Transcript The Beach Boys - MHSS Music Department

The Beach Boys
Music of the 60’s
Group History
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Formed in 1961 in Hawthorne, CA
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Original Members
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Brian Wilson
Dennis Wilson
Carl Wilson
Mike Love
Al Jardine
Group History
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36 United States Top 40 hits (the most by an American rock
band)
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56 Hot 100 hits, including four number-one singles.
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Rolling Stone magazine listed The Beach Boys at number 12
on their 2004 list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time," the
highest ranking for an American Rock & Roll
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Sold over 100 million albums worldwide since their debut in
1961.
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Brian Wilson, Carl Wilson, Mike Love and Al Jardine were
inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988
Group History
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The Pendletones
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Discovery
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Hite & Dorinda Morgan
Candix Records
Surfin’
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1962 Demo / Manager
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Surfer Girl
Surfin Safari
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Signed to Capitol Records in July
Brian Wilson
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Within the band
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Drug use
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Mental illness
Pet Sounds
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11th studio album released May
16th, 1966
Considered to be one of the
greatest rock and roll albums of all
time
Failed to reach gold status (1 million
sold) in initial release
Pet Sounds
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Wouldn’t It Be Nice
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Co-written with Tony Asher
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Brian Wilson no longer touring
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God Only Knows
Good Vibrations
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US and UK #1 single in 1966
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Most expensive American single ever recorded at
the time.
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Took several months to complete
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Recorded in multiple studios
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Theremin *
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The finished product
Smile
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Written by Brian Wilson & Van Dyke Parks
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Recording began in August 1966 and
continued into early 1967
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Intended to be a continual suite of songs
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Cabinessense
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Originally intended for Smile
Released instead on 20/20 in 1969
Love/Parks argument
Smile
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Shelved in 1967
Scaled down re-recordings of some songs
are released on the album Smiley Smile
Several completed tracks make it on to
later albums
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Our Prayer
Surf’s Up
Discography
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Surfin' Safari (1962)
Surfin' USA (1963)
Surfer Girl (1963)
Little Deuce Coupe (1963)
Shut Down Volume 2 (1964)
All Summer Long (1964)
The Beach Boys' Christmas
Album (1964)
Today! (1965)
Summer Days (and Summer
Nights!!) (1965)
Beach Boys' Party! (1965)
Pet Sounds (1966)
Smiley Smile (1967)
Wild Honey (1967)
Friends (1968)
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20/20 (1969)
Sunflower (1970)
Surf’s Up (1971)
So Tough (1972)
Holland (1973)
15 Big Ones (1976)
Love You (1977)
M.I.U. Album (1978)
L.A. (1979)
Keepin’ the Summer Alive
(1980)
The Beach Boys (1985)
Still Cruisin (1989)
Summer in Paradise (1992)
Stars and Stripes Vol. 1 (1996)
Smile (2011)
Later History
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Legal Wrangling
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The Beach Boy Name
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Kokomo (1988)