Brian Wilson Songs From The Landy Era

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Brian Wilson Songs From The Landy Era, by Beach Head (S. Lee), October 2007

Here's some interesting information ...

From the Library of Congress copyright records ...

In March 1999, through six documents, Gene Landy and his girlfriend, Alexandra Morgan, assigned their share of the copyrights to 213 musical compositions to Brian. All of these songs originally were credited to Brian and Landy, with Morgan also credited on 43 of them. A handful also carried credits for various third parties - Jardine, Usher, etc. (those credits remain intact, by the way).

This is the complete list. How many have you heard?

• Actors in plays
• Ain't nothin' to hide (co-writer: Morgan)
• All over me
• Angel
• Baby
• Baby, come back to L.A.
• Baby, let your hair grow long (co-writer: Morgan)
• Bad time soon forgotten
• Be a brave guy
• Being with the one you love (co-writer: Morgan)
• Big man, little man
• Bill sounds that way
• Birds of love
• Boogie's in town
• Brian (co-writer: Morgan)
• Bubble gum song
• California
• California calling (co-writer: Jardine)
• Camp California (co-writer: Morgan)
• Can I trust her?
• Can you see it
• Car song
• Carl & Gina (co-writer: Morgan)
• Carte blanche
• Chestnut prison
• Christine
• Christmas time
• Come back here
• Concert tonight
• Country feelin' (co-writer: Morgan)
• Crack at your love (co-writer: Jardine)
• Daddy's little girl (co-writer: Morgan)
• Do you have any regrets? (co-writer: Morgan)
• Doin' time on planet Earth
• Don't be bad to me
• Don't let her know she's an angel (co-writer: Morgan)
• Don't you just hate it?
• Don't you just love it? (co-writer: Morgan)
• Dr. L
• Dum-be-do
• Erotic dreams
• Everybody
• Everytime
• Exerciser, The
• Fairy tale (co-writers: Foster & Morgan)
• Fantasy girl
• Feeling goin' round
• Future
• Games two can play
• Gidget
• Give me your love
• Glory Hallelujah
• Good guys
• Good night Irene
• Good sunshine
• Hard for me
• Have you ever been in love before?
• Hawaii
• He couldn't get his poor old body to move (co-writer: Buckingham)
• Heavenly bodies
• Heavenly love
• Here we are (co-writers: Foster & Morgan)
• Here where I live
• Here with me
• Hey, Mr. Athlete
• Hey, Mr. Space Cadet
• Hey yeah
• Honey
• Hot temper
• Hotels of Honolulu
• Hotter (co-writers: Paley & Morgan)
• I feel this love (co-writer: Morgan)
• I gotta get back to you
• I love the girl so much
• I love to roll
• I May Mah
• I need your sweet loving mind
• I sleep alone (co-writer: Morgan)
• I wanna stay
• I wanted you to love me (co-writers: Foster & Morgan)
• I'm broke
• I'm getting tired
• I'm going home
• I'm so lonely
• I'm so tired
• I've been thinking
• I've been through this before
• In my car (co-writer: Morgan)
• Is there a chance?
• It burns
• It happened to me
• It was in your eyes
• It'll just be like crazy
• It's cool
• It's fine
• It's good
• It's gotta go somewhere
• It's just a matter of time
• It's the ocean & me
• Jane
• Jesus was my Savior
• John & Bianca (co-writer: Morgan)
• Just say no (co-writer: Usher)
• Let it shine
• Let me show it to you
• Let's do it again
• Let's get it on
• Let's go
• Let's go to heaven in my car (co-writer: Usher)
• Let's stick together (co-writer: Morgan)
• Life
• Life is still a thrill
• Life's not a fantasy
• Little children (co-writer: Morgan)
• Living doll (co-writer: Morgan)
• Looking for a place
• Lost song
• Love and mercy
• Love is the music of life (co-writer: Morgan)
• Love will have meaning again
• Love ya (co-writers: Gold & Morgan)
• Lover boy (co-writer: Morgan)
• Magic
• Magnetic attraction (co-writer: Usher)
• Majors and minors
• Make a wish (co-writer: Morgan)
• Male ego
• Malibu (everyone wears a smile in) (co-writer: Morgan)
• Man under fire
• Mary honey
• Meet me in my dreams tonight
• Melt away
• Merry Christmas all over the world
• Metal beach
• Miller time
• Missing sound
• Move it all around
• Movie show
• Music in my head
• My new girl
• My solution
• New direction
• Night time (co-writers: Paley & Morgan)
• No one ever says no
• Not this again
• Nothing to hide (co-writer: Morgan)
• Off my chest
• Oh, not this again
• On the right track
• One crazy summer
• One for the boys
• Our baby has grown up
• Outta control
• Passing friend
• Pick yourself up & go
• Please come back
• Please stop
• Pretty brown hair
• Rainbow eyes (co-writer: Morgan)
• Rings
• Rio Grande
• Robotech scheme
• Rock and roll
• Round and round
• Sailing on the American dream
• Saturday evening in the city
• Saturday morning in the city
• Save the day (co-writer: Foster & Morgan)
• She sleeps alone (co-writer: Morgan)
• She wants to be my girl
• Sherrie
• Shine on lucky star
• Smart girls (co-writer: Morgan)
• So glad
• So long
• Someone to love (co-writer: Morgan)
• Spanish girl (co-writer: Schaeffer)
• Spirit of rock & roll (co-writers: Usher & Kelly)
• Song that wrote itself
• Sorrow and stress
• Still I dream of you
• Still looking for the high (co-writer: Morgan)
• Sunkist
• Sunlight
• Talkman, talkman
• Terri, she need me
• That magic night
• There's so many (co-writer: Morgan)
• This day was meant for you (co-writer: Morgan)
• Tiger's gone, The
• Time stood still (co-writers: Catona & Morgan)
• Too much sugar, a.k.a. So much sugar (co-writer: Morgan)
• Trust
• Twenty-four hours a day
• Wa-wa song
• Walk with me
• Walkin' the line (co-writers: Morgan & Clowes)
• Walking on water
• Wasted night
• Water builds up (co-writer: Morgan)
• We love you
• We're not together
• What went wrong? (co-writer: Morgan)
• What's wrong? (co-writer: Morgan)
• What's your dream?
• When I met you
• Why not us
• Wondering what you're up to
• Working on a rock & roll song.
• Wouldn't it be cool?
• You
• You and me
• You're not the same

(Given some of those titles, maybe a better question is: How many do you want to hear?)