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Following the articles on the post-Beach Boys Pet Sounds that are appearing these days on In Search Of The Lost Vinyl opportunity to present this video, which many of you already know thanks to this post in Pepsounds, Brian Wilson interprentando "Surf's Up "at the piano at her home in Bel Air in 1966.

As is well known "Surf's Up" was originally published on the disc namesake of the Beach Boys 1971 although the concept, the idea and much of the membership coming from before, just during the sessions of "Smile", that mythical lost disk.

This video shows one of the earliest versions of this spectacular theme and we can see without the filter of any kind compositional and interpretive immeasurable talent of one of the greatest geniuses of popular music. Brian Wilson and his piano in the song of a tremendous complexity and an unmatched beauty. You enjoy it:

Surf's Up

A diamond necklace played the Pawn
Hand in hand along some drummer, oh
To a handsome man and Baton
A blind class aristocracy
Back through the glass you see op'ra
The Pit and the Pendulum drawn
Colonnade ruins domino

Canvass the town and brush the backdrop
Are you sleeping?

Hung velvet overtaken me
Dim chandelier AWAKEN me
Dissolved to a song in the dawn
The music hall a costly bow
The music all is lost for now
To a muted swan trumperter
Colonnade ruins domino

Canvass the town and brush the backdrop
Are you sleeping, Brother John?

Dove nested towers the hour was
Strike the street quicksilver moon
Carriage across the fog
Two-Step to Lamplighter cellar tune
The laughs come hard in Auld Lang Syne

The glass was raised, the fired rose
The Fullness of the wine, toasting the last dim
While at port, adieu or die

A choke of grief hardened I HEART
Beyond belief a broken man too tough to cry

Surf's Up
Aboard a tidal wave
Come about hard and join
The young and often spring you gave
I heard the word
Wonderful thing
A children's song

Child, child, child, child, child
A child is the father of the man
Child, child, child, child, child
A child is the father of the man
A children's song
Have you Listened as they played
Their song is love
And the children know the way
That's why the child is the father to the man
Child, child, child, child, child
Child, child, child, child, child
Na na na na na na na na
Child, child, child, child, child
That's why the child is the father to the man
Child, child, child, child, child