[2015-09-11] Ricci Martin "Beached (Expanded Edition)" Beach Boys-related (Second Disc/Real Gone)

Linda · **Posted:** Mon Jul 20, 2015 4:22 pm

Description
What if key members of The Beach Boys, Chicago, America, and Wings had teamed up to create one of the greatest California rock albums you’ve never heard? Well, they actually did! Singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, author and director Ricci Martin, the sixth child of legendary “King of Cool” Dean Martin (and younger brother of Dino, Desi and Billy’s Dean-Paul Martin!), got a little help from his friends to craft 1977’s Epic Records release Beached. And the all-star cast was, indeed, epic. Recording at The Beach Boys’ own Brother Studios in Santa Monica, Ricci assembled his core team from the band’s axis (Ricci’s history with the Boys went way back; he even took the famous photograph adorning the group’s Sunflower album)! Carl Wilson co-produced, played and sang on Beached alongside longtime sideman Billy Hinsche (the Billy of “Dino, Desi and…”), while Dennis Wilson, making a rare appearance outside of The Beach Boys, shared drumming duties with Ricky Fataar, a member of The Beach Boys’ most adventurous 1970s line-up. From Chicago, Ricci invited Peter Cetera along with the entire horn section of Lee Loughnane, James Pankow and Walter Parazaider. America’s Gerry Beckley and Wings’ Jimmy McCulloch dropped into the sessions, too, along with Van Dyke Parks. Other names on the album sleeve, such as Bobby Figueroa, Carli Muñoz and Ed Carter, will be familiar to Beach Boys aficionados, not to mention fans of Dennis Wilson’s cult classics Pacific Ocean Blue and Bambu! This very special album of sun-flecked SoCal pop-rock was entirely composed by Ricci Martin, with one song co-written by Carl Wilson. While Beached made a brief appearance on CD in Japan roughly a decade ago before quickly going out-of-print, Real Gone Music and Second Disc Records are thrilled to keep the summer alive with its first-ever American reissue. This expanded edition adds four rare bonus tracks including the mono and stereo single mixes of “Stop, Look Around” and “Moonbeams” (the mono mixes make their worldwide CD debuts). It’s all been freshly remastered by Vic Anesini at Sony’s Battery Studios, and features new liner notes by Joe Marchese. Ricci Martin’s Beached can now finally take its rightful place in the canon of Beach Boys lore as well as in the illustrious musical legacy of the Martin family.

Tracklist
1. Stop Look Around
2. Moonbeams
3. Belle of the Ball
4. Everybody Knows My Name
5. Streets of Love
6. Spark of Me
7. My Old Radio
8. Precious Love
9. I Don’t Like It
10. I Had a Dream
11. Here I Go Again
[Bonus Tracks]
12. Stop Look Around (Stereo Single Version)
13. Moonbeams (Stereo Single Version)
14. Stop Look Around (Mono Promo Single Version)
15. Moonbeams (Mono Promo Single Version)

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Rick A · 23 Jul 2006

EXCELLENT! First the news of Carl Wilson solo and now this.

This album has been on my wish list yearly noting albums that have not been released on CD.

Having the vinyl for decades this will be a nice addition. Having this reissue re-mastered by Vic Anesini is just icing on the cake.

Rick A.

Jimbo · 19 Jul 2006

If anybody asks for a definition of "yacht rock," show 'em that album cover.

Jay · 12 Jul 2006

Count me in!

Rick A · 23 Jul 2006

Jay wrote:

Count me in!

I hear you Jay. Now they say things come in three.

We have Carl Wilson, Ricci Martin and now lets hope for "The Flame". A 1970 Carl Wilson production on Brother Records with Blondie Chaplin and Ricky Faatar as alumni.

I have this on LP (and it is even in Quad no less). Stephen Desper who engineered the album said their is a second album recorded but never released. Boy, would that be great. A two-fer! :thumbsup:

Rick A.

JGordonBD · 17 Aug 2007

So how do you pronounce "Ricci"? Ricky, Richie, Ree-kee, Ree-chee... I have no idea, but I'm a bit curious. Anybody know?

Linda · **Posted:** Tue Jul 21, 2015 11:07 pm

Just like "Ricky".

Jay · 12 Jul 2006

Rick A wrote:

Jay wrote:

Count me in!

I hear you Jay. Now they say things come in three.

We have Carl Wilson, Ricci Martin and now lets hope for "The Flame". A 1970 Carl Wilson production on Brother Records with Blondie Chaplin and Ricky Faatar as alumni.

I have this on LP (and it is even in Quad no less). Stephen Desper who engineered the album said their is a second album recorded but never released. Boy, would that be great. A two-fer! :thumbsup:

Rick A.

Rick,

That's exactly what I have been hoping for on The Flame album -- a two-disc set modeled after the Dennis Wilson Pacific Ocean Blue set, which had tracks recorded for the unreleased follow-up on disc 2. I do have the grey area CD of their album (purchased before I knew it was grey area), and it is not a good representation of the album at all.

RoyalScam · 04 Oct 2006

Linda wrote:

Just like "Ricky".

Shake your bon-bon...

GodsComic · 03 Aug 2006

Perfect. Read this just as I was listening to Pacific Ocean Blue. Here's another vote for The Flame.

JGordonBD · 17 Aug 2007

Thanks, Linda! The next time I have a discussion about Ricci Martin, I won't embarrass myself by mispronouncing his name. :wink:

(I really was curious. However, I have no plans to discuss him with anyone I know.)

[2015-09-11] Ricci Martin "Beached (Expanded Edition)" Beach Boys-related (Second Disc/Real Gone)

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