"The Best of the Beach Boys Vol. 3 The Best of the Beach Boys Vol. 3 is the third in a series of compilations of hits by The Beach Boys, released on August 5, 1968 through Capitol Records. The album was primarily assembled to compensate for the poor U.S. sales of the group's ""Friends"" album. ""Best of the Beach Boys"" hit number 153 in the US during a 6-week chart stay. In the UK, it reached number 9. The British version of ""The Best of The Beach Boys Vol. 3"" was released in mid-1968 with 14 songs, instead of the"
"some weeks. Candix Records Candix Records was an independent American record label known primarily for releasing the Beach Boys' first single, ""Surfin'"". Prior to releasing their first single on Candix, the Beach Boys were briefly known as the Surfers, the name included on the original acetate that found its way to Candix. Candix A&R man Joe Saraceno and Buckeye Distributors' Russ Regan are attributed with re-naming the Surfers as the Beach Boys because of the existence of a group already called the Surfers, recording for Richard Vaughn's Hollywood based label Hi-Fi Records. Incorporated on 26 August 1960, with an office"
"Candix Records Candix Records was an independent American record label known primarily for releasing the Beach Boys' first single, ""Surfin'"". Prior to releasing their first single on Candix, the Beach Boys were briefly known as the Surfers, the name included on the original acetate that found its way to Candix. Candix A&R man Joe Saraceno and Buckeye Distributors' Russ Regan are attributed with re-naming the Surfers as the Beach Boys because of the existence of a group already called the Surfers, recording for Richard Vaughn's Hollywood based label Hi-Fi Records. Incorporated on 26 August 1960, with an office at 6425"
"Brother Records Brother Records, Inc. (BRI) is a holding company established in 1967 that owns the intellectual property rights of the Beach Boys, including ""The Beach Boys"" trademark. Brother Records was also a record label founded by the Beach Boys' manager Nick Grillo in October 1966. For only a few months in 1967, it functioned as a vanity label with its output distributed by Capitol Records. From 1970 to 1978, the label was active again, this time with its distribution handled by Reprise Records. In mid-1966, Beach Boys business manager Nick Grillo formed the Brother Records corporation, bringing in Van"
"The Beach Boys discography The Beach Boys are an American rock band formed in Hawthorne, California in 1961. Their discography from 1961 to 1984 was originally released on the vinyl format, with the 1985 album ""The Beach Boys"" being the group's first CD release. The Beach Boys' catalogue has been released on reel-to-reel, 8-track, cassette, CD, MiniDisc, digital downloads, and various streaming services. The group has released 29 studio albums, eight live albums, 55 compilation albums, and 71 singles. The release dates and sequence of The Beach Boys albums in the UK up to ""Pet Sounds"" differ significantly from the"
"the ""Sunflower"" album. Other Beach Boys albums followed on the joint Brother/Reprise label during the 1970s, including ""Holland"" and ""15 Big Ones."" An album by The Flame, produced by Carl Wilson, was released in 1970 on the Brother label and distributed by Star-day King Records. By the late 1970s, Beach Boys records were issued on Brother and distributed by Caribou Records through CBS. As of 2007, the most recent CD re-release series of the Beach Boys' 1970s albums is on the joint Brother/Capitol Records label. Since the 1980s, Brother Records' business manager is Elliott Lott, a former chauffeur for The"
"original U.S. releases. (*) Contains a considerable number of previously unreleased recordings; (**) All previously unreleased recordings; Listed below are Beach Boys A-sides issued in the US. For Beach Boys singles not issued under the group name, charting B-sides, EP tracks, featured tracks, Christmas singles and non-American A-sides, see other songs. The Beach Boys discography The Beach Boys are an American rock band formed in Hawthorne, California in 1961. Their discography from 1961 to 1984 was originally released on the vinyl format, with the 1985 album ""The Beach Boys"" being the group's first CD release. The Beach Boys' catalogue has"
"Lost & Found (1961–62) Lost & Found (1961–62) is a Beach Boys compilation album which was released in 1991 under DCC Compact Classics record company. The album contains all of the early recordings of the band before they were signed to their first major record label, Capitol Records. This release is notable to collectors as it uses the original master tapes, where as many countless gray market issues of the same material use inferior sources. This release was compiled and mastered by Steve Hoffman. Original recordings were produced by Hite Morgan in 1961 & 1962. [†]: These tracks were released"
"the label, even though it was against the wishes of band manager Nick Grillo. In a press release, Anderle stated that Brother Records was to give ""entirely new concepts to the recording industry, and to give the Beach Boys total creative and promotional control over their product."" The group established a short-lived film production company, called ""Home Movies"", to create live action film and television properties starring the Beach Boys. The company completed only one production, a music video for ""Good Vibrations"". Released on October 10, 1966, ""Good Vibrations"" was the Beach Boys' third US number-one single, reaching the top"
"The Beach Boys (album) The Beach Boys is the 25th studio album by American rock band the Beach Boys, released on June 10, 1985. Produced by Steve Levine, the album is the band's first recording after the drowning death of founding member Dennis Wilson. It was also the band's first album to be recorded digitally and the last released by James William Guercio's Caribou Records. For ""The Beach Boys"", the band hired Culture Club producer Steve Levine, who took them into the world of drum machines, synthesizers, sampling, and hi-tech recording technology. Brian Wilson, Carl Wilson, Mike Love, Bruce Johnston"
"acquired the rights to their post-1965 catalog. In August, Sea of Tunes, the Beach Boys' catalog, was sold to Irving Almo Music for $700,000 (equivalent to $ in ). Brian, according to his wife Marilyn Wilson, was devastated by the sale. Over the years, the catalog would generate more than $100 million in publishing royalties, none of which Murry nor the band members ever received. The group were signed to Reprise Records in 1970. Scott Schinder described the label as ""probably the hippest and most artist-friendly major label of the time."" The deal was brokered by Van Dyke Parks, who"
"The Beach Boys The Beach Boys are an American rock band formed in Hawthorne, California, in 1961. The group's original lineup consisted of brothers Brian, Dennis, and Carl Wilson; their cousin Mike Love; and their friend Al Jardine. Distinguished by their vocal harmonies and early surf songs, they are one of the most influential acts of the rock era. The band drew on the music of jazz-based vocal groups, 1950s rock and roll, and black R&B to create their unique sound. With Brian as composer, arranger, producer, and de facto leader, they often incorporated classical elements and unconventional recording techniques"
"Beach Boys since they were getting so much airplay, and that they had a ""set image"" for the group which even ""Pet Sounds"" could not alter. Others assumed that the label considered the album a risk, appealing more to an older demographic than the younger, female audience the Beach Boys built their commercial standing on. To Brian's dismay, within two months, Capitol assembled the group's first greatest hits compilation, ""Best of The Beach Boys"", which was quickly certified gold by the RIAA. Capitol executive Karl Engemann later said: ""This is just conjecture on my part because it was so long"
"which he did not receive credit. In a 1974 radio interview, Brian said ""When we first got going, Mike was a Chuck Berry fan, so ... he and I turned the lyrics into a surfing song."" When the single was released in 1963, the record only listed Brian Wilson as the composer although the song was published by Arc Music, Chuck Berry's publisher. Later releases, beginning with ""Best of The Beach Boys"" in 1966, listed Chuck Berry as the songwriter. Later releases list both writers although the copyright has always been owned, since 1963, by Arc Music. Under pressure from"
"Records before moving on to Warner Brothers. The single peaked at the No. 63 spot on the ""Billboard"" charts; No. 35 in ""Record World"" and No. 38 in ""Cash Box"". The single was also released through Capitol Records in the same month in the UK, being the band's final single of the 1960s there. Capitol re-released it in Britain in June 1975, although on that occasion the single failed to make any impact on the charts. On regional US charts the single made the Beach Boys' weakest showing in major markets since the Christmas single ""The Man with All the"
"formula that brought the Beach Boys their initial success: songs with lyrics that embraced girls, cars, and surfing. This departure started with the band's 1965 album ""Today!"" and reached a tipping point with ""Pet Sounds"" (1966) and ""Smile"" (abandoned in 1967). At the time, Anderle was a portrait artist and talent manager who Wilson recently employed as the head of the Beach Boys' new label, Brother Records. The writer of the ""Rolling Stone"" article, Tom Nolan, mentioned that ""Mike wanted the bread, 'and don't fuck with the formula.'"" Anderle later said that his words were ""taken slightly out of context""."
"The Very Best of The Beach Boys The Very Best of the Beach Boys is an album released by the American rock and roll band The Beach Boys. The album was released by EMI in 2001 and features 30 of their greatest hits digitally remastered. The album is the first compilation of The Beach Boys that makes a full retrospective of their career, displaying their greatest hit songs, during their 40-year career. Other compilations had already been released throughout the years, but only focusing on certain time periods of the band, or focusing on their complete career, but with several"
"Beach Boys first recording, ""Surfin'"" for Candix Records on October 16, 1961; this roster included Al Jardine, a high school classmate of Brian Wilson's who had been singing and playing stand-up bass with the Wilson brothers and their cousin Mike Love. Over the next couple of months, Brian experimented with various combinations of musicians, including his mother Audree Wilson, but was not able to secure interest from a major label. In mid-February 1962, a new line-up was established, excluding Al Jardine who had left for dentistry school. On April 16, 1962, the Beach Boys recorded a demo session at Western"
"under the name Kenny and The Cadets, which comprised Brian, Carl, and Audree Wilson, and Al Jardine (after he'd left The Beach Boys). These appear as stereo mixes with the vocals on one channel, the instrumental track on the other. The originally released single was mono. Lost & Found (1961–62) Lost & Found (1961–62) is a Beach Boys compilation album which was released in 1991 under DCC Compact Classics record company. The album contains all of the early recordings of the band before they were signed to their first major record label, Capitol Records. This release is notable to collectors"
"by the famous surf group the Beach Boys were made. In 1959, taking advantage of the surf music craze, Hilder formed CT Records, which was his first record label. Also in the same year he was connected with Tender Records that George Motola was head of. In 1960, Manuel Chavez and Herman Chaney recorded a single in a Los Angeles studio connected with Hilder. The single was ""Be My Love"" / ""Piccadilly Rose"" by Chavez & Chaney and released on Spry 122. It was also released under Frankie And Johnny on Blast Off 100. Hilder had a role in production,"
"between April 1963 and November 1964. They were one of the first American groups to exhibit the definitive traits of a self-contained rock band, playing their own instruments and writing their own songs, and they were one of the few American bands formed prior to the 1964 British Invasion to continue their success. Among artists of the 1960s, they are one of few central figures in the histories of rock. Brian Wilson's artistic control over the Beach Boys' records was unprecedented for the time. Carl Wilson elaborated: ""Record companies were used to having absolute control over their artists. It was"
"of the Beach Boys. In 1969 they changed their name to Paper Lace. They worked their way through small club gigs, a season at Tiffany's, a Rochdale club, and in 1971 at The Birdcage in Ashton-Under-Lyne. Paper Lace released ""First Edition"", the first of two studio albums in 1972 but, despite some TV appearances, mainstream success was not achieved until a 1973 victory on ""Opportunity Knocks"", the ITV talent contest series. The band had originally auditioned for Opportunity Knocks in 1970, but were not called to appear until 1973. According to Phil Wright (then lead singer, now lead singer of"
"of the Beach Boys hit ""Good Vibrations"" failed to chart. A reggae version of ""Wild Thing"" also failed. Richard Moore and Colin Fletcher substitute for Britton, who temporarily quit music to manage a night club in Spain, for the recording of ""The Troggs Tapes"" album released in 1976. The band found a sympathetic ear at French label New Rose in the 1980s, releasing the ""Black Bottom"" LP (1982) and ""AU"" (1990). In 1991, they recorded ""Athens Andover"", an 11-song collaboration between themselves and three members of R.E.M. It was recorded in the American band's hometown of Athens, Georgia, and was"
"volumes. All tracks written by Brian Wilson/Mike Love, unless otherwise noted. The Very Best of The Beach Boys The Very Best of the Beach Boys is an album released by the American rock and roll band The Beach Boys. The album was released by EMI in 2001 and features 30 of their greatest hits digitally remastered. The album is the first compilation of The Beach Boys that makes a full retrospective of their career, displaying their greatest hit songs, during their 40-year career. Other compilations had already been released throughout the years, but only focusing on certain time periods of"
"in innovative ways. The Beach Boys began as an early garage band led by Brian and managed by the Wilsons' father Murry. In 1963, the band gained national prominence with a string of top-ten singles reflecting a southern California youth culture of surfing, cars, and romance, later dubbed the ""California Sound"". After 1964, they abandoned beachgoing themes for more personal lyrics and ambitious orchestrations. In 1966, the ""Pet Sounds"" album and ""Good Vibrations"" single raised the group's prestige as rock innovators and established the band as symbols of the nascent counterculture era. Following the dissolution of the group's ""Smile"" project"
"Carl Wilson (album) Carl Wilson is the self-titled debut studio album of The Beach Boys band member, Carl Wilson. The youngest of the three Wilson brothers in the band, Carl Wilson was reportedly at this time unhappy with the progress being made by The Beach Boys creatively. So Carl, just as his brother Dennis had a few years earlier, signed a contract with James William Guercio's CBS-distributed Caribou Records, which four years earlier put out Wilson's brother Dennis's album ""Pacific Ocean Blue"" and was also the current label of The Beach Boys. The album was released on March 27, 1981"
"Citations Bibliography The Beach Boys live performances The Beach Boys were an American rock band formed in Hawthorne, California, in 1961. Since then, the band has undergone many variations in composition, with representation by fill-ins onstage. As of 2017, the only principal members included in the Beach Boys' touring band are co-founder Mike Love and 1965 addition Bruce Johnston. In 1998, Love sought authorization through the Beach Boys' corporation, Brother Records Inc. (BRI) to tour as ""The Beach Boys"" and secured the necessary license. Even though Brian Wilson and Al Jardine have not performed with Love and Johnston's band since"
"was then employed as a multimedia executive at Warner Music Group. Reprise's contract stipulated Brian's proactive involvement with the band in all albums By the time the Beach Boys tenure ended with Capitol in 1969, they had sold 65 million records worldwide, closing the decade as the most commercially successful American group in popular music. After recording over 30 different songs and going through several album titles, their first LP for Reprise, ""Sunflower"", was released on August 31, 1970. ""Sunflower"" featured a strong group presence with significant writing contributions from all band members. Brian was active during this period, writing"
"Full Of Spring"". This session was recorded and given to Capitol Records as a demo tape. The label was impressed and immediately signed the band to their first major label. ""Surfin' Safari"" and ""409"" would be the band's first single to be issued under Capitol Records. The ""Surfin' Safari"" single backed with ""409"" was the band's second single and the first single to be released on the band's new label Capitol Records in the United States in June 1962. Originally Capitol Records felt ""409"" should be the 'A' Side, and first promoted the car song (according to Beach Boys biographers"
"name. He suggested calling them the Beach Boys. ""Surfin"" was a regional success for the West Coast, and reached number 75 on the national ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart. It was so successful that the number of unpaid orders for the single bankrupted Candix. By this time the de facto manager of the Beach Boys, Murry landed the group's first paying gig (for which they earned $300) on New Year's Eve, 1961, at the Ritchie Valens Memorial Dance in Long Beach. In their earliest public appearances, the band wore heavy wool jacket-like shirts that local surfers favored before switching to their"
"Beach Boys Studio Beach Boys Studio, also known as Brother Recording Studio, was a private recording studio owned by the Beach Boys that was located within Brian Wilson's home at 10452 Bellagio Road, Los Angeles, California. Six of the band's albums were recorded there in addition to his ""Bedroom Tapes"". The studio was built in 1967 to eliminate the inconvienence of booking time at another studio. Because the other Beach Boys took much of the recording equipment with them when they left for concert tours, Wilson was not typically allowed to use the studio unless the band was present. Band"
"Brian Wilson Brian Douglas Wilson (born June 20, 1942) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer who co-founded the Beach Boys. After signing with Capitol Records in 1962, Wilson wrote or co-wrote more than two dozen Top 40 hits for the group. In addition to his unorthodox approaches to pop composition and mastery of recording techniques, Wilson is known for his lifelong struggles with mental illness. He is often referred to as a ""genius"" and is widely acknowledged as one of the most innovative and significant songwriters of the late 20th century. The Beach Boys were formed by"
"The Beach Boys live performances The Beach Boys were an American rock band formed in Hawthorne, California, in 1961. Since then, the band has undergone many variations in composition, with representation by fill-ins onstage. As of 2017, the only principal members included in the Beach Boys' touring band are co-founder Mike Love and 1965 addition Bruce Johnston. In 1998, Love sought authorization through the Beach Boys' corporation, Brother Records Inc. (BRI) to tour as ""The Beach Boys"" and secured the necessary license. Even though Brian Wilson and Al Jardine have not performed with Love and Johnston's band since their one-off"