Keepin' the Summer Alive
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| Studio album by The Beach Boys | ||||
| Released | March 24, 1980 | |||
| Recorded | November 1979–February 1980 | |||
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| Genre | Rock and roll, pop rock, country rock | |||
| Length | 33:10 | |||
| Label | Brother/Caribou/CBS | |||
| Producer | Bruce Johnston | |||
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Keepin' the Summer Alive is the 24th studio album by American rock band The Beach Boys, released on March 24, 1980 on Brother, Caribou and CBS Records. Produced by band member Bruce Johnston, following aborted attempts to have founding member Brian Wilson return to his former role, the album is the last with founding drummer Dennis Wilson, who would drown in December 1983. The album also features the Eagles' guitarist Joe Walsh on the opening track "Keepin' the Summer Alive".
The album peaked at #75 in the U.S. and #54 in the UK.
After the band's previous album, L.A. (Light Album) (1979), failed to live up to commercial and critical expectations, the executives at CBS expected Brian Wilson's full involvement, and thus, there was an attempt to lure him back into his former role of producer.
Wilson and vocalist Mike Love quickly composed new material, and in July 1979, The Beach Boys convened at Western Studio in Los Angeles — the studio where most of the band's 1960s material had been produced by Brian — to begin work on a new studio album. Dennis Wilson, at odds with the rest of the group, abandoned the initial recording sessions, taking no further part in the album. These recording sessions were also stalled by Brian Wilson's desire to record only cover songs of rock n' roll tracks; one of these, Chuck Berry's "School Days", appears on the album's final track listing.
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