He was, you might say, our spark plug guy he was our energy guy, and he really believed in it." So, I picked up the gauntlet and took the appearance band into the studio, and we re-recorded it with my band, which is much more powerful than the studio guys we were using at the time. Not even that, it just sounded like a demo. It was quite flat, I thought, and very un-Beach Boy-like. We went into the studio, and it just didn't happen. Jardine told Consequence of Sound why he decided they needed to re-record it: "Well, I thought Brian was going to give me another ' Sloop John B,' he said. Dissatisfied with Brian Wilson's arrangement of the song, which led the group's 1969 album 20/20, Jardine later led the group to record a more Country-Rock style version, which became an international hit reaching #1 in Australia, South Africa, Sweden and Norway, but surpassingly failed to make the Billboard Hot 100. The best known version is for many the one by The Beach Boys, with Al Jardine on lead vocals.
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