Endless Summer (The Beach Boys album)
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| Greatest hits album by The Beach Boys | ||||
| Released | June 24, 1974 | |||
| Recorded | April 1962–June 1965 | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 46:50 (LP) / 51:09 (CD) | |||
| Label | Capitol | |||
| Producer | Brian Wilson, Nick Venet | |||
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Endless Summer is a compilation album by American rock band the Beach Boys, released on June 24, 1974. A collection of hits from the band's 1962–65 period, Endless Summer was compiled by their old label Capitol Records while the Beach Boys were contracted with Reprise Records. Its unexpected success bore immediate consequences on the band's then-progressive musical direction.
Four months after release, the album reached #1, and reclaimed the band's commercial glory in the United States, spending 155 weeks on the Billboard album chart. It became the group's second chart-topping album in the US, being certified 3x platinum by the RIAA for shipping over three million copies in the US.
In 1992, Mike Love noted, "They were going to do a Best Of The Beach Boys Volume Three in 19- , whatever the hell it was, and I came in there and went, "Wait a second, call it Endless Summer, instead of being Volume Three which sound nauseating to me. Endless Summer has a whole other vibe to it and sold several million copies just with the switch of the title. But then I'm a title guy anyway."
If one checks, there already was a "Best Of The Beach Boys Volume 3" LP, released in 1968, so perhaps Mike Love meant to say "Volume 4" in his quote, or was misquoted.
Greatest hits album by The Beach Boys Released August 19, 1968 Recorded October 1961–November 1967 Genre Rock Length 28:11 Label Capitol Producer Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys
Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating AllMusic [1] 3/5 stars The Best of The Beach Boys Vol. 3 is the third in a series of compilations of hits by The Beach Boys, released by Capitol Records.
Released in August 1968, The Best of The Beach Boys Vol. 3 was primarily put together to compensate for the poor U.S. sales of The Beach Boys' Friends album. The album marked the LP debut of the 1965 single "The Little Girl I Once Knew".
The Best of The Beach Boys Vol. 3 hit number 153 in the US during a 6-week chart stay. In the UK, it reached number 9.
Initial pressings of this album contained a poster depicting an airplane flying a Beach Boys banner. While the album is limited entirely to the band's sixties material, the cover artwork reflected the Beach Boys' seventies appearance. The artwork illustrator was Keith McConnell (who also did the artwork for their follow-ups, Spirit Of America and Sunshine Dream). With vegetation in the foreground, it also seems to evoke images of the band's late 1960s Smiley Smile album, although none of the songs on the original pressing are from Smiley Smile ("Good Vibrations" was added to the CD release of the album in 1987).
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