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"God Only Knows" is a song by the American rock band the Beach Boys from their 1966 album Pet Sounds. Written by Brian Wilson and Tony Asher, it is a baroque-style love song distinguished for its harmonic innovation and complexity, unusual instrumentation, and subversion of typical popular music conventions, both lyrically and musically.
Brian Douglas Wilson (born June 20, 1942) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer who co-founded the Beach Boys.Often called a genius for his novel approaches to pop composition, extraordinary musical aptitude, and mastery of recording techniques, he is widely acknowledged as one of the most innovative and significant songwriters of the 20th century.
The Kahiki restaurant was established at the height of popularity for tiki culture in the United States. Its owners, Bill Sapp and Lee Henry, had operated a bar nearby, the Grass Shack. The Polynesian-themed bar was frequented by World War II veterans in the 1950s. It was destroyed in a fire, prompting creation of the Kahiki Supper Club. [3]
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"God Only Knows" was a regional hit for Philadelphia Doo wop group The Capris. It was their debut single for the group and was written by Ruben Wright . The song also had a dramatic effect on Motown singer Marvin Gaye .
The group started out in the early 1950s as The Uniques. They all came from the same neighborhood. Their early line-up consisted of Ruben Wright on piano, Harrison Scott on alto sax, Robert "Bobby" Smart on guitar, Gus Crawford on drums and a bass player called Jerome, together with a male singer whose name has now been lost to time. [1]
Reviewing God Only Knows for The Spill Magazine, Ljubinko Zivkovic wrote that the update is "exactly the place where [newcomers] should start with The Beach Boys and Brian Wilson sagas." [ 23 ] John Visconti of Culture Sonar called the book "an immersive, thoughtful, and incisive biography of Brian and the Beach Boys [and] a perceptive and ...
Slammers Bar & Pizza Kitchen is a lesbian bar in Columbus, Ohio.Opened in 1993, it is Ohio's oldest gay bar and is still run by its original owner Marcia Riley. [1] [2] As of 2021, it is one of approximately thirty-three lesbian bars remaining in the country and the only one in Ohio.