Love this clip so much. Love it ❤

je les adores depuis 40 ans .. bisous

this is a treasure

A chapter that brought Brian Wilson growth. Thank you, VDP! AND BW!❤ super post!🎉

J'y étais a ce spectacle ,elles étaient en première partie de Spyro Gyra.

Van Dyke has that “favorite uncle you always look forward to seeing” quality about him

11/10/84 -- Jean d'Arc Auditorium, St Paul, MN. Best concert ever. About a decade later they began making semi-regular visits to St Paul to play on Prairie Home Companion at the World Theater downtown with Garrison Keillor.

F U, Mike Love

The lyrics are pure distilled poetry

*AHHHHH THEY SHOULDA JUST RELEASED WHAT THEY HAD OF SMiLE*

Love this song, melody and chords almost sounds like a battle hymn or anthem…so beautiful

No Van, they did not throw the lyrics away. This is just one of your first - in a long line of - fabricated stories.

Just babies! Those McGarrigle girls!! ❤️❤️❤️

Visionary composer and poet.

I love hearing Brian sing this.

I urge people to please live with the album Orange Crate Art for a while. It receives almost no attention, and it isn't instantly accessible - but it will start to grow on you if you spend enough time with it. It's a great LP, really. - Jay

Wow. Never saw this till now. How wonderful. Yes Orange crate art us a rare find. Hobo heart is so wonderful

I do not have time for this whimsy.

Incroyable!

Tout simplement sublime! Et comme les paroles sont évocatrices.

That's far better than the album version, and one of Brian's sweetest vocal performances .. gets me in the throat every time.

I really want to write a song called "Ding Woody Pearl, Hang-Ten" now.

It's like seeing and hearing the very top end of the music spectrum.

This is the most beautiful rendition of this song, love em' both

Moi aussi! Je les'ai vue en San Francisco a Club Bimbo's vers 1980.

Rugby shirt and stripped legging! 🤘

Wie is de derde dame ?

Happy Birthday, Brian. Thanks for it all.

U Cajun folks. Remember where your roots came from.

Elle étaient incroyablement adorables. On ne reverra jamais des artistes comme elles.

Like him or not, you have to admit he was and still is a brilliant musical arranger and composer. Orange Crate Art.

Honestly, most of VDP's compositions sound better stripped down. The OCA material included on his Moonlighting live album are the definitive versions of those songs to me

Gotta agree with everyone else. This song did nothing for me until I watched this video. They play it simple, heartfelt, and unpretentious. I wish it was a full performance,

One of my great regrets is not seeing/hearing them in person. Bought every record! Unforgettable talents!!!!

Well, if it's taken till i'm in my 60's to discover these incroyable minstrels, at least l've found them!!! A thousand thanks Anna (and Kate), Jane and their excellent band! Gilles has just become my favorite fiddler!

Superb! Van Dyke and Brian. Two superb composers. So high class. Thank you for what you have given us. I am greedy and want more, but I have to be realistic. You have provided so much uplifting enjoyment.

THANK YOU ! 😘 (from France)

Great stuff!

oh lovey <3

This guy blows my mind!!! There's another clip from this same interview and I don't know what the hell he's talking about or trying to say in either clip!! He was definately functioning on a different plane in those days. I've seen more current interviews and he's completely lucid and understandable.

Would have enjoyed the Orange Crate Album more as these piano demos than the odd produced production of the studio release.

I like that lyric of the hobo hop passage too. I watched the documentary and loved this snippet, was actually disappointed when the Orange Crate Art album came out and had the "falsetto" vocal that sounded rather artificial and passionless. I referred this vocal. Nearly 20 years later, as I listen to this excerpt, I think I was right!!

Just because lyrics aren't easily understood or have multiple meanings doesn't make it far out there or whatever. VDP's words were actual poetry, art. Look at the songs of the Beatles from 1967, Mike Love would have objected to those, only Lennon and McCartney would have rightly kicked him out of the band

I think those kind of over the top lyrics were exactly what brian was looking for in terms of smile, which itself was over the top musically. it's a completely cerebral psychedelic album.

It's taken from the movie called "The Beach Boys - An American Band".

Hear the lonesome locomotion roar//hobo hop on if you dare...THAT piano chord change is f---in' awesome!

Van Dyke Parks is far from a genius. He's great with word play for sure; however, his lyrics have little meaning compared to Tony Asher's. Van Dyke Parks' lyrics were pretty pretentious and he was trying too hard to be really cerebral, but Tony Asher seemed to just connect with Brian's music and turned of his mind and wrote with his heart. it all comes down to personal opinion in the end. I'm ok with obscure lyrics, but VDP's were a little over the top.

very cool it was those days on Sunset Strip in West Hollywood. Tower records is no more.

Comme je les adore ! I had the chance to see them front stage:Kate, Anna and Jane at the Dranouter festival years ago. Om nooit meer te vergeten !

I had to watch this twice...what a place for an interview