{"id":52975,"date":"2022-06-17T01:00:16","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T05:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=52975"},"modified":"2022-06-15T05:30:28","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T09:30:28","slug":"beach-boys-good-vibrations-and-hb-7-headphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/beach-boys-good-vibrations-and-hb-7-headphones\/","title":{"rendered":"Beach Boys, Good Vibrations, and HB-7 Headphones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Good-vibrations-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-52976\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Good-vibrations-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"763\" height=\"493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Good-vibrations-1.jpeg 763w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Good-vibrations-1-300x194.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Good-vibrations-1-624x403.jpeg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 763px) 100vw, 763px\" \/><\/a>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Mark C, who writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Thomas,<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">You have posted numerous photos of radios appearing in film. I found something similar but with an interesting twist.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The link is to the YouTube clip Good Vibrations the Lost Studio Footage. Watching the Beach Boys singing that iconic musical selection is thrilling enough but I would have never guessed I would be seeing them wearing the military HB-7 and using them as studio headphones while they were performing!<\/p>\n<h3>Good Vibrations the Lost Studio Footage<\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uVlSVkzbJDA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/uVlSVkzbJDA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to view on YouTube.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Mark<\/p>\n<p><strong>That&#8217;s just brilliant, Mark. Thank you for sharing this. I would have never guessed HB-7s would be used in a studio setting, but it certainly looks like them in the video.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I have to thank you for sharing this lost footage of the Beach Boys, too. This was new to me. I love the song, too; certainly iconic!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Mark C, who writes: Thomas, You have posted numerous photos of radios appearing in film. I found something similar but with an interesting twist. The link is to the YouTube clip Good Vibrations the Lost Studio Footage. Watching the Beach Boys singing that iconic musical selection is thrilling enough [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4199,3,305],"tags":[9851,9850],"class_list":["post-52975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessories","category-news","category-nostalgia","tag-beach-boys","tag-hb-7"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-dMr","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28235,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/lunch-with-a-friend-and-a-hearty-side-of-enabling\/","url_meta":{"origin":52975,"position":0},"title":"Lunch with a friend (and a hearty side of enabling)","author":"Thomas","date":"October 15, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"A few weeks ago, I had lunch with my good friend, BJ Leiderman. \u00a0If you ever listen to public radio programming, especially NPR, you've probably heard BJ's name. 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