"Bluebirds over the Mountain"

When I listened to the Friends/20/20 reissue, I also noticed a small thing in "Bluebirds over the Mountain."  I'm not sure what the whole line is, but "land" in the phrase "ev'ryone in ev'ry land" is sung with a melisma (B A), musically giving a sense of the range of "ev'ry."

"Transcendental Meditation"

I listened to the Friends/20/20 two-albums-on-one-CD reissue this morning (because Brian Wilson is currently on tour doing songs from Friends), and I noticed an interesting feature in "Transcendental Meditation."  For much of the verses, the saxophones play only a single pitch, and in the second verse, this gives a musical impression of the "never-changing" that's mentioned in the lyric.

"Catch a Wave"

Last week (on the 28th), I learned the organ solo in "Catch a Wave" (or at least I'm pretty close).  Here's just that section, with the incidental organ part (which - along with the chords - I learned two years ago) before and after it.

I don't know what type of organ was used on the recording, but I used the Farfisa sound on my keyboard (my drawbar settings sound a bit brighter than the original, but for the record, here's what I used:  bass 16, oboe 8, trumpet 8, flute 4, 2 2/3).

After learning the organ solo, I was still thinking about the song, and I realized that "long" in the line "Not just a fad, 'cause it's been goin' on so long" is held for at least five beats (more than a whole measure), illustrating duration.  While recording my example, I discovered that the "long" in the backing "They said it wouldn't last too long" is sung with a melisma (F# A G F# A), also illustrating duration.