The Beach Boys Do It Again (a Cappella)

1968 single past the Embankment Boys

"Practise It Again"
Single by the Embankment Boys
B-side	"Wake the World"
Released	July viii, 1968
Recorded	May 26 – June 1968
Studio	Beach Boys Studio, Los Angeles
Genre	Rock[1] ability popular[ii]
Length	two:19
Characterization	Capitol
Songwriter(s)	Brian Wilson Mike Dearest
Producer(s)	The Beach Boys
The Beach Boys singles chronology
"Friends" (1968) "Do It Again" (1968) "Bluebirds over the Mountain" (1968)
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"Do It Again" is a song past the American rock band the Beach Boys that was released every bit single on July eight, 1968.^{[3] [four]} It was written by Brian Wilson and Mike Dearest as a self-conscious callback to the group's earlier surf paradigm, which they had not embraced since 1964. Love and Wilson too share the lead vocal on the song.

The song was issued merely two weeks after the release of the ring'due south album Friends, with the album track "Wake the World" as its B-side. It reached number xx on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and became their 2d number one hit in the Britain. A slightly edited version of the song, using an excerpt from the Grin outtake "Workshop", subsequently appeared equally the opening track on the Embankment Boys' 1969 album 20/twenty.

"Do It Again" has been rerecorded once past the band (in 2011), one time past Wilson as a solo artist (in 1995), and twice by Love as a solo creative person (in 1996 and 2017). The song was an influence on Neil Sedaka'south "Love Volition Go on Us Together" (1973), Eric Carmen's "She Did It" (1977), ABBA's "On and on and On" (1980), and Hall & Oates' "Did It in a Minute" (1982).

Background and recording [edit]

"Do It Again" is a self-conscious callback to the ring'south earlier surf-based material. Originally titled "Rendezvous", the lyrics to the song were inspired after a 24-hour interval Mike Dearest had spent at the beach in which he had gone surfing with an old friend named Neb Jackson.^[v] 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] Love commented, "He remembers it being at my house. I remember it as being at his firm. He starts pounding at the piano, I was summoning up the words and we got a chorus together, which was basically a bunch of doo-wop inspired harmonies. Nosotros created that whole vocal in xv minutes."^[6] Other inspiration came from Hank Ballard's & The Midnighters 1960 song "Finger Poppin' Time".^[vii] Carl Wilson recalled in Melody Maker:

Yep, I suppose it has got the sometime Beach Boys surfing sound. It's back to that surfing idea with the voice harmony and the simple, direct melody and lyrics. Nosotros didn't plan the record every bit a return to the surf or anything. We just did it 1 day circular a piano in the studio. Brian had the thought and played it over to us. We improved on that and recorded it very quickly, in about 5 minutes. It'southward certainly not an old track of ours; in fact information technology was recorded simply a few weeks before it was released. Nosotros liked how information technology turned out and decided to release it.^[five]

Conversely, Bruce Johnston told a reporter in September 1968 that he shared the reporter's underwhelming stance of the song. "I don't like it etiher. I don't call up that the grouping were entirely happy with it, only anybody else was going back to basics, so I suppose information technology was inevitable that we should."^[eight]

During the mixdown, engineer Stephen Desper came upward with the drum effect heard at the beginning of the rails. He explained that he had "commissioned Philips, in Holland, to build two tape delay units for use on the road (to double live vocals). [he] moved iv of the Philips Atomic number 82 heads very shut together and so that ane drum strike was repeated 4 times almost 10 milliseconds apart, and composite it with the original to give the outcome you lot hear."^{[ citation needed ]}.

Promotional film [edit]

A promotional film, directed past Peter Clifton, was shot in Los Angeles. The film, shot in colour, features the group pulling up in a van and visiting a surfing shop. The band then drives to the embankment in their van and begins surfing. The first screenings of the promotional film were shown on BBC I'southward Top of the Pops during broadcasts of the show on August 8, 22 and 29. In Germany the promotional film was shown in September during broadcasts of the Hits A Go Go evidence on ZDF Telly. The prune was later on featured in the 1969 Peter Clifton Australian surfing movie Fluid Journey.^[four] An alternate promotional motion-picture show for "Exercise It Once again" was planned with the thought to feature special guest, Beatles fellow member Paul McCartney as a clerk. However the idea was abandoned due to his busy schedule.^[9]

Release [edit]

Released on July nineteen, 1968 in the Uk the single, xl days later its release, peaked at No. one on the UK Singles Chart on August 28, 1968, and thus condign the band'due south 2d number one hitting in the United Kingdom afterwards "Expert Vibrations" ii years before.^[iii] Love remembered thinking that the song's success in Britain "was unbelievable. Information technology showed how many fans we had there and how bonny the whole California lifestyle is." When Friends was issued in Nihon, "Do It Once more" was included in its track listing.^[ten] In Britain'southward Disc & Music Echo, Penny Valentine praised the single:

This is a vast comeback on The Embankment Boys' last single, and thank goodness for information technology. It sounds like bees humming on a summer cakewalk and is and then completely solid; in that location isn't room for a fly to creep in. It goes on very gently and easily and is very, very pleasant. In a way information technology reminds me of one of the tracks off Pet Sounds, which is nice to say the least, and a hit information technology will most certainly be. I can imagine a few people volition be muttering, "Well, she said they were finished," but I didn't. I said they should become back to their competent, commercial sound and they have. So in that location.^[four]

"Do Information technology Again" remained at the top position for only one week, after which it was supplanted past the Bee Gees' "I've Gotta Get a Message to You".^[three]

Influence and use in media [edit]

Neil Sedaka borrowed the main riff from "Practise It Again" for his own vocal "Beloved Will Keep U.s.a. Together," a hit for the Captain and Tennille.^[11]

Eric Carmen credited the "did-its" in this song with being the initial inspiration for his 1977 Top 40 hit, "She Did It".^[12] Bruce Johnston of the Beach Boys also participated in the production and vocals of Carmen's vocal. "Did Information technology in a Minute", a 1982 hit by Hall & Oates, was in turn inspired by the 'did-its' in both songs.^{[thirteen] [14]}

ABBA'due south "On and On and On" (1980) was also influenced past "Do It Again", and in response, Mike Love recorded a cover version of the ABBA song for his 1981 anthology Looking Back with Dear.^[15]

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

"Practise It Once more" was featured in the films One Crazy Summer, Flipper, Life on the Longboard, and Happy Anxiety.^{[ commendation 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 furnishings originating from the Smile "Workshop" session recorded on November 29, 1966. This session was rerecorded for the solo album Brian Wilson Presents Smile (2004). The original Beach Boys recording was used to follow a 1966 take of "I Wanna Be Around" on The Smile Sessions (2011).

The song's backing track was released on the 1968 album Stack-O-Tracks. On the 1998 compilation album, Endless Harmony Soundtrack, an early incarnation of the song was released.^{[ citation needed ]} Until 2013, the song was only available in mono because the studio multi-track tape was believed to have been stolen onetime in 1980. The tape was retrieved thirty years afterward; the start true stereo mix was released on the Fabricated in California box set.^[17]

Live performances [edit]

The first officially released live recording of the vocal was released on the 1970 live album Live In London. Brian Wilson, who sings falsetto on the studio track, had retired from touring by this time and in concert his part was replaced by horns as evident on the Live In London album version. In 1980, a live rendition was recorded, though non released until 2002 on the Good Timin': Alive at Knebworth England 1980 live anthology. Footage from the concert was also released on video and DVD format. The footage was too released on the 1998 documentary Endless Harmony with the sound re-mixed by Mark Linett into Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound.^{[ 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 "Do It Once more" as part of their 50th anniversary celebration. The re-recorded version featured Mike Dear (verses) and Brian Wilson (bridge) on atomic number 82 vocals with longtime Beach Boys and Brian Wilson associate, Jeff Foskett, performing the falsetto vocals. It was released equally a bonus track in special editions of That'south Why God Made the Radio.^{[ citation needed ]} "Do It 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; co-ordinate to sideman John Cowsill, the original candy drum sound from 1968 was sampled for the re-recorded version.^[18] Other Embankment Boys sidemen who play on the re-recording include Cowsill (drums), Darian Sahanaja, Nick Walusko (guitar), Scott Bennett, Gary Griffin, and Brett Simons (bass).^[19]

Solo versions [edit]

In 1995, Brian Wilson rerecorded the song for his album I Simply Wasn't Made for These Times and released the track as a single in Britain, although it did not chart. The unmarried as well featured his rerecording of "'Til I Die", which was also from I Just Wasn't Made for These Times, and a rare B-side "This Song Wants to Sleep with You Tonight".^{[ commendation needed ]} He performed the song on the Late Dark With David Letterman broadcast of August 17, 1995, with daughter Wendy Wilson performing back upward vocals.

In 1996, Mike Love rerecorded "Exercise It Over again". On July iv, 2017, Love remade and released the song once more, this time with Mark McGrath, and released it as a single.^{[ citation needed ]}

Personnel [edit]

Credits from Craig Slowinski^[20]

The Embankment Boys

• Al Jardine - backing vocals, electric rhythm guitar, handclaps
• Bruce Johnston - backing vocals, handclaps
• Mike Love - lead and backing vocals, handclaps
• Brian Wilson - bankroll vocals, piano, organ, producer; possible bass
• Carl Wilson - backing vocals, electric lead and rhythm guitars, producer; possible bass, possible tambourine
• Dennis Wilson - backing vocals, drums

Session musicians

• John Guerin - drums, wood block; possible tambourine
• John Lowe - bass saxophone
• Ernie Small - baritone saxophone

Cover versions [edit]

• 1969 – A Taste Of Honey and Ronnie Aldrich
• 1983 – Papa Doo Run Run
• 1985 – Twist
• 1987 – Wall of Voodoo, Happy Planet; the ring too recorded a promotional film for the vocal which featured a guest appearance by Brian Wilson.^[21]
• 1994 – Trygve Thue
• 2000 – John Hunter Phillips, Diamonds On The Beach
• 2008 – Los Reactivos, Dissever Single (every bit "Hazlo Otra Vez")
• 2012 – Wilson Phillips, Dedicated
• 2017 – Mike Dearest (with Mark McGrath & John Stamos)

Charts [edit]

Weekly charts Chart (1968) Peak position Australia (Go-Set)[22] 3 Austrian Singles Chart[23] eight Canada RPM Height Singles[24] 10 High german Singles Chart 4 Republic of ireland (IRMA)[25] 5 Nippon (All Japan Top xx - Foreign) 4 Netherlands (Dutch Unmarried Top 100)[26] 3 New Zealand (Listener)[27] 14 Norwegian Singles Nautical chart[28] 5 South Africa (Springbok)[29] vii Swiss Singles Chart[xxx] 7 United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland Singles Chart[3] 1 U.s.a. Billboard Hot 100 20 United states Cash Box Top 100[31] 8 US Record World 7

Yr-finish charts Nautical chart (1968) Rank Australia[32] xx UK[33] 24 US Cash Box [34] 81

References [edit]

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4. ^ ^{a b c} Badman 2004, p. 223.
5. ^ ^{a b c} Badman 2004, p. 221.
6. ^ Simpson, Dave. "The Beach Boys' Mike Dearest: 'In that location are a lot of fallacies about me'". theguardian.co.uk . Retrieved 5 July 2012.
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8. ^ Tobler, John (1978). The Beach Boys . Chartwell Books. p. 50. ISBN0890091749.
9. ^ Badman 2004, p. 224.
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11. ^ Neil Sedaka's mini-concert, September one, 2020 from Sedaka'due south official YouTube account
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21. ^ Billboard Magazine (PDF). americanradiohistory.com. June 6, 1987. p. 52. Retrieved 24 September 2017. Brian Wilson, at left, views the video in which he stars with I.R.Due south. Records act Wall of Voodoo.
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26. ^ "dutchcharts.nl The Beach Boys – Do information technology Again" (ASP). Hung Medien. MegaCharts. Retrieved April xiv, 2013.
27. ^ "New Zealand Singles Charts". mountvernonandfairway.de. Retrieved 13 November 2007.
28. ^ "norwegiancharts.com The Embankment Boys – Do it Again" (ASP). Hung Medien. VG-lista. Retrieved April 14, 2013.
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31. ^ "Greenbacks Box Top 100 Singles, September 14, 1968". Archived from the original on August 12, 2014. Retrieved March 20, 2017.
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33. ^ http://world wide web.sixtiescity.internet/charts/68chart.htm#top100
34. ^ "Cash Box Year-Terminate Charts: Superlative 100 Pop Singles, December 28, 1968". Archived from the original on October nine, 2016. Retrieved March 20, 2017.

Bibliography

• Badman, Keith (2004). The Beach Boys: The Definitive Diary of America's Greatest Ring, on Stage and in the Studio . Backbeat Books. ISBN978-0-87930-818-half dozen.
• Dearest, Mike (2016). Adept Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy. Penguin Publishing Group. ISBN978-0-698-40886-9.
• Rice, Jo (1982). The Guinness Volume of 500 Number One Hits (1st ed.). Enfield, Middlesex: Guinness Superlatives Ltd. ISBN0-85112-250-7.

External links [edit]

• The Beach Boys - Practise It Again on YouTube

simmonscrins1965.blogspot.com

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

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