Saturday, June 24, 2017

"Little Bird"

Yester-day, Brian Wilson had a post saying that to-morrow (that is, to-day, the 24th) is the 49th anniversary of the release of the Friends album:


I listened to the album this evening, and I discovered something about "Little Bird."

At about 1:24, there's this phrase (played twice) on muted trumpet:


This phrase sounded familiar to me, so I did some looking and found a very similar phrase (also on muted trumpet) in "Child Is Father of the Man" from SMiLE:


I should note that I guessed on the keys for both of those based on the notes in the muted trumpet parts.  I don't know any other parts for either song.

Aside from the note value of the first note and a half-step transposition, the two phrases are exactly the same.