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The Beach Boys are recording Summer Means New Love, in Los Angeles, California, USA, for Capitol Records. Around this time, Beach Boys' leader Brian Wilson meets a future collaborator, Tony Asher, for the first time.Full article:
Tony Asher : I ran into Brian at a session I was doing for a commercial jingle in connection with my advertising job. Brian was doing some demos of something or another. We ran into each other in the hall. We started chatting, and he asked me to take a listen to what he had been doing. He then went into the studio to play something for me on the piano. I played a couple of things for him, and that was pretty much it. Frankly, I never expected to hear from him again.
A few weeks later I got a phone call and Brian said, 'Listen, I have an album that is overdue. Would you want to help me write it?' I thought it was somebody in the office playing a joke on me. And then pretty quickly I was convinced it was him.
It was such an absurd notion. He didn't really know anything about my writing abilities except that we had exchanged some ideas on songs when I was in the studio with him. Apparently he had some input from some mutual friends about my abilities as a wordsmith, as a copywriter and as a lyricist. But for me it seemed like it was out of the blue.
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A few weeks later I got a phone call and Brian said, 'Listen, I have an album that is overdue. Would you want to help me write it?' I thought it was somebody in the office playing a joke on me. And then pretty quickly I was convinced it was him.
It was such an absurd notion. He didn't really know anything about my writing abilities except that we had exchanged some ideas on songs when I was in the studio with him. Apparently he had some input from some mutual friends about my abilities as a wordsmith, as a copywriter and as a lyricist. But for me it seemed like it was out of the blue.
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