The Beach Boys ~ Surfer Girl
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Composer: The Beach Boys Song: Surfer Girl LYRICS: Little surfer little one Made my heart come all undone Do you love me, do you surfer girl Surfer girl my little surfer girl I have watched you on the shore Standing by the oceans roar Do you love me do you surfer girl Surfer girl surfer girl We could ride the surf together While our love would grow In my woody I would take you everywhere I go So I say from me to you I will make your dreams come true Do you love me do you surfer girl Surfer girl my little surfer girl Well Girl surfer girl my little surfer girl Well Girl surfer girl my little surfer girl Well Girl surfer girl my little surfer girl
Years of having waves to yourself disappeared with everyone wanting to be a surfer. The good times went when my last board was stolen & the secret beaches we knew of were discovered by the mob & became overcrowded. Only those who lived during those times know how it was spoiled by the inevitability of progress.
I am 73 now and my wax impregnated board bumps have long disappeared.
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I drove my woodie station wagon 150 miles to Duluth every damn SUMMER.
NOT kidding , either ! ! ! ! !
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standing by the oceans roar…
Good god!
I'm over here sweating!
As for the stats, wasn't that Churchill who said: I only believe in the stats I falsified myself ? Anyway, except for Asia, I seem to recall there's another continent or even two where "white" women live too, and they're not "bitchy", "feminist" or "obese whales", it starts with Eu and ends with pe.
/Paradox
um...OK.
i was being /sarc towards PC culture
But the great thing about Hawai'i is that, despite an anti-haole bias, fully justified in my view as a haole, race relations are good there. Interracial dating and marriage are the norm, unlike anywhere else in the U.S. Now, not many African-Americans, but if there were, they would be as much in the mix as all the others. That is the Hawai'ian way. If I could handle the heat and humidity, I would be back there. I can't, so I will die in Northern California. But if my daughters have the wherewithal, some of my ashes will find their way to Hanalei Bay on Kaua'i. Because I may be haole in my skin, but I am kanaka maoli in my heart.
Bay....I met my wife in Morro Bay she is my surfer Girl 1969
Don't lie, it was 'cause you all smoked like chimneys
Edison High School, Huntington Beach, California, My Facebook is "Dave Bobdill"
We got bipolar weather here. It was 70 last week and then it just happens to snow today. Our weather is so fucked.
I live here and I couldn't be happier!
no, it was taken in Hawaii
This video is more like a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit shoot. Too stylized. Too sexual. Don't get me wrong, in and of itself its a beautiful video. But I think It would have been nicer if it was not a fashion model shoot, and if there was only one girl. It's too much like a commercial for swimwear. To my mind it takes away from the song's innocence
How can it be "totally wrong" if it's my opinion?
I personally think it's a mismatch. . To me it's a swimsuit add. Too stylized. Too produced. Too commercial and too sexual for the naivety of the song. You like it, great.
Amen, Will
I'm good looking, but very shy. This is a catch 22 because not only am I afraid to approach girls, they're afraid to approach me and/or just assume there's no way in hell I'm single. Girls smile and act all nervous/giggly around me all the time, but I don't know how to talk to them and they won't approach me so it's hopeless. lol
Don't worry bro just keep trying. You never know when an angel will fall into your life. And even if it doesn't, not all is lost. Putting religion aside, when you die you're basically in the exact same "state-of-being" you were in before you were ever born. So who says you can't be born again? Anything is possible. Live free, enjoy your life and do the best you can. If you die before you find happiness you might get another chance.
kudos to whoever tossed this together
I wonder what it's like to wake up, look in the mirror and know that the vast majority of all significant art produced in the world was inspired by the soft gaze of a muse that looks like you. It's nice to know that sirens still exist.
The synapses, melody and spectacular wonder of a genius' schizophrenic brain brought me here.
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To think this song was inspired by 'when you wish upon a star'
(c. Brian Wilson, 1961 - The first song which he ever wrote!)
To hear the song, please see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGjky5U64LM
The Song is in: 6/8 time. [A Slow Ballad/Waltz]. In the Key of D.
Guitar - Chord Progression.
{This is an old Doo Whoop chord progression – a 1645.}
Introduction:
D Dmaj7 Bm F#m G A
Ooooohooohooooh aaaaaaah ohhhhhh ahhhhhh.....
1st Verse:
D.........Bm7...G......A7.Dmaj7......D7..............G......Gm6
Little surfer little one, made my heart come all undone
D..........Bm7........G...........A7.....D...............Bm7.......G................A7
Do you love me, do you surfer girl, surfer girl my little surfer girl
2nd Verse
D.........Bm7.............G..........A7......Dmaj7..D7.......G........Gm6
I have watched you on the shore, standing by the ocean's roar
D..........Bm7.......G............A7.....D.................G................D....D7
Do you love me, do you surfer girl, surfer girl, surfer girl
3rd Verse
G...............A7........Dmaj7...Bm7...Em7.........A7................D.....D7
We could ride the surf together while our love would grow
G...........A7.....Dmaj7....Bm7........E7..................A...Bb
In my Woody I would take you everywhere I go
4th Verse
Eb...Cm7........Ab......Bb7..Ebmaj7..Eb7........Ab................Abm6
So I say from me to you, I will make your dreams come true
Eb..........Cm7.......Ab........Bb7....Eb.............Cm7.......Ab...............Bb7
Do you love me, do you surfer girl, surfer girl my little surfer girl
Eb...............Cm7.......Ab.............Bb7...Eb............Cm7.......Ab...............Bb7
Girl, surfer girl my little surfer girl, girl surfer girl my little surfer girl
For Guitar playing instructions, please see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MghO-rUdu2Q , and
For a Tutorial on Surfer Girl’s Vocals Parts, please see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYnaLyeujDU&list=RDIYnaLyeujDU#t=248
Little surfer, little one, make my heart come all undone, and she does……..
The quintessential surf ballad, built on the Phil Spector tradition but extended by Brian Wilson into new musical and harmonic territory.
Difficult to play and sing, but touching in an extremely special way.
The Intro
This is one of Brian's favourite little bits, this special little intro, and it's easy to see why.
Most of this song is based on fairly standard ballad material, with its 6/8 waltz tempo (a Lennon favourite tempo wise) and use of the I vi IV V progression, the basis for much of doo wop and Girl Group music. One way Brian gets extra mileage out of this cliché-based song is to start off with something new and different, accompanied by gorgeous scat vocals and harmonies:
D Dmaj7 Bm F#m G A
Ooooohooohooooh aaaaaaah ohhhhhh ahhhhhh.....
In short, we have a variant on the standard progression (D Bm G A) that is to come, but with a sneaky little chromatic descent from the root chord D that adds something plaintive and subtle.
The scat vocal enters just a bit after the first chord... so in a very short time we have a subtle building and entry of elements.
The lovely Four Freshmen stack is unmistakably Beach Boys and Brian, again quintessential.
And don't think the choice of ooh for the first, ahh for the second, oh (as in long O) for the third, and ahhh for the fourth phrase is accidental: try some variants and see if yours sound as good... and note that the first note is a B over D, a sixth.
Verses 1 and 2
As you've gathered by now, we're in the key of D and working in the standard ballad form of 6/8 tempo with the good old 1645 chord progression.
Thus we know what's happening in the beginning of the verses:
D Bm G A
Little surfer, little one
No surprise here, and though the harmonies are nice, this snippet could be anyone.
Not the continuation though; where you would expect the above to repeat there is instead:
F#m D G Gm
Make my heart come all undone
Goodbye Brill Building and Tin Pan Alley - hello America's Mozart from Southern California.
We should have been warned by the intro, but nonetheless there is an impact here that can't be understated. By establishing the generic pattern Brian has set up a wonderful opportunity to break it.
The major/minor shift is a descent, while behind it all the melody climbs upward in a way very characteristic of Brian's work and his whole approach to melody.
The harmony gets more sophisticated here too, the melody working its way out of the chord triads and into accentuating and passing sixths and ninths.
And we return to the basic chord pattern for the remainder of the verse and the transition between the two.
Most noteworthy is the little Ah-ah on the falsetto that comes in on the Bm during the transitional pattern:
D Bm G A D Bm G
A
Do you love me, do you surfer girl Ah ah, ah
(surfer girl - my little surfer girl)
The second verse repeats what we've seen so far since the intro.
This is a nice lyric, though:
I have watched you on the shore
Standing by the ocean's roar
Do you love me, do you surfer
Well, it almost repeats. Instead of the transition pattern that the falsetto came with, we have another, different transition to set up the break.
Again, working with a cliché and being an innovator, Brian has to keep coming up with at least semi-new stuff, so there is a very typical turnaround before the break:
D G D
girl surfer girl surfer girl ooh ooh oooh ooh ooh oooh
Break
Looking at the vocal arrangement, it's interesting to take note of what we've seen so far.
The intro had the falsetto sitting atop the stack, doing a slightly different rhythmic set of notes than the backing singers.
For the verse matter the lead and backing voices come together, singing different notes but all at the same time and on the same words.
In the transition between the verses they separate again as in the intro and pursue different agendas, the backers to maintain continuity and the falsetto/lead to make an abstract emotional statement.
In this next transition, the backers stop and the lead vocal carries the transition.
That sets up our next variation of form, in which the backers slip into a purer acappella/doowop backing mode while the lead is the only voice to sing the words:
G A D
We could ride the surf together
G A D D7
While our love would grow
G A D Bm
In my woodie I will take you
E A Bb
Everywhere I go-o-o
The first three lines here are pretty straightforward middle matter for just such a ballad.
The one little touch is the guitar player tickling a little C note in there on the second D, jazzing things up a bit and creating some asymmetry.
It's that last line where you find a true early sophisticated Brian moment; your basic some-kid-writing-surf-ballads-has-no-business-coming-up-with-that.
Under normal circumstances, you'd expect to see something like E in the minor, then the A major, and come back around to D for the next verse. But not here.
The Bm, totally in key and used several times before, is used to insert an E major chord, the old II or V of V chord so much associated with the styles of both Brian and the Beatles.
II or V of V is the fourth chord of Fun Fun Fun which is NOT a three chord song; and it appears in the coda to Yesterday, just as two prime examples.
Somehow that E major setting up the A is different than if you got there by means of the E minor chord you'd expect in the key of D; and sure enough, that allows a straight pull up a half step.
Again, this is a pretty common trick; entire songs have been built around it, On Broadway is one good example for you Drifters fans.
This is something the Beatles did only rarely, the shift at the guitar solo of And I Love her being the prime example.
And as you might imagine, it's a somewhat obvious way to attempt raising the emotional pitch and get more out of a limited chord pattern.
Brian's method of doing it coming out of the bridge is perhaps a signature gesture, the same thing happens during another beautiful ballad, namely Warmth of the Sun.
In the latter case, the feel is of added warmth, the sun brightening; in this case, I'd venture to say that the connection to the lyrical content is that the bridge makes a commitment, one stated more explicitly in the last verse, which is the same as the first two except for the new key:
Eb Cm Ab Bb Gm Eb Ab
Abm
So I say from me to you I will make your dreams come true
Eb Cm Ab Bb (rit, that is a little slowdown here...)
Do you love me, do you sur-fer
Eb Cm Ab Bb Eb Cm
Ab Bb (etc. and fade)
Girl (surfer girl my little surfer girl) Little one.... ah ahhh...
Little one... ah ahhh
The pause, the little slowdown at the end of the verse, is as if he's waiting to answer.
The plaintive falsetto on the "little one" line is that absolute Brian moment where the vocal soars at the end, seen in Fun Fun Fun and several other places, but nowhere to more emotional effect than here. In a way it seems the entire song was set up to make that moment happen, that pure wail of affection, a liberation of feeling.
It sits on the ninth (C) of Bb, going to the fifth and third of the following Eb (Bb-G), again very much in Brian's style.
In its own way it recalls the falsetto line in the intro, and the little bridge falsetto between the first two verses; or they act to make it more effective when it occurs, who is to say which....
Note on the Words
While much of what happens here lyrically is jargon and clichéd emotion, there are some things that stand out and are perhaps not as obvious.
On one level at least this woman is acknowledged as a peer; sure, he'll take her in his car and she's smaller than he, but she too is a surfer, and they will engage in that pursuit together.
And tiny though she might be in stature, making one's heart come all undone certainly counts for something and is a power of sorts.
Lastly it's important to note things not talked about. No other guys or girls are mentioned, no other people at all. Boy, girl, beach, ocean, woodie, dreams, those are the characters, no more.
No parents, bills to pay, future, death, jealousy, nothing.
A pure romantic vision, unrealistic perhaps, but what Shakespeare might call a consummation devoutly to be wished, however impractical it may seem to us nowadays...
Also, a great new surf song - https://michaelblu.bandcamp.com/track/choka-clean
surfs up!
Love Bill.
a HUGE hit. My twin sister, brother and my mother were walking down Hollywood and
Vine when we literally walked into the beach boys who had just left capital records. I thought my brother would faint. A year later the Beach Boys sang happy birthday to my
brother and only a handful of years ago they held a private concert at my neighbors home. Timeless music.
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Google up "The Truth Contest" if you're an honest, rational truth seeker.
Is it because you hate Jesus and love this so called "truth contest" Way to expose yourself mate. I'm sorry you don't want to hear about Christ, I'd prefer to just talk about the Beach Boys too so please ask this "truth contest" spammer to delete this whole thread.
Thanks!
So, just ignoring the previous post now are we?
No. Just disappointed in the lack of intelligence in the female community.
I win!
Ah, the "ignore and and stick with the god-awful retort I made" plan. I see I've officially won this argument. XD
I'm not religious at all, but I pray someone teaches you the concept of both time and public debating.
I was thinking about it actually. Care to join me with your kiddy voice too?
Bleeder? Oh you mean someone who replied and called you out on your lack of ability to comprehend how much time has passed.
I get it now.
Because as we all know, adult sizes only come in one size fits all... ;/
Wanna try again there slick? Or is the whole grammar Nazi retreat thing gonna be your desperate escape?
The one where you commented on less then 12 hours ago yet you talk about it like it's been ages?
That conversation?
Yes. Yes it is.
Perfectly said. I wish more thought like you. Instead of the cavemen with primitive minds we have roaming around today.
i remember about 8 or 9 years ago when the incredibly low cut jeans / pants were the fashion. Girls wore jeans right above their vagina. I think girls LOVE being looked at , at any cost
That would be fine. There's a difference between attractive and just plain nonfunctional and in poor taste.
(Kramer voice) That's a shame.
I've tried WoW. Didn't like it much. Metroid and Bioshock are more my game.
I'm 27 and if a girl put her ass in my face underwear too small or not, she'd get a swift shove, especially if I didn't know her.
I've done just about everything with the one girl I've had and like most men, I don't need to brag about sex and if I'm getting laid or not. To most, that's the most important thing in the world.
I'm not most.
I'll remember that next time daddy. I'm all for spelling things correctly but the whole Grammar Nazi thing makes you look really douchey. It's an easy retort when you don't really have a lot of ammo in the bag so to speak.
And girls who "don't belong"? Who are you again to decide? How bout YOU don't belong?
No I just follow a different path than most. I see things a little differently. It's a curse really.
Unlike most men I think with my big head first.
Thanks for the compliment tho. Preciate' it.
Wow, that was the seriously the gayest comment I've ever read. You can't just admire the beauty of these women and thank all that is life that we live where we can see such things in all their glory, all you think is "Boy do these women need to cover up more of their bodies". You need to reevaluate your life bud.
If you don't make waves in life, then how will things change?
Also not complaining. Just making a observation. The observation happens to be about full grown women wearing child-sized bathing suits and how ridiculous it looks.
Enough said.
But - lovely enuf.
:)