Showing posts with label Beach Boys. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Beach Boys. Show all posts

Saturday, November 26, 2011

Don't Worry Baby by The Beach Boys






50 years ago 5 boys got together in a garage to harmonize and start a band. The oldest was 20, the youngest 14. Little did they know that 50 years later millions would know them by name, colleges would hold classes studying their work, the Library of Congress would regard their music culturally and historically reflective of life in the United States, and they would be considered the greatest American Band of All Time. HAPPY ANNIVERSARY BEACH BOYS!!!!! You're still #1!!!!!




"Don't Worry Baby" is a song written by Brian Wilson and Roger Christian, produced by Wilson and first recorded by the Beach Boys. The band's version, a tender ballad with falsetto lead vocal by Brian, was first released on their 1964 album Shut Down Volume 2. It was also released as the B-side of The Beach Boys' first U.S. number-one hit single, "I Get Around", managing to reach number 24 on the U.S. Hot 100 in its own right. The single was released in the United States in May 1964 through Capitol Records. It was released a month later, in June 1964, in the United Kingdom.


Sunday, May 15, 2011

The Beach Boys - I Get Around





The Beach Boys are one of the most successful groups of all time clocking up 28 UK Top 40 singles and numerous hit albums, with Pet Sounds being generally regarded as one of the all time great albums and Good Vibrations being voted the best single ever released in Mojo magazine's poll.
This video was recorded at the Beach Boys historic concert at Knebworth House on June 21st 1980. It proved to be the last time that the original Beach Boys: Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Carl Wilson, Dennis Wilson and Alan Jardine, would appear together on a UK stage.
The full DVD "Live at Knebworth" is available now on Eagle Vision.
The Beach Boys are one of the most successful groups of all time clocking up 28 UK Top 40 singles and numerous hit albums, with Pet Sounds being generally regarded as one of the all time great albums and Good Vibrations being voted the best single ever released in Mojo magazine's poll.
This video was recorded at the Beach Boys historic concert at Knebworth House on June 21st 1980. It proved to be the last time that the original Beach Boys: Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Carl Wilson, Dennis Wilson and Alan Jardine, would appear together on a UK stage.
The full DVD "Live at Knebworth" is available now on Eagle Vision


The Beach Boys - Surfin' USA





The Beach Boys are one of the most successful groups of all time clocking up 28 UK Top 40 singles and numerous hit albums, with Pet Sounds being generally regarded as one of the all time great albums and Good Vibrations being voted the best single ever released in Mojo magazine's poll.
This video was recorded at the Beach Boys historic concert at Knebworth House on June 21st 1980. It proved to be the last time that the original Beach Boys: Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Carl Wilson, Dennis Wilson and Alan Jardine, would appear together on a UK stage.
The full DVD "Live at Knebworth" is available now on Eagle Vision.
The Beach Boys are one of the most successful groups of all time clocking up 28 UK Top 40 singles and numerous hit albums, with Pet Sounds being generally regarded as one of the all time great albums and Good Vibrations being voted the best single ever released in Mojo magazine's poll.
This video was recorded at the Beach Boys historic concert at Knebworth House on June 21st 1980. It proved to be the last time that the original Beach Boys: Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Carl Wilson, Dennis Wilson and Alan Jardine, would appear together on a UK stage.
The full DVD "Live at Knebworth" is available now on Eagle Vision.



Beach Boys - California Girls





The Beach Boys are one of the most successful groups of all time clocking up 28 UK Top 40 singles and numerous hit albums, with Pet Sounds being generally regarded as one of the all time great albums and Good Vibrations being voted the best single ever released in Mojo magazine's poll.
This video was recorded at the Beach Boys historic concert at Knebworth House on June 21st 1980. It proved to be the last time that the original Beach Boys: Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Carl Wilson, Dennis Wilson and Alan Jardine, would appear together on a UK stage.
The full DVD "Live at Knebworth" is available now on Eagle Vision.
The Beach Boys are one of the most successful groups of all time clocking up 28 UK Top 40 singles and numerous hit albums, with Pet Sounds being generally regarded as one of the all time great albums and Good Vibrations being voted the best single ever released in Mojo magazine's poll.
This video was recorded at the Beach Boys historic concert at Knebworth House on June 21st 1980. It proved to be the last time that the original Beach Boys: Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Carl Wilson, Dennis Wilson and Alan Jardine, would appear together on a UK stage.



Beach Boys - Good Vibrations


The Beach Boys are one of the most successful groups of all time clocking up 28 UK Top 40 singles and numerous hit albums, with Pet Sounds being generally regarded as one of the all time great albums and Good Vibrations being voted the best single ever released in Mojo magazine's poll.

This video was recorded at the Beach Boys historic concert at Knebworth House on June 21st 1980. It proved to be the last time that the original Beach Boys: Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Carl Wilson, Dennis Wilson and Alan Jardine, would appear together on a UK stage.
The full DVD "Live at Knebworth" is available now on Eagle Vision.

Sunday, May 1, 2011

The Beach Boys - Surfin' Safari [Very Good





Beach Boys - Cotton Fields






American rock band The Beach Boys recorded "Cotton Fields" on November 18 1968. Fields" in 1968: the track with Al Jardine on lead vocals debuted the group's 1969 album 20/20.
Dissatisfied with Brian Wilson's arrangement of the song, Jardine later led the group to record a more country-rock style version; this version recorded on August 15 1969 featured Orville "Red" Rhodes on pedal steel guitar. Entitled "Cottonfields", the track afforded the Beach Boys' their most widespread international success while also consolidating the end of the group's hitmaking career in the US (although they would enjoy periodic comebacks there). "Cottonfields" would be the final Beach Boys' single released on Capitol Records - the group's label since 1963 - and their last single released in mono.




Recorded by Lead Belly in 1940, "Cotton Fields" was introduced into the canon of folk music via its inclusion on the 1954 album release Odetta & Larry which comprised performances by Odetta at the Tin Angel nightclub in San Francisco with instrumental and vocal accompaniment by Lawrence Mohr: this version was entitled "Old Cotton Fields at Home". The song's profile was boosted via its recording by Harry Belafonte first on his 1958 album Belafonte Sings the Blues with a live version appearing on the 1959 concert album Belafonte at Carnegie Hall: Belafonte had learned "Cotton Fields" from Odetta and been singing it in concert as early as 1955. A #13 hit in 1961 for The Highwaymen, "Cotton Fields" served as an album track for a number of C&W and folk-rock acts including Ferlin Husky (The Heart and Soul of Ferlin Husky 1963), Buck Owens (On the Bandstand 1963), the New Christy Minstrels (Chim-Chim-Cheree 1965) and the Seekers (Roving With The Seekers 1964): Odetta also made a new studio recording of the song for her 1963 album One Grain of Sand. The Springfields included "Cotton Fields" on a 1962 EP release: this version is featured on the CD On An Island Of Dreams: The Best Of The Springfields. "Cotton Fields" was also recorded by Unit 4+2 for their Concrete and Clay album (1965). A rendering in French: "L'enfant do", was recorded in 1962 by Petula Clark.

Beach Boys - Surfin' USA (1963 clip with David Marks!)

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