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| Graduation Day 1966: Live at the University of Michigan | ||||
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| Released | December 9, 2016 [1] | |||
| Recorded | October 22, 1966 | |||
| Venue | University of Michigan | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Label | Capitol | |||
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Graduation Day 1966 is a live album by The Beach Boys, released on December 9, 2016. It was originally recorded in 1966.
Since 2013, as a result of European Union copyright legislation passed that year, The Beach Boys have released various archival releases (most exclusive to digital downloads and streaming services, though some have also been offered in physical media formats like CDs and vinyl) featuring rarities, unreleased material, and other recordings that had not heretofore been officially released, all of which are fifty years old in that particular year, [2] in order to extend the copyright on these recordings. [3] The release was scheduled to extend the copyright of these recordings under EU law by 20 years; the EU protects recordings for 70 years only if they are formally released. [3] [4]
This show was part of the band's promotion tour of the album Pet Sounds in 1966; during that time Brian Wilson was working on the then-upcoming/unreleased album Smile .
On the night before, Brian flew out from Los Angeles to assist the band in rehearsing "Good Vibrations", which hadn't been played live before the three shows in Michigan. The album marks the second and third time the song was ever played live by the Beach Boys. As a result, the band taunts him out onto the stage for the second set's encore to play bass and provide vocals for Chuck Berry's "Johnny B. Goode". [2]
All tracks are written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love, except where noted
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Help Me, Rhonda" | 3:10 | |
| 2. | "I Get Around" | 2:25 | |
| 3. | "Medley: Fun, Fun, Fun / Shut Down / Little Deuce Coupe / Surfin' U.S.A." | Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Roger Christian, Chuck Berry | 3:51 |
| 4. | "Surfer Girl" | Brian Wilson | 3:13 |
| 5. | "Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow" | Carl White, Al Frazier, Sonny Harris, Turner Wilson Jr. | 3:00 |
| 6. | "You're So Good to Me" | 2:25 | |
| 7. | "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" | John Lennon, Paul McCartney | 3:32 |
| 8. | "California Girls" | 2:42 | |
| 9. | "Sloop John B." | Traditional; arranged by Brian Wilson | 3:00 |
| 10. | "Wouldn't It Be Nice" | Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Tony Asher | 2:10 |
| 11. | "God Only Knows" | Brian Wilson, Tony Asher | 3:01 |
| 12. | "Good Vibrations" | 4:37 | |
| 13. | "Graduation Day" | Joe Sherman, Noel Sherman | 4:04 |
| 14. | "Barbara Ann" | Fred Fassert | 3:52 |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 15. | "Help Me, Rhonda" | 3:02 | |
| 16. | "I Get Around" | 2:24 | |
| 17. | "Medley: Fun, Fun, Fun / Shut Down / Little Deuce Coupe / Surfin' U.S.A." | Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Roger Christian, Chuck Berry | 3:49 |
| 18. | "Surfer Girl" | Brian Wilson | 3:52 |
| 19. | "Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow" | White, Frazier, Harris, T. Wilson Jr. | 2:22 |
| 20. | "You're So Good to Me" | 2:16 | |
| 21. | "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" | Lennon, McCartney | 3:34 |
| 22. | "California Girls" | 5:07 | |
| 23. | "Sloop John B." | Traditional; arranged by Brian Wilson | 3:33 |
| 24. | "Wouldn't It Be Nice" | Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Tony Asher | 3:27 |
| 25. | "God Only Knows" | Brian Wilson, Tony Asher | 2:56 |
| 26. | "Good Vibrations" | 5:09 | |
| 27. | "Graduation Day" | Sherman, Sherman | 3:59 |
| 28. | "Barbara Ann" | Fassert | 3:55 |
| 29. | "Johnny B. Goode" | Berry | 3:59 |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 30. | "KOMA Radio Spot" | 0:14 | |
| 31. | "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" (Live) | Traditional | 0:36 |
The Beach Boys
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The Beach Boys is 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 friend Al Jardine. Distinguished by its vocal harmonies, adolescent-oriented lyrics, and musical ingenuity, the band is one of the most influential acts of the rock era. The group drew on the music of older pop vocal groups, 1950s rock and roll, and black R&B to create its unique sound. Under Brian's direction, it often incorporated classical or jazz elements and unconventional recording techniques in innovative ways.
Pet Sounds is the eleventh studio album by the American rock band the Beach Boys, released on May 16, 1966, by Capitol Records. It was initially met with a lukewarm critical and commercial response in the United States, peaking at number 10 on the Billboard Top LPs chart. In the United Kingdom, however, the album was lauded by critics and reached number 2 on the Record Retailer chart, remaining in the top ten for six months. Promoted there as "the most progressive pop album ever", Pet Sounds was recognized for its ambitious production, sophisticated music, and emotional lyrics. It is now considered to be among the greatest and most influential albums in music history.
Smiley Smile is the twelfth studio album by the American rock band the Beach Boys, released on September 18, 1967. Conceived as a simpler and more relaxed version of their unfinished Smile album, Smiley Smile is distinguished for its homespun arrangements, "stoned" aesthetic, and lo-fi production. Critics and fans generally received the album and its lead single, "Heroes and Villains", with confusion and disappointment. The album reached number 9 on UK record charts, but sold poorly in the U.S., peaking at number 41—the band's lowest chart placement to that point.
Carl Dean Wilson was an American musician who co-founded the Beach Boys. He was their lead guitarist, the youngest sibling of bandmates Brian and Dennis, and the group's de facto leader in the early to mid-1970s. He was also the band's musical director on stage from 1965 until his death.
Beach Boys Concert is the first live album by the American rock band the Beach Boys, released on October 19, 1964. It is their seventh album in all, and their third alone in the same year. It was their first of two chart-topping albums in the US, as well as the first live album to top pop music record charts, maintaining its position for four weeks during a sixty-two-week chart stay, and becoming another gold seller.
Beach Boys' Party! is the tenth studio album by the American rock band the Beach Boys, and their third in 1965, consisting mostly of cover songs played with acoustic instruments. It reached No. 6 in the US and No. 3 in the UK. The album spawned one single, a cover of the Regents' "Barbara Ann", which reached No. 2 in the US and No. 3 in the UK, and was their highest-charting British single to that point.
Wild Honey is the thirteenth studio album by the American rock band the Beach Boys, released on December 18, 1967, by Capitol Records. It was the group's first foray into soul music and was heavily influenced by the R&B of Motown and Stax Records. The album was the band's worst-selling at that point, charting at number 24 in the US. Lead single "Wild Honey" peaked at number 31, while its follow-up "Darlin'" reached number 19. In the UK, the album peaked at number seven.
"Good Vibrations" is a song by the American rock band the Beach Boys that was composed by Brian Wilson with lyrics by Mike Love. It was released as a single on October 10, 1966 and was an immediate critical and commercial hit, topping record charts in several countries including the United States and the United Kingdom. Characterized by its complex soundscapes, episodic structure and subversions of pop music formula, it was at the time the most expensive single ever recorded. "Good Vibrations" later became widely acclaimed as one of the finest and most important works of the rock era.
"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. It is often praised as one of the greatest songs of all time and as the Beach Boys' finest record.
Good Vibrations: Thirty Years of the Beach Boys is a box set by the American rock band the Beach Boys, released in 1993 by Capitol Records. It collects tracks spanning their entire career up to that point on four CDs. A fifth disc contains mostly studio session tracks, complete vocal and instrumental tracks, and rare live performances. The set also includes a car window decal. Though it never charted, Good Vibrations: Thirty Years of the Beach Boys went gold in the US just over four months after its release.
Endless Harmony Soundtrack is an anthology album of previously unheard material by The Beach Boys, originally released by Capitol Records in August 1998. Named for Bruce Johnston's song on the 1980 album Keepin' the Summer Alive, it was designed as a tie-in with the band's biographical documentary of the same name. The soundtrack was re-issued in March 2000 with some remixing and different artwork, while the original 1998 edition went out of print shortly thereafter.
"Wouldn't It Be Nice" is a song by the American rock band the Beach Boys and the opening track from their 1966 album Pet Sounds. Written by Brian Wilson, Tony Asher, and Mike Love, it is distinguished for its sophisticated Wall of Sound-style arrangement and refined vocal performances, and is regarded among the band's finest songs. With its juxtaposition of joyous-sounding music and melancholic lyrics, it is considered a formative work of power pop, and with respect to musical innovation, progressive pop.
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Songs from Here & Back is a 2006 live album by The Beach Boys released through Hallmark Gold Crown Stores and only available for two months. The album contains nine never-before-released live recordings, as well as three solo studio recordings, one new recording each by Brian Wilson and Mike Love, and a previously released Al Jardine song. The live tracks were recorded in 1989 except "Wouldn't It Be Nice" and "Good Vibrations" which are from 1974.
Smile is an unfinished album by the American rock band the Beach Boys that was intended to follow their 1966 album Pet Sounds. It was to be an LP of twelve tracks assembled from modular fragments, the same editing process used for their "Good Vibrations" single. Instead, after a year of recording, the album was shelved and the group released a downscaled version, Smiley Smile, in September 1967. Over the next four decades, few of the original Smile tracks were officially released, and the project came to be regarded as the most legendary unreleased album in popular music history.
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Made in California (1962–2012) is a compilation box set by the Beach Boys, released on August 27, 2013. The set, released through Capitol Records, was designed by Mark London in a form emulating a high school yearbook. The set contains six CDs with tracks that span the band's entire career, including outtakes, demos, B-sides, rarities, alternate takes and versions, plus over 60 previously unreleased. It supersedes the theretofore career-spanning 1993 box set Good Vibrations: Thirty Years of The Beach Boys, which followed a similar premise.
Many recordings and performances by the Beach Boys have attained some level of public circulation without being available as a legal release, and several albums by the band or its individual members were fully assembled or near completion before being shelved, rejected, or revised as an entirely new project. Since the early 1980s, numerous rarities compilations and album reissues have been released with studio outtakes included as bonus tracks.
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The Beatles are to release 59 rare and unheard recordings in a bid to stop their copyright protection expiring.
