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(Light Album)” with “Good Timin’ and “Goin’ South.”ġ985's 'The Beach Boys' self-titled albumīut missing deceased brother Dennis Wilson. Bruce Johnson joins Brian for “Deirdre” and his own composition “Tears in the Morning.” Carl Wilson is not to be missed on “Surf’s Up” (1971) with “Long Promised Road” and on 1979's “L.A. The Beach Boys were now 'America's Band.'ĭennis Wilson is in heartthrob mode with “All I Want to Do” from 1969's “20/20” and “Got to Know the Woman” from “Sunflower (1970).” Brian croons “This Whole World” and “Cool Cool Water” with Mike Love.

“Keepin’ the Summer Alive” (1980) delivers tooting horns in “Some of Your Love,” while Mike Love and Brian pay respect to the fairer sex in the empathic “When Girls Get Together.” Al Jardine’s masterful, memorable “Santa Ana Winds” transports me to this titular California phenomenon.Īround the release of '15 Big Ones' (1976) We get the Brian Wilson penned “Johnny Carson,” “Roller Skating Child,” “The Night Was So Young,” “Honkin’ Down the Highway,” and other throaty, endearing songs. The gems on 1977's “Beach Boys Love You” resonate on a personal level. And they delighted fans and critics alike as they morphed through the decades. Nevertheless, the band released new material every year, with 2 albums released each year between 19, and one a year until 1973’s “Holland.” From 1976 through 1980 they completed one album a year. The unrest and psychedelia of the late 60s and 70s, along with the fractioning of the BB lineup, proved a less receptive audience for the newer, looser Beach Boys. Considering so many creatives were at play putting an album together, the Beach Boys were astonishingly adept. With songwriter/genius/leader Brian Wilson backing off from the band and record label obligations following that classic, the remaining band members stepped in to keep the summer alive. Until 'Pet Sounds', the band could be said to have one sound. Then you experience the deeper cuts - the songs panned by critics because they weren’t masterpieces of Pet Sounds but are perhaps more meaningful to fans than any surf classics. When Brian refrained from touring to work on new tracks, Johnson joined the band. The band with Bruce Johnston on the middle right column. You can hear Surfing Safari, Barbara Ann, and Good Vibrations - radio favorites always. On the Sirius channel, one gets swept away by the diversity of songs.

They had more depth than evidenced in their already classic surf songs. But there is a major reveal in their long catalog. Yes, they wrote about hot rods, beaches, girls, drive-ins, and summertime. The Beach Boys are more than just Surf Music. For a fan who listened from high school and well past college, it’s a pleasure to re-experience how their music personally awakened my soul. Sirius often has temporary channels, and here The Beach Boys Channel takes residence over the airwaves, sharing the band’s massive bandwidth and brilliance.

That brings me to Sirius Satellite Radio and “Good Vibrations: The Beach Boys Channel.” Left to right: Brian, Mike, Dennis, Carl, and David Marks. Marks quit after disagreements with manager Murray Wilson.Īl Jardiine replaced him after graduating from dental school. The early days with David Marks far right.

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Outdoor activity was in full swing with the days of prolonged sunlight, baseball games in schoolyards, playing in the streets with the occasional passing car, swimming pools, Kool-Aid, Italian ice, beach visits, and cooling fans throughout the house (before we graduated - one room at a time - to AC units!). My summers were magical and unplanned, without summer camp. The memorable 'Endless Summer' album sleeve įor me, childhood summertime was a lifetime in paradise. Since 1962 they have released 25 albums - and that doesn’t include the hundreds of greatest hits compilations that Capitol Records released to cash in on the marketing value of the classic collection.Īmong those compilations were two that my sister collected - “Spirit of America” and “Endless Summer.” We will always cherish those songs, along with the playfully illustrated fold-out vinyl sleeves that immersed us in the fantasy of the California lifestyle (despite the “Endless Summer” sleeve art not capturing the likenesses of the band, the ambitious attempt at illustration heightened the magic of the Beach Boys legend, making the cover as mesmerizing as the Beatles “Revolver” cover sleeve). There is something spectacular about the Beach Boys.