The Beach Boys "Johnny Carson"
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Brian Wilson composed "Johnny Carson" and most of The Beach Boys Love You songs in the fall of 1976. Brian Wilson said, "Johnny Carson came about when I was sitting at my piano and someone was talking about him. I told them I was gonna write a song about him and they didn't believe me. I had the whole thing done in 20 minutes." The Beach Boys Love You was eventually released on April 11, 1977.
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The world, most of the Beach Boys, and certainly Reprise records wanted Brian to produce sun-in-the-fun hits for the mid 70s generation who bought millions of copies of "Endless Summer". Instead he wrote quirky pieces of eccentric observation, in keeping with his lifestyle as a southern California millionaire drop-out. You can have your "Kokomo" and "It's OK" and countless other Mike Love-fueled attempts at fun, fun, fun. Brian's tunes from this era are fine, fine, fine with me.
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Starting in January of MeTv at 11pm Johnny Carson
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Hit those keyboards Brian
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this shows so much perception of Johnny's inner burden ("the network makes him break his back...") - before the bios of him - such as the posthumous one by his lawyer Bushkin.
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What a turd of a song.
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I love this song. I wish I could explain to the people at large why it is so fucking brilliant, but any explanations would be lost on them. I hope Brian Wilson lives to 110.
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Great work, Bob!
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