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.... California Dreamin is probably one of the best cover songs that I've heard, maybe even better that The Mamas & The Papas' original.

BTW, be sure to take note of the Beach Boy @ the 1:25 mark.

Richard: Thanks for the link. A great song that is covered well by the Beach Boys. I consider it would have been even better without the saxophone.

Yeah, nice version, very nice.
(but personally, i prefer the original anyway...)

excellent !!! ...i agree with Peter though ...wanna hear even more from the Ric

It was obviously from that era of saxophone-infested songs ...

I wanna say it was made around 1992....Brian Wilson is really thin in that video IIRC...

More like the 80's. '85-'86 I'd guess.

Someone made a comment on YouTube that the video was made not too long after Dennis Wilson died, but I always thought Roger was playing a 370/12RM in the video which would make it post 1987-88....must be one of his earlier Rickenbackers.....

The track is on their 1986 Made in U.S.A album.

That really is Roger, isn't it? And what a hoot, he's got his ol' granny glasses, too.

JimK

I thought that the cameos of John and Michelle Phillips were apropos, too.

Anybody recognize the preacher? He looks familiar, but I can't put a name to the face. As soon as I saw him, Gary Usher came to mind for some reason, but it's been 35 years since I last saw him or a photo of him and he certainly didn't look like that back when I knew him. I'm thinking it must be somebody else that I'm just spacing out on.

Anybody recognize the preacher? He looks familiar, but I can't put a name to the face. I'm thinking it must be somebody else that I'm just spacing out on.

I can’t tell if you’re joking or not Todd.
If not, that was John Phillips, the (“co”-)writer of the song.

No, I was serious, he looked familiar, but I don't think I ever happened to see a photo of him as one of us old guys and somehow just didn't make the connection. The mind is one of the first things to go.....

Todd, I noted JP's appearance in my post but didn't mention that he was the preacher. Sorry for thinking that it was obvious that the preacher was John.