{"id":795512,"date":"2026-05-14T09:26:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T09:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/795512\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T09:26:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T09:26:17","slug":"beach-boys-song-sloop-john-b-explored-in-upcoming-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/795512\/","title":{"rendered":"Beach Boys’ Song ‘Sloop John B’ Explored In Upcoming Documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: <\/strong>In \u201cKokomo,\u201d the Beach Boys<\/a> famously sang \u201cAruba, Jamaica, ooh, I want to take ya\u2026\u201d But it wasn\u2019t their only hit with a Caribbean connection.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cSloop John B,\u201d their classic from the Pet Sounds album, came to the band through the Bahamas, an unlikely journey explored in the upcoming documentary Bringing Her Home: The Story of Sloop John B<\/a> from Rising Tide Productions. Odin\u2019s Eye Entertainment is presenting the project at the March\u00e9 du Film in Cannes with promo footage in anticipation of a fall 2026 festival campaign.<\/p>\n

\n\tPet Sounds was released 60 years ago this Saturday, achieving iconic status as one of the greatest albums in music history. \u201cSloop John B\u201d \u2013 track no. 7 on side 1 of Pet Sounds \u2013 began as a Bahamian folk song and was introduced to Beach Boys\u2019 leader Brian Wilson by band member Al Jardine. Jardine, one of two surviving Beach Boys along with Mike Love, participates in the documentary.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"The<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tThe Beach Boys<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDisney+<\/p>\n

\n\tBringing Her Home: The Story of Sloop John B \u201cexplores how a song born in The Bahamas became part of American pop history, and why its complete story still matters today,\u201d according to a release. \u201cA central element of the documentary follows the creation of a new recording of \u2018Sloop John B\u2019 at Lenny Kravitz\u2019s studio in Eleuthera, The Bahamas. The recording is produced by Craig Ross, longtime guitarist and musical collaborator of Lenny Kravitz, and brings together Bahamian musicians and special guests for a contemporary version rooted in place, memory, and musical heritage.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe release continues, \u201cThe documentary moves between island memory, music history, archival discovery, and the creative energy of the Eleuthera recording sessions. It does not seek to rewrite the song\u2019s history, but to complete it, honoring both the Bahamian culture that gave it life and the Beach Boys recording that carried it around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film is in production and post-production, with filming taking place across the Bahamas and the new recording captured at Lenny Kravitz\u2019s studio in Eleuthera, per the release. The documentary is produced by David House and Edgar Seligman, and executive produced by Michael Favelle of Odin\u2019s Eye Entertainment, which is handling international sales.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Al<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tAl Jardine<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of Mary Ann Jardine<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThis film is about completing the journey of a song that began in The Bahamas, was carried into the world by generations of musicians, and became immortal through The Beach Boys,\u201d House and Seligman said in a statement. \u201cWith Al Jardine\u2019s participation and a new recording created in Eleuthera, this is a chance to honor the full legacy of \u2018Sloop John B\u2019 with joy, dignity, and respect.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRising Tide Productions is a Bahamas-based production company \u201cdedicated to telling cinematic stories rooted in culture, legacy, music, and place.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tOdin\u2019s Eye Entertainment, founded by Michael Favelle in 2006 along with sister company Odin\u2019s Eye Animation, \u201cis a global leader in the production, distribution, and international sales of feature films and television content.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: In \u201cKokomo,\u201d the Beach Boys famously sang \u201cAruba, Jamaica, ooh, I want to take ya\u2026\u201d But it…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":795513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[2885,324626,171,53,324627,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-795512","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-beach-boys","9":"tag-bringing-her-home-the-story-of-sloop-john-b","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-odins-eye-entertainment","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}