The Beach Boys - Goodbye Surfing, Hello God! Disc 5

Label: Vigotone, VT-242

Total Time: 56:52
1. Add Some Music To Your Day (vocals only) (3:28)
2. Slip On Through (mix in progress) (3:47)
3. Forever (vocals only) (3:07)
4. Forever (alternate mix) (2:45)
5. San Miguel (alternate mix) (2:33)
6. Wouldn't It Be Nice (Merv Griffin) (2:19)


Live: Big Sur Folk Festival - October 3, 1970
7. Wouldn't It Be Nice (2:08)
8. Sloop John B. (2:41)
9. Country Air (2:34)
10. California Girls (2:36)
11. Aren't You Glad (3:40)
12. Cottonfields (3:07)
13. Their Hearts Were Made Of Spring (2:20)
14. Riot In Cell Block #9 (4:13)

15. Good Vibrations (4:33)
16. Student Demonstration Time (alternate mix) (3:28)
17. Only With You (live 1972) (3:51)
18. Sail On Sailor (instrumental / vocals only mix) (3:17)

The next several tracks spotlight some alternate mixes of songs recorded for Sunflower, the group's brilliant inaugural LP release for Brother/Warner Bros. in August of 1970.
1. Add Some Music To Your Day (vocals only) (3:28)
Recorded: Fall 1969
A terrific "vocals-only" mix of the Beach Boys' first single for Warner Bros., issued in February of 1970. All six (including Bruce) Beach Boys take a turn at one point or another, thus "Add Some Music To Your Day" is an obvious candidate for this type of isolated mixing!

2. Slip On Through (mix in progress) (3:47)
Recorded: Fall 1969
A mix in progress, with some booth conversation between the composer of the track, Dennis, and Carl about the track and the mixing process for the leadoff track on Sunflower.

3. Forever (vocals only) (3:07)
4. Forever (alternate mix) (2:45)
Recorded: Fall 1969
Two alternative ways of listening to one of the finest Dennis Wilson compositions: first, in a vocals-only mode, and then a different mix altogether from the one found on Sunflower.

5. San Miguel (alternate mix) (2:33)
Recorded: Fall 1969
The Dennis compositions just keep on comin', with a alternate mix of this track which varies in comparison to the one found on Ten Years Of Harmony, the 1981 compilation of the group's 1970-1980 Brother output where the track made its first appearance. While recorded for Sunflower, it was not used for that LP.

6. Wouldn't It Be Nice (Merv Griffin) (2:19)
Recorded: Summer 1970
Despite some blown lyrics by Al, this live performance for The Merv Griffin Show, complete with full horn section is a marvelous take on the Pet Sounds track. This airing of the track is followed up immediately by its appearance at another, slightly more important venue.

Live: Big Sur Folk Festival - October 3, 1970
7. Wouldn't It Be Nice (2:08)
8. Sloop John B. (2:41)
9. Country Air (2:34)
10. California Girls (2:36)
11. Aren't You Glad (3:40)
12. Cottonfields (3:07)
13. Their Hearts Were Made Of Spring (2:20)
14. Riot In Cell Block #9 (4:13)
15. Good Vibrations (4:33)
A lynchpin of the Beach Boys' early-70's resurgence was their performance at the Big Sur Folk Festival on October of 1970 alongside such acts as Joan Baez, Kris Kristofferson, Linda Ronstadt and Country Joe McDonald (in fact, he can be heard being introduced at the very end of "Good Vibrations"). Interestingly, this was not actually held in Big Sur, but at the site where the Monterey Pop Festival had been held three years previous at which the Beach Boys were a no-show!

Included here is the second of two sets the Boys played that fall day. While this was not the tightest concert from this era, it's certainly the best recorded, and this section from the show has a great mix of old and new tunes (though Bruce Johnston's admonition to the audience "to not shout out those old songs" during the introduction to "Their Hearts Were Full Of Spring" was a harbinger of things to come). Rolling Stone, who had shunned the Boys ever since it began publication in 1967, raved about their performance in an "all is forgiven, welcome home" review and paved the way to a major 2-part piece about their history the next year. Particular highlights include versions of their final Capitol single "Cottonfields" (noted as a "big hit everywhere else (except the US)") and the Coasters' "Riot In Cell Block #9" (prior to Mike Love's ruining the song by morphing it into his own hackneyed composition, "Student Demonstration Time" on 1971's Surf's Up). As a side note, Dennis was not present at this performance, as he was in the midst of shooting Two-Lane Blacktop with James Taylor.

16. Student Demonstration Time (alternate mix) (3:28)
Recorded: 1970
A Lieber/Stoller tune which turned up on Surf's Up with new "improved" lyrics courtesy of Mike.

17. Only With You (live 1972) (3:51)
Recorded: Late 1972
This Holland track was premiered during the 1972 tours and was a Carl tour de force; this rendition recorded at a Chicago concert was a particularly effective performance of the song.

18. Sail On Sailor (instrumental / vocals only mix) (3:17)
Recorded: November 28, 1972
A fantastic way to end this voyage through the vaults, here is the instrumental track to this last minute addition to 1973's Holland LP, the Brian Wilson/Van Dyke Parks/Tandyn Almer composition "Sail On Sailor". The song was attached to the album when Warners didn't hear a strong single in the other material recorded for the LP; while it didn't exactly burn up the charts, it was the last bit of compositional brilliance to be heard from Brian for almost five years.