Calm down folks! We know it's a bit edgy these days...but like gall stones they'll pass. mTed, you can joke around with me any day of the week. I'm just very glad you're back! Mick's being kind (as his his nature ALL the time) but the truth of the matter is, while most were raising kids, yours truly was being a lazy sonufabitch and messing around with guitars and banjos.....a lot! I wouldn't have found the time to find those notes if I'd been puttin' kids through school.

Ahh, vocal arrangements! Wilson is suberb. Please don't get me wrong, I think Brian was (and maybe is) a tremendously effective songwriter, I'd put him in my top 25 anyday. I think Peter has nailed it though. I'd forgotten about Paul Simon. Who has combined interesting lyrics, good melodies, AND huge commercial success better than he? He shoots up my list to about number 5.

Hard to top Gershwin though.

Rick