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Brian Wilson is in this?

posted 18 years ago by earthcaughtfire
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Can somebody point out Brian Wilson? Apparently he is in a couple of "beach party" movies. I'm always looking, but never see him.

[–] ted-franklin 18 years ago

I thought (having not seen the Beach series of films since they were shown as B movies in the mid sixties at the Tivoli in Wimborne, Dorset, UK - when I was a young and impressionable teenager) that I remembered someone like the Beach Boys, or Jan and Dean, performing in one of the movies, along with Stevie Wonder (who I've just seen listed amongst the credits). So my memory can't be all wrong.
I blame the Beach movies for my later fascination with Duane Eddy, Sandy Nelson, the B52s and other US "trash sound" and film background music tracks - and "Happy Days' of course.
Till today I wondered if the Beach movies had disapeared without trace. I'm glad they haven't.
Not sure if I really want to see them again. P'raps they're best left in the golden glow of my memory of those days. But they certainly stayed in my memory all this time, which shows they had some power.

[–] Bobodash 15 years ago

It's not the Beach Boy's Brian Wilson

Filling out How to Stuff a Wild Bikini’s crowd scenes are Keenan Wynn’s son Ned, Brian Wilson (not the Beach Boy but an heir to the Wilson House of Suede and Leather) and pioneer surfers Mikey Dora (James Darren’s stunt double in Gidget, 1959), Johnny Fain and Mike Nader (later of Dynasty and All My Children fame), whose prowess on the long board had earned them national acclaim in the September 1961 Life magazine feature “The Mad, Happy Surfers: A Way of Life on the Wavetops.”

http://www.tcm.com/thismonth/article.jsp?cid=159726&mainArticleId=161351

[–] thbryn 14 years ago

Brian wasn't touring then due to problems. He wasn't the movie type even if it was to promote a record.

[–] noname1479 13 years ago

It's another Brian Wilson, not from The Beach Boys.

[–] [email protected] 11 years ago

Just for the record, the better-known Brian Wilson (and the rest of the Beach Boys) are on "The Girls on the Beach", a movie Paramount put out to get a piece of the beach movie action*. They're on hand to play three songs, with Brian front & center singing a ballad "The Lonely Sea".
They also show up playing the title song at the beginning of Disney's "The Monkey's Uncle", which, though there isn't a beach in sight IIRC, does star Annette (who sings with them) and Tommy Kirk.

* According to the book "Hollywood Rock", they had been slated to do an AIP movie, but bailed when the studio insisted on the soundtrack rights.

[–] noname1479 11 years ago

Brian Wilson wrote the soundtracks to the first 2: "Beach Party" &
"Muscle Beach Party". Guy Hemric (who continued writing the soundtracks) told me that Brian Wilson left because he wasn't sure he was getting enough royalties.

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