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red dog 1

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Sun Dec 4, 2016, 04:01 PM

Dec 2016

Sloop John B is not an original Beach Boys song.

It's a traditional folk song called "The John B Sails."

Brian Wilson based his version of Sloop John B on the 1958 cover of the song done by the Kingston Trio, called
"The Wreck of the John B"

Wilson took some liberties with the song's arrangement, and changed a few lyrics.
"The poor cook he caught the fits
And threw away all of my grits
And then he took and ate up all of my corn"

It was Beach Boy Al Jardine who convinced Brian to do the song.
Brian's first response was "I'm not a big fan of The Kingston Trio."

The idea stage to the completed track took less than 24 hours.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloop_John_B

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