Song It Cost That Much

Bahamian folk vocal

The John B. Sails
Traditional vocal
Sailboats off Nassau, Bahama islands, c. 1900.
Other name	I Want to Go Home Wreck of the John B. Sloop John B Hoist Up The John B Sails
Style	Folk
Linguistic communication	English
Published	1916

"Sloop John B" (originally published every bit "The John B. Sails") is a Bahamian folk song from Nassau. A transcription by Richard Le Gallienne was published in 1916, and a version was included in Carl Sandburg's The American Songbag in 1927. Since the early 1950s at that place have been many recordings of the song with variant titles including "I Want to Go Dwelling" and "Wreck of the John B".

In 1966, the Embankment Boys recorded a folk rock adaptation that was produced and arranged by their de facto leader, Brian Wilson. Released as the second single from their album Pet Sounds, the record peaked at number 3 in the U.South., number two in the UK, and topped the charts in several other countries. It was innovative for containing an elaborate a cappella vocal section not found in other pop music of the era, and information technology remains one of the group's biggest hits.^[1]

In 2011, the Beach Boys' version of "Sloop John B" was ranked No. 276 on Rolling Stone 'south list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Fourth dimension".^[2]

Earliest publications [edit]

Banjo/vocal performance of the song.

"The John B. Sails" was transcribed past Richard Le Gallienne, with v verses and the chorus published in his article "Coral Islands and Mangrove-Trees" in the December 1916 event of Harper'southward Monthly Mag (pp. 81–90).^[three] The first ii verses and chorus were also published in Affiliate IV of Gallienne'southward 1917 novel Pieces of 8.^[4] The lyrics describe a disastrous voyage on a sloop, with the vessel plagued by drunkenness, arrests and a grunter eating the narrator'due south nutrient. In the chorus, the narrator repeatedly expresses a want to render home.

Carl Sandburg included the first three verses and chorus of "The John B. Sails" in his 1927 collection of folksongs, The American Songbag. He states that he collected it from John T. McCutcheon (a political cartoonist from Chicago) and his married woman, Evelyn Shaw McCutcheon, who at the time owned Blueish Lagoon Isle, a Cay off of Nassau. The McCutcheons told him:

Time and usage have given this vocal almost the nobility of a national anthem around Nassau. The weathered ribs of the historic craft lie imbedded in the sand at Governor's Harbor, whence an trek, specially sent up for the purpose in 1926, extracted a articulatio genus of horseflesh and a ring-bolt. These relics are at present preserved and built into the Watch Tower, designed past Mr. Howard Shaw (ed. note: Evelyn Shaw McCutcheon'south male parent) and built on our southern declension a couple of points due east past north of the star Canopus.

The Beach Boys version [edit]

Organisation [edit]

"Sloop John B"
Single by the Beach Boys
from the album Pet Sounds
B-side	"You're So Good to Me"
Released	March 21, 1966 (US) April 15, 1966 (UK)
Recorded	July 12 (12-07) – December 29, 1965 (1965-12-29)
Studio	United Western Recorders, Hollywood
Genre	Folk rock[v] [six] sleeping accommodation pop[7] sea shanty[viii]
Length	two:59
Label	Capitol
Songwriter(s)	Traditional, arranged by Brian Wilson
Producer(southward)	Brian Wilson
The Beach Boys singles chronology
"Barbara Ann" (1965) "Sloop John B" (1966) "Wouldn't Information technology Be Squeamish" (1966)
Music video
"Sloop John B" on YouTube
Audio sample
file assist

The Kingston Trio's 1958 recording of "The John B. Sails" was recorded under the title "The Wreck of the John B."^[9] It was the direct influence on the Embankment Boys' version. The Beach Boys' Al Jardine was a keen folk music fan, and he suggested to Brian Wilson that the Beach Boys should record the song. Equally Jardine explains:

Brian was at the piano. I asked him if I could sit downwards and testify him something. I laid out the chord pattern for 'Sloop John B.' I said, 'Remember this song?' I played it. He said, 'I'm not a big fan of the Kingston Trio.' He wasn't into folk music. But I didn't requite up on the idea. So what I did was to sit and play it for him in the Embankment Boys idiom. I figured if I gave information technology to him in the right light, he might end upward assertive in it. And so I modified the chord changes and so it would be a petty more interesting. The original song is basically a 3-chord song, and I knew that wouldn't fly.

Jardine updated the chord progression by having the subdominant (D♭ major) move to its relative pocket-sized (B♭ pocket-sized) earlier returning to the tonic (A♭ major), thus altering a portion of the song'south progression from IV — I to Four — ii — I. This device is heard immediately after the lyric "into a fight" and "get out me alone".

So I put some pocket-sized changes in at that place, and it stretched out the possibilities from a vocal point of view. Anyway, I played information technology, walked away from the piano and we went back to work. The very adjacent mean solar day, I got a phone telephone call to come downward to the studio. Brian played the song for me, and I was diddled abroad. The idea stage to the completed runway took less than 24 hours.^[10]

Wilson elected to change some lyrics: "this is the worst trip since I've been born" to "this is the worst trip I've ever been on", "I experience so break upwardly" to "I feel so broke up", and "broke upwards the people's trunk" to "bankrupt in the helm's body". The first lyric change has been suggested by some to be a subtle nod to the 1960s psychedelia subculture.^{[ii] [eleven] [12]}

Recording [edit]

The instrumental section of the song was recorded on July 12, 1965, at United Western Recorders, Hollywood, California, the session being engineered by Chuck Britz and produced by Brian Wilson. The main take of the instrumental backing took fourteen takes to achieve.

The song tracks were recorded over two sessions. The start was recorded on December 22, 1965, at Western Recorders, produced by Wilson. The 2nd, on December 29, added a new pb song and Billy Strange'south 12-cord electric guitar office. Jardine explained that Wilson "lined u.s.a. up i at a time to try out for the lead vocal. I had naturally causeless I would sing the lead, since I had brought in the system. It was similar interviewing for a job. Pretty funny. He didn't similar whatever of u.s.. My vocal had a much more mellow approach because I was bringing it from the folk idiom. For the radio, we needed a more rock approach. Wilson and Mike [Love] ended up singing it."^[13] On the final recording, Brian Wilson sang the first and third verses and Mike Love sang the second.

Kent Hartman, in his book The Wrecking Crew, described Billy Strange's contribution to the song. Brian Wilson called Strange into the studio 1 Sunday, played him the rough recording, and told him he needed an electric twelve-string guitar solo in the middle of the rail. When Strange replied that he did not ain a twelve string, Wilson responded by calling Glenn Wallichs, the caput of Capitol Records and owner of Wallichs Music City. A Fender Electric XII and Twin Reverb amplifier were quickly delivered (despite the store they were ordered from being airtight on Sundays), and Foreign recorded the guitar part in one accept. Wilson then gave Strange $2,000 to cover the cost of the equipment.^[fourteen]

Single release [edit]

A music video gear up to "Sloop John B" was filmed for the UK's Elevation of the Pops, directed by newly employed ring publicist Derek Taylor. It was filmed at Brian's Laurel Style home with Dennis Wilson acting as cameraman.^[15]

The single, backed with the B-side "You're So Good to Me", was released on March 21, 1966. Information technology entered the Billboard Hot 100 chart on April 2, and peaked at No. 3 on May 7, remaining on the nautical chart, in total, for eleven weeks. It charted highly throughout the earth, remaining as i of the Beach Boys' most pop and memorable hits. It was No. 1 in Federal republic of germany, Republic of austria, and Norway—all for five weeks each—every bit well as Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands, South Africa, and New Zealand. Information technology placed No. ii in the United kingdom, Republic of ireland (where it was the group's highest charting unmarried), Canada, and in Record Globe. Information technology was the fastest Beach Boys seller to date, moving more than half a meg copies in less than two weeks subsequently release.^[sixteen] It had a three-week stay at number 1 in the netherlands, making it the "Hit of the Year".^[17]

Greenbacks Box described the unmarried every bit a "topflight accommodation" that treats "the folk oldie in a rhythmic, finer-building warm-hearted rousing style."^[18]

Other releases [edit]

In 1968, the recording'southward instrumental was released on Stack-O-Tracks. Forth with sessions highlights, the box ready The Pet Sounds Sessions includes two alternate takes, one with Carl Wilson singing lead on the first verse, and one with Brian singing all parts.^{[ citation needed ]}

In 2011, the vocal was sung by Fisherman's Friends at Cambridge Folk Festival.^[19] and released on Suck'em and Bounding main.^[twenty] It was featured in the compilation album Cambridge Folk Festival 2011 ^[21] In 2016, to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of Pet Sounds, Brian Wilson and his touring band (including Al Jardine) performed Sloop John B live at Capitol Studios.^[22]

In 2021, another UK based grouping, Isle 'Ave A Shanty sang the song at the 2021 Harwich Sea Shanty Festival and included the song on their 2022 debut album Swinging the Lamp.^{[23] [24]}

Personnel [edit]

Per band archivist Craig Slowinski.^[25]

The Beach Boys

• Bruce Johnston — bankroll vocals
• Mike Love – lead and bankroll vocals
• Al Jardine – backing vocals
• Brian Wilson – atomic number 82 and backing vocals
• Carl Wilson – backing vocals
• Dennis Wilson – backing vocals

Additional musicians and production staff

• Hal Blaine – drums
• Chuck Britz – engineer
• Frank Capp – glockenspiel
• Al Casey – acoustic rhythm guitar
• Jerry Cole – 12-string atomic number 82 guitar
• Steve Douglas – temple blocks
• Carol Kaye – electric bass
• Al De Lory – tack pianoforte
• Jay Migliori – flute
• Jim Horn – flute
• Jack Nimitz – bass saxophone
• Lyle Ritz – string bass
• Baton Foreign – 12-string lead guitar, overdubbed 12-string lead guitars
• Tony (surname unknown) – tambourine

In popular culture [edit]

• In many Jewish communities, the Shabbat table song "D'ror Yikra" is sometimes sung to the melody of "Sloop John B" because of its similar meter.^[26]

Television and film [edit]

• 1966 – Dr. Miguelito Loveless, in the TV serial The Wild Wild West sang a version of this in a duet with Antoinette in the episode titled "The Dark of the Raven" (original air date 30 September 1966).
• 1967 – Bill Mumy as Will Robinson and Marta Kristen as Judy Robinson, sang a version of this song in the "Castles in Infinite" episode of the TV series Lost in Infinite (original air date 20 December 1967).
• c.  1980 – The phrase and melody of "I Want To Go Dwelling" appeared on a drunk driving Public Service Annunciation on Los Angeles expanse television stations in a humorous ad depicting golf balls with the intoxicated driver as the ball rolling erratically and singing the phrase, existence pursued past a evidently white ball with a single black stripe accompanied by a siren sound effect.
• 1994 – Featured in the film Forrest Gump, when Forrest first arrives in Vietnam.
• 1999 – Featured in the closing scene of Season 1, Episode 18 of Aaron Sorkin's Sports Night (ABC Television)
• 2000 – In the film Glory Glory, the piano player in the bar is playing "Sloop John B" as the chief characters are flirting with the posse.
• 2003 – In the film Agenda Girls, the Beach Boys instrumental rail is used equally the press swoops down on the lilliputian hamlet of Knapely later on the calendar comes out.
• 2007 – In the motion picture Full of It, the chief character Sam and his family sing the vocal while driving Sam to school.
• 2009 – A choral arrangement was performed in episode iii of the BBC Drama All the Small Things. Information technology was arranged past Colin Hanson-Orr and Chris O'Hara.
• 2013 – The moving picture The Wolf of Wall Street prominently features the cover of "Sloop John B" past Me First and the Gimme Gimmes.

English language football [edit]

It has been popular amid English football fans since the mid-2000s when Liverpool adjusted the vocal to sing virtually their 2005 Champions League concluding triumph in Istanbul.^{[ citation needed ]} It was after adopted by the supporters of English not-league team F.C. United of Manchester as a order anthem in 2007.^{[27] [28]}

Since and so more loftier-profile teams have followed suit, usually with different lyrics for their own teams, including Watford, with Newcastle, Blackpool, Middlesbrough and Hull also adopting the vocal as their ain. It was sung by Phil Brown, the manager of Hull Metropolis FC, presently after Hull had avoided relegation from the Premier League in 2009.^{[ citation needed ]}

Scottish football [edit]

The melody of "Sloop John B" has been used as the basis for the "Famine Song", a sectarian anti-Irish Cosmic song which refers to Irish gaelic migration to Not bad Britain in the context of the Great Irish Dearth and contains the line "the famine's over, why don't you go dwelling?". The vocal has been sung by fans of Rangers F.C. in reference to rival social club Celtic F.C., which was established by Irish Cosmic migrants in Glasgow and retains a large Irish supporter base of operations.^{[29] [xxx]} The song was first sung publicly past Rangers fans at a friction match at Celtic Park in April 2008.^[31] Rangers have repeatedly asked their fans non to sing the song. In 2009 Scotland's Justiciary Entreatment Court ruled that the song was racist, with approximate Lord Carloway stating that its lyrics "are racist in calling upon people native to Scotland to go out the country because of their racial origins".^[30]

Listing of recordings [edit]

All versions titled "Sloop John B", except where noted.

Chart history [edit]

References [edit]

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3. ^ Richard Le Gallienne (December 1916). "Coral Islands and Mangrove-Trees". Harper's Monthly Mag. 134 (799): 82–83.
4. ^ Le Gallienne, Pieces of Eight, p. 30: " 'And you, boys, there; oasis't you got a song yous can put upwards? How about 'The John B. sails?' ' And I led them off, the hiss and swirl of the sea, and the wind making a brisk undertone equally nosotros sang one of the quaint Nassau ditties."
5. ^ Unterberger, Richie. "Great Moments in Folk Stone: Lists of Aunthor Favorites". www.richieunterberger.com. Retrieved 2011-01-26 .
6. ^ Scullati, Gene (September 1968). "Villains and Heroes: In Defense of the Beach Boys". Jazz & Pop. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 10 July 2014.
7. ^ Perlmutter, Adam (May 9, 2016). "'Sloop John B' Has Seen a Bounding main Modify Throughout the Years". Audio-visual Guitar.
8. ^ "Before TikTok Inspired a Rising Tide for Body of water Shanties, the Beach Boys Charted One of Their Ain". sixteen Jan 2021.
9. ^ Gilliland, John (1969). "Show 18 - Blowin' in the Wind: Popular discovers folk music. [Part 1]" (audio). Pop Chronicles. Academy of North Texas Libraries.
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11. ^ Matthew, Jacobs (April 16, 2013). "LSD's 70th Anniversary: 10 Rock Lyrics From The 1960s That Pay Homage To Acid". Huffington Post.
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14. ^ Hartman, Kent (2012). The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best Kept Secret. Thomas Dunne. pp. 149–151. ISBN9780312619749 . Retrieved 21 June 2017.
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16. ^ Murrels, Joseph (1978). The Volume of Aureate Disks. Barrie & Jenkins. ISBN978-0214205125.
17. ^ "The Beach Boys – Sloop John B". Unmarried Summit 100. Retrieved July 29, 2017.
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19. ^ "Fisherman's Friends". world wide web.setlist.fm . Retrieved eight October 2022.
20. ^ "Sloop John B". www.terminal.fm . Retrieved eight Oct 2022.
21. ^ "Cambridge Folk Festival". www.propermusic.com . Retrieved 8 October 2022.
22. ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Motorcar: "Brian Wilson & Al Jardine - Sloop John B (Official Video)". YouTube.
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27. ^ Conn, David (May 9, 2007). "FC United rise and shine on a sense of community". The Guardian. London.
28. ^ FC United of Manchester - Sloop John B Retrieved 09-21-eleven
29. ^ Gray, Lisa (17 October 2008). "Reid refers 'racist' Rangers vocal to constabulary". independent.co.united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland . Retrieved 25 December 2021.
30. ^ ^{a b} Williams, Martin (thirty Baronial 2021). "Charities condemn 'racist anti-Irish' march before Rangers five Celtic game". HeraldScotland.com . Retrieved 25 December 2021.
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