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Southern California
Southern California (SoCal) is a megaregion, or megapolitan area, in the southern area of the U.S. state of California. Large urban areas include Greater Los Angeles, Greater San Diego, and the Inland Empire. The urban area stretches along the coast from Ventura through the Southland and Inland Empire to San Diego, spilling over the border into Tijuana. Southern California, along with the San Francisco Bay Area, is a major cultural and economic center for the State of California and beyond.
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Al Jardine
Alan Charles "Al" Jardine (born September 3, 1942) is a founding member of top-selling American music group The Beach Boys, a guitarist and occasional lead vocalist. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988.
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Andrew Grayham Doe
Andrew Grayham Doe also known as "AGD," was born September 6, 1955 in Farnham in Surrey, is a rock music researcher most noted for being a Beach Boys historian and author.
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Aretha Franklin
Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter and pianist commonly referred to as The Queen of Soul. Although renowned for her soul recordings, Franklin is also adept at jazz, blues, R&B; and gospel music. Rolling Stone magazine ranked Franklin No. 1 on its list of The Greatest Singers of All Time.
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Billy Joel
William Martin "Billy" Joel (born May 9, 1949) is an American musician and pianist, singer-songwriter, and classical composer. Since releasing his first hit song, "Piano Man", in 1973, Joel has become the sixth best-selling recording artist and the third best-selling solo artist in the United States, according to the RIAA.
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Blondie Chaplin
'''Terence William 'Blondie' Chaplin' is a musician from Durban, South Africa who first became known to international audiences through his brief stint in the early 1970s as a singer and guitarist for The Beach Boys. Chaplin was also listed as a co-producer, sang lead vocals with fellow South African musician Ricky Fataar (drummer) and composed, with Fataar, "Here She Comes" and "Hold On Dear Brother" on the twenty-third official Beach Boys album, Carl and the Passions - "So Tough"'', released in 1972. He is well known in recent years as a long term backing vocalist and acoustic rhythm guitarist for the Rolling Stones on their tours.
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Bob Dylan
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Brian Wilson
Brian Douglas Wilson (born June 20, 1942 in Inglewood, California) is an American musician, best known as the leader and chief songwriter of the group The Beach Boys. Within the band, Wilson played bass and keyboards, also providing part-time lead vocals and, more often, backing vocals, harmonizing in falsetto with the group.
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Bruce Johnston
Bruce Arthur Johnston (born Benjamin Baldwin on June 27, 1942) is a member of The Beach Boys and a songwriter, remembered especially for composing "I Write the Songs". Johnston was not one of the original members of the band. He joined the band on April 9, 1965 after Glen Campbell (who was substituting on stage for the group's chief song writer Brian Wilson) decided to embark on a solo career. Johnston's first vocal recording with the Beach Boys was "California Girls."
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Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949), nicknamed "The Boss", is an American singer-songwriter who records and tours with the E Street Band. Springsteen is widely known for his brand of Heartland rock infused with pop hooks, poetic lyrics, and Americana sentiments centered on his native New Jersey.
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Carnie Wilson
Carnie Wilson (born April 29, 1968) is an American singer and television hostess, best known as a member of the pop music group Wilson Phillips.
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Chuck Berry
Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry (born October 18, 1926) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. With songs such as "Maybellene" (1955), "Roll Over Beethoven" (1956), "Rock and Roll Music" (1957) and "Johnny B. Goode" (1958), Chuck Berry refined and developed rhythm and blues into the major elements that made rock and roll distinctive, with lyrics focusing on teen life and consumerism and utilizing guitar solos and showmanship that would be a major influence on subsequent rock music.
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Dan Aykroyd
Daniel Edward "Dan" Aykroyd, CM (born July 1, 1952) is a Canadian-American comedian, actor, screenwriter, musician, winemaker and ufologist. He was an original cast member of Saturday Night Live, an originator of The Blues Brothers (with John Belushi) and Ghostbusters and has had a long career as a film actor and screenwriter.
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David Anderle
David Anderle is a well-known record producer. His production credits include albums for Judy Collins, Rita Coolidge, Amy Grant, Delaney and Bonnie, David Ackles, Kris Kristofferson, Aaron Neville, Chris De Burgh, Rhinoceros, Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Doc Holliday and the Circle Jerks. In recent years, he has become an accomplished and exhibited portrait artist.
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David Lee Roth
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Dennis Wilson
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Diana Ross
Diana Ernestine Earle Ross (born March 26, 1944) is an American singer and actress. During the 1960s, she helped shape the Motown sound as lead singer of The Supremes, before leaving the group for a solo career on January 14, 1970. Since the beginning of her career with The Supremes and as a solo artist, Ross has sold more than 150 million records.
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Elton John
Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight; 25 March 1947) is an English singer-songwriter, composer and pianist. He has worked with his songwriting partner Bernie Taupin since 1967; they have collaborated on more than 30 albums to date.
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Eugene Landy
Eugene Ellsworth Landy, Ph.D. (November 26, 1934 – March 22, 2006) was a controversial American psychologist and therapist known for his unconventional treatment and eventual exploitation of composer/musician Brian Wilson. Landy, long before receiving his doctorate in psychology from the University of Oklahoma, was a "race records" distributor, promoting records of African American artists to disc jockeys around the United States. He was a successful drug counsellor at Harbor Hospital in Los Angeles, California after becoming a psychologist and a popular part-time instructor in the late 1960s at California State University, Northridge (San Fernando Valley State College). He was well known for using Gestalt Therapy as his treatment technique.
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George H. W. Bush
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Ike & Tina Turner
Ike & Tina Turner were an American rock & roll and soul duo, made of the husband-and-wife team of Ike Turner and Tina Turner in the 1960s and 1970s. Spanning sixteen years together as a recording group, the duo played among its repertoire, rock & roll, soul, blues and funk. They are known for their wild and entertaining dance shows and especially for their scintillating cover of "Proud Mary", for which they won a Grammy Award. The duo were inducted to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1991.
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Jack Rieley
Jack Rieley (born John Frank Rieley III, November 24, 1942 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American record producer. He was the manager of the pop music group the Beach Boys during the early 1970s, and is credited with guiding them back to acclaim. He would also sometimes a co-songwriter with the rest of the band, usually penning lyrics.
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James G. Watt
James Gaius Watt (born January 31, 1938) served as U.S. Secretary of the Interior under President Ronald Reagan from 1981 to 1983.
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Jan and Dean
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Joe Walsh
:For other persons named Joseph/Joe Walsh, see Joseph/Joe Walsh
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John Belushi
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Johnny Otis
Johnny Otis (born John Alexander Veliotes; December 28, 1921, Vallejo, California) is an American blues and rhythm and blues pianist, composer, vibraphonist, drummer, singer, bandleader and impresario.
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Lorne Michaels
Lorne Michaels, CM (born November 17, 1944) is a Canadian television producer, writer and comedian best known for creating and producing Saturday Night Live and producing the various film and TV projects that spun off from it.
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Mick Jagger
Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger (born 26 July 1943) is an English musician, singer-songwriter and record producer, best known as the lead vocalist of rock band, The Rolling Stones. Jagger has also acted in and produced several films.
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Mike Love
Michael Edward "Mike" Love (born March 15, 1941) is an American singer/songwriter and musician with The Beach Boys. He formed the band along with his cousins Brian, Carl, and Dennis Wilson, and their friend Al Jardine.
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Murry Wilson
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Nancy Reagan
Nancy Davis Reagan (born Anne Frances Robbins on July 6, 1921) is the widow of former United States President Ronald Reagan and served as an influential First Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989. She was born in New York; her parents divorced soon after her birth and she grew up in Maryland, living with an aunt and uncle while her mother pursued acting jobs. As Nancy Davis, she was an actress in Hollywood in the 1940s and 1950s, starring in films such as ''Donovan's Brain, Night into Morning, and Hellcats of the Navy''. In 1952 she married Ronald Reagan, who was then president of the Screen Actors Guild, and they had two children. Nancy was the First Lady of California when her husband was Governor from 1967 to 1975. In that capacity, she began work with the Foster Grandparents Program.
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Paul McCartney
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Phil Spector
Harvey Philip Spector (born December 26, 1939) is an American record producer and songwriter. The originator of the "Wall of Sound" production technique, Spector was a pioneer of the 1960s girl group sound and produced over 25 Top 40 hits between 1960 and 1965 alone. After this initial success, Spector later worked with artists including Ike and Tina Turner, John Lennon, George Harrison, and the Ramones with similar acclaim.
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Ritchie Valens
Ritchie Valens (born Ricardo Esteban Valenzuela Reyes; May 13, 1941 – February 3, 1959) was a Mexican-American singer, songwriter and guitarist.
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Ronald Reagan
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Scott Mathews
Scott Mathews (born July 25, 1955 in Sacramento, California) is a multi-platinum selling music producer, composer, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist.
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Scott McKenzie
Scott McKenzie (born Philip Blondheim, January 10, 1939, Jacksonville, Florida) is an American singer. He is best known for his 1967 hit single and generational anthem, "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)".
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Stevie Wonder
Stevland Hardaway Judkins (born May 13, 1950), name later changed to Stevland Hardaway Morris, known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and activist. Blind from shortly after birth, Wonder signed with Motown Records' Tamla label at the age of eleven, and continues to perform and record for Motown to this day.
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Syd Barrett
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Terry Melcher
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The Regents
The Regents were an American doo-wop vocal group from New York, operating in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
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The Times
The Times is a daily national newspaper published in the United Kingdom since 1785, when it was known as The Daily Universal Register.
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Tony Asher
Tony Asher (born in London in 1939) is an American lyricist who co-wrote much of The Beach Boys 1966 album Pet Sounds in conjunction with front man Brian Wilson, including such classic songs as "God Only Knows" and "Wouldn't It Be Nice". Asher, who formally only helped Wilson's ideas come into words, still managed to have some influence on the album.
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Van Dyke Parks
Van Dyke Parks (born January 3, 1943) is an American composer, arranger, producer, musician, singer, author and actor. He has worked with performers including Grace Kelly, Delaney Bramlett, The Beach Boys, The Byrds, Loudon Wainwright III, Silverchair, Ry Cooder, Joanna Newsom, Inara George and Ringo Starr.
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Wendy Wilson
Wendy Wilson (born October 16, 1969; Los Angeles, California) is an American singer and member of the pop singing trio Wilson Phillips. She is the daughter of Beach Boys founder Brian Wilson and his first wife Marilyn, who was a member of girl group The Honeys; and she is the younger sister of Carnie Wilson.
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Wilson Phillips
Wilson Phillips is an American vocal group consisting of Carnie Wilson, Wendy Wilson and Chynna Phillips.
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Beach Boys, The Filmography
- Ed Sullivan Presents: Rock 'N Roll Revolution (2011)
- Ed Sullivan's Rock and Roll Classics: The 60s (2009)
- The Wrecking Crew (2008)
- 79th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (2005)
- The Beach Boys: The Lost Concert (1998)
- The American Music Awards 20th Anniversary Special (1993)
- The Beach Boys Today (1993)
- The Beach Boys Today (1993)
- Two Rooms: A Tribute to Elton John & Bernie Taupin (1991)
- Christmas with the Stars: An International Earthquake Benefit (1989)
- The Beach Boys: 25 Years Together (1987)
- The Best of Bandstand: The Superstars (1987)
- The Beach Boys: An American Band (1985)
- 50th Presidential Inaugural Gala (1985)
- D.C. Beach Party (1984)
- Olympic Gala (1984)
- Cool Cats: 25 Years of Rock 'n' Roll Style (1983)
- The Beach Boys Twentieth Anniversary Special (1981)
- American Bandstand's 30th Anniversary Special (1981)
- The Beach Boys in Concert (1980)
- The 19th Annual Grammy Awards (1977)
- The Beach Boys: It's OK (1976)
- The Beach Boys: It's OK (1976)
- The Jack Benny Hour (1965)
- The Girls on the Beach (1965)
- The Monkey's Uncle (1965)
- The T.A.M.I. Show (1964)
- One Man's Challenge (1962)
- One Man's Challenge (1962)
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- Our Prayer ‘Dialog’ (9/19/66)
- Heroes and Villains, Part 1
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- Surf’s Up: Piano Demo (12/15/66)
- Vega-Tables: Fade (4/12/67)
- The Elements: Fire Session (11/28/66)
- Cool, Cool Water (version 2) (10/26/67–10/29/67)
- Good Vibrations Session Highlights
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- I Get Around
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- Make It Big
- Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town
- Frosty the Snowman
- White Christmas
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- I'll Be Home for Christmas
- Santa's Beard
- Child of Winter (Christmas Song)
- Merry Christmas, Baby
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- The Man with All the Toys
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- All Summer Long (new stereo mix)
- Catch a Wave
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- It's OK
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- Then I Kissed Her (new stereo mix)
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- Let Him Run Wild (new stereo mix)
- The Little Girl I Once Knew
- Wendy
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- Don't Back Down
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- She's Got Rhythm
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- Belles of Paris
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- Winds of Change
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- Angel Come Home
- Love Surrounds Me
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- Here Comes the Night
- Baby Blue
- Goin' South
- Shortenin' Bread
- You Need a Mess of Help to Stand Alone
- Here She Comes
- He Come Down
- Marcella
- Hold on Dear Brother
- Make It Good
- All This Is That
- Cuddle Up
- Rock and Roll Music
- It's OK
- Had to Phone Ya
- Chapel of Love
- Everyone's in Love With You
- Talk to Me
- That Same Song
- T.M. Song
- Palisades Park
- Susie Cincinnati
- A Casual Look
- Blueberry Hill
- Back Home
- In the Still of the Night (I'll Remember)
- Just Once in My Life
- Let Us Go on This Way
- Roller Skating Child
- Mona
- Johnny Carson
- Good Time
- Honkin' Down the Highway
- Ding Dang
- Solar System
- The Night Was So Young
- I'll Bet He's Nice
- Let's Put Our Hearts Together
- I Wanna Pick You Up
- Airplane
- Love Is a Woman
- I Get Around
- California Girls
- Fun, Fun, Fun
- Don't Worry Baby
- Help Me Rhonda
- Surfin' USA
- Wouldn't It Be Nice
- Sloop John B
- Surfin' Safari
- Ten Little Indians
- Surfer Girl
- God Only Knows
- Good Vibrations
- Little Deuce Coupe
- Little Honda
- Be True to Your School
- Heroes and Villains
- Darlin'
- In My Room
- When I Grow Up
- Dance, Dance, Dance
- Barbara Ann
- I Can Hear Music
- Cotton Fields
- Do You Wanna Dance?
- You're So Good to Me
- Then I Kissed Her
- Do It Again
- California Dreamin'
- Kokomo
- Barbara Ann
- Sloop John B.
- Cotton Fields
- 10 Little Indians
- Getcha Back
- California
- Rock and Roll Music
- It's OK
- Breakaway
- Tears in the Morning
- Friends
- Little Honda
- Dance, Dance, Dance
- The Little Girl I Once Knew (45 version)
- Add Some Music (to Your Day)
- Things We Did Last Summer
- Do You Wanna Dance?
- Spirit of America
- California Dreamin'
- The Surfer Moon
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Mike Love, Bruce Johnston & David Marks of the Beach Boys Salute NASCAR
Released 1998
Released 1998
- I Get Around
- Little Deuce Coupe
- Little Old Lady From Pasadena
- 409
- Shut Down
- Little GTO
- Ballad of Ole' Betsy
- Little Honda
- Fun, Fun, Fun
- Don't Worry Baby
- Surfin' USA
- Help Me Rhonda
- Surfin' Safari
- Fun, Fun, Fun
- Surfer Girl
- Barbara Ann
- I Get Around
- When I Grow Up (to Be a Man)
- California Girls
- In My Room
- Don't Worry Baby
- Good Vibrations
- Break Away
- Sloop John B
- God Only Knows
- Wouldn't It Be Nice
- Caroline, No
- Little Deuce Coupe
- Surfin' USA
- Little Deuce Coupe
- Fun, Fun, Fun
- I Get Around
- Do You Wanna Dance?
- California Girls
- Then I Kissed Her
- Barbara Ann
- Sloop John B
- Wouldn't It Be Nice
- God Only Knows
- Good Vibrations
- Heroes and Villains
- Darlin'
- I Can Hear Music
- Breakaway
- Cotton Fields
- Rock and Roll Music
- With a Little Help From My Friends
- Kokomo
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Christmas Sessions: The Alternative "Beach Boys Christmas" Album
Released 1997
Released 1997
- Little Saint Nick (vocal take)
- The Man With All the Toys (instrumental take)
- The Man With All the Toys (instrumental overdub previous take)
- Santa's Beard (instrumental try-outs 1-13)
- Santa's Beard (instrumental try-outs 14-15)
- Santa's Beard (instrumental try-outs 16-21)
- Santa's Beard (instrumental take)
- Santa's Beard (vocal overdub)
- Merry Christmas, Baby (instrumental takes 1-6)
- Merry Christmas, Baby (instrumental takes 7-9)
- Merry Christmas, Baby (instrumental take 10)
- Merry Christmas, Baby (vocal overdub)
- Christmas Day (instrumental takes 1-2)
- Christmas Day (instrumental takes 3-8)
- Christmas Day (try-out takes 12-18)
- Christmas Day (try-out takes 19-24)
- Christmas Day (instrumental take 1)
- Christmas Day (instrumental takes 2-6)
- Christmas Day (instrumental take 7)
- Christmas Day (overdub take 7)
- Christmas Day (vocal overdub take 7)
- Christmas Day (vocal overdub 1a take 7)
- Christmas Day (vocal overdub 3a take 7)
- Christmas Day (vocal overdub 4a take 7)
- Surfin' Safari
- 409
- Catch a Wave
- Surfin' U.S.A.
- Shut Down
- Surfer Girl
- Little Deuce Coupe
- Be True to Your School
- In My Room
- Fun, Fun, Fun
- The Warmth of the Sun
- I Get Around
- All Summer Long
- Don't Worry Baby
- When I Grow Up (to Be a Man)
- Let Him Run Wild
- Wendy
- Little Honda
- Dance, Dance, Dance
- Little Saint Nick
- Catch a Wave
- Hawaii
- The Rockin' Surfer
- Surfer Girl
- Surfin' Safari
- Fun, Fun, Fun
- Boogie Woodie
- The Warmth of the Sun
- California Girls
- South Bay Surfer
- All Summer Long
- Surfin'
- The Girls on the Beach
- The Surfer Moon
- Surfin' USA
- Little Deuce Coupe
- Surfin' U.S.A.
- Fun, Fun, Fun
- I Get Around
- Surfer Girl
- Don't Worry Baby
- When I Grow Up (to Be a Man)
- Dance, Dance, Dance
- Help Me Rhonda
- California Girls
- Barbara Ann
- Sloop John B
- Wouldn't It Be Nice
- God Only Knows
- Good Vibrations
- Darlin'
- Friends
- Surfin' Safari
- Little Deuce Coupe
- Do It Again
- Do You Wanna Dance?
- Breakaway
- Caroline, No
- Disney Girls
- You're So Good to Me
- California Dreaming
- I Can Hear Music
- Cotton Fields
- In My Room
- Lady Lynda
- Kokomo
- Heroes and Villains
- Darlin'
- Wild Honey
- Let the Wind Blow
- Can't Wait Too Long
- Cool Cool Water
- Meant for You
- Friends
- Little Bird
- Busy Doin' Nothin'
- Do It Again
- I Can Hear Music
- I Went to Sleep
- Time to Get Alone
- Breakaway
- Cotton Fields (The Cotton Song)
- San Miguel
- Games Two Can Play
- I Just Got My Pay
- This Whole World
- Add Some Music
- Forever
- Our Sweet Love
- H.E.L.P. Is on the Way
- 4th of July
- Long Promised Road
- Disney Girls
- Surf's Up
- 'Til I Die
- Good Vibrations
- I Get Around
- Help Me Rhonda
- Little Deuce Coupe
- Surfer Girl
- Do It Again
- Sloop John B
- Darlin'
- When I Grow Up (to Be a Man)
- Don't Worry Baby
- Wild Honey
- Wouldn't It Be Nice
- God Only Knows
- Break Away
- Surfin' Safari
- Fun Fun Fun
- Be True to Your School
- You're So Good to Me
- California Girls
- Dance Dance Dance
- Wendy
- The Little Girl I Once Knew
- Hawaii
- Heroes and Villains
- Barbara Ann
- Sloop John B.
- Cotton Fields
- I Can Hear Music
- Dance, Dance, Dance
- Surfin' USA
- Surfer Girl
- Good Vibrations
- Little Honda
- Help Me, Rhonda
- Then I Kissed Her
- Fun, Fun, Fun
- Do It Again
- California Girls
- God Only Knows
- I Get Around
- Surfin' Safari
- What Is a Young Girl Made Of
- Johnny B. Goode
- Fun, Fun, Fun
- The Little Old Lady From Pasadena
- Let's Go Trippin'
- The Wanderer
- I Get Around
- Hawaii
- Long Tall Texan
- Papa-Oom-Mon-Wow
- Graduation Day
- Monster Mash
- In My Room
- Surfer's Stomp
- Surfer Girl
- Surfin' Safari
- Surfin' USA
- Surfer Girl
- 409
- Fun, Fun, Fun
- I Get Around
- Dance, Dance, Dance
- When I Grow Up (To Be a Man)
- Help Me Rhonda
- California Girls
- Barbara Ann
- Sloop John B
- Wouldn't It Be Nice
- God Only Knows
- Good Vibrations
- Heroes and Villains
- Sloop John B
- Surfin' Safari
- Little Deuce Coupe
- In My Room
- Help Me Rhonda
- I Get Around
- Do You Wanna Dance?
- Surfin' USA
- Good Vibrations
- Barbara-Ann
- Then I Kissed Her
- Fun Fun Fun
- California Girls
- Wouldn't It Be Nice
- Do It Again
- Girls on the Beach
- I Can Hear Music
- Break Away
- Getcha Back
- It's Gettin' Late
- Crack at Your Love
- Maybe I Don't Know
- She Believes in Love Again
- California Calling
- Passing Friend
- I'm So Lonely
- Where I Belong
- I Do Love You
- It's Just a Matter of Time
- Male Ego
- With a Little Help From My Friends
- The Letter
- I Was Made to Love Her
- You're Welcome
- The Lord's Prayer
- Bluebirds Over the Mountain
- Celebrate the News
- Good Vibrations
- Land Ahoy
- In My Room (German version)
- Cotton Fields
- All I Want to Do
- Auld Lang Syne
- Darlin'
- Wouldn't It Be Nice
- Sloop John B
- California Girls
- Do It Again
- Wake the World
- Aren't You Glad
- Bluebirds Over the Mountain
- Their Hearts Were Full of Spring
- Good Vibrations
- God Only Knows
- Barbara Ann
- Fun, Fun, Fun
- Little Deuce Coupe
- Long, Tall Texan
- In My Room
- The Monster Mash
- Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow
- The Little Old Lady From Pasadena
- Graduation Day
- I Get Around
- Surfin' Safari
- Surfer Girl
- Catch a Wave
- The Warmth of the Sun
- Surfin' U.S.A.
- Be True to Your School
- Little Deuce Coupe
- In My Room
- Shut Down
- Fun, Fun, Fun
- I Get Around
- The Girls on the Beach
- Wendy
- Let Him Run Wild
- Don't Worry Baby
- California Girls
- Girl Don't Tell Me
- Help Me, Rhonda
- You're So Good to Me
- All Summer Long
- Good Vibrations
- Darlin'
- Wouldn't It Be Nice
- Sloop John B
- California Girls
- Do It Again
- Wake the World
- Aren't You Glad
- Bluebirds Over the Mountain
- Their Hearts Were Full of Spring
- Good Vibrations
- God Only Knows
- Barbara Ann
- Balboa Blues
- Barbie
- Karate
- Luau
- Surfer Girl
- Surfer's Stomp
- Surfin'
- Surfin' Safari
- What Is a Young Girl Made Of
- Wipe Out
- Balboa Blues
- Barbie
- Karate
- Luau
- Surfer Girl
- Surfer's Stomp
- Surfin'
- Surfin' Safari
- What Is a Young Girl Made Of
- Wipe Out
- Beach Boys Medley
- Surfin' USA
- Hawaii
- Help Me Rhonda
- Do It Again
- Wouldn't It Be Nice
- Good Vibrations
- You're So Good to Me
- Heroes and Villains
- Then I Kissed Her
- Cottonfields
- I Can Hear Music
- I Get Around
- When I Grow Up (to Be a Man)
- Surfer Girl
- Wild Honey
- Fun, Fun, Fun
- Barbara-Ann
- God Only Knows
- Dance, Dance, Dance
- Sloop John B
- Beach Boys Ballads
- God Only Knows
- California Girls
- Surfer Girl
- You're So Good to Me
- The Letter
- Help Me Rhonda
- Heroes and Villains
- Their Hearts Were Full of Spring
- Barbara Ann
- When I Grow Up
- Long, Tall Texan
- Please Let Me Wonder
- 409
- Let Him Run Wild
- Don't Worry Baby
- Surfin' Safari
- Little Saint Nick
- California Girls
- Help Me, Rhonda
- I Get Around
- Wouldn't It Be Nice
- Sail on Sailor
- Funky Pretty
- Marcella
- California
- We Got Love
- Little Deuce Coupe
- Trader
- All This Is That
- Feel Flows
- Surfer Girl
- God Only Knows
- Heroes and Villains
- Don't Worry Baby
- Sloop John B
- Help Me, Rhonda
- I Get Around
- Good Vibrations
- California Girls (feat. Elton John & Paul Simon)
- Barbara Ann (feat. Elton John & Paul Simon)
- Surfin' U.S.A. (feat. Elton John & Paul Simon)
- Heroes and Villains
- Do It Again
- Cottonfields
- Help Me Rhonda
- Wouldn't It Be Nice
- Your Song
- Student Demonstration Time
- Good Vibrations
- California Girls
- I Get Around
- It's About Time
- Do It Again (1972: London)
- Wild Honey (feat. Blondie Chaplin) (1972: London)
- Help Me Rhonda (feat. Elton John) (1972: London)
- Surfin' U.S.A.
- Surfin' Safari
- Surfer Girl
- 409
- Fun, Fun, Fun
- I Get Around
- Dance Dance Dance
- When I Grow Up
- Help Me, Rhonda
- California Girls
- Barbara Ann
- Sloop John B
- Be True to Your School
- Don't Worry Baby
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The Beach Boys Greatest Hits Sizzle Reel 2012
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:55
- Published: 10 Sep 2012
- Updated: 12 Sep 2012
The Beach Boys Greatest Hits Available as a single or 2CD set. US & Canada: October 9, 2012 Rest of World: September 24, 2012 Single disc includes 20 all time greatest hits 2CD set in a lift top box is packed with 50 of the Beach Boys greatest hits + 7 collectible postcards and expanded booklet, celebrating 50 years! Order yours now!; www.amazon.com www.thebeachboys.com
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Beach boys-Surfin USA
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- Duration: 2:28
- Published: 29 Aug 2006
- Updated: 12 Sep 2012
movie out of surfing clips The Song is owned by the beach boys
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The Beach Boys - Wouldn't it be nice
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- Duration: 2:18
- Published: 26 Feb 2007
- Updated: 12 Sep 2012
classic song, original video...very good quality (for a 60's video)....enjoy
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The Beach Boys - God Only Knows (previous version)
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- Duration: 2:42
- Published: 14 Apr 2007
- Updated: 12 Sep 2012
Brian Wilson originally intended to sing lead vocal on 'God Only Knows' but in the end he sacrificed the lead vocal to his brother Carl: "Well, I thought I was gonna do it. As the song progressed, I said, 'Hey, I feel kind of natural doing this.' But when we completed creating the song, I said my brother Carl will probably be able to impart the message better than I could, so I sacrificed that one. But he had a good time singing it."
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Beach Boys - Good Vibrations
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- Duration: 3:37
- Published: 03 Jan 2009
- Updated: 12 Sep 2012
Beach Boys - Good Vibrations
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Beach Boys - I Get Around
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- Duration: 2:13
- Published: 13 Mar 2007
- Updated: 12 Sep 2012
beach boys i get around from an american ban
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The Beach Boys - That's Why God Made the Radio (Lyric Video)
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- Duration: 3:19
- Published: 25 Apr 2012
- Updated: 11 Sep 2012
Official Lyric video for The Beach Boys "That's Why God Made the Radio". Buy the new single on iTunes: bit.ly (P) (C) 2012 Capitol Records, LLC. All rights reserved. Unauthorized reproduction is a violation of applicable laws. Manufactured by Capitol Records, LLC, 1750 North Vine Street, Hollywood, CA 90028.
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The Beach Boys - Don't Worry Baby
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- Duration: 2:44
- Published: 14 Oct 2006
- Updated: 11 Sep 2012
Video featuring clips from the actual song, among clips from other Beach Boys songs.
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Beach Boys - California Dreaming
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- Duration: 3:07
- Published: 19 Mar 2008
- Updated: 12 Sep 2012
Beach Boys - California Dreaming
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The Beach Boys-Don't Worry Baby
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- Duration: 2:49
- Published: 07 Feb 2009
- Updated: 12 Sep 2012
The Beach Boys singing Don't Worry Baby released on May 11th, 1964
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The Beach Boys - Single Sizzle Reel
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- Duration: 2:47
- Published: 23 Apr 2012
- Updated: 07 Sep 2012
Official Sizzler Reel for The Beach Boys new single "That's Why God Made The Radio". Buy the new single on iTunes: bit.ly (P) (C) 2012 Capitol Records, LLC. All rights reserved. Unauthorized reproduction is a violation of applicable laws. Manufactured by Capitol Records, LLC, 1750 North Vine Street, Hollywood, CA 90028.
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The beach boys -good vibrations
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- Duration: 4:55
- Published: 16 Dec 2006
- Updated: 12 Sep 2012
Good vibrations from good vibrations tour 1976 with birthday party of brian with paul and linda Mccartney
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The Beach Boys Do It Again - 50th Anniversary Edition
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- Duration: 2:57
- Published: 14 Feb 2012
- Updated: 12 Sep 2012
The Beach Boys reunite at Capitol Studios in advance of their 50th Anniversary world tour, including Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston and David Marks.For more info visit www.TheBeachBoys.com
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The Beach Boys - God Only Knows
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- Duration: 2:53
- Published: 25 May 2008
- Updated: 12 Sep 2012
The eighth track from the Beach Boys album "Pet Sounds" from 1966.
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The Beach Boys - That's Why God Made The Radio
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- Duration: 3:24
- Published: 08 Jun 2012
- Updated: 12 Sep 2012
Music video by The Beach Boys performing That's Why God Made The Radio. (P) (C) 2012 Brother Records, Inc., under exclusive license to Capitol Records, LLC. All rights reserved. Unauthorized reproduction is a violation of applicable laws. Manufactured by Capitol Records, 150 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10011.
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The Beach Boys: QVC Performance - May 16th, 2012
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- Duration: 58:49
- Published: 17 May 2012
- Updated: 11 Sep 2012
00:23 - Do It Again 06:57 - Catch A Wave 12:39 - Surfin' Safari 19:12 - Surfer Girl 25:46 - God Only Knows 32:03 - That's Why God Made The Radio 40:19 - Dance Dance Dance 44:22 - Little Honda 49:44 - California Girls 55:55 - Wouldn't It Be Nice
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CBS Sunday Morning - The Beach Boys 50th Anniversary
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- Duration: 10:48
- Published: 29 Apr 2012
- Updated: 12 Sep 2012
The Beach Boys - A Signature Harmony
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- Duration: 2:49
- Published: 14 Jun 2012
- Updated: 04 Sep 2012
Music video by The Beach Boys performing A Signature Harmony. (P) (C) 2012 Brother Records, Inc., under exclusive license to Capitol Records, LLC. All rights reserved. Unauthorized reproduction is a violation of applicable laws. Manufactured by Capitol Records, 150 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10011.
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The TAMI Show: Beach Boys - "I Get Around"
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- Duration: 2:08
- Published: 23 Jan 2010
- Updated: 12 Sep 2012
The Beach Boys performing "I Get Around" live on stage for The TAMI Show. More info: www.shoutfactory.com
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The Beach Boys - Old Friends Together
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- Duration: 4:09
- Published: 30 Jun 2012
- Updated: 06 Sep 2012
Music video by The Beach Boys performing Old Friends Together. (P) (C) 2012 Brother Records, Inc., under exclusive license to Capitol Records, LLC. All rights reserved. Unauthorized reproduction is a violation of applicable laws. Manufactured by Capitol Records, 150 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10011.
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BEACH BOYS California Girls 1965
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- Duration: 6:22
- Published: 10 Apr 2011
- Updated: 12 Sep 2012
Jack Benny and Bob Hope get Hip with the Beach Boys
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Google Play: The Beach Boys Interview
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- Duration: 39:34
- Published: 06 Jun 2012
- Updated: 11 Sep 2012
The five surviving Beach Boys stopped by Google recently for a funny and touching chat about their music, their influences, and why they've gotten back together for the first time in decades. Get their new record That's Why God Made The Radio on Google Play: goo.gl
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The Beach Boys - California Girls
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- Duration: 2:50
- Published: 03 Jul 2011
- Updated: 11 Sep 2012
The Beach Boys - California Girls (1965)
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| The Beach Boys | |
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 The Beach Boys in 1964 From left to right: Dennis Wilson, Mike Love, Brian Wilson, Carl Wilson, Al Jardine |
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| Background information | |
| Origin | Hawthorne, California, United States |
| Genres | Rock, pop, surf rock, psychedelic rock |
| Years active | 1961–present |
| Labels | Capitol, Brother, Reprise, Caribou, CBS |
| Associated acts | The Honeys |
| Website | thebeachboys.com |
| Members | |
| Mike Love Brian Wilson Al Jardine David Marks Bruce Johnston |
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| Past members | |
| Dennis Wilson Carl Wilson Glen Campbell Ricky Fataar Blondie Chaplin |
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The Beach Boys are an American rock band, formed in 1961 in Hawthorne, California. The group was initially composed of brothers Brian, Dennis and Carl Wilson, their cousin Mike Love, and friend Al Jardine. They were managed early on by the Wilsons' father, Murry. The band's leader, composer, arranger and producer Brian Wilson was responsible for writing most of the band's early singles and albums. After signing with Capitol Records in mid-1962, Wilson wrote or co-wrote more than two dozen Top 40 hits including "Surfin' Safari", "Surfin' USA", "Surfer Girl", "Little Deuce Coupe", "Be True to Your School", "In My Room", "Fun, Fun, Fun", "I Get Around", "Dance Dance Dance", "Help Me Rhonda" and "California Girls". These songs and their accompanying albums were internationally popular, making The Beach Boys one of the biggest acts of their time.[1] The band's early music gained popularity across the United States for its close vocal harmonies and lyrics reflecting a Southern California youth culture of surfing, cars, and romance. By the mid-1960s, Brian's growing creative ambition and songwriting ability would dominate the group's musical direction. The primarily Brian-composed Pet Sounds album and "Good Vibrations" single (both released in 1966) featured a complex, intricate and multi-layered sound.
However, Brian would soon lose control of the band because of problems with his mental health and substance abuse. This led to the cancellation of the anticipated follow up to Pet Sounds, Smile. Subsequently, although they released a number of highly artistic albums (in various musical styles, with different line-ups) in ensuing years, particularly in the years 1967–1973, the group never managed to reclaim its mid-1960s peak when The Beach Boys challenged The Beatles both in terms of commercial and critical appeal. Since the 1980s, there has been much legal wrangling among the group members over royalties, songwriting credits, and use of the band's name. Following the release of their studio album Stars and Stripes Vol. 1 in 1996, a number of versions of the band, each fronted by a surviving member of the original quintet (Dennis and Carl Wilson died in 1983 and 1998, respectively), continued to tour until the announcement in late 2011 of a full-scale reunion—including Brian—for 2012 along with the band's twenty-ninth studio album That's Why God Made the Radio which is set for release on June 5, 2012.
The Beach Boys have often been called "America's Band",[2] and Allmusic has stated that "the band's unerring ability... made them America's first, best rock band."[3] The group has had 36 US Top 40 hits (the most by an American rock band) and 56 Hot 100 hits, including four number-one singles.[3] Rolling Stone magazine listed The Beach Boys at number 12 on their 2004 list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time," the highest ranking for an American rock band.[4] The group is also one of America's best-selling acts, having sold over 100 million albums worldwide since their debut in 1961.[citation needed] Brian Wilson, Carl Wilson, Dennis Wilson, Mike Love, and Al Jardine were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988. Since the 1990s many of the group's later albums and singles have been re-evaluated by critics and fans with albums such as Sunflower, Surf's Up and the finally released Smile albums being seen as worthy successors to their earlier output. In particular, Brian Wilson has since become heralded as a musical genius along the lines of Lennon and McCartney.
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History[link]
Formative years[link]
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A Rickenbacker 360 12-string guitar similar to the one used by Carl Wilson in the early and mid sixties.
At age 16, Brian Wilson shared a bedroom with his brothers, Dennis and Carl, in their family home in Hawthorne. He watched his father, Murry Wilson, play piano and listened intently to the harmonies of vocal groups like The Four Freshmen. One night he taught his brothers a song called "Ivory Tower" and how to sing the background harmonies. "We practiced night after night, singing softly hoping we wouldn't wake our Dad."[5] For his 16th birthday, Brian was given a reel-to-reel tape recorder. He learned how to overdub, using his vocals and those of Carl and their mother. He would play piano and later added Carl playing the Rickenbacker guitar he got as a Christmas present.[6]
Soon Brian was avidly listening to Johnny Otis on his KFOX radio show, a favorite station of Carl's. Inspired by the simple structure and vocals of the rhythm and blues songs he heard, he changed his piano-playing style and started writing songs. His enthusiasm interfered with his music studies at school. He failed to complete a twelfth-grade piano sonata, but did submit an original composition, called "Surfin'".[7]
Family gatherings brought the Wilsons in contact with cousin Mike Love. Brian taught Love's sister Maureen and a friend harmonies. Later, Brian, Mike Love and two friends performed at Hawthorne High School, drawing tremendous applause for their version of doo-wop group The Olympics' "Hully Gully".[8] Brian also knew Al Jardine, a high school classmate, who had already played guitar in a folk group called The Islanders. One day, on the spur of the moment, they asked a couple of football players in the school training room to learn harmony parts, but it wasn't a success—the bass singer was flat.[9]
Brian suggested to Jardine that they team up with his cousin and brother Carl. It was at these sessions, held in Brian's bedroom, that "the Beach Boys sound" began to form. Brian says: "Everyone contributed something. Carl kept us hip to the latest tunes, Al taught us his repertoire of folk songs, and Dennis, though he didn't [then] play anything, added a combustible spark just by his presence." Love encouraged Brian to write songs and gave the fledgling band its name: The Pendletones, derived from the Pendleton woolen shirts popular at the time. In their earliest performances, the band wore the heavy wool jacket-like shirts, which were favored by surfers in the South Bay. Although surfing motifs were very prominent in their early songs, Dennis was the only band-member who surfed.[10] He suggested that his brothers compose some songs celebrating his hobby and the lifestyle which had developed around it in Southern California.[11]
Jardine and a singer friend, Gary Winfrey, went to Brian's to see if he could help out with a version of a folk song they wanted to record—"Sloop John B". In Brian's absence, the two spoke with Murry, a music industry veteran of modest success. In September 1961, Murry arranged for The Pendletones to meet publishers Hite and Dorinda Morgan at Stereo Masters in Hollywood.[12] The group performed a slower ballad, "Their Hearts Were Full of Spring", but failed to impress the Morgans. After an awkward pause, Dennis mentioned they had an original song, "Surfin'". Brian was taken aback—he had not finished writing the song—but Hite Morgan was interested and asked them to call back when the song was complete.[11]
With help from Love, Brian finished the song and the group rented guitars, drums, amplifiers and microphones. They practiced for three days while the Wilsons' parents were on a short vacation. When they auditioned again a few days later, Hite Morgan declared: "That's a smash!"[13] In October, The Pendletones recorded twelve takes of "Surfin'" in the Morgans' cramped offices. A small number of singles were pressed. When the boys eagerly unpacked the first box of singles, on the Candix Records label, they were shocked to see their band name changed to "Beach Boys". Murry Wilson, now intimately involved with the band's fortunes, called the Morgans. Apparently a young promotion worker, Russ Regan, made the change to more obviously tie the group in with other surf bands of the time. The limited budget meant the labels could not be reprinted.[14]
Early career[link]
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An excerpt from the Brian Wilson and Mike Love song "I Get Around", demonstrating Mike Love's lead vocals and Carl Wilson's surf-rock-styled guitar solo.
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Released November 1961, "Surfin'" was soon aired on KFWB and KDAY, two of Los Angeles' most influential radio stations. It was a hit on the West Coast, and peaked at number 75 on the national pop charts. Murry Wilson told the boys he did not like "Surfin'". However, according to Brian, "he smelled money to be made and jumped on the promotional bandwagon, calling every radio station..."[15] By now the de-facto manager of The Beach Boys, Murry got the group's first paying gig on New Year's Eve, 1961, at the Ritchie Valens Memorial Dance in Long Beach, headlined by Ike & Tina Turner. Brian recalls how he wondered what they were doing there; "five clean-cut, unworldly white boys from a conservative white suburb, in an auditorium full of black kids". Brian describes the night as an "education"—he knew afterwards that success was all about "R&B, rock and roll, and money". The boys went home with $50 apiece.[16]
In February 1962, Jardine left the band to continue his college studies.[16] David Marks, a thirteen-year-old neighbour and friend of Carl and Dennis who had been playing electric guitar for years with Carl, replaced him. (Jardine, at Brian's request, rejoined the band in July 1963).[17] In 1962, The Beach Boys began wearing blue/gray-striped button-down shirts tucked into white pants as their touring "uniforms", the band's signature look through to 1966.[18]
Though Murry effectively seized managerial control of the band without consultation, Brian acknowledges that he "deserves credit for getting us off the ground... he hounded us mercilessly... [but] also worked hard himself". He was the first to stress the importance of having a follow-up hit.[19] The band duly recorded four more originals, on June 13 at Western Studios, Los Angeles, including "Surfer Girl", "409" and "Surfin' Safari". The session ended on a bitter note, however: Murry Wilson unsuccessfully suggested and then demanded that The Beach Boys record some of his own songs, saying "My songs are better than yours."[20]
On July 16, on the strength of the June demo session, The Beach Boys were signed to Capitol Records. By November, their first album was ready—Surfin' Safari.[21] Their song output continued along the same commercial line, focusing on California youth lifestyle.[10] The early Beach Boys’ hits helped raise both the profile of the state of California and of surfing. The group also celebrated the Golden State’s obsession with hot-rod racing ("Shut Down", "409" and "Little Deuce Coupe") and the pursuit of happiness by carefree teens ("Be True to Your School", "Fun, Fun, Fun" and "I Get Around").[22]
Apart from Murry Wilson and the close vocal harmonies of Brian's favorite groups, early inspiration came from the driving rock-and-roll sound of Chuck Berry and Phil Spector's Wall of Sound production.[23][24] Musically, two of their early songs were influenced by others: "Surfer Girl" shares its rhythmic melody with "When You Wish Upon a Star", while "Surfin' USA" is a variation of Berry's "Sweet Little Sixteen".[25] A lawsuit officially granted Berry writing credit and royalties from the record.[26] The Beach Boys' early hits made them major pop stars in the United States, the United Kingdom, and other countries, with sixteen hit singles in 1962–1965. However, with the British Invasion in 1964, some British groups, in particular The Beatles, eclipsed their success.
Brian Wilson's innovations and personal difficulties[link]
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This single version of the song is a slightly quicker rocker which features Al Jardine on lead vocals and a guitar solo performed by Carl Wilson.
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By 1964, the stress of road travel, composing, producing and maintaining a high level of creativity became too much to bear for Brian Wilson. In December that year, while on a flight to Houston, Brian suffered an anxiety attack and left the tour. Shortly afterward, he announced his withdrawal from touring to concentrate entirely on songwriting and record production. This wasn't the first time Brian had stopped touring. In 1963, when Jardine returned, Brian left the road; but when Marks quit, Brian had to return in his place. For the rest of 1964 and into 1965, Glen Campbell served as Wilson's replacement in concert, until his own career success required him to leave the group.[27] Bruce Johnston was asked to locate a replacement for Campbell; having failed to find one, Johnston himself subsequently became a full-time member of the band, first replacing Wilson on the road and later contributing his own talents in the studio beginning with the sessions for "California Girls".[28]
Jan and Dean, close friends with the band and their opening act in 1963 and 1964, encouraged Brian to use session musicians in the studio. This, along with Brian's withdrawal from touring, permitted him to expand his role as a producer. Wilson also wrote "Surf City" for the Jan & Dean opening act. Their recording hit number one on the US charts in the summer of 1963, a development that pleased Brian but angered Murry, who felt his son had "given away" what should have been the Beach Boys' first chart-topper. A year later, The Beach Boys would notch their first number-one single with "I Get Around."
Soon, traces of Brian Wilson's increasing studio productivity and innovation were noticeable: "Drive-In", an album track from All Summer Long (1964) features bars of silence between two verses while "Denny's Drums", the last track on Shut Down, Vol. II (1964), is a two-minute drum solo.[29] As Wilson's musical efforts became more ambitious, the group relied more on nimble session players, on tracks such as "I Get Around" and "When I Grow Up (To Be a Man)". "Help Me, Rhonda" became the band's second number-one single in the spring of 1965.
1965 led to greater experimentation behind the soundboard with Wilson. The album Today! featured guitar orientated songs such as "Dance, Dance, Dance", "Do You Wanna Dance?", "Don't Hurt My Little Sister" and "Good To My Baby", as well as volume experiments and increased lyrical maturity with "Please Let Me Wonder" and "She Knows Me Too Well".[30][31] Side A of the album was devoted to upbeat tunes, with darker and melancholic ballads on the reverse side.[32] This pattern was also evident on some of the band's singles; songs such as "Kiss Me, Baby" released on the B-side to "Help Me, Rhonda" and "Let Him Run Wild" on the B-side to "California Girls", each featured Brian Wilson on lead vocals, and foreshadowed the youthful angst that would later pervade Wilson's upcoming efforts.
In November 1965, the group followed up their number-three summer smash "California Girls" with another top 20 single, "The Little Girl I Once Knew". It is considered to be the band's most experimental statement thus far, using silence as a pre-chorus, clashing keyboards, moody brass, and vocal tics. Perhaps too extreme an arrangement to go much higher than its modest number 20 peak, it was only the band's second single not to reach the top 10 since their 1962 breakthrough. In December they would score an unexpected number two hit (number three in the UK) with the single "Barbara Ann", which Capitol released as a single without input from any of The Beach Boys. A cover of a 1961 song by The Regents, it became one of The Beach Boys' most recognized hits over the years.
The peak years and psychedelia[link]
During the mid sixties, The Beach Boys left surfing behind and began to write surreal, melodramatic and revolutionary songs. The group was exploring similar musical tastes to other contemporaneous acts, such as The Byrds and The Yardbirds.[34][35] During their psychedelic period, The Beach Boys started to use unconventional instruments and elaborate layers of vocal harmonies on their groundbreaking record Pet Sounds.[36][37] A heralding album in the emerging psychedelic rock style, Pet Sounds has been championed and emulated for its experimental and revolutionary baroque instrumentation.[38][39] In the same year, they released "Good Vibrations", one of their greatest and most well known songs.[40] The song made use of a Tannerin (an easier-to-manipulate version of a Theremin) which helped them claim a new hippie audience.[41][42] However, as with Brian Jones and Syd Barrett, Brian Wilson's use of psychedelic drugs, especially LSD, led to a nervous breakdown.[43] This resulted in the shelving of the intended follow up to Pet Sounds, Smile (the project would finally emerge in 2004 and 2011).[44]
[edit] Pet Sounds
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God Only Knows broke new ground in many ways. It was one of the first commercial songs to use the word 'God' in its title. The song was also far more technically sophisticated than anything the Beach Boys, or arguably any group, had ever attempted before.
Wouldn't It Be Nice is one of the most well known songs in the group's canon. Unlike the majority of songs on Pet Sounds, "Wouldn't It Be Nice" is a whimsical track; but still manages to incorporate a mature and poignant sound.
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In December 1965, The Beatles released Rubber Soul, an album which enthralled Brian Wilson. Until then, each Beach Boys album (like most rock albums) contained a few "filler tracks" like cover songs or even stitched-together comedy bits. Wilson found Rubber Soul filled with all-original songs and, more importantly, all good ones, none of them filler. Inspired, he rushed to his wife and proclaimed, "Marilyn, I'm gonna make the greatest album! The greatest rock album ever made!"[45]
The result was Pet Sounds (1966), where Wilson's growing mastery of studio recording and his increasingly sophisticated songs and complex arrangements would reach a creative peak. Influenced by psychedelic drugs, Brian Wilson turned his attention inward and probed his deep-seated self-doubts and emotional longings.[38] The Beach Boys didn't look at the problems in the world around them, unlike other psychedelic rock groups.[38] The album's meticulously layered harmonies and inventive instrumentation (performed by the cream of Los Angeles session musicians known as The Wrecking Crew) set a new standard for pop and rock music.[46] It remains one of the most evocative releases of the decade, with distinctive strains of lushness, melancholy, and nostalgia for youth. The tracks "Wouldn't It Be Nice" and "God Only Knows" showcased Wilson's growing mastery as a composer, arranger, and producer,[10] as did "Caroline, No", which was issued as a Brian Wilson solo single, the only time he was credited as a solo artist during the early Capitol years. The album also included two sophisticated instrumental tracks, the quiet and wistful "Let's Go Away for Awhile" and the brittle brassy surf of the title track, "Pet Sounds". Despite the critical praise it received, Pet Sounds was indifferently promoted by Capitol, and failed to become the major hit Wilson had hoped it would be.[47] Its failure to gain wider recognition hurt him deeply.[48] Although it only reached number 10 in the US, it was a much better seller in the UK.
Because of his withdrawal from touring, Wilson was able to complete almost all the backing tracks for the album while The Beach Boys were on tour in Japan. They returned to find a substantially complete album, requiring only their vocals to finish it off. There was some resistance from within the band to this new direction. Lead singer Mike Love is reported to have been strongly opposed to it, calling it "Brian's ego music", and warning the composer not to "fuck with the formula".[49] Other group members also fretted that the band would lose its core audience if they changed their successful musical blueprint. Another likely factor in Love's antipathy to Pet Sounds was that Wilson worked extensively on it with outside lyricist Tony Asher rather than with Love himself, who had co-written the lyrics for, and sung lead on, many of their early hits.[50]
[edit] Good Vibrations
"With the 1966 Pet Sounds album, and then songs like "Good Vibrations" and "Heroes and Villains", Wilson had become America's equivalent of The Beatles with his ability to expand the limits of popular taste."
Robin Denselow writing for The Guardian, September 1976[51]
Seeking to expand on the advances made on Pet Sounds, Wilson began an even more ambitious project, originally dubbed Dumb Angel; in due course the project would become known as Smile.[52] Its first fruit was "Good Vibrations", which Brian described as a "pocket symphony".[38] The song became the Beach Boys' biggest hit to date and a US and UK number-one single in 1966; many critics consider it to be one of the best rock singles of all time. It was one of the most complex pop productions ever undertaken, and was reputed to have been the most expensive American single ever recorded at that time. Costing a reported $16,000, more than most albums, sessions for the song stretched over several months in at least three major studios. According to Wilson, the electro-theremin work itself cost $15,000.[53]
In contrast to his work on Pet Sounds, Wilson adopted a modular approach to "Good Vibrations": he broke the song into sections and taped multiple versions of each at different studios to take advantage of the different sound and ambience of each facility.[54] He then assembled his favorite sections into a master backing track and added vocals. The song's innovative instrumentation included drums, Hammond organ, piano, tack piano, two basses, guitars, electro-theremin, harmonica, and cello. The group members recall the "Good Vibrations" vocal sessions as among the most demanding of their career.[48]
[edit] Smile
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Brian Wilson during the Pet Sounds and Smile sessions wearing his short-lived glasses.
While putting the finishing touches on Pet Sounds, and just beginning work on "Good Vibrations", Brian Wilson met musician and songwriter Van Dyke Parks.[55] In mid-1966, Brian and Parks began an intense collaboration that resulted in a suite of challenging new songs for the Beach Boys' next album, which was eventually named Smile.[56] Using the same techniques as on "Good Vibrations", recording began in August 1966 and carried on into early 1967. Although the structure of the album and the exact running order of the songs have been the subjects of endless speculation, it is known that Wilson and Parks intended Smile to be a continuous suite of songs that were linked both thematically and musically, with the main songs being linked together by small vocal pieces and instrumental segments that elaborated upon the musical themes of the major songs.
But some of the other Beach Boys found the new music too difficult and too far removed from their established style.[citation needed] Another serious concern was that the new music was simply not feasible for live performance by the current Beach Boys lineup. Love was opposed to most of Parks' lyrics; he has also since stated that he was deeply concerned about Wilson's escalating drug intake.[citation needed] The problems came to a head during the recording of "Cabin Essence", when Love asked that Parks explain the meaning of the closing refrain of the song, "Over and over the crow cries uncover the cornfield." After a heated debate, Parks walked out of the session, and shortly thereafter his partnership with Wilson came to an end.
Many factors combined to put intense pressure on Brian Wilson as Smile neared completion: his own mental instability, the pressure to create against fierce internal opposition to his new music, the relatively unenthusiastic public response to Pet Sounds, Carl Wilson's draft resistance, and a major dispute with Capitol Records. Further, Wilson's reliance on both prescription and illegal drugs, amphetamines in particular, only exacerbated his underlying mental health problems. In May 1967, Smile was shelved, and over the next thirty years, the legends surrounding Smile grew until it became the most famous unreleased album in the history of popular music.[57]
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One of the Beach Boys' defining songs and their most well known psychedelic track. It was The Beach Boys' third U.S. number-one hit.
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However, some of the tracks were salvaged and re-recorded at Brian's new home studio, albeit in drastically scaled-down versions. These were released, along with the single version of "Good Vibrations" and a re-recorded "Heroes and Villains", on the 1967 LP Smiley Smile. The album proved to be a critical and commercial disaster for the group, peaking at only number 41 in the US.[58] By this time The Beach Boys' management (Nick Grillo and David Anderle) had created the band's own record label, Brother. One of the first labels to be owned by a rock group, the purpose of Brother Records was for releases by Beach Boys side projects, and an invitation for new talent. The output of the label, however, was limited to Smiley Smile and two resulting singles from the album; the failure of "Gettin' Hungry" made the band shelve the Brother label until 1970. Compounding these setbacks, the group's public image took another hit following their withdrawal from the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival.
Despite the cancellation of Smile, interest in the work remained high and versions of several major tracks—including "Our Prayer", "Cabin Essence", "Cool, Cool Water", and "Surf's Up"—continued to trickle out. Many were assembled by Carl Wilson over the next few years and included on later albums. The band was still expecting to complete and release Smile as late as 1972, before it became clear that Brian had been the only one who could have made sense out of the endless fragments that were recorded. The full Smile project did not surface until the 2000s, when Wilson reunited with Parks to complete its writing. Subsequently, Wilson released the re-recorded Smile in 2004 as a solo album.[44]
Mid-career changes[link]
The 1967 album Wild Honey, regarded by some as another classic, features songs written by Wilson and Love, including the hit "Darlin'" and a rendition of Stevie Wonder's "I Was Made to Love Her". The album fared better than its predecessor in the charts, reaching number 24 in the US. The following album Friends (1968) was partly influenced by the group's (especially Love's) adoption of the practice of Transcendental Meditation. The title song "Friends" was their least successful single since 1962, charting at number 47. This was followed by the hard rocking single "Do It Again", a return to the formula of their early years.[59] Moderately successful in the US at number 20, the single went to top of the UK single charts in 1968 for one week. The album, however, bombed; Friends could only peak at number 126 in the US.
As Brian's mental and physical health deteriorated in the late 1960s and early 1970s, his song output diminished; he eventually became withdrawn and detached from the band. To fill his creative void, the other members began writing and producing songs. Carl Wilson gradually took over leadership of the band, developing into an accomplished producer. To complete their contract with Capitol, they produced one more album. 20/20 (1969) was one of the group's most diverse albums ranging from waltz-based songs like "Time to Get Alone" to its remake of The Ronettes' "I Can Hear Music" to hard rock songs such as "Do It Again", "Bluebirds Over the Mountain", and "All I Want to Do"; the nearest thing to heavy metal in the group's canon with its blazing and savage guitars.[60][61] The diversity and heaviness of some of the songs on the album were a sign that the group were trying to establish their identity.[62] Another flop, it still fared better than Friends, reaching number 68 on the Billboard charts.
In 1969, The Beach Boys reactivated their Brother Records label and signed with Reprise Records. With the new contract, the band appeared rejuvenated, releasing the album Sunflower to critical acclaim. Sunflower is recognized as a complete group effort, with all band members contributing significant material, such as "Add Some Music to Your Day", Brian's "This Whole World", Dennis's "Forever" and Bruce Johnston's "Tears in the Morning". However, the band experienced their worst chart performance ever, peaking at number 151, although the single "Cottonfields"—which appeared on European releases of Sunflower—hit the top five in the UK. Brian, who had shown signs of mental and physical recovery during this period, was devastated by the lack of success and once again slowly began to withdraw.
After Sunflower, the band hired Jack Rieley as their manager. Rieley chose a different direction for the group, emphasizing, among other things, political and social awareness. The result was Surf's Up, featuring Brian's Smile centerpiece, "Surf's Up". The song was virtually the same arrangement as Brian's 1966 version, with Carl adding vocals and overdubs. Carl's "Long Promised Road" and "Feel Flows" with lyrics by Rieley are also standouts on the record. The track "A Day In The Life Of A Tree" was sung by Rieley. Brian contributed one of his best songs,[citation needed] "'Til I Die", which almost did not make the album sequencing. Johnston produced the classic "Disney Girls (1957)", a throwback to the easier, simpler times they remembered. Johnston ended his first stint with the band shortly after the record's release, reportedly because of friction with Rieley. The album was moderately successful, reaching the US top 30, a marked improvement over their recent releases. While the record charted, The Beach Boys added to their re-found fame by performing a near-sellout set at Carnegie Hall, and followed that with a famous appearance with the Grateful Dead at Fillmore East on April 27, 1971.
The addition of Ricky Fataar and Blondie Chaplin in February 1972, led to a dramatic departure in sound for the band. The album Carl and the Passions – "So Tough" was an uncharacteristic mix that included several songs drawn from Fataar and Chaplin's previous group, Flame, considered by many listeners nearly unrecognizable as Beach Boys songs. Although it has its supporters, the album is widely considered to be one of the group's most unfocused and inconsistent.[63] It did not make an impact on the charts.
The Beach Boys came up with an ambitious plan for their next project. The band, their families, assorted associates, and technicians moved to the Netherlands for the summer of 1972, renting a farmhouse to convert into a makeshift studio. By the end of their sessions the band felt they had come up with one of their best efforts yet. Reprise, however, felt that the album was weak. After some wrangling, the band asked Brian to come up with commercial material. This resulted in the song "Sail On, Sailor", a collaboration between Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks, which became one of the most emblematic Beach Boys songs. Reprise approved and the resulting album Holland was released early in 1973, peaking at number 37 on the Billboard album chart. Brian's storytale Mount Vernon and Fairway (A Fairy Tale), narrated by Rieley, which was directly influenced by Randy Newman's Sail Away LP, was included as a "bonus" extended play (EP). Holland proved that the band could still produce contemporary songs with wide (if not mass) appeal.
Despite record-label indifference, the band's concert audience started to grow. The Beach Boys in Concert, a double album documenting the 1972 and 1973 US tours, was another top 30 hit and became the band's first gold record for Reprise. It was during this period that The Beach Boys became widely known as one of America's most popular live acts. Chaplin and Fataar orchestrated the concerts in order to obtain a high quality live performance act, and The Beach Boys could draw upon over a decade of high quality music with which to supplement their current material off Surf's Up, Carl and the Passions and Holland. It was this very well-orchestrated concert arrangement which would soon send them back into American public recognition.
[edit] Endless Summer
In the summer of 1974, Capitol, in consultation with Love, released a double album compilation of The Beach Boys' pre-Pet Sounds hits. Endless Summer, helped by a sunny, colorful graphic cover, caught the mood of the nation and surged to the top of the Billboard album charts, a first for the band. It was the group's first multi-million selling record since "Good Vibrations", and remained on the album chart for three years.[64] The following year, Capitol released another compilation, Spirit of America, which also sold well. With these compilations, The Beach Boys became relevant again, propelling themselves from being the opening act for Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young to headliners selling out basketball arenas. Rolling Stone magazine named The Beach Boys the "Band of the Year" for 1974, solely for their juggernaut touring schedule and material written over a decade earlier.
Manager Jack Rieley, who remained in the Netherlands after Holland's release, was relieved of his managerial duties in late 1973. Blondie Chaplin also left the band in late 1973 after an argument with Steve Love, the band's business manager (and Mike's brother). Ricky Fataar stayed until fall 1974, when he was offered a chance to join a new group led by future Eagles member Joe Walsh. Chaplin's replacement, James William Guercio, started offering the group career advice that turned out to be so smart and sensible that eventually he became the band's new manager. Under Guercio, The Beach Boys staged a highly successful 1975 joint concert tour with Chicago, with each group performing some of the other's songs, including their previous year's collaboration on Chicago's hit "Wishing You Were Here". Beach Boys vocals were also heard on Elton John's 1974 hit "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me".
Nostalgia had settled into The Beach Boys' hype; the group had not officially released any albums of new material since 1973's Holland. While their concerts continuously sold out, the stage act slowly changed from contemporary presentation/oldies encores to an entire show composed of mostly pre-1967 music.
Brian Wilson's return[link]
15 Big Ones (1976) marked the return of Brian Wilson as a major force in the group in that it was the first album he produced since Pet Sounds. This album included several new songs composed by Brian, and several of his arrangements of favorite old songs by other artists, including "Rock and Roll Music" (which made number five), "Blueberry Hill", and "In the Still of the Night". Brian and Love's "It's OK" was yet another return to their earlier "summertime fun" style, and was a moderate hit. The album was publicized by an NBC TV special, telecast in August 1976, simply titled "The Beach Boys", which was produced by Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels and featured appearances by SNL cast members John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd.
For the remainder of 1976 to early 1977, Brian Wilson spent his time making sporadic public appearances and producing the band's next LP Love You, a quirky collection of 14 songs mostly written by Brian alone, including more "fun" songs ("Honkin' Down the Highway"), a mature love song ("The Night Was So Young")—a mix ranging from infectious to touching to downright silly. Despite its flaws, Love You is one of the more popular offerings in The Beach Boys' later oeuvre. Many sources cited the album as a return to the group's roots.
After Love You, Brian's contributions began to decline over the next several albums until he again virtually withdrew from the group. The follow up album to Love You, known by its working title "Adult/Child" never materialised despite being mostly recorded. Some of the tracks from Adult/Child subsequently made it onto later Beach Boys albums. His appearances with the band in concert diminished. His performances became erratic, his recordings uninspired. Despite the much-publicized "Brian's Back" campaign in the late 1970s, most critics believed the group was past its prime, and that Brian Wilson would be the latest in a long line of celebrity drug casualties. The Beach Boys' last release on Reprise, M.I.U. Album (1978), was recorded at Maharishi International University in Iowa at the insistence of Love. Dennis and Carl made limited contributions to the project; the album was mostly produced by Jardine and Ron Altbach, with Brian appearing as "Executive Producer". Regardless, despite a handful of interesting tracks, M.I.U. was largely a contractual obligation to finish out their association with Reprise, who likewise did not promote the album. The record also proved to be a strongly dividing element in the group and split it between Mike Love and Al Jardine on one side desiring to focus on oldies material with Carl and Dennis on the other hand wishing to resume the progressive roots rock focus they had created with the albums Carl And The Passions and Holland in the early 1970s. This division resulted in Dennis effectively retiring from the group in order to focus on his second solo album and follow-up to Pacific Ocean Blue entitled Bambu. However alcohol abuse and collapsing marital problems overcame the Wilson brothers with Bambu being shelved and Carl appearing drunk at live concerts in their disastrous 1978 Australia tour. Meanwhile Brian again fell into deep mental illness and retired completely from recording and live performances with the group.
At the same time of the M.I.U. Album release, The Beach Boys signed with CBS Records. They received a substantial advance and reportedly agreed to a guaranteed minimum of one million dollars per album. However, CBS was not satisfied with preliminary reviews of their first product—L.A. (Light Album). The band realized at this point that Brian either could not or would not write and produce the required material. As a stop-gap measure, Bruce Johnston returned to the group as both a member and a producer. The Brian and Carl song "Good Timin'" became a US top 40 single. The album featured outstanding performances by both Dennis (cuts intended for his second solo effort Bambu) and Carl ("Full Sail"). The group also enjoyed moderate success (if not indifferently received) with a disco reworking of the song "Here Comes the Night", originally on the Wild Honey album.
In 1980, the band recorded and released Keepin' the Summer Alive. Again, Johnston was in the producer's role as well as performing on the album. Brian contributed some inspired production ideas occasionally as seen in the television special the band made for the album's release. Even though Dennis Wilson was credited (his drumming is heard on the group's cover version of Chuck Berry's "School Days"), this was the first Beach Boys album not to feature him (due to his ongoing personal problems). He was not in the Going Platinum television special and was asked not to participate in the recording. Carl Wilson had discovered a young talented drummer, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist by the name of Scott Mathews and though Mathews was signed to Capitol, Carl asked him to join the band. Mathews jumped at the chance to record with his long-time heroes but ultimately chose not to join the band because of his blossoming career as a producer and songwriter, and a dislike for touring.[citation needed]
1980s–present[link]
From 1980 through 1982, The Beach Boys and The Grass Roots performed Independence Day concerts at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., attracting large crowds.[65][66] However, in April 1983, James G. Watt, President Ronald Reagan's Secretary of the Interior, banned Independence Day concerts on the Mall by such groups. Watt said that "rock bands" that had performed on the Mall on Independence Day in 1981 and 1982 had encouraged drug use and alcoholism and had attracted "the wrong element", who would mug people and families attending any similar events in the future.[66] During the ensuing uproar, The Beach Boys stated that the Soviet Union, which had invited them to perform in Leningrad in 1978, "obviously .... did not feel that the group attracted the wrong element".[66] Vice President George H. W. Bush said of The Beach Boys, "They're my friends and I like their music".[66] Watt apologized to the band after learning that President Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan were fans of The Beach Boys.[67] White House staff presented Watt with a plaster foot with a hole in it, symbolizing his having shot himself in the foot with his decision.[68] On July 4, 1983, The Beach Boys performed a free concert on the beach in Atlantic City, New Jersey, then, in 1984, The Beach Boys returned to Washington D.C. to give an Independence Day concert on the Mall to an audience of 750,000 people.[69][70]
Meanwhile, Dennis Wilson's personal problems continued to escalate, and on December 28, 1983, he drowned while diving from a friend's boat, trying to recover items he had previously thrown overboard in fits of rage. Despite his death, The Beach Boys continued as a successful touring act. On July 4, 1985, the Beach Boys played to an afternoon crowd of one million in Philadelphia and the same evening they performed for over 750,000 people on the Mall in Washington (the day's historic achievement was recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records). They also appeared nine days later at the Live Aid concert. That year, they released the eponymous album The Beach Boys and enjoyed a resurgence of interest later in the 1980s, assisted by tributes such as David Lee Roth's hit version of "California Girls". In 1987, they played with the rap group The Fat Boys, performing the song "Wipe Out" and filming a video for it.
In 1988, they scored their first number-one hit single in 22 years with "Kokomo", which was written for the movie Cocktail, becoming their biggest-selling hit ever. It was written by John Phillips, Scott McKenzie, Mike Love, and Terry Melcher. Having been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame earlier in the year, the group became the second artist after Aretha Franklin to hit #1 in the U.S. after their induction. Riding on "Kokomo"'s steam, The Beach Boys quickly put out the album Still Cruisin', which went gold in the US and gave them their best chart showing since 1976. In 1990, the band, with the help of studio musicians, recorded the Melcher-produced title track of the comedy Problem Child. Actor John Stamos later appeared behind the drums in the "Problem Child" music video and later appeared singing lead vocals on "Forever" (written by Dennis Wilson) on their 1992 album Summer in Paradise. Ultimately, the album was the first album by the group to use Pro-Tools, was made without any input from Brian Wilson — as he will still in the process of recovery from mental illness — and was met with extremely poor critical response and commercial sales; thereafter, it would be their last album containing original material.
Members of the band appeared on television shows such as Full House, Home Improvement, and Baywatch in the late 1980s and 1990s, as well as touring regularly. In 1993 the band appeared in Michael Feeney Callan's film The Beach Boys Today, which included in-depth interviews with all members, except Brian Wilson. In the film Carl Wilson confided to Callan his belief that Brian would shortly record again with the band. In 1995, Brian Wilson appeared in the critically acclaimed documentary I Just Wasn't Made for These Times, which saw him performing for the first time with his now-adult daughters, Wendy and Carnie of the group Wilson Phillips. The documentary also included glowing tributes to his talents from a host of major music stars of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
In February 1996, The Beach Boys guested with Status Quo on a re-recording of "Fun, Fun, Fun", which was a British Top 30 hit. In June, the group worked with comedian Jeff Foxworthy on the recording "Howdy From Maui", and released an album of their own material with country recording artists as guest stars, including Willie Nelson.
For the Summer Tour of 1997, Carl chose to travel and perform with the band, despite his medical burdens. After years of heavy smoking, Carl Wilson succumbed to lung and brain cancer on February 6, 1998 following a long battle with the disease. Mike Love and Bruce Johnston continued to tour as the Beach Boys; Brian Wilson and Al Jardine each developed new bands. David Marks has had a steady solo career. Each of their tours remain reliable draws, and Wilson and Jardine are both still legally members of the Beach Boys organization.
On June 13, 2006, the major surviving Beach Boys (Brian Wilson, Love, Jardine, Johnston and Marks) gathered for a celebration of the 40th anniversary of Pet Sounds and the double-platinum certification of their greatest hits compilation, Sounds of Summer: The Very Best of The Beach Boys, in a ceremony atop the Capitol Records building in Hollywood. Plaques were awarded for their efforts to all major members, with Brian Wilson accepting on behalf of his late brothers. On August 21, 2010 the Beach Boys opened for Bryan Adams at Empire Field in Vancouver, BC for the 100th year of the PNE.
In February 2011, The Beach Boys released "Don't Fight the Sea", a charity single to aid the victims of the 2011 Japan earthquake. The single, released on Al Jardine's 2011 album A Postcard From California featured Jardine, Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Bruce Johnston as well as old vocals recorded by the late Carl Wilson. The Beach Boys also celebrated their 50th anniversary as a group and released the long-awaited Smile album in the form of The Smile Sessions in November, after a 44-year wait, as a set of 2 CDs, a vinyl double album and a 5 CD boxset.
50th anniversary reunion[link]
Main article: The Beach Boys 50th Anniversary Reunion Tour
In late 2010 reports began to circulate that the surviving members of the Beach Boys would reunite for a 50th Anniversary tour and album. Despite some uncertainty [71] and initial denials,[72] on December 16, 2011, it was announced that Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston and David Marks would reunite for a new album and 50th anniversary tour in 2012 that would include a performance at the New Orleans Jazz Festival in April.[73]
On February 12, 2012, the Beach Boys performed at the 2012 Grammy Awards, in what was billed as a "special performance" by organizers. It marked the group's first live performance to include Brian since 1996.[74] This anniversary band lineup performed "Good Vibrations" with Adam Levine and Mark Foster, after Maroon 5 opened the set with "Surfer Girl" and Foster the People played "Wouldn't It Be Nice" during the ceremony. On February 16, 2012, dates for their tour were announced, which includes shows in the US, Canada, and Europe.
Wilson and Love discussed the upcoming album and tour in a interview on February 16, 2012. The duo said the album is halfway done with Wilson doing the writing and stating that all of the songs will flow into each other. The album will end with a Pet Sounds- and Smile-inspired suite. One track titled, "That's Why God Made the Radio" is filled with classic Beach Boys harmonies and one of their best songs ever, according to Wilson. Love stated the band has yet to rehearse for the upcoming tour saying they have a lot of songs to choose from and both Bruce Johnston and Al Jardine will perform the songs they sang lead on. With so many songs fans want to hear, Wilson and Love remain unsure how many new songs will make the setlists. When asked if the two were friends now after the lawsuits, Wilson responded "just a lawsuit", and Love stated it was all in the distant past.[75]
Al Jardine stated in a interview on February 25, 2012, that Carl Wilson's voice will be featured on the new album. Jardine said he found a song Carl had sung on and recorded and it will be used on the new song, "Waves of Love". Jardine said he only wished there was a way to include Dennis Wilson as well. As for the upcoming tour, Jardine said that he hopes the group goes deep into their back catalog and performs songs that haven't been performed live in a long time, such as "Lonely Sea" and "Farmer's Daughter". Bruce Johnston said of the upcoming tour that the group will have to live up to their own legend. Johnston was responding to claims by some in the media that the group lip-synched their performance at the Grammy Awards, which the group strongly denies. Johnston said "I never hoped for [a reunion], because I never thought any of us wanted to do it. We have probably, you know, the presidential honeymoon of six months but then we have to show something to keep it going. We have to make sure we have a great flowing song list but also make sure we don't sound like a greatest-hits band. We have a lot to balance."[76]
The Beach Boys appeared at the April 10, 2012, season opener for the Los Angeles Dodgers and performed "Surfer Girl" along with "The Star-Spangled Banner".
The group performed together and was interviewed in a special SiriusXM concert which was recorded on April 19, 2012, in Los Angeles and aired on May 26, 2012.[77]
On May 1, 2012, Walmart scheduled an exclusive limited edition 50th Anniversary Collection 'ZinePak, to include a 72 page magazine with rare photos and new interviews with the group, as well as an 11-song CD including the group's recent re-recording of "Do It Again".[78] The reunion album, That's Why God Made the Radio, is set for release on June 5, 2012. [79] The first single from the album, "That's Why God Made the Radio" made its national radio debut April 25, 2012, on ESPN's Mike and Mike in the Morning.[80][81] and was released on iTunes and other digial platforms on April 26.[82] Other album tracks will include "Shelter" and "The Private Life of Bill and Sue", midtempo songs written by Wilson. According to Bruce Johnston, all of the songs are originals, no cover songs, no guest musicians on the album. Each band member sings lead on at least one of the songs while Johnston contributed one song titled, "She Believes in Love Again", a song he wrote in 1985 (and was recorded by the band on that year's The Beach Boys); however he said he was unsure if the song would make the final cut since the label picks the album's tracks, not the band. Johnston compares the album to one of the band's least-successful albums but fan favorite, Sunflower while Al Jardine said the album is "very lush, very PetSound-ing".[83][84]
PBS's Front Row Center will air a 90-minute special on June 7, 2012, entitled The Beach Boys: Summer's Gone.[85]
While there are no plans to do so, Brian Wilson has claimed that he would like to make another Beach Boys album following the tour. "This time I would like to do some rock n' roll," Wilson says. "I would like it to be a bit harder and faster" Wilson further stated.[86]
Court battles[link]
Many legal difficulties developed from Brian Wilson's psychological problems. In the early 1980s, the band hired controversial therapist Eugene Landy in an attempt to help Wilson. Landy did achieve some significant improvements in Wilson's overall condition; from his own admissions about his massive drug intake, it was highly likely that Wilson would have died if Landy had not intervened. Landy successfully treated Wilson's drug dependence, and by 1988 Wilson had recovered sufficiently to record his first solo album, Brian Wilson. But Landy became increasingly possessive of his star patient. After accusations that Landy was using his control over Wilson for his own benefit, the band successfully entreated the courts to separate Landy from Wilson.
In addition to the challenges over the use of the band's name and over the best way to care for Wilson, there have been three significant legal cases involving The Beach Boys in recent years. The first was Wilson's suit to reclaim the rights to his songs and the group's publishing company, Sea of Tunes, which he had signed away to his father in 1969. He successfully argued that he had not been mentally fit to make an informed decision. While Wilson failed to regain his copyrights, he was awarded $25 million for unpaid royalties.
The second lawsuit stemmed from Wilson's reclamation of his publishing rights. Soon after Wilson won his Sea of Tunes case in 1989, Love discovered Murry Wilson did not properly credit him as co-writer on dozens of popular Beach Boys songs. With Love and Brian Wilson unable to determine exactly what Love was properly owed, Love sued Wilson in 1992 to gain credit for his co-authorship of a number of important Beach Boys songs, winning $13 million in 1994 for lost royalties. In interviews, Love revealed that on some songs he wrote most of the lyrics, on others only a line or two. Even though Love sued Wilson, both parties said in interviews that there was no malice between them; they simply couldn't come up with an agreeable settlement by themselves.
However in November 2005, Love filed yet another lawsuit against Wilson and his management. Love alleged that Wilson’s representatives and the UK publication The Mail on Sunday gave the false impression to readers that their joint promotional giveaway of nearly three million copies of the Good Vibrations CD was authorized by Love and The Beach Boys. This free CD, Love alleged, includes five of Love and Wilson’s co-authored hit Beach Boys songs, and was done to promote Wilson's solo CD, Smile. Love also claimed that Smile and Good Vibrations were marketed using The Beach Boys’ names and images without permission. The complaint sought several million dollars in damages, and also a million dollars to cover costs of advertising to correct the perceived "damage to the band's reputation". Love stated at the time: "Once again the people around Brian... have used him for their own financial gain without regard to his rights, or my rights, or even the rights of the estates of his deceased brothers, Carl and Dennis, and their children... Unfortunately, history repeats itself. Because of Brian’s mental issues he has always been vulnerable to manipulation. I simply want to stop the infringers and stop the deception!"[87]
There has been speculation that Love's lawsuit was an attempt to pressure Wilson into agreeing to let him continue to use the profitable Beach Boys name for his and Johnston's touring efforts.[87] Wilson's lawyers suggested in legal filings that Love was seeking to assert, as personal claims, the rights of the corporate holder of The Beach Boys trademark, Brother Records International, in which Love and Wilson are both shareholders.[88] Wilson’s website listed the following statement in response: "The lawsuit against Brian is meritless. While he will vigorously defend himself he is deeply saddened that his cousin Mike Love has sunk to these depths for his own financial gain."
Love's 2005 lawsuit was dismissed with prejudice in May 2007 as to all the defendants, including Wilson. In a series of rulings, the court rejected all of Love's claims, including the claim that Smile was a Beach Boys project as to which Love deserved compensation from Wilson directly.[89] The court subsequently ruled that Love had to pay the legal fees of all the defendants as well.[90]
Legacy[link]
The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988,[91] with Mike Love delivering a speech that assailed Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney and the Beatles, Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel and Diana Ross. Bob Dylan subsequently took the stage and thanked Love for not mentioning him, lightening the mood. [92] The band was chosen for the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 1998.[93] In 2001, the group received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Brian Wilson was inducted into the UK Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in November 2006.[94] In 2004, Rolling Stone Magazine ranked the Beach Boys No.12 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.[95] In 2007, the Beach Boys were inducted into the Hit Parade Hall of Fame.[93] During the 2011 Yale Master’s Tea, guest lecturer and music CEO Jeff Pollack described the Beach Boys as being “one of the most influential and underrated bands of all time, with a vocal style and harmonies that were unmatched by any other band, then or now”.[96][97]
The group's 1966 releases—Pet Sounds and "Good Vibrations"—frequently rank among critics' lists of the greatest albums and singles of all time. Pet Sounds is on the greatest-albums lists Time,[98] Rolling Stone, New Musical Express, Mojo, and The Times. The record was profoundly influential on The Beach Boys' contemporaries; Paul McCartney named it one of his favorite albums of all time (with "God Only Knows" as his all-time favorite song). McCartney has frequently said that it was the inspiration behind the seminal Beatles' album, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Echoing this sentiment, Beatles producer George Martin is quoted saying, "Pepper was an attempt to equal Pet Sounds."[99]
The Wilsons' Hawthorne, California house, where the Wilson brothers grew up and the group began, was demolished in 1986 to make way for Interstate 105, the Century Freeway. A Beach Boys Historic Landmark (California Landmark #1041 at 3701 West 119th Street), dedicated on May 20, 2005, marks the location.
Discography[link]
Main article: The Beach Boys discography
- Surfin' Safari (1962)
- Surfin' USA (1963)
- Surfer Girl (1963)
- Little Deuce Coupe (1963)
- Shut Down Volume 2 (1964)
- All Summer Long (1964)
- The Beach Boys' Christmas Album (1964)
- Today! (1965)
- Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!) (1965)
- Beach Boys' Party! (1965)
- Pet Sounds (1966)
- Smiley Smile (1967)
- Wild Honey (1967)
- Friends (1968)
- 20/20 (1969)
- Sunflower (1970)
- Surf's Up (1971)
- Carl and the Passions – "So Tough" (1972)
- Holland (1973)
- 15 Big Ones (1976)
- Love You (1977)
- M.I.U. Album (1978)
- L.A. (Light Album) (1979)
- Keepin' the Summer Alive (1980)
- The Beach Boys (1985)
- Still Cruisin' (1989)
- Summer in Paradise (1992)
- Stars and Stripes Vol. 1 (1996)
- Smile (The Smile Sessions, recorded 1966/67) (2011)
- That's Why God Made the Radio (2012)[79]
See also[link]
References[link]
- Whitburn, Joel, The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 1992.
- Wilson, Brian (with Todd Gold), Wouldn't It Be Nice, My Own Story, 1991.
- Complete Guide To The Music Of The Beach Boys, a book updated in 2004 as Brian Wilson & The Beach Boys: The Complete Guide To Their Music, author Andrew Grayham Doe.
- Endless Summer Quarterly Endless Summer Quarterly, the "World's Leading Beach Boys Publication"
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- ^ Wilson, p. 34.
- ^ Wilson, p. 35.
- ^ Wilson, pp. 37-39.
- ^ Wilson, p. 41.
- ^ Wilson, p. 43.
- ^ a b c "Show 20 – Forty Miles of Bad Road: Some of the best from rock 'n' roll's dark ages. [Part 1] : UNT Digital Library". Digital.library.unt.edu. 2011-10-16. http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19770/m1/. Retrieved 2011-11-05.
- ^ a b Wilson, p. 46.
- ^ Wilson, p. 45.
- ^ Wilson, p. 48.
- ^ Wilson, p. 51.
- ^ Wilson, p. 52.
- ^ a b Wilson, p. 53.
- ^ a b "The Beach Boys". The Beach Boys. http://www.thebeachboys.com/home.aspx. Retrieved November 23, 2010.
- ^ Wilson, p. 44.
- ^ Wilson, p. 54.
- ^ Wilson, p. 55.
- ^ "Richie Unterberger review of Surfin' Safari". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r1405. Retrieved May 25, 2011.
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- ^ O'Hagan, Sean. "Feature: A Boy's own story". Review, The Observer (Guardian Media Group) (January 6, 2002): 1–3.
- ^ Lambert, Philip. Inside the Music of Brian Wilson: the songs, sounds and influences of the Beach Boys' founding genius (Continuum International Publishing Group Inc., 2007). pp. 64–65. ISBN 1-397-80826-4
- ^ "Show 5 – Hail, Hail, Rock 'n' Roll: The rock revolution gets underway. [Part 1] : UNT Digital Library". Digital.library.unt.edu. 2011-10-16. http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19751/m1/. Retrieved 2011-11-05.
- ^ "SURFIN USA". BMI Repertoire. Broadcast Music Incorporated. http://repertoire.bmi.com/title.asp?blnWriter=True&blnPublisher=True&blnArtist=True&keyID=1434720&ShowNbr=0&ShowSeqNbr=0&querytype=WorkID. Retrieved November 16, 2008.
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- ^ "Dance, Dance, Dance". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/song/dance-dance-dance-t14595755.
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- ^ Laura Tunbridge, The Song Cycle , (Cambridge University Press, 2011), ISBN 0-521-72107-5, p. 173.
- ^ a b c d J. DeRogatis, Turn On Your Mind: Four Decades of Great Psychedelic Rock (Milwaukee, Michigan: Hal Leonard, 2003), ISBN 0-634-05548-8
- ^ J. DeRogatis, "Milk it!: collected musings on the alternative music explosion of the 90s", ISBN 0-306-81271-1
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- ^ T. Holmes, Electronic and Experimental Music: Technology, Music, and Culture (London: Taylor & Francis, 3rd edn., 2008), ISBN 0-415-95781-8, p. 415.
- ^ Out-Of-Sight! SMiLE Timeline
- ^ a b "Smile-Brian Wilson review". Allmusic.com. http://www.allmusic.com/album/smile-r493411.
- ^ Carlin, Peter Ames (2006). Catch a Wave: The Rise, Fall, & Redemption of the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson. Rodale Books (New York). ISBN 978-1-59486-320-2.
- ^ Hal Blaine, David Goggin, David M. Schwartz, Hal Blaine and the Wrecking Crew, (Hal Leonard Corporation, 2010), ISBN 1-888408-12-X, p. 63.
- ^ "Show 37 – The Rubberization of Soul: The great pop music renaissance. [Part 3] : UNT Digital Library". Digital.library.unt.edu. 2011-10-16. http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19796/m1/. Retrieved 2011-11-05.
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- ^ "– By Michael Fremer". Musicangle.com. February 1, 2005. http://www.musicangle.com/feat.php?id=58. Retrieved November 23, 2010.
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- ^ Richard Henderson, Song Cycle , (Continuum International Publishing Group, 2009),ISBN 0-8264-2917-3, p48
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- ^ Harvey Kubernik, Scott Calamar, Lou Adler, Canyon of Dreams: The Magic and the Music of Laurel Canyon, (Sterling Publishing Company, Inc., 2009), ISBN 1-4027-6589-4, p. 78.
- ^ "cit. Barney Hoskyns, "All But Done."". Gadflyonline.com. http://www.gadflyonline.com/05-06-02/ftr-hoskyns.html. Retrieved 2011-11-05.
- ^ The unusual capitalization of the title, "SMiLE", is an accident of Capitol Records' mid-1960s graphic design. Brian himself wrote it as "Smile" on his own message board.
- ^ Priore, Dominic (1997), Look Listen Vibrate Smile, Last Gasp pub., collects much of the "Smile" legend in historical articles and reviews.
- ^ J. DeRogatis,"Kaleidoscope eyes: psychedelic rock from the 1960s to the 1990s", (Fourth Estate, 1996), ISBN 1-85702-599-7, p. 18.
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