Brian Wilson Christmas Interview

Well along with our special feature of this Beach Boys' Christmas Album

Once again I'm happy to see the smiling face of the leader of

This popular group here in the studio brian wilson

Good to see you again Brian

Hi Jack

This Beach Boys' Christmas Album is really something

Ah d**k Reynolds did the arrangements I guess huh

Yes he did

He did a beautiful job a wonderful job

Is this the first time you've worked with him

Right

I'd been uh wanting to meet him and work with him for quite a long time

Now who's idea was it to have you featured on this uh one particular tune I

I was particularly impressed with it-A Blue Christmas

Well I sort of picked out that song to sing for myself

I I love the song and uh I've always wanted to sing it so I thought I'd sing it

Well maybe this will be the start of a whole new career huh

I don't know that's It it could and it couldn't

Ah I really don't know

Well let's leave it to the listeners to see what they think of it

Right

I notice this album has uh ah along with some of the popular things like uh

I'll Be Home For Christmas uh Auld Lang Syne and uh um We Three Kings

And some of the traditional things that you have a couple of your

Your own uh beach boys type sounds in the lp too

Uh huh we've more or less made one side uh our own style and

Kind of a teen side and an adult side

Uh huh right um hm

Contrasting

Uh huh

Now we have uh one of your originals coming up here Brian

Uh Christmas Day You wrote this for the album specifically

Yes I did

Uh huh

Uh huh

And now do you do your the vocal arrangements

Or did d**k reynolds handle all of that

D**k handled the vocal arrangements on the ah the modern side

The traditional side and I did the ah vocal and the

Arrangements of the music on our own style our basic style side

D**k did the strings also on the uh on the modern side

Coming up now ah a very sentimental type Christmas song

Particularly for those who are away from home during this time of year

I'll Be Home For Christmas Any ah thing particular about this

This tune that you'd like to say brian

Ah well I guess there's something very obvious when you hear the song

It's ah there's a very definite influence of the Four Freshmen

On the arrangement as well as the delivery and uh obviously

We all look up and admire the style of the four freshmen and

Uh I feel this has been the greatest one of the greater

Vocal influences ah in the world today

Well it's certainly been uh nice of you to take the time to come

By again here for our special beach boys' christmas show

You have a fine album here and uh I hope you'll be home for Christmas

Well I hope I will too

I hope everyone's home for Christmas

I do too

Brian Wilson thanks again for coming by

Thank you very much Jack

And here again the Beach Boys' Christmas Album