The Laptop Sessions: “The Night Was So Young” (The Beach Boys Acoustic Rock Cover Song)

By Jim Fusco:

Welcome to your Sunday, Sunday, Sunday! edition of the Laptop Sessions with me, Jim Fusco.

I promised a new Beach Boys video today, and even though it took me until 10:30 to do it, it’s finally here. Actually, this is one of the rare Sessions that was recorded the same day I’m posting it.

I’ve been practicing this song for weeks now, as I needed to make sure it was perfect before I did a video. “The Night Was So Young” is my favorite track off the Beach Boys “Love You” album and shows the great songwriting skills of Brian Wilson coupled with the singing of Carl Wilson.

I love the minimalist approach to the recorded version of this song- it’s great in contrast to the terribly-dated synth-sounds of most of the tracks. This song also doesn’t have that cheesiness factor that some of the others have. Although, this song does tell of Brian Wilson’s lonely trip to the sink to pour some milk at 3 am…

I hope you like this toned-down Session. We’re still chugging-along at one-a-day here in 2008. I’d like to wish a Happy Birthday to my brother, Mike, who’s 22 today. Hope you had a great one!!

Download a FREE mp3 of this song at the Fusco-Moore Store by
Clicking HERE! It’s on “The Laptop Sessions, Vol. 3″:



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This is one in a series of acoustic cover songs, original music, and free mp3 downloads here on the Fusco-Moore Productions Blog.

This entry was posted on Sunday, April 6th, 2008 at 10:22 pm and is filed under Beach Boys/Brian Wilson. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “The Laptop Sessions: “The Night Was So Young” (The Beach Boys Acoustic Rock Cover Song)”

  1. Flashheather Says:
    April 8th, 2008 at 2:35 am

    hi jim - another beautiful rendition. especially nice intimateness with this one. pleasure to listen to lots of time :-) I’LL BE BACK!!!
    h.

  2. Jim Fusco Says:
    April 8th, 2008 at 3:05 pm

    Glad you got the comment through! :-) Thanks again,

    ~Jim

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