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Geographic coordinate system
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A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system used in geography that enables every location on Earth to be specified by a set of numbers, letters or symbols. The coordinates are chosen such that one of the numbers represents a vertical position. A common choice of coordinates is latitude, longitude and elevation, to specify a location on a two-dimensional map requires a map projection. The invention of a coordinate system is generally credited to Eratosthenes of Cyrene. Ptolemy credited him with the adoption of longitude and latitude. Ptolemys 2nd-century Geography used the prime meridian but measured latitude from the equator instead. Mathematical cartography resumed in Europe following Maximus Planudes recovery of Ptolemys text a little before 1300, in 1884, the United States hosted the International Meridian Conference, attended by representatives from twenty-five nations. Twenty-two of them agreed to adopt the longitude of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, the Dominican Republic voted against the motion, while France and Brazil abstained. France adopted Greenwich Mean Time in place of local determinations by the Paris Observatory in 1911, the latitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle between the equatorial plane and the straight line that passes through that point and through the center of the Earth. Lines joining points of the same latitude trace circles on the surface of Earth called parallels, as they are parallel to the equator, the north pole is 90° N, the south pole is 90° S. The 0° parallel of latitude is designated the equator, the plane of all geographic coordinate systems. The equator divides the globe into Northern and Southern Hemispheres, the longitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle east or west of a reference meridian to another meridian that passes through that point. All meridians are halves of great ellipses, which converge at the north and south poles, the prime meridian determines the proper Eastern and Western Hemispheres, although maps often divide these hemispheres further west in order to keep the Old World on a single side. The antipodal meridian of Greenwich is both 180°W and 180°E, the combination of these two components specifies the position of any location on the surface of Earth, without consideration of altitude or depth. The grid formed by lines of latitude and longitude is known as a graticule, the origin/zero point of this system is located in the Gulf of Guinea about 625 km south of Tema, Ghana. To completely specify a location of a feature on, in, or above Earth. Earth is not a sphere, but a shape approximating a biaxial ellipsoid. It is nearly spherical, but has an equatorial bulge making the radius at the equator about 0. 3% larger than the radius measured through the poles, the shorter axis approximately coincides with the axis of rotation
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Recording studio
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A recording studio is a facility for sound recording and mixing. Ideally both the recording and monitoring spaces are designed by an acoustician or audio engineer to achieve optimum acoustic properties. The engineers and producers listen to the music and the recorded tracks on monitor speakers and/or headphones. Major recording studios typically have a range of large, heavy, Isolation booths are small sound-insulated rooms with doors, designed for instrumentalists. This equipment may interfere with the recording process, Recording studios are carefully designed around the principles of room acoustics to create a set of spaces with the acoustical properties required for recording sound with precision and accuracy. This will consist of both room treatment and soundproofing to prevent sound from leaving the property. Even though sound isolation is a key goal, the musicians, singers, audio engineers and record producers still need to be able to see other, to see cue gestures. As such, the room, isolation booths, vocal booths. Some smaller studios do not have instruments, and bands and artists are expected to bring their own instruments, having musical instruments and equipment in the studio creates additional costs for a studio, as pianos have to be tuned and instruments need to be maintained. However, it makes it convenient for recording artists, as they do not have to bring in large. As well, less costly studio time is spent moving in gear, drummers bring their own snare drum, cymbals and sticks/brushes. The types and brands of equipment owned by a studio depends on the styles of music for the bands. A studio that mainly records heavy metal music will be likely to have large, powerful guitar amp heads, in contrast, a studio which mainly records country bands will likely have a selection of small, vintage combo amps. A studio that records a lot of 1970s-style funk may have an electric piano. General purpose computers have rapidly assumed a role in the recording process. A computer thus outfitted is called a Digital Audio Workstation, or DAW, other software applications include Ableton Live, Mixcraft, Cakewalk Sonar, ACID Pro, FL Studio, Adobe Audition, Auto-Tune, Audacity, and Ardour. While Apple Macintosh is used for most studio work, there is a breadth of available for Microsoft Windows. If no mixing console is used and all mixing is done using only a keyboard and mouse, the OTB is used when mixing with other hardware and not just the PC software
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Santa Monica, California
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Santa Monica is a beachfront city in western Los Angeles County, California, United States. The Census Bureau population for Santa Monica in 2010 was 89,736, due in part to an agreeable climate, Santa Monica became a famed resort town by the early 20th century. The city has experienced a boom since the late 1980s through the revitalization of its core, significant job growth. The Santa Monica Pier remains a popular and iconic destination, Santa Monica was long inhabited by the Tongva people. Santa Monica was called Kecheek in the Tongva language, the first non-indigenous group to set foot in the area was the party of explorer Gaspar de Portolà, who camped near the present-day intersection of Barrington and Ohio Avenues on August 3,1769. Named after the Christian saint Monica, there are two different accounts of how the name came to be. One says it was named in honor of the feast day of Saint Monica, another version says it was named by Juan Crespí on account of a pair of springs, the Kuruvungna Springs, that were reminiscent of the tears Saint Monica shed over her sons early impiety. In Los Angeles, several battles were fought by the Californios, following the Mexican–American War, Mexico signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which gave Mexicans and Californios living in state certain unalienable rights. US government sovereignty in California began on February 2,1848, in the 1870s the Los Angeles and Independence Railroad, connected Santa Monica with Los Angeles, and a wharf out into the bay. The first town hall was a modest 1873 brick building, later a beer hall and it is Santa Monicas oldest extant structure. By 1885, the towns first hotel was the Santa Monica Hotel, around the start of the 20th century, a growing population of Asian Americans lived in and around Santa Monica and Venice. A Japanese fishing village was near the Long Wharf while small numbers of Chinese lived or worked in Santa Monica, the two ethnic minorities were often viewed differently by White Americans who were often well-disposed towards the Japanese but condescending towards the Chinese. The Japanese village fishermen were an economic part of the Santa Monica Bay community. Donald Wills Douglas, Sr. built a plant in 1922 at Clover Field for the Douglas Aircraft Company, in 1924, four Douglas-built planes took off from Clover Field to attempt the first aerial circumnavigation of the world. Two planes returned after covering 27,553 miles in 175 days, the Douglas Company kept facilities in the city until the 1960s. The Great Depression hit Santa Monica deeply, one report gives citywide employment in 1933 of just 1,000. Hotels and office building owners went bankrupt, in the 1930s, corruption infected Santa Monica. The federal Works Project Administration helped build several buildings, most notably City Hall, the main Post Office and Barnum Hall were also among other WPA projects
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Brian Wilson
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Brian Douglas Wilson is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer best known for being the multi-tasking leader and co-founder of the rock band the Beach Boys. After signing with Capitol Records in 1962, Wilson wrote or co-wrote more than two dozen Top 40 hits for the group, in the mid-1960s, Wilson composed, arranged and produced Pet Sounds, considered one of the greatest albums ever made. The intended follow-up to Pet Sounds, Smile, was canceled for various reasons, as he suffered repeated nervous breakdowns, Wilsons contributions to the Beach Boys diminished, and his erratic behavior led to tensions with the band. He remains a member of the Beach Boys corporation, Brother Records Incorporated, Wilsons work with the Beach Boys helped raise pop music to the level of high art. Wilson effectively set a precedent that allowed bands and artists to enter a recording studio and his songs became inextricably tied with the zeitgeist of the early 1960s, and he helped develop the sound of the wistful Flower Power era that proceeded. In later years, Wilson was regarded as a godfather to an era of musicians who were inspired by his melodic sensibilities, chamber pop orchestrations. His honors include being inducted into the 1988 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and winning Grammy Awards for Brian Wilson Presents Smile and The Smile Sessions. In lists published by Rolling Stone, Wilson ranked 52 for the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time in 2008 and 12 for the 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time in 2015. In 2012, music publication NME ranked Wilson number 8 in its 50 Greatest Producers Ever list and he is an occasional actor and voice actor, having appeared in television shows, films, and other artists music videos. His life was portrayed in the 2014 biopic Love & Mercy, Brian Douglas Wilson was born on June 20,1942, at Centinela Hospital in Inglewood, California, the son of Audree Neva and Murry Wilson. He was the eldest of three boys, his brothers were Dennis and Carl. He has English, Swedish, Dutch, German, and Irish ancestry, when Brian was two, the family moved from Inglewood to 3701 West 119th Street in nearby Hawthorne, California. Murry Wilson said, He was very clever and quick, I just fell in love with him. At about age two, Brian heard George Gershwins Rhapsody in Blue, which had an emotional impact on him. A few years later, he was discovered to have diminished hearing in his right ear. The exact cause of hearing loss is unclear, though theories range from him simply being born partially deaf to a blow to the head from his father, or a neighborhood bully. While Brians father Murry was ostensibly a reasonable provider, he was often abusive, a minor musician and songwriter, he also encouraged his children in this field in numerous ways. At an early age, Brian was given six weeks of lessons on a toy accordion and, at seven and eight, at Hawthorne High School, Brian was on the football team as a quarterback, played baseball and was a cross-country runner in his senior year
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Carl Wilson
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Carl Dean Wilson was an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer who co-founded the Beach Boys. He is best remembered as their lead guitarist and as the youngest brother of bandmates Brian, unlike other members of the band, he often played alongside the studio musicians employed during the groups critical and commercial peak in the mid 1960s. During the 1980s, he attempted to launch a career, releasing the albums Carl Wilson. Shortly before his death, he recorded material with Gerry Beckley and Robert Lamm, in 1988, Carl was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Beach Boys. Carl Dean Wilson was born in Hawthorne, California, the youngest son of Audree Neva, from his pre-teens he practiced harmony vocals under the guidance of his brother Brian, who often sang in the family music room with his mother and brothers. Inspired by country star Spade Cooley, at the age of 12, Carl asked his parents to buy him a guitar, for which he took some lessons. In 1982, Carl remembered from this time, The kid across the street, David Marks, was taking lessons from John Maus, so I started. David and I were about 12 and John was only three years older, but we thought he was a shit-hot guitarist, John and his sister Judy did fraternity gigs together as a duo. Later John moved to England and became one of the Walker Brothers and he showed me some fingerpicking techniques and strumming stuff that I still use. When I play a solo, hes still there, while Brian perfected the bands vocal style and keyboard base, Carls Chuck Berry-esque guitar became an early Beach Boys trademark. While in high school, Carl also studied saxophone, turning 15 as the groups first hit, Surfin, broke locally in Los Angeles, Carls father and manager, Murry, bought him a Fender Jaguar guitar. Dave Marsh, in The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll, Carls lead vocals in the bands first three years were infrequent. Although all members of the played on their early recordings. Unlike the other members of the band, Carl often played alongside session musicians and he also recorded his individual guitar leads during the Beach Boys vocal sessions, with his guitar plugged directly into the soundboard. His playing can be heard on tracks like 1965s Girl Dont Tell Me, after Brians retirement from touring in 1965, Carl became the musical director of the band onstage. Contracts at that time stipulated that promoters hire Carl Wilson plus four other musicians, following his lead vocal performance on God Only Knows in 1966, Carl was increasingly lead vocalist for the band, a role previously dominated by Mike Love and Brian. He sang leads on the singles Good Vibrations, Darlin, starting with the album Wild Honey, Brian requested that Carl become more involved in the Beach Boys records. In 1969, the Beach Boys rendition of I Can Hear Music was the first track produced solely by Carl Wilson, by then, he had effectively become the bands in-studio leader, producing the bulk of the albums during the early 1970s
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Dennis Wilson
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Dennis Carl Wilson was an American musician, singer, and songwriter who co-founded the Beach Boys. He is best remembered as their drummer and as the brother of bandmates Brian. Dennis was the only true surfer in the Beach Boys, and he was also known for his brief association with then-aspiring songwriter Charles Manson, who was later convicted of murder conspiracy. Dennis served mainly on drums and backing vocals for the Beach Boys from its formation until his death in 1983 and it is often erroneously stated that Dennis drumming in the bands recordings was filled in exclusively by studio musicians. His drumming is documented on a number of the singles, including I Get Around, Fun, Fun, Fun. While he was allowed few lead vocals in the 1960s, his prominence as a singer-songwriter increased into the 1970s and his original songs for the group included Little Bird, Forever, and Slip On Through. Although uncredited, Wilson helped pen You Are So Beautiful, a hit for Joe Cocker in 1974 and his music has been characterized for reflecting his edginess and exhibited little of his happy charm, setting it apart from Brian’s music. By all appearances the happy-go-lucky Beach Boy, Dennis Wilson lived out the proverbial live-fast-die-young motto and his wild side masked an underside that was, by turns, brooding, self-loathing, sensitive, and anxious. Wilsons only solo album, Pacific Ocean Blue, was released to warm reviews, written and recorded over a span of several years, the album peaked on US record charts at number 96 during a 12-week stay. Sessions for a follow-up, Bambu, disintegrated before his death in 1983, five years later, Wilson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Beach Boys. Dennis Carl Wilson was the son of Audree Neva and Murry Gage Wilson and he spent his family years with his brothers and parents in Hawthorne, California. Dennis role in the dynamic, which he himself acknowledged, was that of the black sheep. Though anxiety-filled and aggressive at times he was sensitive and generous. Out of the three Wilson brothers, he was the most likely to get beaten by their strong-willed father Murry. However, Dennis would sing with his brothers late at night in their shared bedroom, Brian noted of the late night brotherly three-part harmonies, We developed a little blend which aided us when we started to get into the Beach Boys stuff. Dennis mother, Audree, forced Brian to include Dennis in the lineup of the Beach Boys. Urged by older cousin Mike Love, Dennis had approached Brian to form a group, the Beach Boys formed in August 1961, with Murry taking over as manager, and were immediately successful. Though the Beach Boys developed their image based on the California surfing culture, in the early years of the Beach Boys, Brian gave him the role of the drummer
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The Beach Boys
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The Beach Boys are an American rock band formed in Hawthorne, California in 1961. The groups original lineup consisted of brothers Brian, Dennis, and Carl Wilson, their cousin Mike Love, distinguished by their vocal harmonies and early surf songs, they are one of the most influential acts of the rock era. The Beach Boys began as a band managed by the Wilsons father Murry. Emerging at the vanguard of the California Sound, they performed material that reflected a southern California youth culture of surfing, cars. After 1964, they abandoned the surfing aesthetic for more personal lyrics, in 1966, the Pet Sounds album and Good Vibrations single vaulted the group to the top level of rock innovators and established the band as symbols of the nascent counterculture era. Following Smiles dissolution, Brian gradually ceded production and songwriting duties to the rest of the band, reducing his input because of mental health and substance abuse issues. The continued success of their greatest hits albums during the mid 1970s precipitated the transition into an oldies act. Since the 1980s, much-publicized legal wrangling over royalties, songwriting credits, Dennis drowned in 1983 and Carl died of lung cancer in 1998. After Carls death, many live configurations of the band fronted by Mike Love, Even though Wilson and Jardine have not performed with Love and Johnstons band since their one-off 2012 reunion tour, they remain a part of the Beach Boys corporation, Brother Records Inc. The Beach Boys are one of the most critically acclaimed, commercially successful, the group had over eighty songs chart worldwide, thirty-six of them US Top 40 hits, four reaching number-one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. They received their only Grammy Award for The Smile Sessions, the core quintet of the three Wilsons, Love and Jardine were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988. At the time of his birthday on June 20,1958, Brian Wilson shared a bedroom with his brothers, Dennis and Carl – aged thirteen and eleven. He had watched his father, Murry Wilson, play piano, after dissecting songs such as Ivory Tower and Good News, Brian would teach family members how to sing the background harmonies. For his birthday that year, Brian received a tape recorder. He learned how to overdub, using his vocals and those of Carl, Brian played piano with Carl and David Marks, an eleven-year-old longtime neighbor, playing guitars they had each received as Christmas presents. Soon Brian and Carl were avidly listening to Johnny Otis KFOX radio show, inspired by the simple structure and vocals of the rhythm and blues songs he heard, Brian changed his piano-playing style and started writing songs. His enthusiasm interfered with his studies at school. Family gatherings brought the Wilsons in contact with cousin Mike Love, Brian taught Loves sister Maureen and a friend harmonies
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Brother Records
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Brother Records, Inc. is a holding company established in 1967 that holds the intellectual property rights of The Beach Boys, including The Beach Boys trademark. Prior to being incorporated, Brother Records was a label founded by Beach Boys manager Nick Grillo in October 1966. Its output was distributed by Capitol Records in 1967, and then Reprise Records throughout 1970–78, motivated in no small part by the negative reaction of Capitol Records to some of Brians ideas for Smile, the new company gave the band more control over their recordings. In 1983, shortly after the death of Dennis Wilson, his estate sold his share back to the corporation to repay loans, in 1998, following Carl Wilsons death, his share of the corporation passed to and is still controlled by his estate. The labels first releases were the Beach Boys Heroes and Villains single and Smiley Smile album in 1967, distributed by Capitol Records. In 1969, however, concurrent with their signing to Reprise Records, the Brother label was reactivated, beginning with the single Add Some Music to Your Day, and the Sunflower album. Numerous other Beach Boys albums followed on the joint Brother/Reprise label during the 1970s, including Holland, an album by The Flame, produced by Carl Wilson, was released in 1970 on the Brother label, distributed by Star-day King Records. By the late 1970s, Beach Boys records were issued on Brother, as of 2007, the most recent CD re-release series of the Beach Boys 1970s albums is on the joint Brother/Capitol Records label. Since the 1980s, Brother Records business manager is Elliott Lott, the logo for Brother Records is a rendition of Cyrus E. Dallins life size bronze statue, Appeal to the Great Spirit, in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The choice of the logo was Brians, edwards, David, Patrice Eyries, Mike Callahan
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Tom Scott (musician)
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Thomas Wright Tom Scott is an American saxophonist, composer, arranger, conductor and bandleader of the west coast jazz/jazz fusion ensemble the L. A. Express. Scott was born in Los Angeles, California,1 hit single Listen to What the Man Said for Wings. In 1976 he played the theme I Still Cant Sleep in Taxi Driver, in 1982, Scott collaborated with Johnny Mathis to write and record two versions – lyrical and instrumental – of Without Us, the theme to the 80s sitcom Family Ties. His version of Today was sampled in the Pete Rock & CL Smooth 1992 hit They Reminisce Over You. In the Philippines, his best known hit is Keep This Love Alive, which is a cut from his 1991 album of the same title, scotts professional career began as a teenager, as leader of a jazz ensemble Neoteric Trio, and then as a first-call session musician. He has dozens of recordings for which he collected thirteen Grammy nominations. He produced two albums for tenor vocalist Daniel Rodriguez, formerly ‘The Singing Policeman’, the first of which, Scott is also a member of the Les Deux Love Orchestra and has conducted over thirty symphony orchestras around the U. S. as music director for Rodriguez. Scott was a member of the Blues Brothers Band, despite his absence in the two films, The Blues Brothers and Blues Brothers 2000. According to Bob Woodwards account in John Belushis biography, Wired, however, he reunited with Dan Aykroyd and the Blues Brothers Band in 1988 to record a few tracks for The Great Outdoors. Guitarist Robben Ford credits Scott and Roger Kellaway, whom he met while playing for Joni Mitchell, as a major influence on his musical development. A
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Caribou (album)
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Caribou, the 1974 album by Elton John, was his fourth chart-topping album in the United States and his third in the United Kingdom. It was the official album release for John. Both these singles reached number 1 in Canada on the RPM100 national Top Singles Chart, in the US the album was certified gold in July 1974 and was certified platinum and 2x platinum in March 1993 by the RIAA. The album was nominated for the Grammy Award for Album of the Year at the 17th Annual Grammy Awards, producer Gus Dudgeon would later add additional backing vocals, horns and other overdubs after John and the band had finished their work. The album was named for the Caribou Ranch recording studio, where part of the album was recorded, in addition to the singles, John has over the years played several others songs from this album in concert, including Grimsby, Youre So Static, Ticking and Dixie Lily. All songs by Elton John and Bernie Taupin, except where noted
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Blue Moves
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Blue Moves is the eleventh official album release by Elton John. It was released in October 1976 and it was Johns second double album and the first to be released by his own label, Rocket Records Ltd. Despite the albums tone and a wave of negative reviews, on its release it reached no.3 on the charts. While giving a concert at Wembley Arena to promote the album and its been a painful decision, whether to come back on the road or not. Ive made a decision tonight – this is going to be the last show, theres a lot more to me than playing on the road. He accordingly left the performing scene. Kenny Passarelli, Caleb Quaye, James Newton-Howard and Roger Pope left the band after the albums release, Newton-Howard would briefly rejoin Johns touring band in 1980. Only Davey Johnstone and Ray Cooper returned in limited roles for Johns next album, John has stated that Blue Moves is one of his favourites of the albums he has recorded. It was Gus Dudgeons last album produced with John for almost a decade, the cover art is from a painting by British artist Patrick Procktor. In the U. S. it was certified gold in October, cage the Songbird was a tribute to legendary French songstress Edith Piaf, and a year or so later was covered by Kiki Dee on an unreleased Rocket album, which finally was issued in 2008. The Beach Boys turned down Chameleon, but Bruce Johnston, a former Beach Boy, John also performed the song at Wembley Stadium in 1975, where he also performed the Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy album in its entirety. An excerpt from Out of the Blue was used for the titles on Top Gear until the end of that Top Gear format. This was one of two albums in which Davey Johnstone does not provide backing vocals, 1997s The Big Picture would be the other, Blue Moves has received negative reviews since its release. Robert Christgau, writing for The Village Voice, giving the album a C rating, described it as impossibly weepy, retrospectively, Lindsay Planer of Allmusic said the album showed the inevitable fatigue of Johns immense creativity that had helped create his previous albums of his career. All songs written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin, except where noted and it has since been remastered and re-released as a 2-CD set retaining the original LP track listing
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15 Big Ones
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15 Big Ones is the 20th studio album by American rock group The Beach Boys released in July 1976. It comprises cover versions of rock and roll and rhythm and blues standards, the album was met with mixed reviews, but the highest sales the band had for a new studio album in many years, peaking at number 8 on the weekly Billboard albums chart. Three singles were issued, a cover of Chuck Berrys Rock and Roll Music, the first two charted on the Billboard Hot 100 at number 8 and number 29, respectively. With Blondie Chaplin and Ricky Fataar having left the Beach Boys since their previous album Holland,15 Big Ones was recorded at a time when the group were struggling with their creative direction, although the band begged his return, they resisted his desire for an underproduced sound. Upon its release, brothers Carl and Dennis Wilson voiced disappointment with the album, calling it unfinished and it was reported that Brian was actively involved in the proceedings but no release occurred. Many of the tapes were destroyed when the Caribou Ranch and its studio burned down. Throughout 1974 and 1975, the group had worked on few tracks that would eventually see release, Child of Winter in December 1974. Dennis Wilsons River Song was first worked on at the Caribou sessions along with the Brian/Mike Love collaboration Its O. K. with the resulting in being the only piece used for 15 Big Ones. In 1975, Brian attempted to establish a Los Angeles collective named California Music, which included Gary Usher, Curt Boettcher, the Beach Boys recent Endless Summer compilation was selling extremely well, and the band—without Brian—was touring non-stop, making them the biggest live draw in the US. Guercio was then fired by the group and replaced by Mikes brother Stephen Love who urged the group to encourage Brian to return to the production helm, according to Stephen, We were under contract with Warner Bros. and we couldnt have him going on a tangent. If he was going to be productive, its gotta be for the Beach Boys, Brian, who had already grown tired of working with the Beach Boys, was then legally ousted from California Music in order to focus his undivided attention on the band. Later in the year, Brian became involved with therapist Eugene Landy who had a role in keeping Brian from indulging in substance abuse with constant supervision. At the end of January 1976, the Beach Boys returned to the studio with an apprehensive Brian producing once again, at the time, he felt, It was a little scary because werent as close. A lot of the guys had developed new personalities through meditation and it was a bit scary and shaky. But we went into the studio with the attitude that we had to get it done, after a week or two in the studio, we started to get the niche again. He attributes his hoarse voice on the album to a bout of laryngitis, Brian decided the band should do an album of rock and roll and doo wop standards, but brothers Carl and Dennis disagreed, feeling that an album of originals was far more ideal. Mike and Al Jardine reportedly wanted the album out as quickly as possible to take advantage of their resurgence of popularity, at one point during the sessions, it was decided that a double album was to be released, one album of covers and another of original material. In the end, a compromise of both new originals and covers was decided upon, though the younger Wilson brothers were displeased, whatever the case, it was a radical shift from previous albums such as Sunflower and Holland
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Dean Martin
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Dean Martin was an Italian-American singer, actor, comedian, and film producer. One of the most popular and enduring American entertainers of the century, Martin was nicknamed the King of Cool for his seemingly effortless charisma. He and Jerry Lewis were partners in the popular comedy team Martin. He was a member of the Rat Pack and a star in concert stages, nightclubs, recordings, motion pictures and he was the host of the television variety program The Dean Martin Show and The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast. Martin was born on June 7,1917, in Steubenville, Ohio, to an Italian father, Gaetano Alfonso Crocetti, and an Italian-American mother, Angela Crocetti. His father, who was a barber, was originally from Montesilvano, in Abruzzo, Martin had an older brother named William Alfonso Crocetti. Martins first language was an Abruzzese dialect of Italian, and he did not speak English until he started school at the age of five and he attended Grant Elementary School in Steubenville where he was bullied for his broken English. He later took up the drums as a hobby as a teenager, Martin then dropped out of Steubenville High School in the 10th grade because he thought he was smarter than his teachers. He bootlegged liquor, served as a croupier, was a blackjack dealer, worked in a steel mill. At 15 he was a boxer who billed himself as Kid Crochet and his prizefighting earned him a broken nose, a scarred lip, many broken knuckles, and a bruised body. Of his 12 bouts, he said, I won all but 11, for a time, he roomed with Sonny King, who, like Martin, was starting in show business and had little money. It is said that Martin and King held bare-knuckle matches in their apartment, fighting until one was knocked out, Martin knocked out King in the first round of an amateur boxing match. Martin gave up boxing to work as a roulette stickman and croupier in an illegal casino behind a tobacco shop, at the same time he sang with local bands, calling himself Dino Martini. He got his break working for the Ernie McKay Orchestra and he sang in a crooning style influenced by Harry Mills, among others. In the early 1940s, he started singing for bandleader Sammy Watkins, in October 1941 Martin married Elizabeth Betty Anne McDonald. They had four children before the marriage ended in 1949, Martin worked for various bands throughout the early 1940s, mostly on looks and personality until he developed his own singing style. Martin flopped at the Riobamba, a nightclub in New York, when he followed Frank Sinatra in 1943, Martin was drafted into the United States Army in 1944 during World War II, serving a year in Akron, Ohio. He was reclassified as 4-F and discharged, possibly because of a double hernia, by 1946, Martin was doing well, but he was little more than an East Coast nightclub singer with a common style, similar to that of Bing Crosby
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The Runaways
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The Runaways were an American all-female rock band that recorded and performed in the second half of the 1970s. The band released four albums and one live set during its run. Among their best-known songs are Cherry Bomb, Hollywood, Queens of Noise, the Runaways, though never a major success in the United States, became a sensation overseas, especially in Japan, thanks to the hit single Cherry Bomb. The Runaways were formed in late 1975 by drummer Sandy West, the two met on their own at Wests home and later called Fowley to let him hear the outcome. Fowley then helped the girls find other members, starting as a power trio with singer/bassist Micki Steele, the Runaways began the party and club circuit around Los Angeles. They soon added lead guitarist Lita Ford who had auditioned for the bass spot. Steele was fired from the group, replaced by local bassist Peggy Foster, lead singer Cherie Currie was found and recruited in a local teen nightclub called the Sugar Shack, followed by Jackie Fox on bass. The Runaways were signed to Mercury Records in 1976 and their debut album, the band toured the U. S. and played numerous sold-out shows. They opened shows with headlining acts such as Cheap Trick and Tom Petty and their second album, Queens of Noise was released in 1977 and the band began a world tour. The Runaways quickly became lumped in with the punk rock movement. In the summer of 1977, their booking agent David Libert sent the group to Japan, the Runaways were the number four imported music act in Japan at the time, behind ABBA, Kiss and Led Zeppelin in terms of album sales and popularity. The girls were unprepared for the onslaught of fans greeted them at the airport. The mass hysteria was described by Jett as being like Beatlemania. While in Japan, the Runaways had their own TV special, did numerous television appearances, also in Japan, Fox left the band shortly before the group was scheduled to appear at the 1977 Tokyo Music Festival. Jett temporarily took over bass duties, when the group returned home, they replaced Fox with Vicki Blue. Currie then left the group after a blow-up with Ford in the fall of 1977, Jett, who had previously shared vocals with Currie, took over lead vocals full-time. The band released their album, Waitin for the Night. Currie released a solo LP, Beautys Only Skin Deep, produced by Kim Fowley, and began a separate U. S. tour, Mercury Records chose not to release Curries album in the U. S. although it was available as a pricey import via France
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Helen Reddy
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Helen Maxine Lamond Reddy is an Australian singer, actress, and activist. In the 1970s, she enjoyed success, especially in the United States. Six made the Top 10 and three reached No,1, including her signature hit I Am Woman. She is often referred to as the Queen of 70s Pop, Reddy placed 25 songs on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart,15 made the Top 10 and eight reached No. In 1974, at the inaugural American Music Awards, she became the first artist to win the award for Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist and she was the first Australian to have three No.1 hits in the same year. In television, she was the first Australian to host her own weekly primetime variety show on an American network. Reddy retired from performance in 2002, returned to university in Australia and earned her degree. In 2011, after singing Breezin Along with the Breeze with her sister, Toni Lamond, for Tonis birthday and her song I Am Woman played a large role in popular culture and became an anthem for second-wave feminism. She came to be known as a feminist poster girl or a feminist icon, in 2011, Billboard named her the No.28 adult contemporary artist of all time. Helen Reddy was born into a well-known Australian show business family in Melbourne and her mother, Stella Campbell, was an actress, and her father, Maxwell David Max Reddy, was a writer, producer, and actor. Her half-sister, Toni Lamond, and her nephew, Tony Sheldon, are actor-singers and she has Irish, Scottish and English ancestry. Her great grandfather, Scotsman Thomas Lamond, was a mayor of Waterloo, New South Wales, whose patron was Hercules Robinson. Her maternal grandmother, Stella Lamond, sang and danced in small parts at the Majestic Theatre in Sydney, patsy Reddy, New Zealands Governor-General, is a distant cousin. Reddy was born during World War II, six weeks before the bombing of Pearl Harbor and her father was a sergeant in the Australian Army with a unit of entertainers, he served alongside one of his actor friends, Peter Finch. They were serving together in New Guinea at the time of Helens birth and her father returned to service during the Korean War. At age four, she joined her parents on the Australian vaudeville circuit, singing and dancing, she recalled, It was instilled in me, so between the ages of 12 and 17, I got rebellious and decided this was not for me. I was going to be a housewife and mother, despite possessing only $200 and a return ticket to Australia, she elected to remain in the United States with 3-year-old Traci and pursue a singing career. Reddy recalled her 1966 appearance at the Three Rivers Inn in Syracuse, Wald recalled that he and Reddy married three days after meeting and, along with daughter Traci, the couple took up residence at the Hotel Albert in Greenwich Village
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Ear Candy (Helen Reddy album)
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Ear Candy debuted on the Billboard 200 album chart in the 21 May 1977 issue of Billboard, during its nineteen-week album chart tenure Ear Candy would peak at #75. RPM, the trade magazine for Canada, would afford Ear Candy an album chart peak of #84. Reddy would be afforded one more charting album in Canada, that being Reddy, Ear Candy was recorded at Brother Studios in February 1977 with production by Kim Fowley, assisted by Earle Mankey. Wald further said of Fowley, He doesnt read a note of music, he doesnt work a dial in that studio, but hes a catalyst. He worked completely opposite from any way weve worked weve always picked the ten songs before weve gone into the studio, worked on all ten of them down perfect, but it wound up on that five of the songs were written in the studio. Helen has always had a block but this time she wrote or co-wrote five songs. Kim loosened her up in the studio and he let her take chances, however Fowley also stated, I see Helen Reddy as the great American voice. Is easily accepted and digested by large groups of people, im not trying to compromise her position but extend it in the same way Simon & Garfunkel went from the Sounds of Silenceto Mrs Robinson. It was still Simon & Garfunkel but in a different perspective, when it was suggested as a track for me to record, I leapt like a trout to the fly. Youre My World also reached number #13 on the Canadian pop chart, in Reddys native Australia a remake of Youre My World had been a #1 hit in January 1975 for Daryl Braithwaite factoring into the Australian release of Reddys version being unsuccessful. The singles B-side, Laissez les Bontemps Rouler, afforded Reddy a unique Hot Country Songs chart appearance with a tenure at #98 reported in the 22 October 1977 issue of Billboard. In November 1977, The Happy Girls reached #65 on the Canadian pop chart, conversely The Happy Girls fared less well on the Cash Box singles chart than in Billboard, the Cash Box peak for The Happy Girls being #75 with a four-week tenure. Also Reddys concert album would be the Live in London - recorded at the London Palladium in May 1978 - with production by Reddy herself collaborating with John Palladino. On 23 February 2010, Ear Candy was released for the first time on disc as one of two albums on one CD, the other album being Reddys tenth studio album release, Well Sing in the Sunshine
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Lisa Hartman Black
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Lisa Hartman Black is an American actress and singer. After some minor appearances, Hartman starred in the short-lived Bewitched spin-off. She subsequently appeared frequently on television in guest roles, and appeared in the 1981 CBS TV remake of Jacqueline Susanns Valley of the Dolls, hartmans breakthrough as an actress came in 1982 when she began appearing on the prime time drama Knots Landing, playing rock singer Ciji Dunne. Her character engaged in romances with the characters played by Ted Shackelford, Hartman was popular with audiences, and when Ciji was murdered off-screen in 1983, there was a public uproar. As a solution, Hartman was brought back on the show as Cathy Geary, also a singer, Hartman remained with the show until 1986, when she was released due to budget cuts and because the shows writers felt there were no further storylines for her character. During her time on the series, she appeared in the film Where the Boys Are 84, Hartman recorded four solo albums between 1976 and 1987 – two for Kirshner Records, one for RCA Records and one for Atlantic Records. Her most notable song is If Love Must Go, which she performed on television shows like Solid Gold. She achieved her most notable success with a duet with her husband entitled When I Said I Do and it reached Number 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts on December 18,1999 and was nominated for a Grammy Award. The duet was ranked #11 on CMTs 100 Greatest Duets in Country Music in 2005 and they recorded a second duet titled Easy For Me to Say, which peaked at #27 on the country music charts in 2002. In summer of 1994, Hartman co-hosted Universal Studios Summer Blast, in April 2011, her albums Lisa Hartman, Hold On, and Letterock were officially released on CD with bonus tracks by Wounded Bird Records under license from Sony. Her last album Til My Heart Stops has already been reissued on CD on Wounded Bird Records, in May 2012, Hartman starred in Flicka, Country Pride a movie from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. She plays the mother of an equestrian rider. In 2005, Hartman starred in a film, Back to You and Me. Growing up in Houston, Texas in 1991, she married musician Clint Black, with whom she has a daughter, Lily Pearl Black and they have lived in Nashville, Tennessee since 2002 after living in Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles, California
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Pacific Ocean Blue
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Pacific Ocean Blue is the debut album by American songwriter-musician Dennis Wilson, co-founder of the Beach Boys, and the only one to be released in his lifetime. When released in August 1977, it was received critically. Two singles were issued from the album, River Song and You and I, the album remains a focal point of Wilsons legacy, being referred to as a classic. Wilson intended to record a follow-up, entitled Bambu, but the album was left unfinished at the time of his death in December 1983. At the time of recording, Dennis hard living had begun affecting his looks and more importantly his singing voice, recalling the time Wilson spent working on the album, co-producer Gregg Jakobson said, This was when he fully accepted himself as an artist. Brian had shown him chords on the piano, but as hed become more proficient the music that came forth was not derivative of that, having his own studio helped tremendously. With a little encouragement, and the tools, Dennis took off. Brian reported that his reaction when Dennis played him early mixes of the album was Dennis, released in August 1977, Pacific Ocean Blue received glowing reviews for its depth and emotion. It has allegedly been praised by his older brother Brian Wilson, the album also performed poorly in the U. S. charts peaking at a disappointing #96 during a short 12 week chart run, and eventually went on to sell fewer than 5,000 copies. It has appeared on several Best-of lists including Robert Dimerys 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, in 2005, it was ranked #18 in GQs The 100 Coolest Albums in the World Right Now. Copies of the extremely rare 1991 CD sold for over $200, legacy Recordings released a special 30th anniversary, 2-disc edition of Pacific Ocean Blue on June 17,2008. It includes material from the Bambu sessions, a limited edition 180-gram vinyl multi-LP box set was also released on the Sundazed label. Notable on the reissue is the inclusion of the song Holy Man, recorded for Pacific Ocean Blue in 1977, Wilson had completed work on the instrumental backing track but never finished a satisfactory vocal, erasing an original attempt. For the reissue, Taylor Hawkins of the Foo Fighters was recruited to record a version in Wilsons style given their similarities. The songs original lyricist, Gregg Jakobson, was tapped to help recall the original melody. Despite missing the UK Album Chart on its original 1977 release, in addition, the package managed to attain a high of #8 on Billboards Top Pop Catalog Albums chart. Official Site Pacific Ocean Blue at MusicBrainz Buddyheads review/interview of POB/Bambu reissue
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The Beach Boys Love You
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The Beach Boys Love You is the 21st studio album by American rock band the Beach Boys, released on April 11,1977. Love You peaked at number 53 on US record charts and was received with a divide between fans and critics. One single was issued from the album, Honkin Down the Highway backed with Solar System, after being asked where somebody should begin with the Beach Boys discography, Wilson answered, Pet Sounds first, then listen to The Beach Boys Love You. A follow-up album, Adult Child, was completed by the group, Love You would remain the last album written and produced by Wilson for the next 11 years — his debut solo outing Brian Wilson marked his comeback. Ten years ago, I had resolved I wasnt going to tour, then, the guys in the group said, Hey Brian, would you help us. We think your presence on the road would improve the quality of the show, another reason was that my psychiatrist wished I would do something to keep me from sitting on my ass, to keep me from going insane. The songs were performed by Wilson through the aid of multitrack recording. From October 13 to November 10,1976, Wilson demoed over sixteen tracks for the Beach Boys next release at Brother Studios, in comparison to the Beach Boys previous 15 Big Ones, Wilson intended Love You to be more creative, more original and lyrically much more interesting. Wilson stated optimistically, Were going to do another Good Vibrations time, due to internal struggles with the group, Wilson felt unable to pursue a solo career, likening his place in the band a commodity in a stock market. To make the album seem more democratic, its title was changed to The Beach Boys Love You, Brian said he chose the name Love You because he thought it would be a good sound people could feel secure with. A few weeks following this performance, he was released from Landys program due to disputes over the monthly fee. The arranging and mixing methods of these instruments were made from a Wall of Sound approach. Producer Earle Mankey served as engineer for the album, According to him, Wilsons studio time was booked by therapist Landy, who forced him to be productive, which was the only way hed get his dinner. Occasionally, Landy rewarded Wilson with a joint of cannabis when performing his duties well, Brother Studios chief administrator Trish Camp recalls an associate of Landy would stand over Wilson with a baseball bat to further his creative inspiration. Mankey described his own role in the album as the low man on the pole, elaborating, I would sit in there with Brian for his morning session. Nobody else wanted to get up that early, and nobody else wanted to sit around if Brian didn’t have anything to do. I spent a lot of time with him – sometimes productive, containing twelve of the songs the Beach Boys had worked on throughout 1976 and 1977, the album also sourced two tracks from earlier recording sessions. Good Time, co-written by Wilson and Al Jardine, was the first of these, having been recorded on January 7,1970, during a Sunflower session
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Bambu (album)
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Dennis Carl Wilson was an American musician, singer, and songwriter who co-founded the Beach Boys. He is best remembered as their drummer and as the brother of bandmates Brian. Dennis was the only true surfer in the Beach Boys, and he was also known for his brief association with then-aspiring songwriter Charles Manson, who was later convicted of murder conspiracy. Dennis served mainly on drums and backing vocals for the Beach Boys from its formation until his death in 1983 and it is often erroneously stated that Dennis drumming in the bands recordings was filled in exclusively by studio musicians. His drumming is documented on a number of the singles, including I Get Around, Fun, Fun, Fun. While he was allowed few lead vocals in the 1960s, his prominence as a singer-songwriter increased into the 1970s and his original songs for the group included Little Bird, Forever, and Slip On Through. Although uncredited, Wilson helped pen You Are So Beautiful, a hit for Joe Cocker in 1974 and his music has been characterized for reflecting his edginess and exhibited little of his happy charm, setting it apart from Brian’s music. By all appearances the happy-go-lucky Beach Boy, Dennis Wilson lived out the proverbial live-fast-die-young motto and his wild side masked an underside that was, by turns, brooding, self-loathing, sensitive, and anxious. Wilsons only solo album, Pacific Ocean Blue, was released to warm reviews, written and recorded over a span of several years, the album peaked on US record charts at number 96 during a 12-week stay. Sessions for a follow-up, Bambu, disintegrated before his death in 1983, five years later, Wilson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Beach Boys. Dennis Carl Wilson was the son of Audree Neva and Murry Gage Wilson and he spent his family years with his brothers and parents in Hawthorne, California. Dennis role in the dynamic, which he himself acknowledged, was that of the black sheep. Though anxiety-filled and aggressive at times he was sensitive and generous. Out of the three Wilson brothers, he was the most likely to get beaten by their strong-willed father Murry. However, Dennis would sing with his brothers late at night in their shared bedroom, Brian noted of the late night brotherly three-part harmonies, We developed a little blend which aided us when we started to get into the Beach Boys stuff. Dennis mother, Audree, forced Brian to include Dennis in the lineup of the Beach Boys. Urged by older cousin Mike Love, Dennis had approached Brian to form a group, the Beach Boys formed in August 1961, with Murry taking over as manager, and were immediately successful. Though the Beach Boys developed their image based on the California surfing culture, in the early years of the Beach Boys, Brian gave him the role of the drummer
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Terry Reid
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Terry Reid is an English rock vocalist and guitarist. He has performed with musicians, as a supporting act, a session musician. Terry Reid was born in Huntingdon, he lived in the village of Holywell & attended St. Ivo School, St. Ives, after leaving school at the age of 15, Reid joined Peter Jays Jaywalkers after being spotted by the bands drummer, Peter Jay. At the time, Reid was playing for a local band, regularly played at the River Club in St Ives. His public profile was enhanced in 1966 when The Jaywalkers were named as an act for The Rolling Stones for their concert at the Royal Albert Hall. Graham Nash of The Hollies became friends with Reid at that concert and their first single, the Soul-inspired The Hand Dont Fit the Glove was a minor hit in 1967, but by then The Jaywalkers had decided to disband. Reid came to the attention of hits producer Mickie Most, who became his manager and his first single with Most, Better By Far, became a radio favourite, but the album, Bang Bang, Youre Terry Reid, was not a commercial success. With accompanying musicians Peter Solley on organ and Keith Webb on drums and his final performance of the tour at the Miami Pop Festival garnered positive reviews from the music press. Both versions were not released until years later, Reid had already committed to go on the road for two tours with The Rolling Stones and another with Cream. An alternative reason for Reids refusal to join the nascent Led Zeppelin surfaced in a mid 80s article in NME on supposed satanic connections within the rock world. The article claimed that it was Pages heavy reputation as a Crowleyan black magician, Reid later was offered a position as a member of Deep Purple when they decided to replace singer Rod Evans, but once again, he declined due to contractual agreements. Ian Gillan was given the position instead, in 1969, Reid supported British tours, notably Jethro Tull and Fleetwood Mac. Reid, Solley and Webb toured the United States again when he opened for The Rolling Stones on their 1969 American Tour and he did not appear at the infamous Rolling Stones concert at Altamont Music Festival. In his May 2016 interview with Marc Maron, he discussed other groups, in December 1969, Reid had a falling out with producer Mickie Most, who wanted Reid to become a balladeer, and to strictly follow his own formula. In 1970, he returned briefly to England to perform at the Isle of Wight Festival, supported by David Lindley, during this period he also performed at the Atlanta II Pop Festival. Reid was filmed performing in Glastonbury Fayre, the 1971 film by David Puttnam, later White left to join Yes and Lindley left to tour with Jackson Browne, Lee Miles remained and was Reids trusty sidekick for many years to come. Other sessions for this album included Conrad Isodore on drums and Willie Bobo on percussion the album titled River, produced byTom Dowd and mixed by Yes Eddie Offord, was eventually released in 1973 and received favourable reviews, but failed commercially. The remainder of the material from those sessions was released in 2016 as The Other Side of The River
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Mink DeVille
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Mink DeVille was a rock band known for its association with early punk rock bands at New York’s CBGB nightclub and for being a showcase for the music of Willy DeVille. The band recorded six albums in the years 1977 to 1985, except for frontman Willy DeVille, the original members of the band played only on the first two albums. For the remaining albums and for tours, Willy DeVille assembled musicians to play under the name Mink DeVille. After 1985, when Willy DeVille began recording and touring under his own name, his bands were sometimes called “The Mink DeVille Band. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame songwriter Doc Pomus said about the band, “Mink DeVille knows the truth of a city street and the courage in a ghetto love song. And the harsh reality in his voice and phrasing is yesterday, today, and tomorrow — timeless in the way that loneliness, no money. Said DeVille, “I met Manfred at a party, hed been playing with John Lee Hooker, I met Rubén at a basement jam in San Francisco, and he liked everything I liked from The Drifters to, uh, Fritz Lang. Willy DeVille occasionally sat in with the band Lazy Ace, which included Allen Jr. on drums, when Lazy Ace broke up, DeVille, Allen Jr. Colbert, Rubén Sigüenza, and guitarist Robert McKenzie formed a band called Billy de Sade and the Marquis. We were playing the leather bars down on Folsom Street, Willy DeVille recalled and we were Billy de Sade and the Marquis then. After a while they would take their clothes off and this one guy—Jesus Satin he called himself—hed dance on the pool table. In 1975, the changed its name to Mink DeVille. Said DeVille, “We were sitting around talking of names, and some of them were really rude, then one of the guys said how about Mink DeVille. There cant be anything cooler than a fur-lined Cadillac can there, DeVille also remarked about the name, What could be more pimp than a mink Cadillac. In an impressionistic sort of way, another story about the Mink DeVille name says that it originated with Fast Floyd, who owned an old Cadillac with a cracked dashboard. To cover the cracks, Fast Floyd glued an old mink coat he had purchased at a store to the dashboard. According to a 1977 article in Creem, DeVilles wife Toots Deville suggested the name. the band looked like it might have been going nowhere, so maybe another name change would help—God knows the music was great. No, its gotta be something slick—something sorta French, somethin sorta black. poetry, blurted out Toots, Willies omnipresent, black-bouffanted old lady, whose quiet intensity is not unlike his own. This issue of Creem shows a picture of DeVille driving a car with what looks to be mink on the dashboard
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Le Chat Bleu
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Le Chat Bleu, released in 1980, is the third album by the rock band Mink DeVille. The album received acclaim and elevated lead singer and composer Willy DeVille to star status. The Rolling Stone Critic’s Poll ranked Le Chat Bleu the fifth best album of 1980, the album cover is a photo of Willys first wife Toots Devilles tattoo on her shoulder. Le Chat Bleu was recorded in Paris, I wanted that sound, Willy DeVille told Rolling Stone. French records are so much more vivid, I knew what I was going for—this record was my dream. Instead of Jack Nitzsche, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Steve Douglas, another associate of Phil Spector, Le Chat Bleu was the last Mink DeVille album to feature any original members of the band besides Willy DeVille. Willy DeVille wrote some songs with the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame member Doc Pomus, as well as classic rock, DeVille delved into Cajun music and the French cabaret tradition for this album. The album includes a cover of Bad Boy, the 1957 hit by The Jive Bombers, jean Claude Petit supervised the string arrangements of some songs. In Lonely Avenue, a biography of Doc Pomus, Alex Halberstadt wrote about Le Chat Bleu and it was clear that Willy had realized his fantasy of a new, completely contemporary Brill Building record. To the symphonic sweetness of the Drifters he added his own Gallic romance and, in his vocal, Doc was elated when he heard it. Thinking theyd signed a new band, Capitol didnt know what to do with Willys rock and roll chanson. When it was released in 1980, Le Chat Bleu, remixed by Joel Dorn. That really broke my heart, DeVille said, That record was my ‘Starry Night. ’ Records are like children and your blood is on those tracks, and you do the best you can. They threw dust in my face, to them the music was too avant-garde. They said, ‘We really don’t know what to do with this, we’ve never heard anything like this before. ’ They didn’t even know what Cajun music was. Reported Kurt Loder of Rolling Stone, Despite DeVilles indisputable chops, burgeoning import sales finally forced Capitol to change its mind, but with DeVille now signed to Atlantic, Le Chat Bleu is probably a dead issue. Which is a shame, because its one of the years most impressive discs, DeVille told Leap in the Dark, On Le Chat Blue we had all these great people involved, you know, and we thought we had something great. I came back to America, and my label at that time said, “Well, we think we should put it on the shelf for a while. ”This was right before Christmas for Gods sake when you know people are going to be buying stuff, so I asked them what the problem was
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Donna Summer
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LaDonna Adrian Gaines, better known by her stage name Donna Summer, was an American singer, songwriter, and actress. She gained prominence during the era of the late 1970s. Summer has reportedly sold over 140 million records, making her one of the worlds best-selling artists of all time and she also charted two number-one singles on the R&B charts in the U. S. and one number-one in the U. K. Summer earned a total of 32 hit singles on the U. S. Billboard Hot 100 chart in her lifetime, with 14 of those reaching the top ten. She claimed a top 40 hit every year between 1975 and 1984, and from her first top ten hit in 1976, to the end of 1982, she had 12 top ten hits, more than any other act. She returned to the Hot 100s top five in 1983, and her most recent Hot 100 hit came in 1999 with I Will Go With You. While her fortunes on the Hot 100 waned through those decades, while influenced by the counterculture of the 1960s, Summer became the lead singer of a psychedelic rock band named Crow and moved to New York City. Joining a touring version of the musical Hair, she left New York and spent several years living, acting, and singing in Europe and she became known as the Queen of Disco, while her music gained a global following. Summer died on May 17,2012, at her home in Naples, in her obituary in The Times, she was described as the undisputed queen of the Seventies disco boom who reached the status of one of the worlds leading female singers. Giorgio Moroder described Summers work with him on the song I Feel Love as really the start of electronic dance music, in 2013, Summer was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In December 2016, Billboard Magazine ranked her as the 6th most successful dance artist of all-time, laDonna Adrian Gaines was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Andrew and Mary Gaines, and was one of seven children. She was raised in the Boston neighborhood of Mission Hill and her father was a butcher and her mother was a schoolteacher. Summers performance debut occurred at church when she was eight years old and she later attended Bostons Jeremiah E. Burke High School where she performed in school musicals and was considered popular. In 1967, just weeks before graduation, Donna left for New York where she joined the rock band Crow. After they were passed on by a label that was only interested in the bands lead singer. Summer stayed in New York and auditioned for a role in the counterculture musical and she landed the part of Sheila, and agreed to take the role in the Munich production of the show, moving there after getting her parents reluctant approval. Summer eventually became fluent in German, singing songs in that language, and participated in the musicals Ich bin ich, Godspell. Within three years, she moved to Vienna, Austria, and joined the Vienna Volksoper and she briefly toured with an ensemble vocal group called FamilyTree, the creation of producer Günter Yogi Lauke
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Barbra Streisand
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Barbara Joan Barbra Streisand is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker. She is among a group of entertainers who have been honored with an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award. Streisand is one of the music artists of all time, with more than 68.5 million albums in the United States. She starred in the critically acclaimed Funny Girl, for which she won the Academy Award, with the release of Yentl in 1983, Streisand became the first woman to write, produce, direct, and star in a major studio film. The film won an Oscar for Best Score and a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Musical, Streisand received the Golden Globe Award for Best Director, the first woman to win that award. The RIAA and Billboard recognize Streisand as holding the record for the most top 10 albums of any recording artist. According to Billboard, Streisand holds the record for the female with the most number one albums, Billboard also recognizes Streisand as the greatest female of all time on its Billboard 200 chart and one of the greatest artists of all time on its Hot 100 chart. Barbara Joan Streisand was born on April 24,1942, in Brooklyn, New York and her mother had been a soprano singer in her youth and considered a career in music, but later became a school secretary. Her father was a school teacher at the same school. Streisands family was Jewish, her grandparents emigrated from Galicia and her maternal grandparents from the Russian Empire. Her father earned a degree from City College of New York in 1928 and was considered athletic. As a student, he spent his summers outdoors, once working as a lifeguard, hed try anything, his sister Molly said. He married Ida in 1930, two years after graduating, and became a respected educator with a focus on helping underprivileged. In August 1943, a few months after Streisands first birthday, her father died suddenly at age 34 from complications from an epileptic seizure, the family fell into near-poverty, with her mother working as a low-paid bookkeeper. As an adult, Streisand remembered those early years as always feeling like an outcast, explaining and her mother tried to pay their bills but could not give her daughter the attention she craved, When I wanted love from my mother, she gave me food, Streisand says. Streisand recalls that her mother had a voice and sang semi-professionally on occasion. During a visit to the Catskills when Streisand was thirteen, she told Rosie ODonnell, she and that session was the first time Streisand ever asserted herself as an artist, which also became her first moment of inspiration as an artist. She has a brother, Sheldon, and a half-sister
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No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)
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No More Tears is a 1979 song recorded as a duet by Barbra Streisand and Donna Summer. The song was recorded for Streisands Wet album and also as a new track for Summers compilation double album entitled On the Radio, the full-length version was found on Streisands album, while a longer 11 minute plus version was featured on Summers album. The Summer version features additional production by frequent collaborator Harold Faltermeyer, the single was released on both Casablanca Records and Columbia Records and sales of the two were amalgamated. The versions on the two 7 singles differed slightly however, with different mixes and slightly different background vocal arrangements, the formats differed between nations—in the UK for example, the song was only released on 7 by Casablanca, and 12 by Columbia. Although the sales of the two releases were amalgamated, both the 7 and the 12 were certified Gold by the RIAA in early 1980. The 7 single was eventually certified Platinum, signifying sales of two million US copies. Bowing on the Hot 100 at number 59 on 20 October 1979 and it was also a big international hit, and made the top three in the UK. Barbra Streisand included a snippet of it in her 2012 Back To Brooklyn Tour, talking about the recent passing of Donna Summer. In 2017, a remix of the song with the title of Enough Is Enough,2017 went to the Top 10 on the US Dance Club Songs chart. He performed the song as a duet, sung by two characters that he does impressions of, Richard Simmons and an adult version of Buckwheat from The Little Rascals. In 1993, k. d. lang and Erasures Andy Bell performed the live at the BRIT Awards. In 1994, Kym Mazelle and Jocelyn Brown released a cover of the song reached number 13 on the UK chart. In 2003, Telma Hopkins and Valarie Pettiford performed the song in the episode The Big Mothers of a Mothers Day Episode on the comedy sitcom, in 2004, Summer re-recorded the track with the Irish pop band Westlife for the compilation album, Discomania. In 2004, Diana DeGarmo performed a cover of the song on American Idol as Donna Summer served as a guest judge during Disco Week, in 2008, Amber and Zelma Davis collaborated on a cover of the song. In 2008, Ruth Lorenzo performed a cover of the song on The X Factor during disco week, helena Vondráčková and Bára Basiková recorded the Czech-language rendering Mám toho dost for Vondráčkovás 2009 album Zustavaš tu se mnou. In 2013, Sam Bailey performed a cover of the song on The X Factor during Week 4/Disco Week, in 2016, Saara Aalto performed a cover of the song on The X Factor during Week 6/Disco Week. Enough is Enough was part of the medley of songs about men that Liza Minnelli and her back-up girls sang in 1993s Liza Minnelli, Donna Summer performed a new version of the song with Tina Arena for a live concert which aired on VH-1 called Live & More Encore. The song was included on the album, Summer also performed another live version with Westlife on the British ITVs Discomania in 2004
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International Standard Book Number
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The International Standard Book Number is a unique numeric commercial book identifier. An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation of a book, for example, an e-book, a paperback and a hardcover edition of the same book would each have a different ISBN. The ISBN is 13 digits long if assigned on or after 1 January 2007, the method of assigning an ISBN is nation-based and varies from country to country, often depending on how large the publishing industry is within a country. The initial ISBN configuration of recognition was generated in 1967 based upon the 9-digit Standard Book Numbering created in 1966, the 10-digit ISBN format was developed by the International Organization for Standardization and was published in 1970 as international standard ISO2108. Occasionally, a book may appear without a printed ISBN if it is printed privately or the author does not follow the usual ISBN procedure, however, this can be rectified later. Another identifier, the International Standard Serial Number, identifies periodical publications such as magazines, the ISBN configuration of recognition was generated in 1967 in the United Kingdom by David Whitaker and in 1968 in the US by Emery Koltay. The 10-digit ISBN format was developed by the International Organization for Standardization and was published in 1970 as international standard ISO2108, the United Kingdom continued to use the 9-digit SBN code until 1974. The ISO on-line facility only refers back to 1978, an SBN may be converted to an ISBN by prefixing the digit 0. For example, the edition of Mr. J. G. Reeder Returns, published by Hodder in 1965, has SBN340013818 -340 indicating the publisher,01381 their serial number. This can be converted to ISBN 0-340-01381-8, the check digit does not need to be re-calculated, since 1 January 2007, ISBNs have contained 13 digits, a format that is compatible with Bookland European Article Number EAN-13s. An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation of a book, for example, an ebook, a paperback, and a hardcover edition of the same book would each have a different ISBN. The ISBN is 13 digits long if assigned on or after 1 January 2007, a 13-digit ISBN can be separated into its parts, and when this is done it is customary to separate the parts with hyphens or spaces. Separating the parts of a 10-digit ISBN is also done with either hyphens or spaces, figuring out how to correctly separate a given ISBN number is complicated, because most of the parts do not use a fixed number of digits. ISBN issuance is country-specific, in that ISBNs are issued by the ISBN registration agency that is responsible for country or territory regardless of the publication language. Some ISBN registration agencies are based in national libraries or within ministries of culture, in other cases, the ISBN registration service is provided by organisations such as bibliographic data providers that are not government funded. In Canada, ISBNs are issued at no cost with the purpose of encouraging Canadian culture. In the United Kingdom, United States, and some countries, where the service is provided by non-government-funded organisations. Australia, ISBNs are issued by the library services agency Thorpe-Bowker
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Al Jardine
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Alan Charles Al Jardine is an American musician, singer and songwriter who co-founded the Beach Boys. He is best known as the rhythm guitarist, and for occasionally singing lead vocals on singles such as Help Me, Rhonda, Then I Kissed Her. In 2010, Jardine released his solo studio album, A Postcard from California. In 1988, Jardine was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Beach Boys, alan Charles Jardine was born in Lima, Ohio, but his family moved to San Francisco and later to Hawthorne, California. At Hawthorne High School, he befriended fellow football player Brian Wilson and watched Brian, Jardines primary musical interest was folk, and he learned banjo and guitar specifically to play folk music. When the Beach Boys formed at Wilsons home, Jardine first tried to push the band toward folk, an all-rounder on string instruments, Jardine played stand-up bass on the Beach Boys first recording, the song Surfin. Following his brief departure from the band in early 1962, he dabbled with a career in the air industry in Los Angeles, Al Jardine played bass on the Beach Boys first record for Candix Records. Jardine is the rhythm guitarist and middle-range harmony vocalist. He first sang lead on Christmas Day, on 1964s The Beach Boys Christmas Album and followed shortly after with the Number 1 hit Help Me, thereafter he regularly sang leads on tracks. Beginning with his contributions to the Friends album, Jardine wrote or co-wrote a number of songs for the Beach Boys, California Saga, California from the Holland album, charted in early 1973. Jardines song for his first wife, Lady Lynda, scored a Top Ten chart entry in the UK, increasingly from the time of the Surfs Up album, Al became involved alongside Carl Wilson in production duties for the Beach Boys. He shared production credits with Ron Altbach on M. I. U, Album and was a significant architect of the albums concept and content. As with Lady Lynda and his 1969 rewrite of Lead Bellys Cotton Fields, Come Go with Me, Album were Jardine productions, the first being a measurable hit in the UK. Jardine instigated the Beach Boys recording of a cover of the Mamas, the associated music video featured in heavy rotation on MTV and secured extensive international airplay. Following Carl Wilsons death in 1998, Jardine left the touring version of The Beach Boys, in 2001, Jardines band released Live in Las Vegas. In late 2006, Jardine joined Brian Wilsons band for a tour celebrating the 40th anniversary of Pet Sounds. In March 2008, Jardine settled a lawsuit brought against him by Love, Love had leased the Beach Boys name, and it was deemed that Jardines newly formed band, called the Beach Boys Family & Friends, was a breach of title use. In 2009, Jardines lead vocal on Big Sur Christmas was released on MP3 download, produced by longtime Red Barn Studios engineer Stevie Heger under Hegers bands name, the track also was released on the Hey Stevie album, Eloquence
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Mike Love
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Michael Edward Mike Love is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and activist who co-founded the Beach Boys. Characterized by his nasal, sometimes baritone singing, Love has been one of the vocalists and lyricists for most of their career. He is often regarded as a figure in the bands history. In the 1960s, Love collaborated with Wilson and was a lyricist on singles including Fun, Fun, Fun, during this period, his lyrics primarily reflected the youth culture of surfing, cars, and romance, which helped fashion pop cultures perception of the California Dream. Starting in 1968, Love became a teacher of Transcendental Meditation under Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the experience influenced his lyrics to take on themes of astrology, meditation, politics and ecology. Following this, Loves lyrical direction shifted to attempt to recapture the bands earlier, in the late 1970s, Love began working on solo albums, releasing his first and only in 1981, Looking Back with Love. In 1988, he, along with the founding members of the Beach Boys, was inducted into the Rock. The same year, the song, Kokomo, co-written by Love, in 1998, following the death of cousin Carl Wilson, Love and longtime Beach Boy Bruce Johnston were given an exclusive license to tour under the name the Beach Boys. The other surviving Beach Boys, Brian Wilson and Al Jardine, in 2011, the group reunited to produce a new album and embark on a tour for their 50th anniversary. Following the 50th anniversary reunion shows, Love resumed touring only with Johnston, Loves mother, Emily Wilson, was the sister of Mary and Murry Wilson, a family resident in Los Angeles since the early 1920s. Glee married Edward Milton Love, the son of the founder of the Love Sheet Metal Company, michael Edward, the first of six children, was born in the Baldwin Hills district of Los Angeles, in 1941, thereafter the family moved to the upmarket View Park area. Mike attended Dorsey High School and graduated in 1959, unsure of a career direction, he pumped gas and briefly joined his fathers company, whose fortunes dramatically declined in the late 1950s. Both Milt and Glee Love were active in sports, and Glee had a distinct interest in painting, like her brother, Murry, however, she was also strong-willed and, according to her husband, a dominant personality. The family was close-knit and regularly socialized with Murry and Audree Wilson, Murry Wilson was a part-time songwriter. Mike Love befriended the Wilson sons and often sang at family get-togethers at the Wilsons home in nearby Hawthorne and it was here, under the vocal harmony guidance of Brian Wilson, that the Beach Boys sound was established, predominantly influenced by Brians devotion to the Four Freshmens arrangements. Musical accompaniment during this phase was solely Brians self-taught piano. With the failure of Love Sheet Metal, the family was forced to move to a modest two-bedroom house in Inglewood, Love played rudimentary saxophone in the first years of the fledgling garage band that evolved from the Pendletones to the Beach Boys. He also established himself, along with neighbor Gary Usher, local DJ Roger Christian, as the Beach Boys career developed, all members contributed lead vocals to hit songs, but Love remained the central vocal focus on songs like Do It Again
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Blondie Chaplin
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Terence William Blondie Chaplin is a singer and guitarist from Durban, South Africa, where he played in the band The Flames in the mid-to late-1960s. He became known to audiences in the early 1970s as a singer. He is a backing vocalist, percussionist, and acoustic rhythm guitarist for English band The Rolling Stones on their recordings and tours over a 10-year period. To date he has released two studio albums. Both Chaplin and Ricky Fataar were members of Durban-based rock band The Flames and their 1968 album Soulfire produced a hit in South Africa, the bands cover of For Your Precious Love was #1 on white radio for thirteen weeks. Beach Boy Carl Wilson heard The Flames while the band was performing in London, Wilson signed them to the Beach Boys Brother Records label and produced their self-titled album, The Flame, which featured soulful rock/pop songs in the vein of The Beach Boys and Badfinger. The Flames were the band aside from The Beach Boys to record for Brother Records. Chaplin, along with drummer Ricky Fataar, joined the Beach Boys when original drummer Dennis Wilson suffered an injury that left him unable to play the drums for almost two years. For the Beach Boys, it was a period in which long-time member Bruce Johnston had departed the band, as a result, Chaplin and Fataar joined the Beach Boys as full-fledged members and not merely as backing musicians. Chaplin left the group in 1973 after a dispute with the Beach Boys management, Chaplin sang lead on various Beach Boys songs from two studio albums, Carl and the Passions – So Tough and Holland, and plays on the live album The Beach Boys in Concert. Sail On, Sailor from the album Holland, on which he is the singer, is his signature song. Following his time with the Beach Boys, Chaplin recorded a self-titled album, during the late 1980s Chaplin toured with The Band, replacing some of Richard Manuels vocals and playing guitar and, occasionally, drums. Chaplin was also a player in former Byrds members Gene Clark and Michael Clarkes then new band, The 20th Anniversary Celebration of the Byrds. Chaplin appeared on the Jennifer Warnes albums Shot Through the Heart, The Hunter, Chaplin also played on High on the Hog, the ninth studio album by The Band, released in 1996, to which he also contributed his composition, Where I Should Always Be. Chaplin toured with former Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor and performed on his live album, the Bridges to Babylon album lists Chaplins credits as backing vocals, tambourine, piano, bass guitar, percussion, shakers, and maracas. Chaplin is the vocalist, songwriter, and lead guitar player with Skollie, Chaplin has recorded three solo albums, most recently Between Us in 2006. In late 2013, Chaplin was featured at select shows of former Beach Boys bandmate Brian Wilson and he also joined Wilsons Pet Sounds 50th Anniversary World Tour in 2016, performing alongside the touring band. Other albums and videos from the Blondie Chaplin catalogue, The Flames – Burning Soul/Soulfire. com
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Ricky Fataar
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Ricky Fataar is a South African multi-instrumentalist of Cape Malay descent, who has performed as both a drummer and a guitarist. He gained fame as an actor in The Rutles, All You Need Is Cash and he is also known for his stint as a member of The Beach Boys. Fataar may also be recognized for his contributions as a record producer, fataars first childhood band was The Flames, a band from his birthplace of Durban, South Africa that began in 1963. He joined the band at the age of nine, the band made several recordings as well as touring all over Southern Africa and before long they became quite popular in South Africa. By the time he was years old he had already won the honour of being voted as the Best Rock Drummer in South Africa. In 1968 the band moved to London and began touring in the United Kingdom, on one of their tours, they were spotted by a member of The Beach Boys, Carl Wilson. He was impressed by their talent and offered to them to the Beach Boys new record label. The band moved to Los Angeles, United States, and they recorded and released their 1970 album The Flame with Carl Wilson producing the album. The Flames disbanded in late 1970, and Fataar and his former Flame bandmate Blondie Chaplin were recruited by The Beach Boys, Fataar was asked to play drums for the band after drummer Dennis Wilson suffered a debilitating hand accident. The duo recorded two albums with the Beach Boys, and began touring with them in 1970, the 1972 Beach Boys album Carl and the Passions – So Tough featured musical and vocal contributions from Chaplin and Fataar. It also included two written by the duo, Here She Comes and Hold On Dear Brother. On the bands album, Holland, released a year later, both musicians recorded, and provided backing vocals, including the hit single Sail On, Sailor. They additionally collaborated with Carl Wilson and Mike Love on the song Leaving This Town,1973 saw the first live album The Beach Boys in Concert, upon which Fataar performed. Although both Fataar and Chaplin had left the prior to the recording of the Beach Boys next studio album, 1976s 15 Big Ones. His character was Stig OHara, the bands guitarist and he speaks no dialogue in the film, and indeed he is sent up as the quiet one in it. Fataars then wife, Penelope Tree, also appeared in All You Need Is Cash, as Stigs wife, Penelope. Fataar is less than quiet on the two produced by The Rutles, The Rutles and Archeology which featured him playing guitar, bass, sitar, drums. He would also go on to record a single with Eric Idle as Dirk & Stig titled, Fataar has also combined his talents as an actor and a musician, developing musical scores for both film and television
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David Marks
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David Lee Marks is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. Following his initial departure from the band, Marks fronted the Marksmen, over the next two years, Marks performed on the bands first four studio albums, Surfin Safari, Surfin U. S. A. Surfer Girl, and Little Deuce Coupe, following an argument with Murry Wilson, the Wilson brothers father and the bands Manager, Marks left The Beach Boys in 1963, but remained a legal member until September,1967. Initially signing to A&M Records, and later releasing a single on Warner Bros. Records, Marks went on to front the Marksmen, and perform and record with other acts, including, Casey Kasems Band Without a Name, The Moon, Delaney & Bonnie, Colours. In 1969, Marks relocated to Boston to study jazz and classical guitar at the Berklee College of Music, Marks departed from the band for a second time after receiving a positive diagnosis for hepatitis C. In 2007, Marks released an autobiography, entitled The Lost Beach Boy, in 2012, Marks reunited with the remaining original members of the Beach Boys to record Thats Why God Made the Radio. Marks also joined the band on its 2012 fiftieth anniversary tour, with surviving founders Brian Wilson, Love, and Jardine, following the tours completion, Marks continued working with Wilson and Jardine on Wilsons solo performances and 2015 studio album, No Pier Pressure. Describing the neighborhood, Marks noted, It was run down, the houses were older and the Wilsons lived in a pretty small, modest two-bedroom home. The boys all shared a bedroom, when they got older, Brian started sleeping in the den more and more, which was a converted garage they had turned into a music room. They had a Hammond B-3 organ, a piano and a little hi-fi in there. As the 1950s progressed Marks sang and played music with the Wilson family at their Sunday night singalongs, inspired by a 1958 performance by guitarist John Maus, Marks asked his parents to buy him a guitar, which they did on Christmas Eve,1958. He began taking lessons from Maus, who had been a student of Ritchie Valens, in 1959, Marks and Brian Wilsons youngest brother Carl had begun to develop their own style of playing electric guitars. Over the next couple of months, Brian experimented with various combinations of musicians, including his mother Audree Wilson, in mid-February 1962, a new line-up was established, excluding Al Jardine who had left. According to biographer Jon Stebbins, Markss guitar chemistry with Carl Wilson changed the sound of the band, writing about the difference between the Beach Boys Candix Records single and their first Capitol Records release, Stebbins stated, Compared to Surfin, this was metal. No sign of stand-up bass or folk sensibility on this recording, and the tiny amateurish guitar sound and lazy feel of the World Pacific version of Surfin Safari had now transformed into something crisp and modern. It was Carl and Dave who brought that electric guitar drive into the band, and because of that, Brian was able to expand a little bit. Marks would continue to sing and play guitar with the Beach Boys long enough to record on the first four albums, as well as early hits such as Surfin Safari,409
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Bruce Johnston
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Bruce Arthur Johnston is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer best known as a member of The Beach Boys. In 1965, Johnston joined the band for performances, filling in for the groups co-founder Brian Wilson. Johnston then became a member on subsequent albums. He is also known for his early 1960s collaborations with Terry Melcher as Bruce & Terry and with the band the Rip Chords. As a child Johnston was adopted by William and Irene Johnston of Chicago and grew up on the West side of Los Angeles in Brentwood and his adoptive father was president of the Owl Rexall Drug Company in Los Angeles after moving from Walgreens in Chicago. Johnston attended the private Bel Air Town and Country School in Los Angeles, in high school, Johnston switched to contemporary music. He performed in a few beginning bands during this time and then moved on to working with musicians such as Sandy Nelson, Kim Fowley. Soon Johnston began backing people such as Ritchie Valens, the Everly Brothers, in 1959, while still in high school, Johnston arranged and played on his first hit record, Teen Beat by Sandy Nelson. The single reached the Billboard Top Ten, the same year, Johnston made his first single under his own name, Take This Pearl on Arwin Records as part of the Bruce & Jerry duo. In 1960, Johnston started his production career at Del-Fi Records, producing five singles. In 1963 came the first collaboration with his friend Terry Melcher, the first artist the pair produced was a group called the Rip Chords. The two of them made a few recordings as Bruce & Terry and the Rogues, but Melcher began to more on his production career. On April 9,1965, Johnston joined the Beach Boys, replacing Glen Campbell, Johnston did not start playing bass until his first tenure with the Beach Boys, and the very first vocal recording Johnston made as one of the Beach Boys was California Girls. Johnston is frequently credited as one of the original greatest supporters of the Beach Boys 1966 signature album Pet Sounds and he flew to London in May 1966 and played the album for John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and Keith Moon, who was a Beach Boys fan. Johnston also sang lead on three songs from the 1970 Beach Boys album Sunflower, Tears in the Morning, Deirdre, and At My Window. Johnston left the Beach Boys in 1972 to embark on a solo career, I Write the Songs has been recorded by over two hundred artists, and it currently has a cumulative singles/albums worldwide sales figure of twenty-five million copies. Johnston returned to the fold in 1978 at Brian Wilsons request to appear on the album L. A, the following year he was credited as sole producer on the follow-up LP, Keepin the Summer Alive. Johnston has remained with the Beach Boys ever since and was the member to continue touring with Mike Love as The Beach Boys after the death of Carl Wilson
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Surfin' Safari
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Surfin Safari is the debut studio album by American rock band the Beach Boys, released on October 1,1962 on Capitol Records. The album peaked at number 32 in its 37-week run on the US charts, the album was preceded by two singles, Surfin and Surfin Safari, which charted at numbers 75 and 14, respectively. The success of Surfin Safari helped secure an album for the group while an additional single, Ten Little Indians, was issued. The group is comprised of people from Hawthorne, California, named Wilson … there’s Brian, Dennis, Carl, and their Dad, Murry Wilson. Then there’s the boys talented cousin, Mike Love … who sings both the tenor and deep bass parts in their unusual vocal arrangements. … young David Marks, a neighbor of the Wilsons who plays a rhythm guitar. Brian, the oldest of the Wilson boys, is the group’s leader, Carl is the very accomplished lead guitarist, while brother Dennis sings and plays the drums. None of them, incidentally, had any training. In the autumn of 1961, cousins Brian Wilson and Mike Love composed a song on surfing, titled Surfin at the behest of Brians younger sibling, Dennis Wilson. They quickly formed a band, bringing in the youngest Wilson brother Carl on lead guitar, Brian took up bass, Dennis the drums and Mike would be the frontman, while they all would harmonize vocals arranged by Brian. Released that December, produced by Hite Morgan, and backed by Luau, father Murry Wilson became the bands manager. He submitted a professionally recorded demo tape to Capitol Records that spring, the Beach Boys were signed and Surfin Safari b/w 409 was released as a single that June. With both Surfin Safari and 409 becoming hits, Capitol Records approved a full album, Brian Wilson, who regularly collaborated with Mike Love and Gary Usher, contributed the songs that made up the bulk of the LP. The second single, Ten Little Indians, was successful, reaching only number 49. Though Mike and Brian are the most prominent singers, Dennis makes his first vocal appearance on Little Girl, the front cover of Surfin Safari features a yellow pickup truck and surfboard, with band mates David Marks, Dennis Wilson, Mike Love, Brian Wilson and Carl Wilson. The photo was taken on the beach at Paradise Cove, north of Malibu, the picture was taken by in-house Capitol photographer Ken Veeder, in a photo shoot that would also produce the cover for the bands 1963 album Surfer Girl. The album was released through Capitol on October 1,1962, in the UK, the album was not released until April 1963, and failed to chart. 4 of the 12 songs on the album have been performed live in concert by the Beach Boys, Surfin Safari and 409 are regulars in set lists while Surfin and Summertime Blues have been played with varying frequency
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Surfin' U.S.A.
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Surfin U. S. A. is the second studio album by American rock band The Beach Boys. It reached number two in the US, lasting 78 weeks on the chart, eventually being certified gold by the RIAA. It was led by one single, its track with the B-side Shut Down. In the United Kingdom, the album was released in late 1965. The majority of the recording commenced in the first week of 1963. The album marks the beginning of his practice to doubletrack vocals, resulting in a fuller sound. In 1990, Brian Wilson reflected on Surfin U. S. A. in liner notes which accompanied its first CD issue, By the time I got to the album, SURFIN’ USA, the album SURFIN’ SAFARI was practice for me. We were just kids, but we were serious about our craft, the point being that when you are given the chance, you do your best. I think that I was a coach for the boys. It was either the best or nothin’, in my opinion and we had a good understanding between us and I was their leader. We got it done relatively fast in the studio, on this album, we had gotten into a fast pace, almost athletic in nature. It was because Surfin’ USA was such a hit on the radio. It was the big time for us, production-wise, this album was an early Brian Wilson production. Intended for the front cover of Seversons Surfer magazine, the negative was damaged during the color separation process. When Capitol Records requested a photograph for the new Beach Boys album Severson fixed the damaged image. The LP was a hit, vital to launching surf music as a national craze. And it was this quality came to define Brian’s oeuvre as he moved beyond
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Surfer Girl
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Surfer Girl is the third studio album by American rock band The Beach Boys and their second longplayer in 1963. Surfer Girl reached number 7 in the US during a stay of 56 weeks. In the UK, the album was released in spring 1967 and this was the first album by the Beach Boys for which Brian Wilson was given full production credit, a position Wilson would maintain for the next few years. For the first time producing an album himself, Brian Wilson co-wrote with Mike Love, the title track, a number 7 US hit, was the first song Brian had ever composed, written at the age of 19 using When You Wish Upon a Star as his inspiration. As a ballad, it was a move for a single. Its flip-side, Little Deuce Coupe, proved to be The Beach Boys most successful B-side, reaching US number 15 and it also continued the bands current trend of putting a surf-related song on the A-side of singles, and car songs on the B-side. Catch a Wave featured Mike Loves sister, Maureen, on harp, in My Room was perhaps Brian Wilsons first personal song, a reflection on having a place to go to feel a sense of security and safety from the stress of ones life. Despite some slight material, it was clear that Surfer Girl was a significant step forward for The Beach Boys - and the first of many. South Bay Surfer is co-credited to Al Jardine, who had rejoined The Beach Boys in the summer of 1963 in a limited capacity and does not appear on the album cover. The instrumental track for The Surfer Moon was recorded in early May for an act he was recording, Bob & Vikki. Bob was Bob Norberg, Brians room mate in 1962, the recording date, July 16, given on the sleeve for album tracks not previously released as a single, is not so much questionable as almost certainly impossible. Therefore, it is certain other dates/sessions were also used, thus, it is likely there were at least four sessions for the album tracks, but as the AFM documentation is missing, confirmation cannot be supplied. The picture was taken by Capitol photographer Kenneth Veeder at Paradise Cove, Beach Boys sport matching blue plaid Pendleton Woolen Mills shirts on the cover of their Surfer Girl album. Now called the shirt, the style is still a bestseller. Surfer Girl hit number seven in the US and, later number thirteen in the UK, half the albums tracks have been performed live by either the Beach Boys or Brian Wilson as a solo artist with varying frequency.1990. The Nearest Faraway Place, Brian Wilson, The Beach Boys and the Southern California Experience, Timothy White, c
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Little Deuce Coupe
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Little Deuce Coupe is the fourth studio album by American rock band the Beach Boys, and their third album release in 1963. It reached number four in the United States during a 46-week chart stay and it is considered to be one of the earliest examples of a rock concept album. The album was released three weeks after Surfer Girl, in the summer of 1963, Capitol Records compiled a hot rod compilation album called Shut Down, including the Beach Boys song of the same name and 409—without their approval or involvement. Eight of the tracks were new, while Little Deuce Coupe, Our Car Club, although Nick Venet was listed as producer for Shut Down and Murry Wilson for 409, the official producers credit for the entire Little Deuce Coupe album cites only Brian Wilson. Despite the rushed nature of the sessions, Brian Wilsons song arrangements were notably becoming more complex, specifically songs like No-Go Showboat. After its recording, Brian Wilson re-recorded Be True to Your School for single release, an original Christmas-themed composition, Little Saint Nick was also recorded, produced and issued as a Christmas single. This was the last Beach Boys album to include rhythm guitarist David Marks until 2012s Thats Why God Made the Radio. Original member Al Jardine made his permanent return preceding this albums sessions, as with the preceding Surfer Girl album, the date assigned for recording all eight of the new tracks is highly doubtful. However, as no AFM contracts from these sessions are known to exist, a Deuce Coupe is a 1932 Ford Coupe. This was considered by many to be the hot rod. The Model B had four cylinders and the Model 18 featured the Ford flathead V8 engine when the car was introduced, a pink slip was the title to the car, named for the color of the paper then used in California vehicle ownership certificates. All tracks written by Brian Wilson/Roger Christian except where noted.1990, the Nearest Faraway Place, Brian Wilson, The Beach Boys and the Southern California Experience, Timothy White, c. New York Times article on the hot rod on the album cover
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Shut Down Volume 2
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Shut Down Volume 2 is the fifth studio album by the American rock band the Beach Boys, released on March 2,1964 on Capitol. Produced by Brian Wilson, it was the first of three albums that the band would release in 1964. The album is the first not to feature rhythm guitarist David Marks, Shut Down Volume 2 reached number 13 in the US charts during a stay of 38 weeks. The name of the record is based on the Shut Down hot rod compilation released by Capitol in July 1963, the multi-artist compilation, including the Beach Boys songs Shut Down and 409, peaked at number seven on the Billboard album charts, showing for 44 weeks. This was the first album to not include David Marks as a performing member, while band mate Al Jardine had appeared on three of the previous four studio albums, this is the first to show him on a front sleeve photograph, taken by Capitol staff photographer George Jerman. The cover shows the band posing next to a selection of cars - notably, the multi-tracks for Shut Down Volume 2 went missing shortly after the albums release. In 2009, three reels of session out takes were unexpectedly retrieved with the help of biographer Jon Stebbins, due in part to the British invasion, the album peaked at 13 on the Billboard charts in the US. Shut Down Volume 2 didnt enter the Billboard albums chart until six weeks after release, despite the bands relatively sluggish commercial performance at the start of 1964, by the middle of the year, the Beach Boys career had recovered its momentum. Shut Down Volume 2 was listed by Cash Box as fourth-biggest selling rock album of 1964, Capitol released a 7-inch 33 1/3 mini-LP for jukeboxes with six tracks, the front album cover being the same, the back blank. Side 1, Keep an Eye on Summer / Fun, Fun, Fun / The Warmth of the Sun, side 2, Why Do Fools Fall in Love / In the Parkin Lot / Dont Worry Baby
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All Summer Long (album)
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All Summer Long is the sixth studio album by the Beach Boys and their second in 1964. It rose to four in the US during a forty-nine week chart stay. I Get Around preceded the release by some two months and quickly raced to become their first number one single in the US, they also had a UK Top 10 debut with a number seven peak. The albums sessions were recorded in the aftermath of the British Invasion, marking a turning point in the Beach Boys career. All Summer Long was to be their album which reveled in California beach culture. Songs from this album are featured on the EP Four by the Beach Boys. Drive-In was recorded shortly after the release of Little Deuce Coupe in October 1963 and that April, during the recording sessions of I Get Around and Little Honda, Brian relieved his father Murry Wilson of his managerial duties after three years. An attempt at reconciliation on Murrys part, much of it captured on the tapes for the 1965 recording sessions of Help Me, Rhonda, All Summer Long was to be the Beach Boys final album which reveled in California beach culture. Only one song explicitly references surfing, Dont Back Down, while Little Honda is the hot rod song. The location for the shoot was once again Paradise Cove, north of Malibu, on first pressings of the LP, the song Dont Back Down is misprinted as Dont Break Down on the front cover. This version of the LP sleeve also has the titles printed in the same mustard-colored ink as the album title. Subsequent printings with the typo corrected have the titles printed in black. The Beach Boys were later featured in the 1965 film The Girls on the Beach, performing Girls on the Beach, Lonely Sea and their appearance was filmed in April 1964, a month before All Summer Long was completed. Following a 1990s court case, the songs I Get Around, All Summer Long, Wendy, drive-In, and Dont Back Down were amended to include a songwriting credit to Mike Love that did not exist previously. All tracks written by Brian Wilson/Mike Love except where noted, partial credits courtesy of session archivist Craig Slowinski. They are amalgamated from all tracks except Well Run Away, Carls Big Chance, drive-In, and Our Favorite Recording Sessions. The Beach Boys FAQ, All Thats Left to Know About Americas Band, the Nearest Far Away Place, Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys, and the Southern California Experience
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The Beach Boys' Christmas Album
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The Beach Boys Christmas Album is the seventh studio album by the Beach Boys, released in November 1964. It is regarded as one of the finest holiday albums of the rock era, one single was released from the album, the original song The Man with All the Toys backed with the groups rendition of Blue Christmas. Little Saint Nick, a single which had already released the previous year, was included on the album. In 1977, the Beach Boys attempted to follow the album with Merry Christmas from the Beach Boys, the entire Christmas Album plus selections from the Merry Christmas sessions were later assembled for the 1998 compilation Ultimate Christmas. The album was devised as a response to Phil Spectors A Christmas Gift for You from Philles Records and he played piano on the song Santa Claus Is Coming to Town but was dismissed by Spector due to his substandard piano playing. Original album cover photo by George Jerman for Capitol Photo Studio, with the exception of Little Saint Nick, sessions for the album spanned from June 18–30,1964, one month after the All Summer Long album was completed. Christmas Day is the first Beach Boys song to feature a vocal from Al Jardine. The album was released in mono and stereo, the mix, prepared by engineer Chuck Britz. Single Dont Hurt My Little Sister were recorded in between June sessions, on April 6,1982, the album was certified gold by the RIAA, selling more than 500,000 units
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The Beach Boys Today!
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Also known simply as Today. is the eighth studio album by the American rock group the Beach Boys. It peaked at four on US record charts and was preceded by the top 10 singles When I Grow Up and Dance, Dance, Dance. Shortly before recording began, the completed their album All Summer Long. In December 1964, Brian Wilson suffered through a nervous breakdown while on a flight and he then became a regular user after he realized the profound effect it had on the way he perceived music, and resigned from touring with the group to focus solely on writing and producing. Produced, arranged, and largely written by Wilson with additional lyrics by Mike Love, signaled a departure from previous albums through Wilsons increasingly sophisticated, orchestral approach and the abandonment of themes related to surfing, cars, or teenage love. The tracks on side one feature a sound that contrasts side two, which consists mostly of ballads. Established the Beach Boys as album artists rather than just a singles band, author Scott Schinder referred to its suite-like structure as an early example of the rock album format being used to make a cohesive artistic statement. In 2012, the album was voted 271 on Rolling Stone magazines list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, in 2005, it was included in the musical reference book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. Mid-1964 also saw the divorce of Mike Love from his first wife Frances St. Martin whom he had married in 1961. During the albums recording sessions, Love told Melody Maker that he, Brian Wilson had written his last surf song in April 1964, intending All Summer Long to be the groups final statement on beach-themed music. Wilson became physically and emotionally exhausted to a point that he suffered an anxiety attack on December 23,1964, during the recording sessions of Today. In January 1965, he informed the band that he intended to retire from touring and focus his attention solely on creating and producing music, marked a maturation in the Beach Boys lyric content by abandoning themes related to surfing, cars, or teenage love. Some love songs remained, but with an increase in depth, along with introspective tracks accompanied by adventurous. British rock critic Nick Kent explained, What was really happening was Brians approach to romance was becoming more and more personalized, according to author Scott Schinder, Today. It was thus the bands first flirtation with the album-as-art form, Brians recent introduction to marijuana, which he used as a stress reliever, greatly influenced the albums writing, as he later stated, Pot made the music grow in my head. PopMatters notes that even though Today. s A-side is filled with uptempo numbers, Wilson proves that he can be just as harmonically and structurally inventive with catchy dance songs as he can with emotional ballads. The journal explains that Dont Hurt My Little Sister is commonly suspected to be autobiographical, with Wilson alluding to his conflicted, according to Brians later collaborator Van Dyke Parks, Brian had a fervent desire to reinvent himself as an individual, not as a boy. This culminated in When I Grow Up, a song discussing his anxieties about becoming an adult, released as an A-sided single, it was one of the first rock songs to explore the subject of impending adulthood
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Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)
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Summer Days is the ninth studio album by American rock band the Beach Boys, released on July 5,1965, on Capitol. Produced by Brian Wilson, the reached number 2 on the US Billboard Hot 100. Two singles were issued from the album, Help Me, Rhonda, which became the groups second chart-topper in the US, and California Girls, the bands previous album, The Beach Boys Today. Represented a departure for the group through its abandonment of themes related to surfing, cars, and teenage love, in response, the label pressured the group to produce bigger hits. Summer Days thus returned the music to simpler themes. Girl Dont Tell Me marked Carl Wilsons first lead vocal on a Beach Boys studio album, one outtake from the albums sessions is known as Sandy or Sherry She Needs Me, and was written by Brian Wilson with Russ Titelman alongside Guess Im Dumb. Sherry She Needs Me was later revisited by the Beach Boys during 1976s Love You sessions, the composition remained dormant until 1998, when it was finally finished by Wilson as She Says That She Needs Me for his 1998 Imagination solo album. The Beach Boys version of Sherry She Needs Me was later released in 2013 for the Made in California box set, Summer Days includes Bruce Johnstons first appearance on a Beach Boys album. As Brian Wilsons stage replacement, he was not yet considered an official member, Johnston would often accompany the group on photo shoots, but he was prohibited from having those pictures published on album covers due to a preexisting contract with Columbia Records. Consequently, his image would not grace the jacket of a Beach Boys album until he appeared on the cover of Wild Honey in 1967. Along with Johnston, Al Jardine is also missing from the Summer Days cover photo depicting the group on a sailboat, Summer Days proved to be another gold-selling success for the Beach Boys in the US, where it hit number 2 behind The Rolling Stoness Out of Our Heads. Along with 1963s Surfin USA it remains the groups highest-charting studio album in the U. S, the following year, the album would reach number 4 in the UK. The albums lead single, Help Me, Rhonda, topped the US Billboard Hot 100. In a 2011 reappraisal, BBC Music observed that the listing of Summer Days reads like a Greatest Hits. Comparing to the Beach Boys later work, If Pet Sounds is the critics’ favorite, in 1990, the album was reissued paired with The Beach Boys Today. This package featured extensive liner notes and bonus tracks from that period, in its 2012 reissue, the album received its first true stereo mix. Following a 1990s court case, Love was awarded songwriting credits for The Girl from New York City, salt Lake City, Help Me, Rhonda, California Girls, Let Him Run Wild, and Youre So Good to Me. All tracks written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love, except where noted, sourced from Musicians Union AFM contract sheets and surviving session audio, documented by Craig Slowinski
