"County Fair"

Earlier this month, I finally decided to widen my scope with this project.  Initially, I was looking into only Pet Sounds and SMiLE (with occasional diversions now and then), but now I'm including all of the Beach Boys albums I have.

After deciding this, I listened to the Surfin' Safari/Surfin' U.S.A. re-issue (the first Beach Boys albums seemed like the place to go), and I figured out a few parts in the following days.  One of the parts I figured out was the bass part for "County Fair," and since it was really easy, I even notated it:

Of course, there's the disclaimer that I might be wrong about this, but I'm pretty sure that what I have is accurate.

If I'm not mistaken, the guitar part consists of only one phrase:

When I notated the bass part, I noticed that one section has ascending phrases for almost every measure (arpeggiating G6 and D6 chords).  Like I mentioned in this post, the organ part there quotes "Over the Waves."  Since the bass part beneath that quotation looks like waves when notated, I'm wondering if it's meant to be something of a musical joke.

"County Fair"

When I listened to the Surfin' Safari/Surfin' U.S.A. re-issue a couple days ago, some of the instrument parts in "County Fair" sounded pretty easy to figure out.  While working on that over the last two days (I have the guitar phrases and the bass part), I discovered something about the middle sections, where the barker is trying to convince the speaker/singer to win a stuffed koala bear for his girlfriend.  During both of those sections, the organ plays Juventino Rosas' "Over the Waves."  There are some variations in the rhythm (which are necessary since "County Fair" is in 4/4 time, but "Over the Waves" is originally in 3/4), but the melody is the same.

"Ten Little Indians"

I listened to the 1990s single-CD re-issue of Surfin' Safari and Surfin' U.S.A. (with bonus tracks) to-day, and I noticed a small thing about "Ten Little Indians."  At first, I noticed only that the "waterfall" in the line "The fifth little Indian took her down the waterfall" is pronounced with an extra syllable and that that extra syllable is lower than the rest, musically representing that fall, but when I figured out the specific notes, I discovered that the whole word descends.  The four syllables are sung to the notes B B G# E.