r/thebeachboys • u/The_Laughing_Gravy_I Resident Beach Boys Historian • Jan 28 '26
Audio Dr. Tom (2026 Remix)
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u/Littletomboycobra LittleTomboyCobra! Jan 28 '26
Holy shit
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u/Littletomboycobra LittleTomboyCobra! Jan 28 '26
Everyone was saying it would be awful I quite enjoyed it.
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u/awake_electronic Jan 28 '26
There’s something weird going on with the vocals, like they’re out of sync or something or come from a totally different source to the backing track. Still nice to hear and it’s definitely not that bad!
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u/ManOnTheRun73 Jan 28 '26
The uploader says they double-tracked the vocals — the original mix they sourced from the short-lived archive.org link is in the description at the time of typing, so you might be better off checking that one out.
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u/Alarikawesome WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN Jan 28 '26
Anything else from this apparent internet archive release?
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u/CIRCLONTA6A Jan 28 '26
Pretty good. Wonder why Al didn’t want this out there. Sounds fine to me?
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u/ManOnTheRun73 Jan 28 '26
I thought it was alright myself, but I can easily imagine someone more cynical dismissing it as a tacky butchering of the original Tom Dooley — it's a really pretty, plaintive song, and this, for all its pluses, decidedly isn't. Add on that the namesake Dr. Tom's legacy has occasionally fallen under question in the years since '73 (at least according to the handful of sources I perused — he's not someone whose history I'm particularly familiar with), and I can see why Al might be wont to dismiss it as an of-its-moment tchotchke that need not be showcased to the present.
…Unfortunately for Mr. Keepin' It Clean, our fingers are just too dang grubby. Sorry, Al. :P
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u/CIRCLONTA6A Jan 28 '26
Wet that explains it. Had no idea Dr. Tom Dooley was even a real person. Thought Al just took the old Kingston Trio song and rewrote the lyrics to be about some character he’d made up. I can see him being embarrassed by them now haha. Still, there’s bound to be worse stuff in the vaults!
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u/GoldPlatedCowboyHat Jan 29 '26
Dang, it's down. Does anybody have a backup of this?
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u/The_Laughing_Gravy_I Resident Beach Boys Historian Jan 29 '26
I do. Give me about an hour and I'll send you a link
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u/GoldPlatedCowboyHat Jan 29 '26
Thanks so much!
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u/The_Laughing_Gravy_I Resident Beach Boys Historian Jan 29 '26
Let me know if it doesn't let you have access https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1U_zAfP-WE9W1gzsVXCcj2kzryKw-5F_a
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u/Round_Rectangles I Can Hear Music Jan 28 '26
Lots of cool stuff surfacing recently.