The Beach Boys - Surfer Girl Mono 1963 Capitol T1981 Rainbow Label

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The Beach Boys - Surfer Girl Mono 1963 Capitol T1981 Rainbow Label This LP is in great condition for a 49 year old record.  Cover shows normal signs of age, vinyl record has few scratches from normal play, record plays well.
Track listing SIDE ONE: 1.     "Surfer Girl"       Brian Wilson     Brian Wilson     2:26 2.     "Catch a Wave"       B. Wilson/Mike Love     Mike Love/B. Wilson     2:07 3.     "The Surfer Moon"       B. Wilson     B. Wilson     2:11 4.     "South Bay Surfer"       B. Wilson/Carl Wilson/Al Jardine     Love/B. Wilson     1:45 5.     "The Rocking Surfer"       trad. arr. B. Wilson     instrumental     2:00 6.     "Little Deuce Coupe"       B. Wilson/Roger Christian     Love     1:38 SIDE TWO: 1.     "In My Room"       B. Wilson/Gary Usher     B. Wilson     2:11 2.     "Hawaii"       B. Wilson/Love     Love/B. Wilson     1:59 3.     "Surfer's Rule"       B. Wilson/Love     Dennis Wilson/B. Wilson     1:54 4.     "Our Car Club"       B. Wilson/Love     Love/B. Wilson     2:22 5.     "Your Summer Dream"       B. Wilson/Bob Norberg     B. Wilson     2:27 6.     "Boogie Woodie"       trad. arr. B. Wilson     instrumental     1:56 Hit Singles:
    "Surfer Girl" b/w "Little Deuce Coupe" (Capitol 5009), 22 July 1963 US #7 ("Little Deuce Coupe" US #15).     "In My Room" featured as the B-side of "Be True to Your School" US #23 Musicians from The Beach Boys:
    Al Jardine - bass guitar, vocals (on "Boogie Woodie", "Surfer's Rule", "Catch A Wave" and "In My Room")     Mike Love - vocals     David Marks - rhythm guitar, vocals     Brian Wilson - piano, organ, bass guitar, vocals     Carl Wilson - lead guitar, vocals     Dennis Wilson - drums
Others:
    Hal Blaine - drums, percussion     Steve Douglas - saxes     Maureen Love - harp
     Album Notes: Surfer Girl is the third studio album by The Beach Boys and their second longplayer in 1963. This was the first album by The Beach Boys for which Brian Wilson was given full production credit, a position Wilson would maintain until the end of the Smile sessions in 1967. Surfer Girl is also the title of an unrelated 1973 compilation album released by US budget label Pickwick Records, repackaging early 1960s Beach Boys tracks.
Surfer Girl hit #7 in the US during a chart stay of 56 weeks. In the UK, the album was re-released in spring 1967 and reached #13. Surfer Girl (Capitol (S) T 1981) is now paired on CD with Shut Down Volume 2, with bonus tracks from that period, including a German language version of "In my Room". The albums are paired out of sequence to avoid the duplication of "Little Deuce Coupe", "Our Car Club", "Shut Down" and "409" that appear on Little Deuce Coupe.
Brian Wilson himself turns in, along with, variously, Mike Love, Gary Usher and Roger Christian's help, some of his most cherished songs. The title track, a #7 US hit, was the first song Brian had ever composed, at the age of 19, using "When You Wish Upon A Star" as a guide while writing it. As a ballad, it was a risky move for a single, but its obvious quality overcame any potential commercial risks. Its flip-side, "Little Deuce Coupe", proved to be The Beach Boys' most successful B-side, reaching US #15 and becoming a hot rod staple. It also continued the band's current trend of putting a surf-related song on the A-side of singles, and car songs on the B-side. "Catch a Wave" featured Mike Love's sister, Maureen, on harp, while "The Surfer Moon" was the first Beach Boys song to have a string arrangement. "In My Room" was perhaps Brian Wilson's first personal song, a reflection on having a place to go to feel a sense of security and safety from the stress of one's life. Despite some slight material ("South Bay Surfer", "Boogie Woodie"), it was clear that Surfer Girl was a giant step forward for The Beach Boys - and the first of many.
"South Bay Surfer" is co-credited to Al Jardine, who had recently rejoined The Beach Boys in the summer of 1963.
The recording date of July 16th assigned the titles not previously released as a single is not so much questionable as almost certainly impossible. There is documentary proof (a tape box label) that "Surfers Rule", "South Bay Surfer" and "Boogie Woodie" were indeed recorded on that date at Western, and it's noticeable that whilst Mike Love's lead vocals for "Hawaii" and "Catch A Wave" are hampered by a heavy cold, his other leads on the album are fine. Further, Alan Jardine is known to have played or sung on four tracks - bass on "Boogie Woodie", "Surfer's Rule" & "Catch A Wave" and vocals on "In My Room" - but not the others, while Hal Blaine contributed to "Our Car Club" (originally recorded for The Honeys as "Rabbit's Foot" and "Hawaii". Thus there must have been at least four sessions for the album tracks, but as the AFM documentation is missing, confirmation is lacking
Coming after their breakthrough Surfin' USA album, Surfer Girl hit #7 in the US (where it went gold) and, later in 1967, #13 in the UK.
The music title of the album, Surfer Girl, was featured in Charlie's Angels Full Throttle's soundtrack.
Artist notes:
The Beach Boys are an American rock band, formed in 1961 in Hawthorne, California. The group was initially composed of brothers Brian, Dennis and Carl Wilson, their cousin Mike Love, and friend Al Jardine. Managed by the Wilsons' father Murry, The Beach Boys signed to Capitol Records in 1962. The band's early music gained popularity across the United States for its close vocal harmonies and lyrics reflecting a Southern California youth culture of surfing, cars, and romance. By the mid 1960s, leader Brian Wilson's growing creative ambition and songwriting ability would dominate the group's musical direction. The primarily Brian-composed Pet Sounds album and "Good Vibrations" single (both released in 1966) featured a complex, intricate and multi-layered sound that was a far cry from the simple surf rock of The Beach Boys' early years.
However, Brian would soon lose control of the band because of mental-health and substance-abuse issues, this led to the cancellation of the anticipated follow up to Pet Sounds, Smile. Subsequently, although they released a number of popular albums (in various musical styles, with different line-ups) in ensuing years, the group never managed to reclaim its mid-'60s peak when The Beach Boys briefly challenged The Beatles both in terms of commercial and critical appeal. Since the 1980s, there has been much legal-wrangling among the group members over royalties, songwriting credits, and use of the band's name. While The Beach Boys released their last studio album in 1996, a number of versions of the band, each fronted by a surviving member of the original quintet (Dennis and Carl Wilson died in 1983 and 1998, respectively), continue to tour.
The Beach Boys have often been called "America's Band", and Allmusic has stated that "the band's unerring ability... made them America's first, best rock band." The group has had 36 United States Top 40 hits (the most by an American rock band) and 56 Hot 100 hits, including four number-one singles. 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 band. The core quintet of the three Wilsons, Love and Jardine was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988. Thanks for looking. No returns or exchanges. Paypal Only.

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