"Chapel of Love" by The Beach Boys

With a gig in Columbus, Ohio coming up next week, Mike Love, Brian Wilson, and Al Jardine of The Beach Boys will have been entertaining audiences for an unreal SIX consecutive decades.

Over those sixty years, they have sold hundreds of millions of records, and recorded some amazing and timeless tunes.

This cover of "Chapel of Love" by The Dixie Cups is not one of them.

Help me, Rhonda, this sucks.

The bow-bow-bow-bow "lyrics" that are charming in other tunes of theirs fail miserably here.

Then, there's the guy in the back crooning "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah" and "Sky is blue!" like a wave riding Flavor Flav.

This one is basically a bloated whale carcass.

"God Only Knows" by Natalie Maines

 

Happy Easter!

Former Dixie Chick Natalie Maines returned from a five year hiatus to record The Beach Boys' 1966 hit "God Only Knows" for the finale of HBO drama series "Big Love."

And, I'm sure in some small part, to rekindle the flame with George W Bush.

"Kokomo" by Holiday Sidewinder

Thanks to the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, I was unable to procure a factory job in my youth. So, I made money the old fashioned way — waited for birthdays, or occasionally dabbled in the petty larceny syndicate on the mean streets of Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania.

Between the two, 10 year old me was able to scrounge together 7.99, which I used to buy… The "Cocktail” soundtrack on cassette.

It was a purchase I in no way regret. Tons of great songs, plus one from Robbie Nevil.

The album’s cornerstone, though, and what cemented me as a prepubescent yacht rocker, was The Beach Boys ”Kokomo.”

This is a solid cover of it. Not a huge fan of the autotune during the chorus, but, otherwise, great work by Holiday Sidewinder.

Most of the time, YouTube has videos with the song playing over a still shot of the artist’s album cover.

Couldn’t find one, so I apologize for the pretty crappy official video. They’re musicians, not cinematographers. Which is painfully, painfully obvious.