Well, along with our special feature of this Beach Boys' Christmas Album,
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once again I'm happy to see the smiling face of the leader of
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this popular group here in the studio, Brian Wilson.
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Good to see you again, Brian.
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Hi, Jack.
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This Beach Boys' Christmas Album is really something.
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Ah, Dick Reynolds did the arrangements, I guess, huh?
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Yes, he did. He did a beautiful job, a wonderful job.
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Is this the first time you've worked with him?
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Right. I'd been, uh, wanting to meet him and work with him for quite a long time.
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Now who's idea was it to have you featured on this, uh, one particular tune--I,
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I was particularly impressed with it--"A Blue Christmas."
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Well, I... sort of picked out that song to sing for myself.
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I, I love the song and uh, I've always wanted to sing it, so I thought I'd sing it.
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Well, maybe this will be the start of a whole new career, huh?
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I don't know, that's... It, it could, and it couldn't. Ah... I really don't know.
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Well, let's leave it to the listeners to see what they think of it.
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Right.
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I notice this album has uh, ah, along with some of the popular things like, uh,
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"I'll Be Home For Christmas," uh, "Auld Lang Syne," and uh, um, "We Three Kings"
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and some of the traditional things, that you have a couple of your,
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your own, uh, Beach Boys type sounds in the LP, too.
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Uh-huh, we've more or less made one side, uh, our own style, and...
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Kind of a teen side and an adult side.
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Uh-huh, right, um-hm. Contrasting.
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Uh-huh. Now, we have, uh, one of your originals coming up here, Brian.
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Uh, "Christmas Day." You wrote this for the album specifically?
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Yes, I did. Uh-huh.
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Uh-huh. And now, do you do your, the vocal arrangements,
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or did Dick Reynolds handle all of that?
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Dick handled the vocal arrangements on the, ah, the modern side
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--the traditional side--and I did the, ah, vocal and the
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arrangements of the music on our own style--our basic style--side.
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Dick did the strings, also, on the, uh, on the modern side.
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Coming up now, ah, a very sentimental type Christmas song,
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particularly for those who are away from home during this time of year
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--"I'll Be Home For Christmas." Any, ah, thing particular about this,
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this tune that you'd like to say, Brian?
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Ah, well, I guess there's something very obvious when you hear the song.
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It's, ah, there's a very definite influence of the Four Freshmen
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on the arrangement as well as the delivery, and, uh, obviously
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we all look up and admire the style of the Four Freshmen and,
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uh, I feel this has been the greatest--one of the greater--
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vocal influences, ah, in the world today.
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Well, it's certainly been, uh, nice of you to take the time to come
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by again here for our special Beach Boys' Christmas show.
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You have a fine album here and, uh, I hope you'll be home for Christmas.
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Well, I hope I will, too. I hope everyone's home for Christmas.
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I do, too. Brian Wilson, thanks again for coming by.
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Thank you very much, Jack.
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And here again, the Beach Boys' Christmas Album.
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Brian Wilson Christmas Interview
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