Do It Again Wall of Voodoo
| "Exercise Information technology Again" | ||||
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| B-side | "Wake the World" | |||
| Released | July 8, 1968 | |||
| Recorded | May 26 – June 1968 | |||
| Studio | Embankment Boys Studio, Los Angeles | |||
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| Length | 2:19 | |||
| Label | Capitol | |||
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| Producer(s) | The Embankment Boys | |||
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"Do It Again" is a vocal by the American stone band the Embankment Boys that was released as single on July eight, 1968.[iii] [4] It was written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love as a cocky-conscious callback to the group'due south earlier surf epitome, which they had not embraced since 1964. Dearest and Wilson also share the lead vocal on the vocal.
The song was issued only two weeks after the release of the band's album Friends, with the anthology track "Wake the World" as its B-side. It reached number xx on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and became their 2d number ane hit in the UK. A slightly edited version of the song, using an extract from the Smile outtake "Workshop", subsequently appeared as the opening runway on the Beach Boys' 1969 album 20/xx.
"Do It Again" has been rerecorded once by the band (in 2011), one time past Wilson every bit a solo artist (in 1995), and twice past Love every bit a solo artist (in 1996 and 2017). The song was an influence on Neil Sedaka'southward "Dearest Volition Keep The states Together" (1973), Eric Carmen's "She Did Information technology" (1977), ABBA's "On and on and On" (1980), and Hall & Oates' "Did It in a Minute" (1982).
Background and recording [edit]
"Do Information technology Once more" is a cocky-conscious callback to the band'south before surf-based material. Originally titled "Rendezvous", the lyrics to the song were inspired after a day Mike Love had spent at the beach in which he had gone surfing with an quondam friend named Bill Jackson.[five] Mike and 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] Beloved commented, "He remembers it beingness at my firm. I remember it equally being at his firm. He starts pounding at the pianoforte, I was summoning upwardly the words and we got a chorus together, which was basically a bunch of doo-wop inspired harmonies. We created that whole song in fifteen minutes."[six] Other inspiration came from Hank Ballard'south & The Midnighters 1960 vocal "Finger Poppin' Time".[7] Carl Wilson recalled in Melody Maker:
Yes, I suppose it has got the onetime Beach Boys surfing sound. It'south back to that surfing thought with the voice harmony and the simple, direct melody and lyrics. We didn't plan the tape as a render to the surf or anything. Nosotros merely did it one day round a pianoforte in the studio. Brian had the idea and played it over to us. We improved on that and recorded it very apace, in nearly five minutes. It's certainly not an old track of ours; in fact it was recorded just a few weeks before it was released. Nosotros liked how it turned out and decided to release information technology.[5]
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 recollect that the grouping were entirely happy with it, but anybody else was going back to basics, so I suppose it was inevitable that we should."[8]
During the mixdown, engineer Stephen Desper came upwardly with the drum outcome heard at the beginning of the track. He explained that he had "commissioned Philips, in Holland, to build two tape filibuster units for use on the road (to double live vocals). [he] moved four of the Philips PB heads very shut together so that one drum strike was repeated 4 times about ten milliseconds apart, and composite it with the original to give the effect you hear."[ commendation needed ].
Promotional picture show [edit]
A promotional film, directed past Peter Clifton, was shot in Los Angeles. The flick, shot in color, features the group pulling upwardly in a van and visiting a surfing shop. The band so drives to the beach in their van and begins surfing. The first screenings of the promotional film were shown on BBC One's Meridian 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 bear witness on ZDF Idiot box. The clip was after featured in the 1969 Peter Clifton Australian surfing film Fluid Journey.[4] An alternate promotional moving picture for "Do It Again" was planned with the idea to characteristic special invitee, Beatles fellow member Paul McCartney every bit a clerk. Yet the thought was abased due to his busy schedule.[nine]
Release [edit]
Released on July nineteen, 1968 in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland the single, forty days afterwards its release, peaked at No. 1 on the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland Singles Chart on August 28, 1968, and thus becoming the band's second number one hit in the United Kingdom afterwards "Good Vibrations" ii years before.[3] Love remembered thinking that the song's success in Britain "was unbelievable. It showed how many fans we had there and how attractive the whole California lifestyle is." When Friends was issued in Japan, "Do It Again" was included in its track list.[ten] In Britain's Disc & Music Repeat, Penny Valentine praised the single:
This is a vast comeback on The Beach Boys' last unmarried, and thank goodness for it. Information technology sounds like bees humming on a summer cakewalk and is so completely solid; there isn't room for a fly to creep in. Information technology goes on very gently and hands and is very, very pleasant. In a way it reminds me of i of the tracks off Pet Sounds, which is squeamish to say the least, and a hitting it will most certainly exist. I tin imagine a few people will be muttering, "Well, she said they were finished," only I didn't. I said they should get back to their competent, commercial sound and they have. So there.[4]
"Do It Again" remained at the peak position for only 1 week, after which it was supplanted by the Bee Gees' "I've Gotta Go a Message to Yous".[3]
Influence and use in media [edit]
Neil Sedaka borrowed the main riff from "Practise It Once more" for his ain vocal "Love Will Go on Us Together," a hit for the Captain and Tennille.[11]
Eric Carmen credited the "did-its" in this vocal 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 product and vocals of Carmen's song. "Did Information technology in a Minute", a 1982 hitting by Hall & Oates, was in turn inspired past the 'did-its' in both songs.[xiii] [14]
ABBA'southward "On and On and On" (1980) was also influenced by "Do It Once more", and in response, Mike Love recorded a embrace version of the ABBA song for his 1981 album Looking Back with Dearest.[xv]
The opening drum line of "Do Information technology Again" was sampled for "Remember" past French electronic duo Air on their anthology Moon Safari (1997).[xvi]
"Exercise Information technology Again" was featured in the films 1 Crazy Summertime, Flipper, Life on the Longboard, and Happy Feet.[ citation needed ]
Variations [edit]
Alternating studio versions [edit]
"Do It Once more" was offset released on an LP in 1969 for the band'due south twenty/twenty 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 Smiling (2004). The original Embankment Boys recording was used to follow a 1966 take of "I Wanna Exist Around" on The Grinning Sessions (2011).
The song'due south bankroll track was released on the 1968 anthology Stack-O-Tracks. On the 1998 compilation anthology, Endless Harmony Soundtrack, an early on incarnation of the song was released.[ commendation needed ] Until 2013, the song was only available in mono considering the studio multi-track tape was believed to accept been stolen erstwhile in 1980. The tape was retrieved thirty years later; the first true stereo mix was released on the Made in California box set.[17]
Live performances [edit]
The first officially released live recording of the vocal was released on the 1970 live anthology Alive In London. Brian Wilson, who sings falsetto on the studio track, had retired from touring by this time and in concert his role was replaced by horns as evident on the Live In London album version. In 1980, a live rendition was recorded, though not released until 2002 on the Good Timin': Alive at Knebworth England 1980 live album. Footage from the concert was too released on video and DVD format. The footage was also released on the 1998 documentary Endless Harmony with the sound re-mixed by Mark Linett into Dolby Digital five.1 surround audio.[ citation needed ]
2011 remake [edit]
In 2011 the surviving Beach Boys; Brian Wilson, Mike Dear, Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston and David Marks came together in the studio to re-tape "Practise Information technology Once more" as office of their 50th ceremony celebration. The re-recorded version featured Mike Dearest (verses) and Brian Wilson (bridge) on lead vocals with longtime Embankment Boys and Brian Wilson acquaintance, Jeff Foskett, performing the falsetto vocals. Information technology was released as a bonus track in special editions of That's Why God Made the Radio.[ citation needed ] "Do Information technology Again" was the opening song performed at all Beach Boys 50th Reunion Bout concerts.[ citation needed ] Both Marks and Beach Boys sideman Scott Totten play guitar on the song; according to sideman John Cowsill, the original candy drum sound from 1968 was sampled for the re-recorded version.[18] 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).[19]
Solo versions [edit]
In 1995, Brian Wilson rerecorded the song for his album I Merely Wasn't Made for These Times and released the track as a single in Britain, although it did not chart. The unmarried too 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 lot Tonight".[ citation needed ] He performed the song on the Belatedly Night With David Letterman circulate of August 17, 1995, with girl Wendy Wilson performing back upwards vocals.
In 1996, Mike Love rerecorded "Practice It Once more". On July four, 2017, Love remade and released the song once again, this fourth dimension with Marking McGrath, and released it equally a unmarried.[ commendation needed ]
Personnel [edit]
Credits from Craig Slowinski[20]
The Beach Boys
- Al Jardine - backing vocals, electric rhythm guitar, handclaps
- Bruce Johnston - backing vocals, handclaps
- Mike Love - lead and backing vocals, handclaps
- Brian Wilson - backing vocals, piano, organ, producer; possible bass
- Carl Wilson - bankroll vocals, electrical lead and rhythm guitars, producer; possible bass, possible tambourine
- Dennis Wilson - backing vocals, drums
Session musicians
- John Guerin - drums, woods block; possible tambourine
- John Lowe - bass saxophone
- Ernie Minor - 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 also recorded a promotional film for the song which featured a guest advent past Brian Wilson.[21]
- 1994 – Trygve Thue
- 2000 – John Hunter Phillips, Diamonds On The Beach
- 2008 – Los Reactivos, Split Single (as "Hazlo Otra Vez")
- 2012 – Wilson Phillips, Dedicated
- 2017 – Mike Love (with Mark McGrath & John Stamos)
Charts [edit]
| Weekly charts
| Year-stop charts
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References [edit]
- ^ "Exercise It Again - the Beach Boys | Song Info | AllMusic". AllMusic.
- ^ "12 Summer Power Pop Gems You Need in Your Life Right Now". 8 June 2018.
- ^ a b c d Rice 1982, p. 119.
- ^ a b c Badman 2004, p. 223.
- ^ a b c Badman 2004, p. 221.
- ^ Simpson, Dave. "The Beach Boys' Mike Love: 'In that location are a lot of fallacies about me'". theguardian.co.united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland . Retrieved 5 July 2012.
- ^ Love 2016, p. 200.
- ^ Tobler, John (1978). The Beach Boys . Chartwell Books. p. fifty. ISBN0890091749.
- ^ Badman 2004, p. 224.
- ^ Beard, David (July 2, 2008). "Cover Story: 'Friends' The Beach Boys' Feel-Good Record". Goldmine . Retrieved May 27, 2018.
- ^ Neil Sedaka's mini-concert, September 1, 2022 from Sedaka's official YouTube account
- ^ "Did Eric "inspire" Hall & Oates? - That's Rock 'N' Roll - EricCarmen.com Customs". Ericcarmen.com . Retrieved 2016-x-01 .
- ^ "Hall & Oates Alive Concert History". Hallandoates.de . Retrieved 2016-10-26 .
- ^ "Did Eric "inspire" Hall & Oates? - That's Rock 'N' Curlicue - EricCarmen.com Customs". Ericcarmen.com . Retrieved 2016-10-26 .
- ^ Marszalek, Julian (May 21, 2018). "Ah-haa! ABBA, Beyond The Hits". The Quietus.
- ^ Guarisco, Donald A. "Practice It Over again - The Beach Boys : Heed, Appearances, Song Review". AllMusic. Retrieved 16 September 2012.
- ^ "Embankment Boys Producers Alan Boyd, Dennis Wolfe, Marker Linett Discuss 'Made in California' (Q&A)". Stone Cellar Mag. September 4, 2013. Archived from the original on 30 September 2013. Retrieved nine September 2013.
- ^ http://smileysmile.net/board/index.php/topic,17832.25.html
- ^ http://smileysmile.cyberspace/lath/index.php/topic,11552.msg227523.html#msg227523
- ^ Slowinski, Craig (Spring 2019). Bristles, David (ed.). "20/20: 50 Year Ceremony Special Edition". Countless Summer Quarterly Magazine. Charlotte, North Carolina.
- ^ 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.S. Records human activity Wall of Voodoo.
- ^ "Go-Set up Magazine Charts". www.poparchives.com.au. Barry McKay. January 2007. Archived from the original on 27 March 2015. Retrieved 13 July 2017.
- ^ "austriancharts.at The Beach Boys – Do it Once again" (ASP). Hung Medien (in German). Retrieved Apr 14, 2013.
- ^ "Item Brandish - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Archived from the original on 2016-09-sixteen. Retrieved 2016-10-01 .
- ^ "The Irish Charts – Search Results – Do Information technology Once again". Irish Singles Chart. Retrieved July 11, 2017.
- ^ "dutchcharts.nl The Beach Boys – Practice it Again" (ASP). Hung Medien. MegaCharts. Retrieved April 14, 2013.
- ^ "New Zealand Singles Charts". mountvernonandfairway.de. Retrieved thirteen November 2007.
- ^ "norwegiancharts.com The Beach Boys – Do it Again" (ASP). Hung Medien. VG-lista. Retrieved April fourteen, 2013.
- ^ "SA Charts 1965–March 1989". Retrieved ane September 2018.
- ^ "The Embankment Boys – Exercise it Again– hitparade.ch" (ASP). Hung Medien (in High german). Swiss Music Charts. Retrieved April 14, 2013.
- ^ "Greenbacks Box Top 100 Singles, September 14, 1968". Archived from the original on August 12, 2014. Retrieved March 20, 2017.
- ^ "Go-Set Magazine Charts". world wide web.poparchives.com.au. Barry McKay. Jan 2007. Archived from the original on 27 March 2015. Retrieved 13 July 2017.
- ^ http://www.sixtiescity.net/charts/68chart.htm#top100
- ^ "Cash Box Year-Cease Charts: Top 100 Pop Singles, December 28, 1968". Archived from the original on October 9, 2016. Retrieved March 20, 2017.
- Bibliography
- Badman, Keith (2004). The Embankment Boys: The Definitive Diary of America's Greatest Band, on Stage and in the Studio . Backbeat Books. ISBN978-0-87930-818-6.
- Love, Mike (2016). Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy. Penguin Publishing Grouping. ISBN978-0-698-40886-9.
- Rice, Jo (1982). The Guinness Book of 500 Number Ane Hits (1st ed.). Enfield, Middlesex: Guinness Superlatives Ltd. ISBN0-85112-250-7.
External links [edit]
- The Beach Boys - Practice It Again on YouTube
merrittoleemanded54.blogspot.com
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_It_Again_(The_Beach_Boys_song)
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