What would summer be without a new Beach Boys comp?



1. Why Do Fools Fall In Love (new stereo mix from newly recovered analog multi-track master)
2. Don't Worry, Baby (new stereo mix from newly recovered analog multi-track master)
3. Wouldn't It Be Nice
4. God Only Knows
5. Surfer Girl
6. California Girls
7. Please Let Me Wonder
8. In The Parkin' Lot
9. Your Summer Dream
10. Kiss Me, Baby
11. Hushabye (new stereo mix)
12. I'm So Young (new stereo mix)
13. Good To My Baby (new stereo mix)
14. Fallin' In Love (previously unreleased track, written and recorded by Dennis Wilson)
15. Time To Get Alone (new stereo mix)
16. Our Sweet Love
17. Help Me, Rhonda
18. Keep An Eye On Summer
19. Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder)
20. Girls On The Beach

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They should throw in at least one or two previously unreleased songs, and not just new stereo mixes or alternate takes, one or two "new" songs, because their Sounds of Summer comp went platinum. "Girls on the Beach" - I think that's a BB song title.

Thank goodness! I haven't bought a Beach Boys comp in months!

The "Girls On The Beach" part of the title has been removed (although the track will still appear on this compilation) and the album will now simply be called [lilred]Summer Love Songs[/lilred]. There will be some stuff for collectors included on the disc:

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The Beach Boys Provide the Perfect Soundtrack to Sun-Kissed Romance With Summer Love Songs, to be Released May 19 by Capitol/EMI

New Collection Features 20 Timeless Classics, Including Six New Stereo Mixes and a Previously Unreleased Song

HOLLYWOOD, Calif., April 6 /PRNewswire/ -- The Beach Boys have long been the world's leading harmonious voice of summer fun, with an ocean's swell of universally-loved songs about the beach, surfing, hot rods, and in no small measure, girls and sun-kissed romance. 20 of The Beach Boys' best love songs, from tender ballads to boisterous romps, have been gathered for Summer Love Songs, a new 20-track CD and digital collection to be released May 19 (May 18 internationally) by Capitol/EMI. Three classic tracks have been mixed in stereo for the first time, exclusively for this release, and three others have received new stereo mixes. Two of the new stereo mixes have been created from long lost, newly-recovered analog multi-track masters. A rare track, previously unreleased in the U.S. and long out-of-print in the U.K., is also included.

The Beach Boys' romantic ballads, including "God Only Knows," "Please Let Me Wonder," and "Don't Worry, Baby," and their playful, high-energy love songs, including "California Girls" and "Good To My Baby," come together as the perfect soundtrack to romantic fun in the sun on Summer Love Songs. Evocative of time and place for all who hear them, these classics continue to warm hearts around the world.

Two of Summer Love Songs' new stereo mixes, for "Don't Worry, Baby" and "Why Do Fools Fall In Love," have been created from newly-recovered analog multi-track masters that went missing from the Western Recorders studio in Los Angeles after they were first recorded in the mid-1960s. These original 3-track analog masters were recently recovered by The Beach Boys and Capitol/EMI for the first time since they were used for the band's Shut Down, Vol. 2 album in 1964. The collection's four other tracks with new stereo mixes are "Hushabye," "I'm So Young," "Good To My Baby," and "Time To Get Alone."

Summer Love Songs also includes "Fallin' In Love," a song written and recorded by Dennis Wilson during The Beach Boys' Sunflower album sessions in 1970. The track has never before been released in the U.S. and has long been out-of-print in the U.K. (where it was released as "Lady"). This track has also been mixed in stereo for the first time.

Summer Love Songs follows the worldwide success of 2003's Sounds Of Summer: The Very Best Of The Beach Boys, now approaching the triple platinum sales mark in the U.S., and 2007's The Warmth Of The Sun, a career-spanning collection of deeper album cuts, hand-selected and sequenced by The Beach Boys. Summer Love Songs complements the previous collections as a distinct addition to the Rock and Roll Hall of Famers' legendary catalog.

In 1961, The Beach Boys began singing about America's newest craze, surfing. What followed was a wave of hits that vividly expressed the lifestyles, dreams and ambitions of America's youth. Their signature sound, full of sun-drenched harmonies, golden melodies and descriptive lyrics, delivered a taste of the free and easy California lifestyle to listeners around the world. The music of The Beach Boys brings optimism and a beam of Southern California sun wherever it is played.

For nearly five decades, The Beach Boys, originally comprised of the three Wilson brothers: Brian, Carl and Dennis, their cousin Mike Love, and school friend Al Jardine, have recorded and performed the music that has become the world's favorite soundtrack to summer. In 1962, Hawthorne neighbor David Marks joined the group for their first wave of hits on Capitol Records, leaving in late 1963, and in 1965, Bruce Johnston joined the band when Brian Wilson retired from touring.

Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988 and recipients of The Recording Academy's Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award, The Beach Boys are an American institution that is iconic around the world.

The Beach Boys will be on tour all summer long. For the latest Beach Boys news and tour dates, please visit the band's official Website: http://www.thebeachboys.com.

Who on earth would buy this?

They should retitle it The Best Of The Beach Boys Greatest Summer Love Songs About Girls On The Beach Volume 99.

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Be fair, I might get it too. The "newly recovered analog multi-track masters" could be an upgrade in sound compared to previous releases of those tracks, albeit used for stereo mixes.

I clicked on the link.

Keep in mind that this is coming from the guy who vowed never to rebuy stuff anymore and is planning on getting the Beatles stereo box come September. Consider the source, Miss Linda.

I wonder if any other lost multitracks were recovered; tapes that will be used in future releases?

I'd love a new computer every summer.

Hearing this track in a new stereo mix alone is worth it to me. Thoughtful track selection and new stereo mixes as well.

Phil Cohen's question about possible other finds is a hopeful thought. Will see what's mentioned in future discussions.

Rick A.

I've subsequently been made aware that the tapes recovered were for six songs from "Shut Down Vol.2", specifically "Don't Worry Baby","Why Do Fools Fall in Love", "Pom Pom Play Girl","This Car of Mine","Denny's Drums" & "In The Parking Lot".

Yippee...it's been, oh, 5 minutes since the last comp. I've been jonesing.

Thanks Phil, Let's petition Capitol to release a special EP for these tracks. (I can hear the groans already) :}

Rick A.

BTW, Beach Boys' "Sounds of Summer" has gone triple platinum!!!

from http://www.danaddington.com/denny

BEACH BOYS MASTER TAPES RETURNED AFTER 45 YEARS
by Howie Edelson

The new Beach Boys collection due out on May 19th, called Summer Love Songs, was made possible by a longtime fan coming forth with previously unknown session tapes for such classics as "Don't Worry Baby," "Why Do Fools Fall In Love" and others. The reels -- which contained the discarded multi-tracks from the Beach Boys' 1964 Shut Down Vol. II album -- enabled the group's production team to create the first true stereo mixes for some of the Beach Boys' most beloved tracks.

After the success of the reissue of Dennis Wilson's Pacific Ocean Blue album, Wilson's biographer Jon Stebbins told us that an article in a Northern California newspaper about his work on the project led to the long lost Beach Boys tapes: "The article was published in the local entertainment weekly and I got an email subsequently from a singer-songwriter named Lance Robison who lives here on the central coast, and he said that he had some Beach Boys tapes that I might be interested in. I hear that thing a lot in my line of business. But, anyway, I emailed him back and asked him a few pertinent questions about it. And his response to my initial email was pretty astounding."

Stebbins admits that he was speechless at his first sight of the 45-year-old master tapes: "He pulled out three tape boxes, and they were original multi-track masters from the Beach Boys' Shut Down Vol. II album. I also knew that the Beach Boys had been missing the master tape -- the multi-track masters. So whereas before, all you had was a 'left' and a 'right' two tracks for a stereo mix; now you could turn it into, y'know, 6, 8, 10 tracks (and) spread it across the spectrum. So, true stereo mixes of these things."

From there Stebbins brought the tapes directly to the Beach Boys' official archivist, Alan Boyd. Boyd, who has spent years cataloging the band's session masters and live tapes, had never thought these multi-tracks had survived. Prior to 1965, it was not Capitol Records' standard policy to have artists deliver session tapes along with the finished masters to the label. It's not that the tapes were thought to be "missing" or "lost" -- they were never expected to still exist.

Alan Boyd recalls hearing the session tapes as being an incredible personal and professional moment "I have been somewhat fanatical about this music since I was about five years old. Y'know, I may have found my way into this job as some deep-seated desire to figure out what made this music tick. It never gets old. When you find something like this for the first time and you really get to hear the creative process, and the boys are getting comfortable with the song and working their way through it. Uh, no, it was a definite 'Whoa, hands are shaking' kind of thing."

The missing master tapes enabled Boyd and engineer Mark Linnett to make the first true stereo mixes for "Don't Worry Baby" and "Why Do Fools Fall In Love," both of which lead off the upcoming release.

The full tracklisting to Summer Love Songs is: "Why Do Fools Fall In Love" (new stereo mix), "Don't Worry Baby" (new stereo mix)," "Wouldn't It Be Nice," "God Only Knows," "Surfer Girl," "California Girls," "Please Let Me Wonder," "In The Parkin' Lot," "Your Summer Dream," "Kiss Me, Baby," "Hushabye" (new stereo mix), "I'm So Young" (new stereo mix), "Good To My Baby" (new stereo mix), "Fallin' In Love" (new stereo mix of Dennis Wilson solo track)," "Time To Get Alone" (new stereo mix), "Our Sweet Love," "Help Me, Rhonda," "Keep An Eye On Summer," "Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder)," and "Girls On The Beach."

Jon Stebbins wrote the groundbreaking books Dennis Wilson: The Real Beach Boy and the David Marks biography The Lost Beach Boy.

Alan Boyd directed the Beach Boys' 1998 official documentary, Endless Harmony.

Thanks Goog, fascinating reading! I can't wait to get this set!

Rick A.

You will love the Dennis Wilson song!

Those people on the CD cover are very sunburned.

AND NOW, A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT.



Hi, I'm Mike Love from The Beach Boys. While we want you to enjoy "the warmth of the sun," Melanoma is a very serious health matter. Please worship the sun responsibly. Use sunscreen. We want you to be safe from the dangers of skin cancer so you keep the summer alive year after year. Thank you. See you at the show.

Gosh, is that really Mike Love? I thought only the guy I see in the mirror was looking old.

OK, succumbing to peer pressure, I bought this Beach Boys comp today at 'Rama. I hope you're all happy with yourselves.