God Only Knows

God Only Knows "is a song by the American rock band The Beach Boys. It is the eighth track from their album Pet Sounds.



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[verbergen]  *Arise 1  ==Genesis[ Edit] == Brian Wilson, who wrote the music, gave in his autobiography Wouldn't It Be Nice: My Own Story to have the melody extracted from a John Sebastian song that sang.Apart from that, there are opinions that the beginning also refers to Richard Wagner's Götterdämmerung; the Instrumentation is at least equal (4 horns). The song, the lyrics of which Tony Asher wrote, was seen as a vision by both gentlemen under the following description: If you closed your eyes, you have nothing to see; Once closed, however, you can see everything. ==Text[ Edit] == It was a perilous undertaking to a song title to use in which the word God occurred, certainly within the pop music, where then still skewed against to explore. Brian Wilson's wife Marilyn Rovell thought at first that it was a song about God and that would certainly lead to but little airplay . The song was however not about God, but about eternal love. The title was held, partly because The Beach Boys than groundbreaking would work.
 * Text 2
 * Singer 3
 * 4 Recordings
 * 5 chart positions
 * 5.1 Radio 2 Top 2000
 * 6 Source

Wilson had a hard head in, an opening sentence as I may not always love you was too negative, but after hearing the shots he turned in. The story seems that Brian Wilson has isolated a number of days after Paul McCartney of The Beatles had said to him that this is the most beautiful song that was ever created. Because, of all things, a member of the currently most successful band that against Wilson said, was latter in the belief that he could rise above this number from never... ==Singer[ Edit] == Initially it would Brian Wilson singing the song itself, but at the end of the recordings he left it anyway by his brother Carl Wilson singing, which there was overjoyed. Wilson himself had another version for eyes in which Terry Melcher and the Rovell Sisters were concerned, but the sound was too full and Brian Wilson returned to the starting point to a maximum of three singers. The singing voice was recorded during the months of March and april 1966 in the Columbia Studios in Hollywood under sound engineer Ralph Balantin. Carl Wilson's voice was tired at the end and so it was that in the fade out Carl Wilson's original voice no longer heard. It is a combination of reusing previously sung material of Carl, two voices of Brian and finally the voice of Bruce Johnston. ==Recordings<span class="mw-editsection" len="328" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">The instrumental part was in twenty times on 10 March 1966 included in the Western Recorders in Hollywood with Chuck Birtz behind the buttons. The vocal parts. Brian Wilson later claimed that some found the musicians present an enchanting melody. The background Orchestra consisted of up to 23 persons; the final version contains 16 musicians, including well-known studio musicians of the time:

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">In the United States was God Only Knows B side, in Europe it became used as A-side and it started a triumphal March along the various charts. In England it came to a second place; in Ireland the third, eleventh in the Dutch Top 40 and a sixth in a fourth, Norway and Belgium only a 22nd place in Germany. Australia also got the number in her charts (number 2).
 * Carl Wilson — lead vocal, backing vocals
 * Brian Wilson — backing vocals
 * Bruce Johnston — backing vocals
 * Carol Kaye — bass guitar
 * Don Randi — piano
 * Larry Knechtel — organ
 * Hal Blaine — drums
 * Jim Gordon — percussion
 * Bill Green; Jim Horn — flute
 * Leonard Hartman — clarinet, bass clarinet
 * Jay Migliori — baritone saxophone
 * Alan Robinson — Horn
 * Carl Fortina ; Frank Morocco — accordion
 * Leonard Malarsky; Sid Sharp — violin
 * Darrel Terwilliger — Viola
 * Jesse Erlich — cello
 * Lyle Ritz — double bass
 * Ray Pohlman — electric bass

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Of the top artists in the pop music from later times are Paul McCartney, Bono Vox and Steven Wilson charmed by the number. During the years following its release, many artists have recorded the song there under stood Glen Campbell, Jack Jones, Claudine Longet, Andy Williams, Neil Diamond and David Bowie (album Tonight). Of course the music is not in films that harking back to the 1960s. ==Chart Positions<span class="mw-editsection" len="332" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Radio 2 Top 2000<span class="mw-editsection" len="337" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ===