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Upcoming and Current Releases

  • The Beach Boys' live performance of "God Only Knows" from Farm Aid 1996 is included in a new 2CD compiliation of music from various Farm Aid benefits over the years. The BB's "Feel Flows" is featured both in Cameron Crowe's new film Almost Famous and on the accompanying soundtrack album. (updated 10/27/00)

  • Rhino Records has rereleased Brian Wilson's 1988 solo album, Brian Wilson, with bonus tracks, some previously unreleased. (updated 10/27/00)

  • Brian Wilson booked L.A.'s Roxy Theater for a two-night stint on April 7-8, to record a live album with his current tour band (including Jeffrey Foskett and the Wondermints). Live at the Roxy Theatre is being sold via Brian's website (BrianWilson.com); orders now being accepted. Preorders are currently shipping. Click here for full information, track listings, and liner notes. (updated 6/1/00)

  • Like a Brother, the long-awaited Gerry Beckley/Robert Lamm/Carl Wilson album on the Transparent Music label is now available in stores. Tracks include Carl's "I Wish for You," "Run Don't Walk," "They're Only Words," and the title tune (written for brother Brian.) Carl is also featured lead vocalist on "Today." A press kit, audio clips for the whole album, release details, and purchasing info are available at the America Fans home page. Five of the album's songs can be heard in their entirety at the Transparent Music website (Flash plug-in and newer browser required to access this site). (updated 6/30/00)

  • A new reissue of the Beach Boys' Lost and Found album, titled Surfin' has been released on the Varese Sarabande label, with Gary Usher bonus tracks featuring several BBs as session musicians. (5/12/00)

    Best of the Brother Years

  • The Beach Boys' Greatest Hits Volume 3: Best of the Brother Years) was released in early February, 2000. Covering the period of 1970-1986, tracks include "Add Some Music To Your Day," "Susie Cincinnati," "This Whole World," "Long Promised Road," "Disney Girls (1957)," "`Til I Die," "Surf's Up," "Marcella," "Sail On, Sailor," "The Trader," "California Saga (On My Way to Sunny Californ-i-a)," "Rock and Roll Music," "It's OK," "Honkin' Down The Highway," "Peggy Sue," "Good Timin'," "Goin' On," "Come Go With Me," "Getcha Back," and "California Dreamin'." For more details and news of related events, visit Capitol Records' BB website.(updated 2/23/00)

  • While work continues on preparing the first batch of '70s Beach Boys re-releases on Capitol (see updated story below), two 'Greatest Hits' anthologies have been released. Vol. 1 is a reissue of 20 Good Vibrations, retitled Greatest Hits, Vol. 1: 20 Good Vibrations. The new companion volume Greatest Hits, Vol. 2: 20 More Good Vibrations covers the period 1963-70. Both albums were released on September 21. A third anthology, The Best of the Brother Years, covering material from 1970 through 1990, is now out. Previously issued hits anthologies will be phased out. (updated 2/23/00)

  • The Endless Harmony album consists almost entirely of previously unreleased Beach Boys recordings, including live, studio, and alternate takes. For a detailed description of Endless Harmony's tracks, click here to read Brad Elliott's liner notes. The album is a companion soundtrack anthology to a video biography, Endless Harmony: The Beach Boys and Their Music, which airs periodically on VH-1. Directed by Alan Boyd, this documentary includes recent and vintage interviews, performance highlights, and rare footage. (A longer home video version will be released by Capitol on March 14, 2000.) (8/22/99)


    SEVENTIES REISSUES FINALLY COMING OUT
    Capitol Records began a major revamp of The Beach Boys' catalog, starting in September 1998. The '70s and '80s albums will be reissed in twofer format. The first batch released on July 18 will be Sunflower/Surf's Up and In Concert. The rest of the '70s and '80s reissues -- Carl & the Passions: So Tough/Holland, 15 Big Ones/Love You, M.I.UL.A. (Light Album), and Keepin' The Summer Alive/Beach Boys '85 -- should follow a month or later (currently targeted for Aug. 15). Previously announced bonus tracks will not be included on the reissues, however a rarities compilation may be under consideration. See Capitol's full press release for more details. The '60s twofers are expected to be re-released next year. (updated 5/27/00)


    WORK TAPES BY DAVE & THE MARKSMEN
    David Marks     has a new CD, Work Tapes, out. Send $18 US to Dave and the Marksmen, 2300 W. Victory Blvd., PMB - C 384, Burbank, CA 91506. For more information, visit Dave's website. (10/15/99)



    Carl Wilson Remembered

    LONG PROMISED ROAD: CARL WILSON LIMITED-EDITION CD
    The special Carl Wilson promotional CD Long Promised Road is now available exclusively through the     American Cancer Society. The CD contains Carl's work as a solo artist and those contributions he made to the Beach Boys. This CD is available to you for a $100 donation (includes shipping and handling). All checks payable to: American Cancer Society, Central L.A. Unit. Memo: Carl Wilson Fund. Please mail all donations to: American Cancer Society, Central L. A. Unit, Carl Wilson Fund, 3255 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite #701, Los Angeles, CA 90010-1411. To donate/order by credit card call (213) 386-6102, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., Monday-Friday Pacific Time. Enjoy the music and remember Carl Wilson, the man who created it. --Billy Hinsche
    Find Your Local ACS     (3/11/99)


    BBBRITAIN CARL TRIBUTE CONCERT CD
    Beach Boys Britain has announced the release of their Carl Wilson Tribute Concert CD, a recording of highlights of performances by fans from last December's Carl Wilson Charity Tribute Concert in London. All profits go to benefit Imperial Cancer Research. To order, send a check made payable to Beach Boys Britain for 10 (plus 1 postage UK, 2 elsewhere, UK funds only) to: Carl Wilson Tribute CD, c/o Alan Poole, Flat 2, 26 Barton Road, Hereford, HR4 0AY, England. All overseas orders will be sent by airmail. (6/2/99)


    MORE TRIBUTES AND DEDICATIONS

  • Michael Angeloff's new CD, Here And Now.... Is Forever, available from his website, features one of Carl Wilson's last recording performances. Michael will be making a donation from each CD sale to The Carl Wilson Foundation. (4/5/00)

  • Former BBFC rep John Hunter Phillips has released a new CD, Diamonds on the Beach, "devoted to the songs of the Beach Boys, Brian Wilson and Carl Wilson." Billy Hinsche, who wrote the liner notes, performs a duet with John on "One More Night Alone." A portion of the proceeds from this endeavor ($1.00 per CD) will go to The Carl Wilson Foundation. To order, send $14.95 plus $5 postage and handling to John Hunter Phillips, 4093 Marquesas Ave., Tega Cay, SC 29715 or visit John's website for more information. (1/14/00)

  • The Pet Sounds Mailing List (an email list for Beach Boys fans) has put together a various artists' CD of original songs inspired by the BBs called PSML Loves You. The CD can be bought from the PSML's MusicBuilder page. Cost is $9.95, plus shipping and handling, of which $4.95 will be donated to The Carl Wilson Foundation. Orders can be taken by credit card online, or by check or money order. Pleae note: MusicBuilder charges $15 minimum for mail orders. (2/24/00)

  • It's Only Roy (formerly Grown Men) have released an eponymous full-length CD featuring "Gentle Soul," a song written about and dedicated to Carl Wilson. A portion of the proceeds will go to The Carl Wilson Foundation. The CD costs $12.98, plus S/H, and is available from their website (frames-free link here), which also features sound clips, photos, and a message board. Contact Rick Bell for more information. (3/30/00)

  • Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' 1999 release Echo has a song, "Room at the Top," in tribute to Carl.

  • America's album Human Nature features a track called "Hidden Talent" with Carl Wilson and Robert Lamm (of Chicago) on background vocals. The album is also dedicated to Carl.

  • Longtime BB friend Christopher Cross has dedicated his album Walking in Avalon and a live cut on the recording ("Think of Laura") to the memory of Carl Wilson, saying that Carl was a great friend and the biggest influence on his singing. (4/16/98)



    Other Recent Projects of Note

  • Alan and Matt Jardine contributed a track, "Papa Loved Mama," to the Garth Brooks tribute CD, New Friends in Low Places. (updated 8/24/99)

  • Brian Wilson recorded a version of "Little Deuce Coupe" with Brian Setzerfor the MOM III album on Surfdog Records, to benefit the Surfrider Foundation. (updated 7/99)

  • Pet Sounds was reissued on CD and vinyl with both mono and stereo versions of the classic album, plus bonus track. Click the link to read Brad Elliott's liner notes and track notes for the album. (updated 8/31/99)

  • The NorthSound label has released an album by Fred Simon, The Music of The Beach Boys, featuring piano interpretations of Beach Boys hits accompanied by ocean sounds.

  • One (or more) of Brian Wilson's Midwest shows was recorded for later presentation on HBO and for a possible live album to be released later this year.

  • Mike Love has contributed a track to the ABBA -- A Tribute to the 25th Anniversary Celebration album on Relativity Records. "On and On and On" originally appeared on Mike's solo album, Looking Back with Love.

  • The Beach Boys' classic, "Don't Worry Baby," has been digitally remixed in a Surround Sound version of the song that was done exclusively for the new Drew Barrymore film Never Been Kissed. A RealAudio interview with Brian and Drew can be found on Capitol Records Never Been Kissed soundtrack website.(5/12/99)

  • Brian Wilson's 1998 solo album Imagination.

  • Bruce Johnston's project with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Symphonic Sounds: Music of the Beach Boys.

  • Ultimate Christmas, is a reissue of the '64 Christmas album in its entirety, plus bonus tracks from the unreleased '77 Christmas album. For a detailed description, read Brad Elliott's Ultimate Christmas track notes.

  • Brian Wilson provides backing vocals to Tammy Wynette's version of "In My Room," on the multi-artist tribute collection dedicated to Wynette, Tribute to Tradition.

  • The Jardines. Alan Jardine has recorded some tracks for an album with his sons Matt and Adam, aka The Jardines.

  • Mike Love, Bruce Johnston and David Marks guest on José Hernandez and Mariacho Sol de Mexico's album, Acapulco Girls.

  • Pet Sounds Sessions, The Beach Boys' four CD box set with mono version, stereo mix, demos, alternate mixes, vocal- and instrumental-only versions, and a 120-page CD-size book; available in stores now.

  • Salute to NASCAR, Bruce Johnston, Mike Love, David Marks, and Dean Torrence's limited-release album of automotively-themed classics.

  • Perfect Harmony, a specially-packaged, limited-edition Beach Boys compilation from Capitol

  • Brian Wilson joins his daughters for four tracks on Carnie and Wendy's recent album, The Wilsons.

  • Brian Wilson and his daughters appear on a various artists compilation CD called Christmas Spirit, a benefit project for the Children's Defense Fund.

  • Bruce Johnston and Mike Love guesting on the King's Singers' album Spirit Voices.

  • Brian Wilson does an acoustic piano number on Windham Hill's Songs Without Words, a various artists instrumentals album.

  • Beach Boys' track on MOM II, a Surfrider Foundation benefit project.

  • Tim Weston's Wouldn't It Be Nice: A Jazz Portrait of Brian Wilson.

  • Mike Kowalski's The Backsters Live!

  • The Beach Boys' 1996 album, Stars & Stripes


    Liner Notes Archive

    A full listing of Brad Elliott's Beach Boys liner notes online:

  • Pet Sounds liner notes and track notes for the new reissue. (8/99)

  • Ultimate Christmas track notes (9/1998)

  • Endless Harmony.liner notes.(7/98)

  • Long Promised Roadliner notes.(3/99)


    Video Notes

  • Capitol has officially announced the U.S. video release for Endless Harmony on March 14, 2000. The video will contain material that did not appear in the televised version, plus bonus clips. VHS and DVD. (1/10/00)

  • Cable channel American Movie Classics (AMC) is airing a month-long BB festival in March. Endless Harmony will be shown on in two parts on March 18 and 25 respectively. A different Beach Boys American Pop segment will run each Saturday night in March, 10 pm.-midnight. The Lost Beach Boys Concert and other appearances by the group will be included. The Imagination website has some additional information on AMC's BB programming, times, and dates which has not yet been confirmed. (2/5/00)

  • ABC's four-hour television miniseries, The Beach Boys: An American Family, will air in two parts on Sunday and Monday, Feb. 27 and 28 (9-11 p.m. ET, both nights). ABC now has a website for the show, with photos and a trivia quiz (WARNING: Java must be enabled to view photos). The Rick on TV site also has photos from the miniseries.

    Produced by John Stamos, the series will focus on The Beach Boys' early days and their relationship with Murry Wilson. Portraying the Wilson brothers: Frederick Weller as Brian, Nick Stabile as Dennis, and Ryan Northcott as Carl. Other castings include Matt Letscher (Mask of Zorro) as Mike Love, Ned Vaughn as Alan Jardine, Jesse Caron as Bruce Johnston, Dublin James as Dave Marks, Kevin Dunn as Murry Wilson, Alley Mills (The Wonder Years) as Audree Wilson, and Amy Van Horne as Marilyn Wilson. (2/12/00)

  • The A&E; Network is reairing its BIOGRAPHY: Brian Wilson: A Beach Boy's Tale on February 20 & 21, 2000. A home video version is available from A&E;'s website. (1/26/00)

  • The full-length version of Brian's St. Charles, IL Imagination performance from last year, featuring Bruce Johnston and others on backing vocals, is now available on home video.

  • Two Lane Blacktop, the cult film classic starring Dennis Wilson and James Taylor, has also been released on home video. (11/99)

  • The Lost Beach Boys Concert, a closed-circuit live performance from 1964, shown recently on the AMC channel, is being prepared for release on home video in VHS and DVD formats. It is available from Music Video Distributors for $9.98. Call 1-800-84-MUSIC, ext. 231 or visit MVD's website for ordering details. (10/99)


    Updated on October 27, 2000
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