The Beach Boys' Saga of Shortenin' Bread

important note: the information below and in the video probably contain an amount of factual inaccuracies! i was 17 and doing my very best with the beach boy information available, a lot of new things have been uncovered since then! :)

TIMESTAMPS:

1) 0:00 - Shortenin' Bread on Adult/Child, backing track and brian's bass vocals originally recorded in 1973. carl's lead being recorded in '77

2) 2:45 - Alternate Ding Dang, unsure on the date, early mix of ding dang

3) 4:01 - Rollin' Up To Heaven, November 1974. interesting lyrical additions here fellas. good work!

4) 7:37 - Ding Dang (It's OK NBC Rehearsal), summer of 1976

5) 10:01 - Ding Dang on Love You, released 1977 - originates from 1973 or 1974

6) 10:54 - Shortenin' Bread on LA (Light Album), released 1979 - shortenin' bread deserved a better official release! carl on lead vocal and dennis on bass vocal

7) 13:41 - Shortenin' Bread (Live), recorded sometime in 1979

8) 15:58 - My Solution/Shortenin' Bread, also known as Song Within a Song, recorded May 21st 1980

9) 17:27 - snippet of Too Much Sugar, released 1987. the B side to "Let's Go To Heaven In My Car" of... police academy 4 fame

10) 17:42 - snippet of Walkin' The Line, released 1988 on Brian's Self Titled 1988 album

11) 17:58 - a good chunk of Metal Beach, released 1989 on Paul Shaffer's Coast to Coast record. fun fact: landy is the guy saying METAL BEACH

12) 20:37 - Shortenin' Bread from the Lost Hotel Tapes, recorded either July 2nd 1990 or July 4th 1990 - brian, bruce, jeff foskett and john stamos all present

13) 21:02 - Ding Dang from the Lost Hotel Tapes, exact same as above

14) 21:28 - snippet of Proud Mary from the Andy Paley Sessions, recorded 1992. may have never been released but at least we got stars and stripes volume 1 right? : ~ )

15) 21:47 - coda of Fantasy is Reality/Bells of Madness, a collaboration with Rob Wasserman + Carnie Wilson - on the album Trios - released 1994

16) 22:32 - snippet of South American, released 1998 on Imagination. not even Joe Thomas could stop shortenin' bread

17) 22:53 - coda to No Wrong Notes in Heaven, released 2004 on The Dotted Line's self titled album - written by Scott Bennett and brian

18) 23:46 - section of Goin' Home, released 2008 on That Lucky Old Sun

19) 24:50 - coda to Sugar Shack, released 1983 on Rock 'n' Roll City - a collaboration between mike and dean torrence, the tainted wilson blood must give a strong attraction to shortenin' bread

20) 25:10 - Reason for the Season, released 2018 on Reason for the Season - please watch the lyric video it is incredible. thanks for the festive shortenin' bread



note: the years on official releases of songs are of the release date and not of the recording date - the video is ordered accordingly.

if there's any shortenin' breads i've missed or any mistakes in the video/description please let me know!

making this video has caused me to hallunicate this riff in every song.

@mike love if you take this video down i will steal your hats