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The Beach Boys Love You is the 21st studio album by American rock band the Beach Boys, released April 11, 1977, on Brother / Reprise. The album was largely recorded in late 1976 at the band's Brother Studios. Originally planned as Brian Loves You, it is essentially a solo project by Brian Wilson, who wrote almost all of the material and played ...
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"I Do Love You" Stevie Wonder # 1984–1985 The Beach Boys: 1985 "I Don't Know" Dennis Wilson 1967 The Smile Sessions ‡ 2011 "I Get Around" † Brian Wilson Mike Love 1964 All Summer Long: 1964 "I Just Got My Pay" Brian Wilson 1970 Good Vibrations ‡ 1993 "I Just Wasn't Made for These Times" Brian Wilson Tony Asher 1966 Pet Sounds: 1966
SongSongwriter (s)Recorded [nb 1]Album"409" †Brian Wilson Mike Love Gary Usher1962Dennis Wilson1971Brian Wilson Joe Knott Mike Love1969–1970"Airplane"Brian Wilson1976–1977help. " God Only Knows " is a song by American rock band the Beach Boys from their 1966 album Pet Sounds. Written by Brian Wilson and Tony Asher, it is a baroque -style love song distinguished for its harmonic innovation and complexity, unusual instrumentation, and subversion of typical popular music conventions, both lyrically and musically.
Paul McCartney calls him "one of the great American geniuses" at his SHOF induction in 2000. Legendary producer, arranger, performer and songwriter, Brian Wilson has created a body of work that remains among the most memorable in rock music history. His career, first following intense travail as the key creative figure in the group The Beach ...
- “In My Room”
- “The Warmth of The Sun”
- “Fun, Fun, Fun”
- “Help Me, Rhonda”
- “California Girls”
- “Sloop John B”
- “Wouldn’T It Be Nice”
- “God only Knows”
- “Good Vibrations”
- “Heroes and Villains”
Mike Love: “Be True to Your School” was a hit record for us, and on the flip side was a beautiful ballad, “In My Room.” The thing that attracted us to singing together in the first place is that my cousin Brian and I loved to harmonize together. We would do Everly Brothers and doo-wop songs and we studied the Four Freshmen, who were a huge influenc...
Love:“The Warmth of the Sun” didn’t take all that long to write. We wrote it in the wee hours of the morning. It’s just such a beautiful song, and the interesting thing about it was I remember waking up that morning to the news that President Kennedy had been taken to the hospital in Dallas. A month later we recorded it, and it was charged with the...
Wilson: Mike wrote the lyrics for “Fun, Fun Fun” [on tour] in Australia in 1963 and when we got back to California I wrote the music. We used to drive up and down the strip. That’s how we got “I Get Around” — “I’m gettin’ bugged driving up and down the same old strip.” And then I moved to Hollywood where the kids were hip! Love: The Wilsons grew up...
Love: We originally recorded “Help Me, Rhonda” [first released as the album track “Help Me, Ronda” on 1965’s The Beach Boys Today!], and we felt it was good but thought maybe it could even be a little better. So we went back in and did some additional background parts and so on. The single version was a little more peppy, and it went to number one....
Love: I’ve always felt that the intro to “California Girls” sounds like the prelude to a symphonic composition. My cousin Brian outdid himself with that. He worked with what they call the Wrecking Crew—some of the best musicians in Southern California—to come up with some of those tracks. Wilson: Carl [Wilson] played the intro on electric 12-string...
Jardine:That was an old Kingston Trio song. When I sat down with Brian I suggested we add a few extra chords to give it that Beach Boys flavor and lo and behold we were able to stretch it out a little and give it that vocal identity that we’d been so well-known for. Wilson: We didn’t know really for sure if it was right or not. Al taught me the son...
Johnston: Christmastime ’65, Mike Love, [producer] Terry Melcher, [the Mamas and the Papas singer/songwriter] John Phillips, myself, and [Melcher’s mother] Doris Day heard [the Beatles’] Rubber Soul, and that changed everything. That made Brian think, “I can make an album that’s one theme.” Not unlike Johnny Mathis albums, or Frank Sinatra albums a...
Wilson: Tony Asher and me wrote “God Only Knows” and when we got into the studio I started to sing it. Then I said, “Nope, this one’s for Carl.” He goes, “Brian, I don’t want to do that. That’s yoursong!” I said, “No, Carl, I want you to sing it.”… We prayed. We prayed that people would like the album, [and] that it would go over well. Johnston: I ...
Jardine:That was the pinnacle, when you think about it. It was the pinnacle of an era. Wilson: That was a very complex record. We cut that in four studios. The verses at Gold Star, the bridge at Sunset Sound, the background music for the choruses at Western, and the vocals at Columbia. My brothers said, “Brian, this is going to be a No. 1 record.” ...
Jardine: That’s another great Western kind of song. It has the flavor of the cowboys and Indians thing that we grew up with as kids. It’s the story of the American frontier. I love songs that tell stories. “Heroes” was one of our favorites, and we liked to do that onstage. Just a fun, rollicking kind of story. That’s from the Smileperiod, which evo...
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May 27, 2024 · The Beach Boys were midway through their 1966 tour of Japan and Hawaii when their founder, leader and sonic visionary Brian Wilson began the writing sessions that would yield God Only Knows, a majestic and achingly beautiful paean to love that Paul McCartney has reportedly called the greatest song ever written.
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Love You is the 21st studio album by The Beach Boys, released on April 11, 1977. Originally planned as a Brian Wilson solo project named Brian Loves You, the album is mostly written and done by ...
