Jiggy and the Passions - "So Tough to Mix!"

 

I was walking to pick my kids up the other day and blasting Jiggy and the Passions on shuffle and "Beatrice from Baltimore" came on. Now, I've always preferred the Jiggy Flows version of the tune and I find myself only really listening to Carl and the Passions in the fall and winter -- it's never been summer music for me. But with it being the first unofficial stereo remix, I let it play through. Now, this was just a gorgeous New England winter day. We don't really get many anymore, for years it's felt like it goes from January to February. But hearing that bombastic bridge/B-section -- the fiddle, the ring modulator, mixed with the perfect temperature, dead trees, and limbo-like coldness -- my heart just exploded. It was LITERALLY "the thing." It took me RIGHT to that place. The place where there's joy, and hope, and you can't help but look and DWELL on the bright side. Just ZENITH Beach Boys heaven.

After all these years, that's never happened with me and that song until the other day and THIS comp. Perfect timing.
Jiggy and the Passions - "So Tough to Mix!" is amazing and done with love -- and I am THRILLED with it.
Some stuff may not be for everyone -- and GOOD; I'd loathe to live in a world where we were all the same.

This is the deal, it's anyone's prerogative to have and voice opinions on ANYTHING, but I've found that the people who do -- and do so negatively, often and VOCIFEROUSLY (usually with an ugly and personal bent) do it because NO ONE asks THEM their opinion. The unseen seem to either remain invisible -- or choose to spread ugliness (e.g. "Jiggy is bad. . . Jiggy is wrong. . .  I hate jiggy. . . )

I'm SO LUCKY that with the work I do, I'm part of a team of fanmixers that aims to spread the goodness, instead of feeling so left out and unseen that I need to spit and curse loudly in the street to prove I'm actually here.

That would break my heart.

Have a GREAT 2023 everybody -- thanks for all the love and well wishes we've been getting on the set.
It's the best music.

Disc One: Carl and the Passions - "So Tough!" Remix + Bonus Tracks

   1). You Need a Mess of Help to Stand Alone (New Mix)

   2). Here She Comes (New Mix)

   3). He Come Down (New Mix)

   4). Marcella (New Mix)

   5). Hold On Dear Brother (New Mix)

   6). Make it Good (New Mix)

   7). All This is That (New Master)

   8). Cuddle Up (New Mix)

   9). Beatrice from Baltimore

   10). Marcella (Alternate 1972 Mix)

   11). Marcella (A Cappella) (New Mix)

   12). Make it Good (Alternate Version)

   13). Make it Good (Orchestra Section)

   14). All This is That (Alternate Lyrics)

   15). All This is That (A Cappella) (New Mix)

   16). Old Movie (Alternate Version)

   17). Cuddle Up (Single Mix) (New Master)

   18). In the Country (New Mix)

   19). Sea Cruise

   20). Just for You

   21). Untitled #1

   22). Untitled #2

   23). Ten Years of Harmony

   24). Carl and the Passions Promo (New Mix)

Disc Two: Holland Remix + Bonus Tracks

   1). Sail On, Sailor (New Mix)

   2). Steamboat (New Mix)

   3). California Saga: Big Sur (New Master)

   4). California Saga: The Beaks of Eagles (New Master)

   5). California Saga: California (New Master)

   6). The Trader (New Mix)

   7). Leaving This Town (New Master)

   8). Only with You (New Mix)

   9). Funky Pretty (New Mix)

   10). Mount Vernon and Fairway (A Fairy Tale) (New Mix)

   11). Sail On, Sailor (Brian Sings Lead)

   12). California Saga (On My Way to Sunny Californ-i-a) (New Mix)

   13). City Jim (Demo)

   14). The Trader (Alternate 1972 Mix)

   15). Only with You (Long Version)

   16). Fairy Tale Music (New Mix)

   17). Pa Let Her Go Out (New Mix)

   18). Mount Vernon and Fairway (Home Recording)

   19). Fading Love Song (New Master)

Disc Three: In Concert Original Rejected Single LP

   1). Wouldn’t it Be Nice

   2). Leaving This Town

   3). Heroes and Villains

   4). Marcella

   5). You Need a Mess of Help to Stand Alone

   6). Let the Wind Blow

   7). Do it Again

   8). Wild Honey

   9). Fun, Fun, Fun

   10). Jumpin’ Jack Flash

Disc Four: The Flames' Second Album

   1). Mother of the Century

   2). Sigh Baby Sigh

   3). High Overdrive

   4). Sunny Skies

   5). Thank Someone

   6). Seven Sisters

   7). Have You Ever Been

   8). Henry’s Son

   9). Sweet Jane

   10). Hello My Friends (Bonus Track)

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Something Great from '68

 

SOMETHING GREAT FROM '68

Completed.

Liners.

Tracklisting.

Artwork.

Mixed.

Mastered.

Heaven on earth.

I wish you all had it on your computers.

It was the greatest labor of love.

It's what this blog needs right now.

Disc One: Friends Remix + Bonus Tracks

   1). Meant for You (New Mix)

   2). Friends (New Mix)

   3). Wake the World (New Mix)

   4). Be Here in the Mornin’ (New Mix)

   5). When a Man Needs a Woman (New Mix)

   6). Passing By (New Mix)

   7). Anna Lee, the Healer (New Mix)

   8). Little Bird (New Mix)

   9). Be Still (New Master)

   10). Busy Doin’ Nothin’ (New Mix)

   11). Diamond Head (New Master)

   12). Transcendental Meditation (New Mix)

   13). Meant for You (Alternate Version) (New Mix)

   14). Friends (Alternate Mix)

   15). Wake the World (Alternate Version) (New Mix)

   16). Be Here in the Mornin’ (Alternate Version)

   17). My Son (When a Man Needs a Woman)

   18). Passing By (Demo) (New Mix)

   19). Anna Lee, the Healer (Alternate Version)

   20). Little Bird (Track and Backing Vocals)

   21). Be Still (Alternate Version)

   22). Busy Doin’ Nothin’ (Alternate Mono Mix)

   23). Transcendental Meditation (Alternate Version)

Disc Two: 20/20 Remix + Bonus Tracks

   1). Do it Again (New Mix)

   2). I Can Hear Music (New Mix)

   3). Bluebirds Over the Mountain (New Mix)

   4). Be with Me (New Mix)

   5). All I Want to Do (New Mix)

   6). The Nearest Faraway Place (New Master)

   7). Cotton Fields (The Cotton Song) (New Mix)

   8). I Went to Sleep (New Mix)

   9). Time to Get Alone (New Mix)

   10). Never Learn Not to Love (New Mix)

   11). Our Prayer (New Master)

   12). Cabinessence (New Mix)

   13). Do it Again (Alternate 1968 Mix)

   14). Do it Again (Single Version; New Mix)

   15). Bluebirds Over the Mountain (Alternate Mix)

   16). Be with Me (Alternate 1968 Mix)

   17). Time to Get Alone (Alternate Mix)

   18). Never Learn Not to Love (Alternate Mix)

   19). Fig Plucker (Session Excerpt)

   20). Walk on By (New Mix)

   21). Are You There (With Another Girl) (Rehearsal)

   22). We’re Together Again (Alternate Version)

   23). All I Wanna Do (Early Version) (New Mix)

   24). Sail Plane Song (New Mix)

   25). Ol’ Man River (Alternate Version)

   26). Can’t Wait Too Long (New Mix)

   27). Is it True What They Say About Dixie?

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On behalf of the Beach Boys Discord™ Server, I would like to take this opportunity to thank our many fanmixing friends for taking part in the making of this compilation.

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Jiggy Flows: The Alternate Sunflower & Surf's Up Sessions

 

It definitely DOES exist.

It definitely IS completed.

It definitely IS named JIGGY FLOWS (THE ALTERNATE SUNFLOWER & SURF'S UP SESSIONS).

Both Jiggy and I have spoken PUBLICLY about it.

Jiggy and I worked on it for 2 years.

Us two put the whole fucking thing together.

Hours and hours and hours and hours.

As the official Jigolo Records™ consultant, I was asked my opinion throughout and consulted with brains and heart.

I got the compilation green-lit by the label.

I saved it from dying on the vine TWICE.

It's incredible.

It forever changes the way Feel Flows will be viewed as a musical entity at the turn of the decade.

It IS released.

Disc One: Sunflower Remix + Bonus Tracks

   1). Slip on Through (New Mix)

   2). This Whole World (New Mix)

   3). Add Some Music to Your Day (New Mix)

   4). Got to Know the Woman (New Mix)

   5). Deirdre (New Mix)

   6). It's About Time (New Mix)

   7). Tears in the Morning (New Mix)

   8). All I Wanna Do (New Mix)

   9). Forever (New Mix)

   10). Our Sweet Love (New Mix)

   11). At My Window (New Mix)

   12). Cool, Cool Water (New Mix)

   13). Break Away (Single Version) (New Mix)

   14). Celebrate the News (New Mix)

   15). Loop de Loop (Flip Flop Flyin' in an Aeroplane) (New Master)

   16). Susie Cincinnati (New Mix)

   17). Good Time (New Mix)

   18). Cotton Fields (The Cotton Song) (New Mix)

   19). I Just Got My Pay (New Mix)

   20). Walkin' (New Mix)

   21). When Girls Get Together (New Mix)

Disc Two: Surf's Up Remix + Bonus Tracks

   1). Don't Go Near the Water (New Mix)

   2). Long Promised Road (New Mix)

   3). Take a Load Off Your Feet (New Mix)

   4). Disney Girls (1957) (New Mix)

   5). Student Demonstration Time (New Master)

   6). Feel Flows (New Mix)

   7). Lookin' at Tomorrow (A Welfare Song) (New Mix)

   8). A Day in the Life of a Tree (New Mix)

   9). 'Til I Die (New Master)

   10). Surf's Up (New Mix)

   11). Big Sur (New Mix)

   12). Sweet and Bitter (New Master)

   13). My Solution (New Mix)

   14). Fourth of July (Alternate Ending)

   15). Sound of Free (New Mix)

   16). Lady (New Mix)

   17). Seasons in the Sun (New Mix)

Disc Three: Odds and Ends

   1). This Whole World (Long Version)

   2). It's About Time (Elements Mix)

   3). Forever (Alternate Vocal)

   4). Cool, Cool Water (A Cappella)

   5). Don't Go Near the Water (Alternate Version)

   6). 'Til I Die (Alternate Vocal)

   7). 'Til I Die (A Cappella) (New Mix)

   8). Surf's Up (Alternate Vocal) (New Mix)

   9). Soulful Old Man Sunshine (New Mix)

   10). Where is She? (New Mix)

   11). Carnival (New Mix)

   12). Hawaiian Dream (New Mix)

   13). I've Got a Friend (New Mix)

   14). Back Home (New Mix)

   15). Won't You Tell Me (New Mix)

   16). Barbara (New Mix)

   17). My Solution (Track and Backing Vocals) (New Mix)

   18). Telephone Backgrounds (On a Clear Day)

   19). Your Song (Live/1971)

   20). America, I Know You (Track)

   21). All for the Love of a Girl

   22). Silly Walls

   23). Beatrice from Baltimore

   24). Marcella (A Cappella) (New Mix)

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Adrian Baker Summertime Fun Giveaway!

Hey everyone, jiggy22 here! I'm holding an Amazon giveaway for ONE copy of Adrian Baker's legendary Surfer Paradise album on CD. This landmark album by former Beach Boys sideman features hits such as "Surfin' Safari", "Lazin' on the Beach", "American Girls", and "Summertime City". Don't miss out on this five-star rated album! All you have to do to be entered is to follow the link and watch one video on YouTube. Giveaway ends on July 2nd. Is it your lucky day? Find out here!

https://www.amazon.com/ga/p/07bbcbb9cff5de09


UPDATE: The giveaway has ended, congrats to Jeff S., our lucky winner of the first annual Summertime Fun Giveaway! Join me again later in the year, when I'll be giving away a free, SIGNED copy of Chris Farmer's (former musical director of the Beach Boys, 1997-2007) Born on Christmas Day album!

The Lost Beach Boy

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With the Man Himself

My girlfriend and I with Brian, Al, and Blondie at Tanglewood Park in MA on June 19th. The meet and greet process was very systematic, you give the guy in charge what you want signed, you walk up to stand behind them, they take your picture, next in line comes up. While standing there to have my picture taken, I said hi to Brian, but I don't think he heard me. Must've spoken in his bad ear! The both of us had the poster and "God Only Knows" song sheet signed by the three, but I've been kicking myself for deciding not to bring my SMiLE album to have signed! But overall, a fantastic day and one that I won't ever forget! I had the entire VIP experience, including the soundcheck rehearsal, the Meet and Greet, and of course the full concert. After the concert, I got to shake Al's hand and thank him, so that was pretty awesome. What an amazing day!

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And yes, it's the whole VIP Experience. Now I just gotta figure out what to talk to him about...