Sherry She Needs Me
| "Sherry She Needs Me" | |
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| Song by The Beach Boys from the album Made in California | |
| Written | 1965 |
| Released | August 27, 2013 |
| Recorded | 1965, 1976 |
| Label | Capitol |
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| Producer(s) | Brian Wilson |
| "She Says That She Needs Me" | ||||
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| Song by Brian Wilson from the album Imagination | ||||
| Released | June 16, 1998 | |||
| Recorded | 1998 | |||
| Genre | Ballad | |||
| Label | Giant | |||
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"Sherry She Needs Me" (also known as "Sandy" or "Sandy She Needs Me") is a song written in 1965 by Brian Wilson and Russ Titelman for the American rock band the Beach Boys. The recording was not released until decades later. As a solo artist in 1998, Wilson completed the song with lyric changes by Carole Bayer Sager; it was renamed "She Says That She Needs Me" and released on his album Imagination.
A tender and poignant love ballad, AllMusic cited "She Says That She Needs Me" as one of the finest tracks on Imagination, writing: "this song captures Wilson's unique and heartfelt balladeer style with extreme effectiveness. The melody is one of Wilson's most beautiful, and this arrangement (loaded with tasteful yet dramatic horns and strings) clearly bears this out. A dramatic, minor-key bridge only adds to the lushness. Lyrically, it's also a great example of Wilson's literate, artless style."
The song began as one of two collaborations between Brian Wilson and Russ Titelman during the mid-1960s, the other being "Guess I'm Dumb" which was successfully recorded and released as a single by Glen Campbell.
The song was initiated during sessions for the Beach Boys' 1965 album Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!). Two versions of the instrumental were recorded with the name "Sandy" or "Sandy She Needs Me". After rough vocals were added on one of these instrumentals, the track lay dormant for several years. Sometime in August 1970, the master tape was transferred from three-track tape to 16-track, although there exists no evidence of any overdubs recorded at that time. On August 21, 1976, Brian retrieved the track, renamed it "Sherry She Needs Me", and overdubbed a lead vocal shortly before sessions for the group's 1977 album Love You. According to archivist Craig Slownski, "While the lead vocal starts out gruff, it eventually soars, proving that even in 1976 Brian was capable of near-crystal shattering 1965-style falsetto singing, when he felt like it." It was abandoned once again after being briefly considered for inclusion in an early track listing for the ultimately rejected Adult/Child LP.
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