Vegetables (song)

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That’s two separate worlds, where they’re able to put two things together. Its an idea I picked up from Asian art, from early woodblock prints, where you could look down into a building and see what’s going on in two or three different rooms. By having this different viewpoint, you’re able to incorporate more than one thing, so here there’s an interior and an exterior, and two separate worlds. It’s just a device to separate the graphics, so that you can experience two things.

That block on the left is supposed to be a photograph of a body of water, with those little black things you clip onto the corners. That was all to do with the elements, of course.

‘Vega-table’ is a split-up word, so I’ve got V-E-G-A sitting on the tops of tables, combining those two images. I got the interior out of the surf thing, with the sun and nature, and birds flying in the sky. Then there’s a picture of someone smiling there, probably Brian. Then there’s all the vegetables growing there, with the water coming down from the bolt of lightning and faucets coming out of the clouds, dripping water onto the plants. And of course the electric socket. Got to have electricity. [14]

Smile recording history

"Vegetables"
Song by the Beach Boys
from the album Smiley Smile
ReleasedSeptember 18, 1967 (1967-09-18)
RecordedApril 12 –June 3, 1967
Studio Gold Star, Sound Recorders, Columbia, and Beach Boys, Los Angeles
Length2:07
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Brian Wilson
Licensed audio
"Vegetables" on YouTube
External videos
Nuvola apps kaboodle.svg "Vega-Tables" (1966 demo)
Nuvola apps kaboodle.svg "Hal Blaine Vega-Tables Promo Session"
Nuvola apps kaboodle.svg "Heroes and Villains: Do a Lot"
Nuvola apps kaboodle.svg "Vega-Tables" (1993 Smile version)
Nuvola apps kaboodle.svg "Vegetables" (long version)

October 1966 – January 1967 sessions

The Beach Boys recorded the most rudimentary version of "Vegetables", a demo with different lyrics and a different vocal arrangement, on or around October 17, 1966. Band archivist Craig Slowinski suggests that the session may have taken place on this day, however the exact date is unknown. [15] This demo contained the unused "cornucopia" verse. [16]

On November 4, Wilson produced a session dedicated to capturing a "humorous" situation featuring himself, Parks, Danny Hutton, Vosse, and a man named Bob. [11] Towards the end of the exercise, the group plays a rhythm on bongos while chanting "Where's my beets and carrots" and "I've got a big bag of vegetables". [11] On November 16, Wilson produced another humor session, this time dedicated to recording mock disagreements between Vosse and session drummer Hal Blaine. The latter play-acts as a man that is irate at Vosse for trespassing into his garden. It later turns into a serious conversation between Blaine, Vosse, and Wilson about the planetary alignments. Wilson completes the session by having his own mock disagreement with Blaine. Badman writes, "At one point, it is believed that these recordings will somehow figure into the 'Vegetables' track itself." [17] [nb 1]

The first major session dedicated to tracking any part of "Vegetables" took place on January 3, 1967. However, at this time, part of the song had been configured as a section of "Heroes and Villains" and logged with the title "Do a Lot". Material recorded this day did not become part of the finished song. [15] During the session, Wilson can be heard saying to his bandmates before a take, "If there's not anymore cooperation of this, I'm splitting, I mean it. We better get back into the groove, you know?" [18]

March – April 1967 sessions

Smile lyricist Van Dyke Parks left the project after the "Vega-Tables" sessions Van Dyke Parks 1967.png
Smile lyricist Van Dyke Parks left the project after the "Vega-Tables" sessions

In February 1967, Wilson announced that "Vega-Tables" would be the lead single from Smile. [16] At this time, the Beach Boys had engaged themselves in litigation against Capitol, and to taunt the record company, Wilson staged a mock promotion of the "Vega-Tables" by holding a photoshoot at the Los Angeles Farmers Market, where he posed in front of a fruit and vegetable stand. [19] The location was at Fairfax Avenue and 3rd Street, only feet away from where Wilson opened a health food store, the Radiant Radish, two years later. [19]

According to David Anderle, formerly the head of Brother Records, creative differences between Parks and Wilson had escalated since February. [20] Parks was against having the song as the album's lead single, commenting, "[I didn't want] 'Vega-Tables' to be given too much emphasis. For Smile, that celebrated collaboration, to be dependent on a commercial release of 'Vega-Tables' as a single, was to me tremendously ill-advised, wherever it came from." [21]

On March 2, after a session for "Heroes and Villains", their partnership was temporarily dissolved. [19] A recording session for "Vega-Tables" vocals was held the next day, but further session dates, scheduled on March 28 and 30, were cancelled. [22] Parks returned to the project after March 31. [23]

The band spent at least eight studio dates recording "Vega-Tables" before embarking on a U.S. tour on April 14. [22] Parks' last recorded appearance on the album's sessions was for a "Vega-Tables" date on April 14, after which he withdrew from the project. [24] Wilson then took a four-week break from the studio. [25] On April 29, band publicist Derek Taylor reported that the single, backed with "Wonderful", would soon be released. He described it as "a light and lyrical, day to day, green grocery song on which Al Jardine sings a most vigorous lead." [26]

McCartney visit

Paul McCartney reportedly contributed celery-crunching noises at an early session for the song The Beatles - All You Need Is Love & Baby, You're a Rich Man, 1967 (Paul).jpg
Paul McCartney reportedly contributed celery-crunching noises at an early session for the song

During the April 10 vocal session at Sound Recorders, which also saw work on "Wonderful" and "Child Is Father of the Man", Paul McCartney of the Beatles joined the Beach Boys in the studio for several hours. [22] [nb 2] Asked about his involvement in a 2001 interview, McCartney said he had no memory of the session, where he was said to have chomped vegetables. [29] In a 2016 Q&A given for his website, he offered a specific recollection:

I just went round to the studio because they invited me. I just thought it would be fun to sit there and watch them record, 'cause I’m a big fan. And so I was there, and then it was, I think, Brian who came over and said, "Oh Paul, got a favor to ask: would you mind recording something?" I thought, "Oh, no! But great, I could do that!" Oh God, I'm gonna be singing on a Beach Boys record or something, you know! I got a bit kind of intimidated and thought, "Okay, here goes nothing". And they said, "Well, what we want you to do is go in there and just munch!" … Well, I can do that! So, if you hear somebody munching celery, that’s me! [30]

Jardine said, "I remember waiting for long periods of time between takes to get to the next section or verse. Brian [seemed to have] lost track of the session. Paul would come on the talkback and say something like "'Good take, Al.'" [2] KROQ DJ Rodney Bingenheimer was also present, as he remembered, "We were in a booth, and we were supposed to shout out the names of vegetables. I was a young, punk kid at the time, and I shouted out 'TV dinners!' I didn't know..." [31] Wilson's then-wife Marilyn recalled, "Brian had some fresh vegetables out, for the mood. He sprinkled salt all over the console table near the mixing board and started dipping celery into the salt and chomping on it. Paul followed his lead and picked up the celery and did the same thing. It was priceless to see this." [15]

It is unclear if any record of McCartney's performance has survived, as his presence cannot be verified on existing session tapes. Craig Slowinski, who assembled the sessionography included with The Smile Sessions box set, stated: "I was ready to credit Sir Paul with 'veggie munching' [...] but since no tapes were found with his voice or reference to him, we figured I'd better not. Too hard to say that any veggie munching on his part remained on tape through the final stages of production." [32] Sessions co-producer Mark Linett said, "Unless Paul is being very quiet, there’s no evidence that he’s a part of the chomping. And there’s quite a lot of discussion going on while that particular track is being recorded." [1]

After the "Vega-Tables" session, McCartney performed his song "She's Leaving Home" on piano for Wilson and his wife. [33] Wilson said: "We both just cried. It was beautiful." [34] In turn, he performed "Wonderful" on piano for McCartney. [26] Beatles roadie Mal Evans wrote about singing the traditional "On Top of Old Smokey" with McCartney and Wilson, but was not impressed by Wilson's avant-garde attitude to music: "Brian then put a damper on the spontaneity of the whole affair by walking in with a tray of water-filled glasses, trying to arrange it into some sort of session." [35] In a January 1968 interview, Wilson stated of the McCartney episode, "It was a little uptight and we really didn't seem to hit it off. It didn't really flow. [...] It didn't really go too good." [36]

Smiley Smile recording history

The Smile album was reported scrapped on May 5, 1967. Starting on June 3, "Vega-Tables" was rerecorded for the new album Smiley Smile , [37] where it was respelled "Vegetables" and reworked as a kind of campfire song. [38] Apart from its coda (recorded in April 1967), the track was remade entirely from scratch. [38] Wilson played the electric bass on this version [39] and added organ overdubs to the final section of the song. [15]

According to Al Jardine, "I remember telling Brian, 'We’ve got to do something different on this thing.' What the hell, it was four in the morning. I filled some water bottles, tuned it to the key of the song and blew air into the bottles. What you hear sounds like an old organ." [40]

"Vegetables" was mixed to mono on June 3, 1967. A recording for "You're with Me Tonight", held on June 6, was logged as a "Vega-Tables" session. [15]

Release and reception

"Vegetables" was issued on September 18, 1967 as the second track on Smiley Smile. Melody Maker reviewed that "Vegetables" was among the "childish and pointless" songs that made Smiley Smile a "tragedy". [41] A more positive review in Record Mirror complimented the vocal performances and speculated that the song could be released as a single by the group in the future. [42]

Reviewing the song in AllMusic, Matthew Greenwald called it a "great example of the collaboration of Brian Wilson's and Van Dyke Parks' sense of comedy and psychedelic whimsy.", also noting it as among the strangest songs of the group's career.[ citation needed ] Music critic Ritchie Unterberger described it as an example of the "low-key psychedelic weirdness" present throughout Smiley Smile. [43] Lambert wrote that the song heralded a "radically new artistic sensibility" for the group relative to Pet Sounds and Smile. [44] David Leaf, writing in 1990, described the song as marking a new phase in Wilson's development as a musician.

Those who first heard this album in 1967 recall that the first four bars of “Vegetables” was the initial indication that Brian had given up the race to be the greatest producer in rock. With just a repeating bass and a jug (pouring juice as an effect), “Vegetables,” as it was released, marked the end of Brian Wilson’s reign as the “leader of the studio pack.” Of course, others felt that this track represented the beginning of Brian’s minimalist period and were blown away by Smiley Smile’s dry, trippy vocals, sparse production and incredible melodies…feeling that once again, as Brian had done on Pet Sounds, he was charting new territory. [2]

The Smiley Smile rendition of the song was listed by Mojo as the Beach Boys' 47th greatest song, with the Mojo staff describing it as "endearingly daft", and praising the group's vocal harmonies and the "stripped back" arrangement. [45] In 2015, the French edition of Rolling Stone named "Vegetables" the Beach Boys' 38th greatest song.[ citation needed ]

"Mama Says"

"Mama Says"
Song by the Beach Boys
from the album Wild Honey
ReleasedDecember 18, 1967 (1967-12-18)
RecordedNovember 1967 (1967-11)
Studio Wally Heider, Hollywood
Length1:05
Label Capitol
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) The Beach Boys
Music video
"Mama Says" on YouTube

In 1967, the song was revisited for the last time as the closing track "Mama Says" on Wild Honey (1967). [37] This version consisted of an extended re-recording of the unused "Do or Lot" or "Sleep a Lot" module. It was the first time a track with thematic links to Smile was used to close a later Beach Boys album, a practice that the band repeated with "Cabinessence" on 20/20 (1969), "Cool, Cool Water" on Sunflower (1970), and "Surf's Up" on Surf's Up (1971). [2]

Parks' songwriting credit was not honored, and instead Mike Love was listed as the song's only co-writer. Wilson's 2016 memoir, I Am Brian Wilson , makes note of this as an example of what he perceived as Love's questionable songwriting credits, but does not disclose a reason why he himself did not credit Parks. [46]

Alternate releases

Cover versions

Personnel

The details in this section are adapted from The Smile Sessions liner notes, which includes a sessionography compiled by band archivist Craig Slowinski. [15] and from Keith Badman [49]

The Smile Sessions edit

The Beach Boys

Session musicians

  • Arnold Belnick – violin
  • Samuel Boghossian – viola
  • Chuck Berghofer – overdubbed upright bass (verses)
  • Joseph DiFiore – viola
  • Joseph DiTullio – cello
  • Jim Gordon – hi-hat, castanet, cups
  • Raymond Kelley – cello
  • William Kurasch – violin
  • Nick Pellico – vibraphone
  • Bill Pitman – tenor ukulele (Danelectro bass on early takes)
  • Ray Pohlman – Fender bass (fade)
  • Lyle Ritz – upright bass (fade)

Partial sessionography

  • Likely October 17, 1966 - Columbia ["Cornucopia"] (discarded demo)
  • November 11, 1966 - Western ["Promo"] (this session produced a Vegetables-themed spoken-word skit primarily featuring Brian Wilson and Hal Blaine, likely intended for incorporation into the final track)
    • Brian Wilson - spoken word
    • Hal Blaine - spoken word
    • Michael Vosse - spoken word
  • January 3, 1967 – Columbia ["Do a Lot"] (discarded recording)
    • Brian Wilson – group vocals, upright piano, overdubbed grand piano, overdubbed whistling (uncertain credit)
    • Dennis Wilson - group vocals, overdubbed thumb percussion (uncertain credit)
    • Carl Wilson - group vocals
    • Mike Love - group vocals
    • Al Jardine - group vocals
    • Bruce Johnston - group vocals
  • April 4, 1967 – Sound Recorders ["Verse"] (this session produced the master take for the verse)
    • Brian Wilson – grand piano, backing and harmony vocals, laughter
    • Al Jardine - backing and harmony vocals, laughter
    • Dennis Wilson - backing and harmony vocals, laughter
    • Carl Wilson - backing and harmony vocals, laughter
    • Mike Love - backing and harmony vocals, laughter
  • April 6, 1967 – Sound Recorders ["Verse"] (this session produced the bass track and sound effects overdubs for the verse)
    • Chuck Berghofer – overdubbed upright bass
    • Brian Wilson - miscellaneous percussion and sound effects
    • Carl Wilson - miscellaneous percussion and sound effects
    • Al Jardine - miscellaneous percussion and sound effects
  • April 7, 1967 – Columbia ["Sleep a Lot"] (this session produced the "sleep a lot" section)
    • Brian Wilson – vocals, detuned grand piano
    • Dennis Wilson - vocals, thump percussion
    • Carl Wilson - vocals
    • Mike Love - vocals
    • Al Jardine - vocals
  • April 10, 1967 – Sound Recorders ["Verse"] (this session produced the verse lead vocal and sound effect overdubs)
    • Al Jardine - double-tracked lead vocals, overdubbed veggie chomping
    • Brian Wilson – overdubbed veggie chomping
    • Dennis Wilson - overdubbed veggie chomping
    • Carl Wilson - overdubbed veggie chomping
    • Mike Love - overdubbed veggie chomping
  • April 11, 1967 – Sound Recorders ["Chorus 1" and "2nd Chorus"] (this session produced the first and second chorus)
    • Brian Wilson – electric harpsichord, group vocals, whistling (2nd Chorus, uncertain credit)
    • Carl Wilson – fender bass, group vocals
    • Dennis Wilson – group vocals, xylophone, overdubbed drum (Chorus 1), rattling percussion (2nd Chorus)
    • Mike Love - group vocals, bass vocals (2nd Chorus)
    • Al Jardine - group vocals, bass vocals (2nd Chorus) whistling (2nd Chorus, uncertain credit)
  • April 12, 1967 – Gold Star ["Fade"] (this session produced the fade)
    • Bill Pitman - tenor ukulele (Danelectro bass with fuzztone on earlier takes)
    • Ray Polhman - Fender bass, overdubbed high Fender bass
    • Lyle Ritz - upright bass (arco)
    • Jim Gordon - hi-hat, castanet, and cups (drums and bongos on earlier takes)
    • Nick Pellico - vibes
    • Arnold Belnick - violin
    • William Kurasch - violin
    • Samuel Boghossian - viola
    • Joseph DiFiore - viola
    • Joseph DiTullio - cello
    • Raymond Kelley - cello
    • Brian Wilson - conductor (upright piano on earlier takes)
  • April 12, 1967 – Sound Recorders ["Fade" and "Insert (Part 4)"] (these sessions produced the insert preceding the fade and the vocals on the fade)
    • Brian Wilson - grand piano, vocals (Insert Part 4), backing vocals (Fade)
    • Carl Wilson - vocals (Insert Part 4), backing vocals, overdubbed ukulele (Fade)
    • Mike Love - vocals (Insert Part 4), bass vocals (Fade)
    • Al Jardine - vocals (Insert Part 4), scat lead vocals (Fade)
  • April 13, 1967 – Sound Recorders ["Fade"] (this session produced Brian's overdubbed falsetto vocal on the fade)
    • Brian Wilson - overdubbed wordless falsetto vocals
  • April 14, 1967 – Sound Recorders ["Ballad Insert"] (this session produced the ballad insert used as part of the song's outro)
    • Brian Wilson - lead vocals, stacked backing vocals, grand piano
  • June 3, 5-7 1967 – Western Recorders (new modules attempted for the song as the first sessions for Smiley Smile)
    • Al Jardine - vocals
    • Brian Wilson – vocals, electric bass, overdubbed organ
    • Dennis Wilson - vocals
    • Carl Wilson - vocals
    • Mike Love - vocals
    • Lyle Ritz - upright bass
  • June 15, 1967 – Bel Air (final vocals recorded for the song)
    • Al Jardine - vocals
    • Brian Wilson – vocals
    • Dennis Wilson - vocals
    • Carl Wilson - vocals


Notes

  1. ↑ The arguments are similar to those featured in a later Beach Boys track, "T M Song", from 15 Big Ones (1976). [17]
  2. ↑ McCartney had last met with Wilson in late August 1966, during which he was played an early acetate record of the Beach Boys' forthcoming "Good Vibrations" single. [27] He returned to the United States in early April 1967 to reunite with his actress girlfriend Jane Asher and to learn of developments in the San Francisco music scene. [28]

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