Let's Go Away for Awhile
| "Let's Go Away for Awhile" | ||||
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| Instrumental by The Beach Boys from the album Pet Sounds | ||||
| Released | May 16, 1966 | |||
| Recorded | Main track: January 18, 1966 Western Studios String and flute overdubs: January 19, 1996 Western Studios[1] |
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| Genre | Baroque pop, instrumental rock | |||
| Length | 2:18 | |||
| Label | Capitol | |||
| Composer | Brian Wilson | |||
| Producer | Brian Wilson | |||
| Pet Sounds track listing | ||||
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"Let's Go Away for Awhile" is an instrumental by the American rock band The Beach Boys, from their 1966 album Pet Sounds. It is the sixth track on the album. The instrumental was the B-side to 1966 single Good Vibrations.
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[edit] Information
The track was composed and produced by Brian Wilson and was originally titled "The Old Man And The Baby". An early full working title was "Let's Go Away For Awhile (And Then We'll Have World Peace)" - the parenthetical being a reference to Del Close and John Brent's comedy album How to Speak Hip. "This is a great Burt Bacharach type of thing", Wilson said in 1996.
In 1967 Wilson stated that the song was "the most satisfying piece of music I've ever made. I applied a certain set of dynamics through the arrangement and the mixing and got a full musical extension of what I'd planned during the earliest stages of the theme. I think the chord changes are very special. I used a lot of musicians on the track; twelve violins, piano, four saxes, oboe, vibes, a guitar with a coke bottle on the strings for a semi-steel guitar effect. Also, I used two basses and percussion. The total effect is Let's Go Away For Awhile, which is something everyone in the world must have said at some time or another. Nice thought; most of us don't go away, but it's still a nice thought."[2]
[edit] Performers
- Hal Blaine: - drums
- Julius Wechter: - tympani, vibraphone
- Lyle Ritz: - string bass
- Carol Kaye: - electric bass
- Al Casey: - guitar
- Barney Kessel: - guitar
- Al de Lory: - piano
- Steve Douglas: - tenor saxophone
- Plas Johnson: - tenor saxophone
- Jim Horn: - baritone saxophone
- Jay Migliori: - baritone saxophone
- Roy Caton: - trumpet
[edit] Overdub session
- Arnold Belnick: - violin
- James Getzoff: - violin
- William Kurasch: - violin
- Leonard Malarsky: - violin
- Jerome Reisler: - violin
- Ralph Schaeffer: - violin
- Sid Sharp: - violin
- Tibor Zelig: - violin
- Joseph Di Fiore: - viola
- Harry Hyams: - viola
- Justin Di Tullio: -cello
- Joseph Saxon: - cello
(The Sid Sharp Strings)
- Steve Douglas: - flute
- Jules Jacob: - flute
[edit] Covers
It was included on the Neil Young soundtrack album Journey Through the Past as the closing track.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Elliott, Brad (August 31, 1999). "Pet Sounds Track Notes". beachboysfanclub.com. http://www.beachboysfanclub.com/ps-tracks.html. Retrieved March 3, 2009.
- ^ Linett, Mark (2001). "Track-by-Track Notes". In Pet Sounds (p. 19) [CD booklet]. Hollywood: Capitol Records, Inc.
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