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BRIAN WILSON and VAN DYKE PARKS - Orange Crate Art 2LP pop The Rhythm Checkers were anIn 1966, when Brian Wilson prepared the follow up to his masterpiece Pet Sounds, he employed the services of Mississippi born Van Dyke Parks as lyricist for The Beach Boys next album, SMiLE. As history would soon document, SMiLE became the most famous unreleased album in rock history, it's "completion" not seeing daylight until a Grammy award winning box set in 2012. SMiLE's original plan was to incorporate many different elements of American music in