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Do It Again by the Beach Boys

1968 single by the Beach Boys

"Do Information technology Once again"
Beach Boys - Do It Again (single).JPG
Single by the Embankment Boys
B-side "Wake the Globe"
Released July 8, 1968
Recorded May 26 – June 1968
Studio Embankment Boys Studio, Los Angeles
Genre
  • Rock[ane]
  • power pop[2]
Length 2:19
Label Capitol
Songwriter(south)
  • Brian Wilson
  • Mike Dearest
Producer(s) The Beach Boys
The Beach Boys singles chronology
"Friends"
(1968) 		"Do Information technology Again"
(1968) 		"Bluebirds over the Mountain"
(1968)
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"Do It Again" is a song by the American rock band the Beach Boys that was released as unmarried on July viii, 1968.[iii] [4] It was written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love every bit a self-conscious callback to the group's before surf image, which they had not embraced since 1964. Dearest and Wilson besides share the lead vocal on the song.

The vocal was issued only two weeks after the release of the ring's album Friends, with the album track "Wake the World" equally its B-side. Information technology reached number 20 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and became their 2nd number one hit in the U.k.. A slightly edited version of the vocal, using an excerpt from the Smile outtake "Workshop", subsequently appeared as the opening rails on the Beach Boys' 1969 album twenty/20.

"Do It Once more" has been rerecorded in one case by the band (in 2011), once by Wilson as a solo creative person (in 1995), and twice by Honey as a solo artist (in 1996 and 2017). The vocal was an influence on Neil Sedaka's "Love Will Keep Usa Together" (1973), Eric Carmen'southward "She Did It" (1977), ABBA's "On and on and On" (1980), and Hall & Oates' "Did It in a Minute" (1982).

Groundwork and recording [edit]

"Exercise It Again" is a self-witting callback to the band's earlier surf-based textile. Originally titled "Rendezvous", the lyrics to the vocal were inspired after a day Mike Honey had spent at the beach in which he had gone surfing with an old friend named Nib Jackson.[5] Mike then showed the lyrics to his cousin Brian Wilson, who proceeded to write the music to Mike's lyrics of nostalgia. Brian stated that he believes the song was the best collaboration that he and Mike ever worked on.[5] Dear commented, "He remembers information technology beingness at my house. I call up information technology as being at his house. He starts pounding at the piano, I was summoning up the words and we got a chorus together, which was basically a agglomeration of doo-wop inspired harmonies. Nosotros created that whole song in 15 minutes."[six] Other inspiration came from Hank Ballard's & The Midnighters 1960 song "Finger Poppin' Time".[vii] Carl Wilson recalled in Melody Maker:

Yes, I suppose it has got the former Beach Boys surfing audio. It's back to that surfing idea with the phonation harmony and the simple, straight melody and lyrics. Nosotros didn't program the record as a return to the surf or anything. We just did it i twenty-four hours round a pianoforte in the studio. Brian had the idea and played it over to u.s.. We improved on that and recorded it very quickly, in about five minutes. It'southward certainly not an sometime rails of ours; in fact information technology was recorded only a few weeks before it was released. We liked how it turned out and decided to release information technology.[v]

Conversely, Bruce Johnston told a reporter in September 1968 that he shared the reporter's underwhelming opinion of the song. "I don't similar it etiher. I don't think that the group were entirely happy with it, but everyone else was going back to nuts, so I suppose it was inevitable that nosotros should."[8]

During the mixdown, engineer Stephen Desper came up with the drum effect heard at the beginning of the runway. He explained that he had "commissioned Philips, in The netherlands, to build two tape delay units for employ on the route (to double live vocals). [he] moved iv of the Philips Pb heads very close together so that one drum strike was repeated iv times about 10 milliseconds autonomously, and blended it with the original to give the effect yous hear."[ citation needed ]. Drums were played by Dennis Wilson and session musician John Guerin; tambourine and forest blocks were also played by Guerin.[nine] [10]

Promotional picture [edit]

A promotional movie, directed past Peter Clifton, was shot in Los Angeles. The moving-picture show, shot in color, features the grouping pulling upwardly in a van and visiting a surfing shop. The band and then drives to the beach in their van and begins surfing. The first screenings of the promotional film were shown on BBC One'due south Pinnacle of the Pops during broadcasts of the show on August 8, 22 and 29. In Deutschland the promotional pic was shown in September during broadcasts of the Hits A Become Go show on ZDF Idiot box. The clip was later featured in the 1969 Peter Clifton Australian surfing film Fluid Journey.[4] An alternating promotional moving-picture show for "Practice It Again" was planned with the idea to feature special guest, Beatles member Paul McCartney equally a clerk. Withal the idea was abandoned due to his busy schedule.[11]

Release [edit]

Released on July 19, 1968 in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland the unmarried, forty days after its release, peaked at No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart on August 28, 1968, and thus becoming the band's second number one hit in the United Kingdom after "Good Vibrations" 2 years earlier.[3] Beloved remembered thinking that the song's success in Britain "was unbelievable. Information technology showed how many fans we had there and how attractive the whole California lifestyle is." When Friends was issued in Japan, "Do Information technology Once again" was included in its rails listing.[12] In Britain'southward Disc & Music Echo, Penny Valentine praised the single:

This is a vast improvement on The Embankment Boys' last single, and thank goodness for it. It sounds like bees bustling on a summer cakewalk and is so completely solid; there isn't room for a fly to creep in. It goes on very gently and easily and is very, very pleasant. In a manner it reminds me of one of the tracks off Pet Sounds, which is nice to say the to the lowest degree, and a hit it will near certainly be. I can imagine a few people volition be muttering, "Well, she said they were finished," merely I didn't. I said they should become dorsum to their competent, commercial audio and they have. So there.[four]

"Do It Again" remained at the meridian position for only i week, later on which information technology was supplanted by the Bee Gees' "I've Gotta Get a Message to You".[3]

Influence and use in media [edit]

Neil Sedaka borrowed the principal riff from "Practise It Again" for his own song "Honey Will Keep Us Together," a hit for the Captain and Tennille.[thirteen]

Eric Carmen credited the "did-its" in this song with existence the initial inspiration for his 1977 Meridian 40 hit, "She Did Information technology".[14] Bruce Johnston of the Embankment Boys likewise participated in the production and vocals of Carmen'southward song. "Did It in a Minute", a 1982 hit by Hall & Oates, was in plough inspired by the 'did-its' in both songs.[fifteen] [xvi]

ABBA's "On and On and On" (1980) was also influenced by "Do It Again", and in response, Mike Honey recorded a cover version of the ABBA vocal for his 1981 album Looking Back with Love.[17]

The opening drum line of "Exercise Information technology Again" was sampled for "Remember" by French electronic duo Air on their album Moon Safari (1997).[eighteen]

"Do It Once again" was featured in the films One Crazy Summer, Flipper, Life on the Longboard, and Happy Feet.[ citation needed ]

Variations [edit]

Alternate studio versions [edit]

"Do It Once again" was first released on an LP in 1969 for the band's 20/20 album. This version added a fade which consists of hammering and drilling sound effects originating from the Smile "Workshop" session recorded on Nov 29, 1966. This session was rerecorded for the solo album Brian Wilson Presents Grin (2004). The original Beach Boys recording was used to follow a 1966 take of "I Wanna Be Around" on The Smiling Sessions (2011).

The song's backing track was released on the 1968 album Stack-O-Tracks. On the 1998 compilation anthology, Endless Harmony Soundtrack, an early incarnation of the song was released.[ citation needed ] Until 2013, the song was simply available in mono because the studio multi-rails record was believed to have been stolen sometime in 1980. The record was retrieved xxx years afterward; the first true stereo mix was released on the Made in California box set.[19]

Live performances [edit]

The first officially released live recording of the vocal was released on the 1970 live anthology Live In London. Brian Wilson, who sings falsetto on the studio rails, had retired from touring past this time and in concert his part was replaced by horns every bit evident on the Live In London album version. In 1980, a live rendition was recorded, though non released until 2002 on the Practiced Timin': Live at Knebworth England 1980 live album. Footage from the concert was as well released on video and DVD format. The footage was as well released on the 1998 documentary Endless Harmony with the sound re-mixed by Mark Linett into Dolby Digital 5.i surround audio.[ citation needed ]

2011 remake [edit]

In 2011 the surviving Beach Boys; Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston and David Marks came together in the studio to re-tape "Practice It Again" as role of their 50th ceremony celebration. The re-recorded version featured Mike Love (verses) and Brian Wilson (bridge) on atomic number 82 vocals with longtime Embankment Boys and Brian Wilson acquaintance, Jeff Foskett, performing the falsetto vocals. It was released as a bonus track in special editions of That's Why God Made the Radio.[ citation needed ] "Do It Once again" was the opening song performed at all Beach Boys 50th Reunion Tour concerts.[ citation needed ] Both Marks and Beach Boys sideman Scott Totten play guitar on the vocal; according to sideman John Cowsill, the original processed drum audio from 1968 was sampled for the re-recorded version.[20] Other Beach Boys sidemen who play on the re-recording include Cowsill (drums), Darian Sahanaja, Nick Walusko (guitar), Scott Bennett, Gary Griffin, and Brett Simons (bass).[21]

Solo versions [edit]

In 1995, Brian Wilson rerecorded the song for his anthology I Merely Wasn't Made for These Times and released the track as a single in Britain, although information technology did not chart. The single besides featured his rerecording of "'Til I Die", which was besides from I Just Wasn't Made for These Times, and a rare B-side "This Song Wants to Slumber with You Tonight".[ citation needed ] He performed the song on the Tardily Nighttime With David Letterman circulate of Baronial 17, 1995, with daughter Wendy Wilson performing support vocals.

In 1996, Mike Dear rerecorded "Do Information technology Over again". On July 4, 2017, Love remade and released the song again, this fourth dimension with Mark McGrath, and released it as a single.[ citation needed ]

Cover versions [edit]

  • 1969 – A Taste Of Beloved and Ronnie Aldrich
  • 1983 – Papa Doo Run Run
  • 1985 – Twist
  • 1987 – Wall of Voodoo, Happy Planet; the band also recorded a promotional film for the song which featured a guest appearance past Brian Wilson.[22]
  • 1994 – Trygve Thue
  • 2000 – John Hunter Phillips, Diamonds On The Embankment
  • 2008 – Los Reactivos, Split Single (equally "Hazlo Otra Vez")
  • 2012 – Wilson Phillips, Dedicated
  • 2017 – Mike Love (with Mark McGrath & John Stamos)

Charts [edit]

References [edit]

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Bibliography
  • Badman, Keith (2004). The Embankment Boys: The Definitive Diary of America's Greatest Ring, on Stage and in the Studio . Backbeat Books. ISBN978-0-87930-818-six.
  • Love, Mike (2016). Good Vibrations: My Life equally a Beach Boy. Penguin Publishing Group. ISBN978-0-698-40886-9.
  • Rice, Jo (1982). The Guinness Book of 500 Number One Hits (1st ed.). Enfield, Middlesex: Guinness Superlatives Ltd. ISBN0-85112-250-vii.

External links [edit]

  • The Beach Boys - Do It Once again on YouTube

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_It_Again_(The_Beach_Boys_song)