Over 50 hours of tape was recorded, ranging from musical and spoken word to sound effects and role-playing. It was a concept album that was planned to feature word paintings, tape manipulation, more elaborate vocal arrangements, experiments with musical acoustics, themes of youth and innocence, and comedic interludes, with influences drawn from mysticism, pre-rock and roll pop, doo-wop, jazz, ragtime, musique concrète, classical, American history, poetry, spirituality, and cartoons. Wilson touted Smile as a "teenage symphony to God" to surpass Pet Sounds. The album was produced and almost entirely composed by Brian Wilson with guest lyricist and assistant arranger Van Dyke Parks, both of whom conceived the project as a riposte to the British sensibilities that had dominated popular music of the era. Over the next four decades, few of the original Smile tracks were officially released, and the project came to be regarded as the most legendary unreleased album in popular music history. Instead, after a year of recording, the album was shelved and the group released a downscaled version, Smiley Smile, in September 1967.
It was to be an LP of twelve tracks assembled from modular fragments, the same editing process used for their " Good Vibrations" single. Smile (stylized as SMiLE ) is an unfinished album by the American rock band the Beach Boys that was intended to follow their 1966 album Pet Sounds.
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