In Blue Hawaii
| "Love to Say Dada" | |
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| Song by The Beach Boys | |
| from the album The Smile Sessions | |
| Released | November 1, 2011 |
| Recorded | May–October 1967, Gold Star Studios and Brian Wilson's home studio |
| Length | 2:32 |
| Label | Capitol |
| Composer(s) | Brian Wilson |
| Producer(s) | Brian Wilson |
| "In Blue Hawaii" | ||||
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| Song by Brian Wilson | ||||
| from the album Brian Wilson Presents Smile | ||||
| Released | September 24, 2004 | |||
| Recorded | April 2004, Sunset Sound Recorders | |||
| Length | 3:00 | |||
| Label | Nonesuch | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Brian Wilson/Van Dyke Parks | |||
| Producer(s) | Brian Wilson | |||
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"Love to Say Dada" (also published as "I Love to Say Da Da") is an unfinished instrumental written and produced by Brian Wilson for American rock band the Beach Boys. When Wilson was completing his solo album, Brian Wilson Presents Smile, he enlisted the pen of Van Dyke Parks to include lyrics in order to complete the song. Abandoning the child theme first envisioned in 1967, the track was renamed "In Blue Hawaii" in 2004 and became the water component of the album's elemental suite.
The track originated from the Smile sessions, and was, for the most part, the last track recorded for the ill-fated album. Marilyn Wilson has recounted that the song was originally written about a baby, with Brian asking her for a bottle of chocolate milk to drink while he wrote and played the song on a piano with its strings taped. According to Brian,
I had just moved into a new house on Bellagio Road in Bel Air, in March of 1967, and the first day I moved in, there was a piano there, and I went to the piano and wrote [the song]. I sat and wrote the gist of it.
The song's title could be abbreviated to 'LSD' as a reference to the drug. This was a titling trend used during the psychedelic era, with other examples being the song "Love Seems Diamond" by the Blues Magoos and The Trip, which had a subheading that read: "A Lovely Sort of Death".
A near-complete backing track entitled "Love to Say Dada" was recorded in mostly instrumental form in between sessions for "Vega-Tables" throughout May 15–18, 1967 at Gold Star Studios. A session was also scheduled on May 19, but ended up being cancelled. Wilson would later overdub a jazz scat "wah wah hoo wah" lead vocal recorded in varispeed before abandoning these complicated instrumental tracks entirely. During these May sessions, there is a take in which the sessions musicians close the track with a section of "Child Is Father of the Man". This section does not appear in any completed version of track, although Wilson does later revisit the section during a later piano rehearsal recorded at his home studio in the following months.
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