Songs · Skopia

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6 songs

Care of Cell 44

1967 · From Odessey and Oracle

Argent's working title was "Prison Song", and the sunniest harmonies of 1967 are addressed to someone awaiting release.

★ 5.6

1967

Written by the Addrisi brothers, cut by the Wrecking Crew, and named by BMI the twentieth century's second most-played song.

★ 5.7

1968 · From Odessey and Oracle

Take four, June 1967 at EMI, with a trumpet added later onto the mono mix and nowhere else.

★ 6.0

1965

Sebastian's autoharp opens it, written after he watched a teenager dance at the Night Owl in Greenwich Village.

★ 6.1

1969

A wallet lost in a New York cab sent the group to Hair; Bones Howe spliced two songs into one.

★ 6.2

In My RoomThe Beach Boys

1963 · From Surfer Girl

Three Wilson brothers on the first verse, singing harmonies worked out in the Hawthorne bedroom the song describes.

★ 6.6