Foolhardy project to learn all the parts to the Beach Boys' songs
Wednesday, September 8, 2021
"Cuckoo Clock"
I listened to Surfin' Safari/Surfin' U.S.A. yester-day and noticed a couple small features. In the line "I broke the cuckoo's heart" in "Cuckoo Clock," "heart" is sung with a melisma (E# D#), musically giving a sense of being "broke[n]."