The Beach Boys - Won't You Tell Me video free download

"Won't You Tell Me" is a song written by Murry Wilson and cut by former Sunrays member Rick Henn as a demo for the Beach Boys. Recorded 8/71. Brian and Carl Wilson's lead vocals were overdubbed at a later session.

Rick Henn: "Murry wrote "Won't You Tell Me" for the Beach Boys a few years after the Sunrays broke up and asked me if I would arrange it for him and cut a demo. After I finished working out the band and vocal arrangement we booked a session for Sunset Sound in Hollywood. Just as we began cutting the tracks who showed up but his son, Dennis Wilson. My immediate thought was "Oh god, here we go; he's going to move in and start changing charts and this and that and make my life miserable." Quite to my surprise and relief he was very gracious and simply said: "Gee Rick I love the chords, I like what you're doing with the bass line, but I want to try something." Here's what he did: He had us record some guitars and piano rolling chords down one octave than usual with the tape machine at half speed and than when we played it back at normal speed, it shot everything back up an octave and gave it kind of a shimmering mandolin/string, bowed tremolo effect in the background. When Murry heard it, he went through the roof; he just loved it. He was proud of what his son had done for this song. Then Dennis, Marty DiGiovanni, Don Ralke and Ray Pohlman and myself went on to do the vocals. The whole thing was a real celebration of love and friendship. Murry poured his heart out writing that song because at the time he was worried for his sons because they were having trouble getting a chart record. I remember Carl listening to it a couple of days later when we were mixing it down in Studio A at Goldstar and he said: "Wow...you really got it for my dad...good going Rick." It may not have been a hit song but there was this real nice feeling surrounding that tune."