The Beach Boys - "Here Comes The Night"

[@scottsessions1907]

Carl's vocals are outrageously amazing! He had the chops. One of rock's best voices.

[@douglasreid2043]

Was never a Beach Boys fan but remember hearing this on Radio Luxembourg back in the 70's and thought his was a great song.

[@mvanrent]

Disco Show de Bernard Schu. 🙂

[@MikeBlitzMag]

At the risk of howls of indignation from the Beach Boys purists, for my money, this remake of their 1967 Wild Honey LP cut is one of their finest moments overall. Their harmonies are better than ever, and the string charts are positively brilliant and ideal for the piece. The bombastic final four bars sum it up sublimely. Pure genius!

[@burlingtonbill1]

Trying to stay "relevant" thru the disco era. Carl was always an R&B aficionado at heart. This appearance, concerts promoting it, & the 45 & subsequent LP on vinyl were just paychecks for Mike Love...

[@richardosullivan8102]

The long version should have been kept as a 12inch single and should never have been used on the LA album. The shorter single version yes, the longer version did not help the LP popularity at all, which is a shame as there are so many good song on it. As for the singles be it the long or short version they had their place to be used.

[@truthtransistorradio6716]

I agree. This song gets trashed on, but it's catchy. Better than their rap attempts! Lol

[@Chicago_Podcast_Authority]

This and Chicago’s disco song “Street Player” are disco gold 👑🥇

[@AprilShowers1955]

Carl shows his versatility in singing disco this time. He handles it extremely well. 😊❤

[@thaddeusskonieczkino6616]

Carl's talent is shown big time

[@johntorres6824]

This 12' is such a great record!!! I always loved this song but I never heard it in the discos.Actually having the chance to "watch" it is a treat for me.One of my all-time favorite disco songs!!!

[@marcovillareal6473]

The coolest version of this Beach Boys track I ever heard!

[@THECLARENCES]

Long live the memories of Dennis & Carl Wilson. xoxo The Clarences

[@MrMjp58]

I remember this from 79. A minor hit in the uk? Of course, the second I detected the famous BB harmonies and superb song structure I was transported to a dream world. My favourite 'disco' track.

[@robertnunez4917]

This song should've crack the top 40 just like any other songs the Beach Boys ever made. At least it gave the famous surfing band their taste of Disco. But they did it their own way. It shows originality without copying others.

[@rjjcms1]

It did in the UK,spending 3 weeks in the Top 40 in April 1979 and peaking at number 32.

[@DiscoMatty79]

I'm surprised, they played it on American Bandstand

[@johndoyle2429]

Maybe I'm wrong here, Dennis Wilson didn't like this disco version of this Song.

[@johndoyle2429]

If it had been on the soundtrack to Saturday night fever I might have done well.

[@Joalang51]

Wow, never heard that one before & I was a BIG Disco fan. Kind of strange hearing the Beach Boys do a disco song though. I LIKE it.

[@r.pratherray1364]

We had this album! This was a deep departure for The Beach Boys, but god I still love this song!

[@rebeccaratliff6229]

I actually like this.

[@curls69]

I was surprised when I first hear this back in 1979 and like many thought the BB were off base. But then the genius of Brian Wison and the BB composing came to light. It is Great.

[@larrywt656]

Brian had very little to do with this version of the song. The was purely Bruce Johnston.

[@glassroom135]

@@larrywt656 I mean yeah but lets be clear, Brian still wrote the song.

[@patrickpaul7360]

@@larrywt656 and Bruce did a killer version of Pipeline in the late 70s

[@Uetti]

Superb

[@g-plan9future204]

Still sticks in my head today

[@greatcitysportaction2289]

This was at Burbank, California on February 26, 1979 part of the midnight special performance

[@ianwhite2752]

This song is one of my favs, beach boys best tune

[@larrywt656]

Not even close.

[@ENigma-um8zw]

This song is a 2020’s banger! I listen to it almost every day it seems. I love Here Comes The Night (1968) but for whatever reason maybe it’s this cool powder people are passing me I hear it’s non addictive, anyway I really love the 1979 (Light Album)era version of Here Comes The Night too!

[@Hillers62]

LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@chrishorn855]

Love it...they can do music...

[@brotherthor8699]

Not to be confused by the song by the group Them called "Here Comes The Night".

[@ああ-p5k4v]

If I were a film director, I'd adopt this song.

[@mytimemachine]

I remember seeing the Beach Boys performing this at the Montreal Forum in 1979. Brian was barely there. He would get up from the piano mid song and another person would jump into the chair in his place until Brian wandered back to the piano and continued playing. The show opened with giant beach balls dropped on the audience. Later that September I saw the Bee Gees at the Forum, wearing their "Saturday Night Fever"white suits with pyrotechnics during "Tragedy!"). It definitely was the height of disco.

[@claudiovargas7067]

"It's O.K." "Rock and Roll Music" "Here Comes The Night (Disco)" ;)

[@wlc1980]

I like it

[@claudiovargas7067]

My jam back in 1979.

[@sandyward5344]

Mine too. This 12 inch was always on my stereo. I played it to death

[@nervo6321]

I like this version even though it always gets slaughtered....back in the day it was spot on.....still sounds good in 2019

[@mrsmacca126]

It’s fine, for what it is. CARL can make even MYKLOV lyrics sound great

[@ChartreuseKitty]

But it is fun now! This version is on L.A., right?

[@magictransistorradio4933]

ChartreuseKitty The version on LA Light is 11 minutes long

[@PatrickFletcher]

I used to fall asleep in the drum room while they were mixing this song until the wee hours of the morning (Sounds Good Recording) ... good times. Curt Boetcher was a genius ;-)

[@terrypussypower]

Was it Curt who redid this? Didn’t know that.

[@PatrickFletcher]

@@terrypussypower Yes, it was totally his baby ;-)

[@DanielHernandez-tn2ie]

Curt was THA MAN. assume you were workin @ Criteria right?

[@PatrickFletcher]

@@DanielHernandez-tn2ie No, my father was the engineer and owned the recording studio (Sounds Good) ... I was just a kid hanging around.

[@NOWtheband]

I MUCH prefer this version to the original 1967 version, except the insipid sax which is on the LP & single versions but they have tastefully edited it out here. PHEW! :-) They're all heroes, no villains!

[@dontbelikejake]

Lol thanks for the info, but I kinda met to say " what were the Beach Boys doing with their music in the 70's" Its not bad just completely different.

[@MikeMc442]

A clash of cultures --- as they tried to jump on someone else's trend. While this attempt didn't fly, that LA album did serve up one classic, "Good Timin'," a radio hit in many parts of the country.

[@cazgerald9471]

"Good Timin'" and "Shortenin' Bread" I think were the only two contributions from Brian on LA

[@daveconrad8474]

They were just trying to go with the music style that was popular at the time. They figured that if the Four Seasons & Bee Gees could do it, why can't they? I liked this version, but this is obviously a lip-sync.

[@joshgellis3292]

There's an 11 1/2 minute version of this same song on KZbin- It's a stunningly EPIC as ALL FUCK compared to this clip with a tiny Disco dance floor.

[@gregs6275]

0:01 0:48 great dancer briefly 1:04 2:08

[@hellomcflyy]

if they did something like this in - oh - 75...76...77 even - then they could have truly pulled a Bee Gees type grand slam - too bad right around then is when they started following trends more than creating new sounds - by 79 this was WAY too late - fun now but - it was getting really old by 79......or they could have covered something by the Ramones (Rock n Roll High School - or maybe Rockaway Beach) and gone in the other direction...

[@DiscoMatty79]

Getting old? What are you talking about? The kids in this video were having a blast dancing to this.

[@smileysmilefan7879]

Trouble? No why do you think that? (9/4/79)

[@zapple1003]

They should have kept this off the LA ALBUM.

[@DiscoMatty79]

Why?

[@dontbelikejake]

Who were the Beach Boys in the 70s???

[@daveconrad8474]

The top concert draw in America.

[@resireg]

@@daveconrad8474 depends. In the Early mid 70s was Elvis era. In the end of the 70s it was Disco (Bee Gees, Kiss, Abba)

[@denniswilsonforever404]

Love the Beach Boys. Not a fan of the song. Neither was Dennis Wilson and he made no secret of it. Dennis looks cute as always. ;-)

[@mrsmacca126]

Dennis WilsonForever Carl looks and sounds fantastic

[@joshgellis3292]

It's 'Beach Boys On Strong Coffee' and those who can love this song, are retired Yuppies or old schooler in college, on a Rockstar Energy Drink that gets down!

[@1401minstrel]

I love the Beach Boys, but God help me I still hate disco.

[@dontbelikejake]

Lol thanks. Haha

[@No1emilybrowningfan]

The single version was great, the eleven minute version was unnecessary

[@christopherthomas7253]

Poor Mike, Carl is the star LOL

[@mrsmacca126]

CARL DEAN WILSON!!!!!

[@GoodGamer3000]

Oh, it's the bad version...

[@GoodGamer3000]

@MagicBeliever 66, but compared to the original Wild Honey version, all of them are awful.

[@GoodGamer3000]

@MagicBeliever 66, but I think most can agree that the Wild Honey version is superior.

[@timlavik5537]

Did bri

[@Looking1231]

Don't think the song is as bad as people made it out to be but I almost get the feeling that during the song, someone should be going, "Over here on my left, the Construction Worker!!! On my right, the Policeman!! Over there, the Cowboy!!! And our good friend doing background vocals and dancing, The Indian!!!"

[@buxvan]

You're spot on. I remember this from 1979 but the first drum beats could be "in the navy "

[@paulbrimble8204]

Here comes the shit

[@DiscoMatty79]

What do you hate about it? The strings are gorgeous.

[@oldsurferdude1]

Besides Summer In Paradise, Santa's Goin' To Kohkohmoe, and 100% of myKe luHv's output, this is one of the absolue worst things they have released. Fucking embarrassing. However, the original song from Wild Honey,penned by Brian Wilson, is an incredible song.

[@dand6838]

oldsurferdude1 it's actually pretty cool

[@dand6838]

yip

[@dand6838]

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