DADDY DEAREST: Brian Wilson collectors are going...

By Steve Hochman

May 31, 1992 12 AM PT

DADDY DEAREST: Brian Wilson collectors are going to be busy this week. First, there’s the song his daughters Carnie and Wendy Wilson have written about him (see review of the new Wilson Phillips album on Page 49).

And, there’s a CD reissue featuring the Honeys, the ‘60s female trio that included Brian’s former wife Marilyn. Of special interest: a previously unreleased track written by Brian’s late father, Murry. Titled “Come to Me,” it’s a sweetly romantic number in the ‘50s tradition of naive love songs.

That’s not quite the image that Brian painted of his father in his 1991 autobiography, “Wouldn’t It Be Nice.” Brian described Murry as physically and emotionally abusive.

“Murry wanted to write himself, and he was never successful with his songs and maybe he thought the Honeys were a vehicle for him,” Marilyn says. “But he was doing it out of the kindness of his heart. He really was a kind man . . . at times. He wasn’t all bad. He gave Brian a lot of wonderful things, like the love of music. He used to cry at Brian’s singing and music.”

But what the stormy father-son relationship?

“Brian was something Murry always wanted to be and never was,” Marilyn says. “I don’t think, I know.”