Claim: A song by the Beach Boys includes the recorded sounds of
Status: Undetermined.
Origins: The world of urban legendry encompasses several tales about strange
tape and left in the finished product. These rumors include everything from murder to sex
I recently came across another example of the "sex in the studio" genre, this one concerning the song "All I Want to Do," written and produced by Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson and released on the group's 1969 album, 20/20. The song's lyrics certainly leave little to the imagination:
All I want to do with you Come on baby I just want to do it to you
Well I don't care where you want to go
Just so you go with me
And I don't care what you want to do
But make sure you do it with me
Well I just make some love to you
(Baby come on come on)
Come on baby
(Baby come on come on)
I said baby
(Baby come on come on)
All night long
(This tune is not to be confused with the similarly-named "All I Wanna Do," a completely different song which appeared on a subsequent Beach Boys album.)
As I was working my way through a book that chronicles the day-to-day activities of the Beach Boys between 1961 and 1976, I came across the following entry for
The group work on 'All I Want to Do,' in particular the song's tag. For this, Dennis enlists the help of a female friend who is recorded having sexual intercourse with the drummer in the studio. This 'sound effect' is layered onto the
Being the curious sort, I dug out the liner notes to the CD version of 20/20, and while scanning the section about "All I Want to Do" I spotted the following statement: "Production Note: Turn up the volume on the fade for a brief
Since I had now been doubly-challenged, I popped the 20/20 disc into a CD player, put on some headphones, and fast-forwarded through the "All I Want to Do" track to its
(We have created an MP3 excerpt of the song's
Of course, that these sounds appear in the recording doesn't necessarily mean they're the result of some
In a curious coincidence, the 20/20 album veered perilously close to incorporating both sex and murder within its grooves. Besides the aforementioned "All I Want to Do," the LP also included another Dennis Wilson effort, "Never Learn Not to Love," which was actually a slightly reworded version of a song penned by the notorious Charles Manson. Manson and his entourage had crashed at Wilson's house for several months in 1968, and the Beach Boys drummer recorded one of his songs (originally entitled "Cease to Exist") a year before the
Last updated: 25 October 2004
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