Cool, Cool Water

"Cool, Cool Water"
Single by The Beach Boys
from the album Sunflower
Released	March 1971 [1]
Format	Vinyl
Recorded	July 1970
Genre	Psychedelic rock, experimental rock, progressive rock
Length	5:03
Label	Brother Records/Reprise Records
Writer(s)	Brian Wilson, Mike Love
Producer	Brian Wilson
The Beach Boys singles chronology
"Tears in the Morning"/"It’s About Time" (1970) "Cool, Cool Water"/"Forever" (1971) "Wouldn't It Be Nice (live)" (1971)

"Love To Say Da-Da"
Song by The Beach Boys from the album SMiLE
Released	November 1, 2011
Genre	Psychedelic rock, experimental rock, progressive rock
Length	3:28
Label	Capitol
Composer	Brian Wilson
Producer	Brian Wilson
SMiLE track listing
The Elements: Fire (17) "Love To Say Da-Da" (18) Good Vibrations (19)

"In Blue Hawaii"
Song by Brian Wilson from the album Smile
Released	September 28, 2004
Recorded	Sunset Sound April 2004
Genre	Psychedelic rock, experimental rock, progressive rock
Length	3:00
Label	Nonesuch
Composer	Brian Wilson/Van Dyke Parks
Producer	Brian Wilson
Smile track listing
"Mrs. O'Leary's Cow" (15) "In Blue Hawaii" (16) "Good Vibrations" (17)

Main article: Smile (Brian Wilson album)

"Cool, Cool Water" (also known as I Love To Say Da-Da and In Blue Hawaii) is a song written through several incarnations by Brian Wilson, Van Dyke Parks, and Mike Love for the American rock band The Beach Boys.

Premise

The song originated from the 1966/67 SMiLE sessions, and was, for the most part, the last song recorded for the ill-fated album. The nearly complete version, which at that point in time was minus its main lyrics but was called I Love To Say Da-Da, was later released on the SMiLE portion of Good Vibrations: Thirty Years of The Beach Boys, a boxed set which included much of the unreleased Smile material. Some of the song's sessions would also appear on SMiLE bootlegs.

When the SMiLE project collapsed, the Beach Boys continued working on it up until mid-1967 during the Wild Honey sessions with the track renamed as "Cool, Cool Water". The 1967 recording did not make it to the final track listing and was shelved. Three years later, the group released a modified version of "Cool, Cool Water" on their 1970 album Sunflower, featuring new lyrics by Mike Love and a much different arrangement. This is the most familiar version of the song released by the Beach Boys. It was also released as an edited single, with the B-side of the single being "Forever". The single never charted in the U.S. or in the U.K. The single edit was released in 2007, on the group's The Warmth of the Sun compilation.

By the time Brian Wilson returned to the SMiLE project for his 2004 completed version of the album, he enlisted lyricist Parks to complete the song he would now call In Blue Hawaii, bringing it back to its original arrangement but incorporating into the song the "Water Chant" (which itself may or may not have been the part of the "Elements" suite representing water), and performed it as part of the entire album in concert and on his eventual solo release.

"Cool, Cool Water"

Performers

• Brian Wilson: Lead Vocals
• Mike Love: Lead Vocals

References

1. ^ Badman, Keith. The Beach Boys. The Definitive Diary of America's Greatest Band: On Stage and in the Studio Backbeat Books, San Francisco, California, 2004. ISBN 0-87930-818-4 p. 289

See also

• List of songs by The Beach Boys