A few days before the release of the documentary The Beach Boys , founding members Mike Love and Al Jardine are sitting in the recording studio at Hollywood’s EastWest Studios, the exact spot where they recorded some of their biggest hits, including their 1966 remake of the Regents’ doo-wop ditty, “Barbara Ann.” See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news “[Jan & Dean’s] Dean Torrence comes in. He peeks the door open.
‘Come on in!’,” Jardine recalls from a time nearly 60 years ago, when the studio was called United Western Recorders. Love joins in, ‘’He wasn’t supposed to,” before Jardine picks back up the story. “Dean stands next to Brian [Wilson], because there wasn’t anywhere else to sit anyway, and the two of them joined in on the melody on the high part.
When you hear the harmonies on ‘Barbara Ann’ it sounds doubled. That’s because it is doubled. It’s Brian and Dean.
’ “Now, wait a minute! They didn’t tell me that story,” interjects Frank Marshall, the Oscar-nominated producer and director who is sitting between the two Rock & Roll Hall of Famers in the studio. Marshall and Thom Zimny co-directed the two-hour documentary on the group that premieres on Disney+ today (May 24). To be fair, not even a 10-hour film could include all the glorious and jagged history of one of the most popular and enduring bands in music.
The Beach Boys , initially comprised of Jardine, Love and his three first cousins, Brian.
