of the title no longer exists.

Publication

Published on the single Capitol # 5676 on October 10, 1966 Good Vibrations / Let's Go Away For Awhile, the title came down to number one among others in the U.S. and the UK, while he penetrated into Germany only up to Rank 8. Within four days, 400,000 copies were sold in the U.S., in the UK, a total of 300,000 over the counter. On 21 December 1966, the song reached the status of millions Sellers.

For the first time on LP he appeared on Smiley Smile, published September 11, 1967. When Brian Wilson in February 2004, his album Brian Wilson presents Smile imagined, he took the title for this new Good Vibrations on. He made him, however, with the original text by Tony Asher in scene, which also had a slightly different tune the result. The song was released as a single and peaked in the UK charts in 30th

Cover versions and Statistics

Good Vibrations has been covered at least 36 times, for the song received the Beach Boys a Grammy nomination for Best Vocal Group in 1966. The title brought a BMI Award and is ranked 6 of the 500 best songs of the music magazine Rolling Stone. The Beach Boys were hereby awarded for the fifth time in her career with a gold record. Good Vibrations was. According to I Get Around and Help Me Rhonda, the third number -one hit of the band, both the U.S. charts as well as the ranking of the year topped 1966 2004 British Hit The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame called the song one of the 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll.