The Beach Boys and Paul McCartney - 'Vega-Tables' (NMR004)

And now, for your continuing delight, Messrs Moonlight and Mustard, proudly present a soupcon of crudities.

You may pea yourselves with delight, go off like a rocket, but please don't squash us or beet us up over this, we could end up with cauliflower ears.

That would turn us beetroot red...and if it leeked out it might upset Lepidium meyenii !!!

Brian Wilson wrote the song "Vegatables" (with Van Dyke Parks) for the famous “SMiLE” album, planned for 1967, but due to the cancellation of “SMiLE”, it was released in a much toned-down form on “Smiley Smile” instead, (with Al Jardine and Brian Wilson on lead vocals) with one section cut out and later reused as “Mama Says” on the album “Wild Honey”. Paul McCartney was in the studio when Brian Wilson was mixing this song, he just walked in and joined Brian at the console. And, briefly, the two most influential musical Geminis in the world had a chance to work together - you can hear him in the background munching on celery (used instead of traditional percussion) and saying something like 'Good take, Al.'. In 1993, the previously unreleased original version of Vegetables was released along with a slew of other “SMiLE” material on the “Good Vibrations” box-set. In 2004, the song was included on Brian Wilson's new release of “SMiLE”. This most recent recording was based on the original version, rather than the minimalist arrangement that appears on Smiley Smile.


    CD 1 - Pre-Beatles:

  1. Vega-Tables (part 1 - piano track)
  2. Vega-Tables (part 1 - vocal overdub)
  3. Vega-Tables (part 1 - vocal overdub attempt)
  4. Vega-Tables stereo (part 1 - instrumental & vocal overdub attempts)
  5. Vega-Tables stereo (part 1 - instrumental & vocal overdub attempts)
  6. Vega-Tables stereo (part 1 - instrumental & vocal overdub attempts)
  7. Vega-Tables (part 1 - vocal overdub attempts)
  8. Vega-Tables (part 1 - vocal overdub attempts)
  9. Vega-Tables (part 1 - vocal overdub attempts)
  10. Vega-Tables (part 1 - vocal overdub attempts)
  11. Vega-Tables (part 1 - instrumental insert takes 1-8)
  12. Vega-Tables (part 1 - vocal insert rehearsals)
  13. Vega-Tables (part 1 - mono mix rehearsals)
  14. Vega-Tables (part 2 - take unknown)
  15. Vega-Tables (part 2 - 1st vocal overdub)
  16. Vega-Tables (part 2 - 2nd vocal overdub)
  17. Vega-Tables (part 2 - track rehearsal)
  18. Vega-Tables (part 2 - 1st vocal overdub)
  19. Vega-Tables (part 2 - 2nd vocal overdub)
  20. Vega-Tables (part 2 - 3rd vocal overdub)
  21. Vega-Tables (part 2 - 4th vocal overdub)
  22. Vega-Tables (part 2 - mono mix)
  23. Vega-Tables (part 3 - take 12)
  24. Vega-Tables (part 3 - 1st vocal overdub)
  25. Vega-Tables (part 3 - 2nd vocal overdub)
  26. Vega-Tables (part 3 - mono mix)
  27. Vega-Tables (various mix rehearsals)
  28. Vega-Tables (Smile mix)

    29. 'Smiley Smile' Sessions:

  29. Vegetables (bass rehearsal)
  30. Vegetables (bass track)
  31. Vegetables (bass & piano track)
  32. Vegetables (1st vocal overdub)
  33. Vegetables (2nd vocal overdub)
  34. Vegetables (instrumental insert)

    35. Bonus:

  35. Vege-Tables - Great Shape (Vigotone Smile Mix)
  36. Vega-Tables (SMiLE Millennium Edition)
  37. Vega-Tables Reprise (SMiLE Millennium Edition)
  38. Vega-Tables (Purple Chick Smile)
  39. Vega-Tables (Purple Chick Smile - vocals only bonus)

Not Included – Officialy Released:

Vegetables (“Smiley Smile” Final Mix)

Vegetables (“Good Vibrations - Thirty Years of the Beach Boys” Box-Set)