Beach Boys Concert

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Beach Boys Concert
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Live album by
The Beach Boys
ReleasedOctober 19, 1964
RecordedDecember 21, 1963; August 1964
Venue Memorial Auditorium, Sacramento, California (1963; August 1, 1964)
Studio Western, Hollywood (August 30)
Genre Surf rock, rock and roll
Length32:07
Label Capitol
Producer Brian Wilson
The Beach Boys chronology
Four by the Beach Boys
(1964)		Beach Boys Concert
(1964)		 The Beach Boys' Christmas Album
(1964)
The Beach Boys UK chronology
The Beach Boys' Christmas Album
(1964)		Beach Boys Concert
(1965)		 All Summer Long
(1965)
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Beach Boys Concert is the first live album by 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 (the other was their 1974 greatest hit compilation, Endless Summer ), as well as the first live album to top pop music record charts, [5] maintaining its position for four weeks during a sixty-two-week chart stay, and becoming another gold seller.

Contents

The album was recorded live at the Memorial Auditorium in Sacramento, California, though it received heavy post-production treatment. Because Brian Wilson was about to vacate his position in the live group, and would only perform sporadically with them over the course of the next three decades, it is one of the few live documents of the original line-up of the Beach Boys that has been officially released.

In 2014, Live in Sacramento 1964 was released, containing additional performances from these concert dates. [6]

Recording

The album includes several songs that the Beach Boys regularly performed live but had not previously included on an album, such as "The Little Old Lady from Pasadena", "Long Tall Texan", "Monster Mash", "Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow", "The Wanderer", "Graduation Day", and "Johnny B. Goode". Alongside those were a sampling of their hits, such as "Hawaii", "Fun, Fun, Fun", and "I Get Around". "Little Deuce Coupe", "In My Room", "Johnny B. Goode" and "Long Tall Texan" dated from the December 21, 1963 show. [7]

Variations

A truncated version was released on Pickwick Records as Wow! Great Concert!Beach Boys Concert (Capitol (S)TAO 2198) When their albums were remastered for CD in 1990 (and again in 2001), Beach Boys Concert was paired on CD with Live in London , with bonus tracks from both periods.

Track listing

Side one
  1. "Fun, Fun, Fun" (Brian Wilson, Mike Love) – 2:26
  2. "The Little Old Lady (from Pasadena)" (Don Altfeld, Jan Berry, Roger Christian) – 3:00
  3. "Little Deuce Coupe" (Brian Wilson, Roger Christian) – 2:27
  4. "Long, Tall Texan" (Henry Strezlecki) – 2:32
  5. "In My Room" (Brian Wilson, Gary Usher) – 2:25
  6. "Monster Mash" (Bobby Pickett, Lenny Capizzi) – 2:27
  7. "Let's Go Trippin'" (Dick Dale) – 2:34
Side two
  2. "Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow" (Carl White, Al Frazier, Sonny Harris, Turner Wilson Jr.) – 2:18
  3. "The Wanderer" (Ernest Maresca) – 2:00
  4. "Hawaii" (Brian Wilson, Mike Love) – 1:51
  5. "Graduation Day" (Joe Sherman, Noel Sherman) – 3:29
  6. "I Get Around" (Brian Wilson, Mike Love) – 2:42
  7. "Johnny B. Goode" (Chuck Berry) – 1:56
Beach Boys Concert / Live in London 1990/2001 CD reissue bonus tracks
  1. "Don't Worry Baby" (Brian Wilson, Roger Christian) – 2:57
  2. "Heroes and Villains" (Brian Wilson, Van Dyke Parks) – 3:45

Personnel

The Beach Boys

Charts

Chart (1964)Peak
position
US Billboard Top LPs1

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References

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  2. ↑ Wolk, Douglas (October 2004). "The Beach Boys Concert/Live in London". Blender . Archived from the original on June 30, 2006. Retrieved June 2, 2017.
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