That Lucky Old Sun (A Narrative)
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2007 |
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Pop , spoken word |
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16 |
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approx. 37 min |
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Brian Wilson & Scott Bennett |
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That Lucky Old Sun (A Narrative) is a concept album by Brian Wilson , which premiered on September 10, 2007 in London at the Royal Festival Hall . Five more concerts followed, also in London, and he also performed with a band in Manchester. Similar to his Smile tour, the band was also supported this time by Stockholm Strings And Horns .
The album was released on CD and vinyl on August 29, 2008 by Capitol Records.
That Lucky Old Sun
The work consists of normal songs as well as spoken passages, which are musically supported. The compositions are by Brian Wilson and his bandmate Scott Bennett. The narratives that interrupt the music were written by Van Dyke Parks .
Wilson wants to return to its origins with this work - to Capitol Records where The Beach Boys had their most successful period in the 1960s . The album was released on CD, DVD and vinyl.
"That Lucky Old Sun" reached # 21 on the Billboard album charts and # 37 in England.
The album as a live performance
In September 2007, Lucky Old Sun was premiered as part of the reopening of the Royal Festival Hall. To provide a better background for the music, a stage show was designed, which shows pictures from earlier days of Beach Boys history on a canvas.
In January 2008, Brian Wilson and his band presented the suite in Australia. The reviews have been consistently positive.
criticism
In the English media, the premiere of the work was received very positively, almost exuberantly, and in initial reactions it was put on a par with his works Pet Sounds and Smile (see Brian Wilson presents Smile ).
Track list
- That Lucky Old Sun (Beasley Smith / Haven Gillespie)
- Morning Beat (Brian Wilson / Scott Bennett)
- Narrative: Room with a View (Brian Wilson / Van Dyke Parks)
- Good Kind of Love (Brian Wilson)
- Forever She'll Be My Surfer Girl (Brian Wilson / Scott Bennett)
- Narrative: Venice Beach (Brian Wilson / Van Dyke Parks)
- Live Let Live / That Lucky Old Sun (Reprise) (Brian Wilson / Van Dyke Parks)
- Mexican Girl (Brian Wilson / Scott Bennett)
- Narrative: Cinco de Mayo (Brian Wilson / Van Dyke Parks)
- California Role / That Lucky Old Sun (Reprise) (Brian Wilson / Scott Bennett)
- Narrative: Between Pictures (Brian Wilson / Van Dyke Parks)
- Oxygen to the Brain (Brian Wilson / Scott Bennett)
- Can't Wait Too Long (vocal excerpt) (Brian Wilson)
- Midnight's Another Day (Brian Wilson / Scott Bennett)
- That Lucky Old Sun (Reprise) (Beasley Smith / Haven Gillespie)
- Going Home (Brian Wilson / Scott Bennett)
- Southern California (Brian Wilson / Scott Bennett)
Pre-published songs
- Midnight's Another Day and Forever She'll Be My Surfer Girl were released in demo form on Brian Wilson's homepage in August 2007
- Live let Live was released on the soundtrack for Kingdom of the Arctic with another text written by Van Dyke Parks .
Web links
- That Lucky Old Sun at Allmusic (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ - ( Memento of the original from March 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Div. Newspaper reports, see archived copy ( memento of the original from March 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Daily Echo: He's still giving good vibrations by Nick Churchill
- ^ The Independent: "God only knows what we'd be without you" by Simon Price
- ↑ http://www.brianwilson.com
- ↑ - ( Memento of the original from August 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
