[Harp-L] Tommy Morgan - Good Vibrations

[Ken Deifik <kenneth.d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Someone played me a bunch of assembly parts from the sessions for the Beach 
Boy's Good Vibrations tonight.  There's every possibility that I have 
listened to that recording more than any other over the last 40 years, but 
even so I was surprised tonight to realize just how much Tommy Morgan is 
playing on that record.

He's playing a bass harmonica and chromatic, I think, and as was par for 
the course back then, it rarely sounds like harmonica.  (Changing the 
sounds of instruments through all kinds of blends and mic placements was a 
big deal in the 60's and nobody did it better than Brian Wilson.)

The thing that really surprised me probably won't surprise alot of people 
on this list.  It's that mellow moment toward the end, starting at 2:45, 
just before the voices come back in for that beautiful chord that leads 
into the last chorus.

Tommy plays, in must be the highest harmonica register, A Ab A Ab A  C D 
F.  I have only heard this passage several thousand times, just like you, 
and it never occured to me that it was harmonica until tonight.  Yay Tommy 
Morgan.

Now I've caught up with those of you who knew that.

K




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