BRATTLEBORO BEACH BOY
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To my experience, not a lot of Brattleboro people know our area's main connection to The Beach Boys and to their principal composer, Brian Wilson, who just died. Back in the early 1970s, the band's popularity had dropped to near zero. Jack Rieley approached band members with a proposed business plan. Miracle of miracles, they accepted it; and in a relatively short time, The Beach Boys was back to being a hip and popular band once again. Jack was the clear mastermind of this turnaround. One of the Beach Boys biographies says that even people who did not like Jack admitted that he gave The Beach Boys exactly what the group needed. Many years later, Jack Rieley moved into that mansion behind a wrought-iron fence on Orchard Street not too far from Western Avenue, where he lived for several years. He had strong ties to the Marlboro College community and he had an office at the Holstein Association. From conversations, it was very clear that Jack enjoyed working with Brian Wilson and greatly admired him. Jack wrote lyrics for The Beach Boys and his name is usually given first in writer credits for the group's most successful original song of the 1970s, "Sail On Sailor." At the end of his life, Jack thought his health was going to be restored; and he told local people that he was looking into real estate opportunities so he could move back to the area.
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Alan Lewis
