I can see how Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys both got their signature sound, and I mean that in a great way 😎😎 These guys were extremely tight harmonically!
Of course there would be a Beach Boys, just listen to them! Brian definitely took inspiration from these guys but there was simply to much talent in the Beach Boys. To say no Beach Boys is just silly, they may have sounded a bit different but, jeez just listen to them! They went way past this.
@@theccpisaparasite8813 As I said before, if it weren't for the men that came before them, the Beach Boys would have never sounded like this. It's like when Eddie Van Halen invented his style of playing, he spawned hundreds of imitators. But by the sound of your comments, it is clear that you don't even understand the concept. Even Brian Wilson himself admitted that these same groups influenced him directly, and if you weren't so ignorant, you would know that. You don't.
I came up mid60s...loved Rock and roll(still do), but I also love close harmony singing. I have 20+ Freshmen LPS, and find myself dropping the needle on them all the time. I saw them in CLE in mid 80s...Flanigan was there and did the intro, but it was a bunch of young men BF had handpicked and schooled. They didn't disasapoint.
Among the many clean-cut harmonizing groups of that postwar era, I guess that if Murray Wilson had not had Four Freshmen records on the turntable -- the Beach Boys might've made a very different sound. I get a kick out of seeing these old TV broadcasts. They are like cryptic time-capsules, evoking a long since departed era. I would've been about five years old, sitting on our well-worn sofa with my Dad (far past my bedtime), while he sipped on Folgers coffee and built balsa wood model airplanes from a large plywood sheet.
This fantastic group was ---and still is----a huge hit. They change individual artists whenever necessary. I believe the actual "count" to date is more than 150 musicians. But the concept was especially popular in the 60s and 70s. They tour everywhere. Even today, vocal harmonies are popular in the jazz and popular music genre. MANY groups were influenced by the Freshman. But we all know that musical tastes keep changing. So be it.
Notice the four of them are sharing a single microphone, and the bassist has to shift positions and lean in whenever his falsetto is needed. If you look at film of a big band performance in the 1940s, there is always one big microphone, generally used for an instrumental solo or vocalist. Since that one mike was the only amplification, it was still necessary to have multiple saxophones, trombones, trumpets and so forth, to get enough volume so that dancers could hear the music.
In the groups I played (in the fifties,sixties, seventies) there was almost never a mic. We all had to learn to play with enough volume to fill the hall; not too much & not too little.
might seem a bit "square" these days,but this a glimpse into a world that was under control and was good in so many ways..no hype,just the music,that is what mattered.
More info----the late Gene Puerling moved to L A in 1950 and was responsible for helping the HI LOs and the Singers Unlimited start and flourish. Many similar groups were influenced by him.
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If this was truly a hit with teenagers, then they were a different breed in the 50s. I find it hard hard to believe that high school teens would have found this song "cool" in any era. No offense to the performers.
