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...style was a complex amalgam of hillbilly, blues, English ballad, and Hawaiian twang, all coupled with Rodger's own "blue yodel." A mixture of Swiss yodeling and the Negro falsetto, Rodgers took his voice past its highest note and let it break into "T for Texas, T for Tennessee," yodelling on the "T's" and then back into a normal range for the next line...
...Dennis' songs, are as close to hard rock as the Beach Boys are likely to get. "Got to Know the Woman" is a simple rhythm-and-blues tune that builds gradually to a Phil Spector-like wall of sound. "It's About Time" is a somewhat pretentious ballad about self-realization-"Little did I know the joy I'd find in knowing I am only me"-but an incredible rhythm section and some of the best guitar work the Beach Boys have ever done make this one of the best songs on the album...
...certain amount of schlock, and, one again, they don't disappoint us. "Deirdre," which tries to justify its lyrics with the pun "dear, dear, Deirdre," sounds like Gary Lewis and the Playboys' "The joker is Wild" played at half-tempo. Likewise, "At My Window" is a cutesy sentimental ballad, full of sound effects of birds chirping...
Gordon was duly arrested for violating Utah's obscenity statute, which makes it "unlawful for any person to willfully or knowingly sing or speak an obscene or lewd song, ballad or any other obscene or lewd words in any public place or in the presence of other persons." In response, the defendants filed suit in U.S. district court against the local prosecutor, charging that the Utah law was unconstitutional...
...remembers that "there must have been at least a million of em," a romanticized long-lensed shot of a couple lying down to make love, and the mud-sliding sequence, this sociological material is unimaginative in the extreme. A montage of different babies, overlaid with John Sebastian's saccharine ballad to his son, just about sums...