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Today I published the page
12/8 time songs: part 2, 1960-1963 – “At Last” to “Surfer Girl”
The new page is the second part of a series in which each part features a portion of the recordings listed in the page “Earth Angel” to “Good Timin’”: doc’s pick of 12/8 time songs, 1954-1978. See also part 1 of the series:
Songs and recordings included in the page:
- 1960 – At Last (Etta James version), Get Well Soon, P.S. I Love You (Starlets version), White Christmas (Statues version), You Belong to Me (Santo & Johnny version)
- 1961 – Can’t Help Falling in Love, Come Home Soon, Daddy’s Home, I Love How You Love Me, A Moment Ago, My True Story, A Sunday Kind of Love (Mystics version), Till (Angels version), Tragedy (Fleetwoods version)
- 1962 – Bring It On Home to Me, Cry Baby Cry, Don’t Make Me Over, The End of the World, You’ve Really Got a Hold on Me
- 1963 – Anyone Who Had a Heart, Go Now, I’d Die, In My Room, Surfer Girl*
- links: selected articles, forum threads, and videos on 12/8 time (bottom of page)
For items in the list in which a specific recording of a song is indicated, in each case this marks the first recording of the song in 12/8 time that I’ve identified. 12/8 time (or meter) consists of four eighth note triplets. For all other songs in the list, the original recording is in 12/8 time.
Tragedy (Gerald H. Nelson and Fred B. Burch)
The Fleetwoods — issued in March 1961 on the single Dolton No. 40, b/w “Little Miss Sad One” – The title of this post, “Blown by wind, kissed by snow,” is how that line is sung in the 1958 recording of “Tragedy” by Thomas Wayne with The DeLons, and in various covers. In the 1961 Fleetwoods recording, the line is “Blown by wind, kissed by the snow.”
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* note, 2 January 2020: I plan to add to the new page at least one of the 1962 takes of “Surfer Girl,” including take 1, that were released on the 2016 album Becoming the Beach Boys: The Complete Hite & Dorinda Morgan Sessions.
