Talk:Little Deuce Coupe

Number What?

"reaching number doue in the United States " HUH????? Are we speaking English?
Apparently even google doesn't know what number doue is!
Is doue between one and a million? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.74.223.213 (talk) 01:39, 5 September 2014 (UTC)

disambiguation page needed?

The Beach Boys may be more more well-known than a particular hot rod, but the song "Little Deuce Coupe" is an homage to a specific vehicle that existed and was named "Little Deuce Coupe" prior to the album's release in 1963. The car was subsequently featured on the Beach Boys' album cover of the same name.

A brief history of the car from another source on the web ([1]):

Any car-crazed teenager who grew up the 1960s had a copy of the Beach Boys album "Little Deuce Coupe." On the cover was a radical ‘32 with a custom nose and scalloped blue and white paint, and many an aged baby boomer stopped by to ogle the restored beauty. Originally built by Clarence "Chili" Catallo, it had a 344-inch blown Olds mill with triple deuces. After a successful drag-race career, the body was sectioned and channeled in 1959 before beginning its show-car days. The Alexander Brothers formed the unique grille and George Barris performed the three-inch chop. Hot Rod featured the pearl-blue coupe on the cover of the July 1961 issue. Catallo sold the car in the 1960s, then bought it back and began a resto. He passed away before it was completed, but his son Curt finished the job and brought the famous blue beauty to Pebble [Beach].

The car was featured on the cover of the July 1961 issue of Hot Rod Magazine.

In the 2005 War of the Worlds movie, the main hero sings Little Deuce Coupe to his daughter as an ersatz lullaby. — JIP | Talk 17:48, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

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Rewrite?

Parts of this article sound like an advert full of POV, notably, "For an album recorded so quickly, the quality was amazingly high. In particular, Brian Wilson's songs and their arrangements were becoming more and more dazzling and complex, specifically "No-Go Showboat" and "Custom Machine"." Yeanold Viskersenn 21:12, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Agree. It needs work. Jusdafax (talk) 22:46, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Huh?

"Almost unintentionally, the album was rush-recorded and compiled when leader Brian Wilson sought to protect his band."

What does that mean? Thmazing (talk) 03:21, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

smileysmile.net

To editor EPBeatles: smileysmile.net is a web forum. That you think one of the posters there is an associated musician doesn't make his posts reliable. Per WP:SPS, anyone putting out info in that manner would have to be someone "whose work in the relevant field has previously been published by reliable third-party publications". I see no evidence of that. Also, if you have no local consensus here, then it doesn't matter if you convinced editors on other talk pages. You would need to show that a relevant WikiProject has agreed with you. Chris Troutman (talk) 01:55, 22 March 2019 (UTC)

To editor Chris troutman: I definitely understand your points; I did not realize that I had to convince all editors from the WikiProject. Does the fact that he is the archivist for the band and wrote the sessionographers for the SMiLE Sessions and the most recent Pet Sounds set, plus the expanded version of the Beach Boys' Party album. EPBeatles (talk) 12:43, 22 March 2019 (UTC)

@EPBeatles: I think you misunderstand. You say that Craig "c-Man" Slowinski has all this info ,that he produced "a catalogue of recording sessions, rather than a catalogue of the records, in whatever medium, that are made from those recordings" but I don't see how that matters. Perhaps he is an expert on this issue. Wikipedia's concern is how recognized is he in that field? The line in SPS that I'm quoting is to allow cases where someone like Neil deGrasse Tyson might publish something via blog. Normally, we'd only accept work through publishing where an editorial board was involved. If, however, Tyson was already published in traditional media we might allow some leeway for what he writes in a blog, although self-published media (including wikis) is disallowed. That's the problem here. You're an inveterate fan and seek to publish your narrative here, using the self-published words of someone you claim is an expert. I insist that the narrative and what's true doesn't matter at all in comparison to keeping our sourcing standards high. Chris Troutman (talk) 13:11, 22 March 2019 (UTC)

Deuce?

Please explain this word. How for example does 1932 = deuce? 203.220.41.147 (talk) 10:34, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

See 1932 Ford#Deuce coupe. Maybe that link is needed in the article. Martinevans123 (talk) 10:44, 16 April 2024 (UTC)