Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)
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| Studio album by The Beach Boys | |||||
| Released | July 5, 1965 | ||||
| Recorded | February 24 / March 4–20 / June 4, 1965 | ||||
| Studio | United Western Recorders, Gold Star Studios, and CBS Columbia Square, Hollywood | ||||
| Genre | Rock | ||||
| Length | 26:42 | ||||
| Label | Capitol | ||||
| Producer | Brian Wilson | ||||
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Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!) is the ninth studio album by American rock band the Beach Boys, released on July 5, 1965, on Capitol. Produced by Brian Wilson, the album reached number 2 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number 4 on the UK Albums Chart. Two singles were issued from the album: "Help Me, Rhonda", which became the group's second chart-topper in the US, and "California Girls", which peaked at number three.
The band's previous album, The Beach Boys Today! (March 1965), represented a departure for the group through its abandonment of themes related to surfing, cars, and teenage love, but it sold below Capitol's expectations. In response, the label pressured the group to produce bigger hits.Summer Days thus returned the band's music to simpler themes.
"Girl Don't Tell Me" marked Carl Wilson's first lead vocal on a Beach Boys studio album.
One outtake from the album's sessions is known as "Sandy" or "Sherry She Needs Me", and was written by Brian Wilson with Russ Titelman alongside "Guess I'm Dumb". "Sherry She Needs Me" was later revisited by the Beach Boys during 1976's Love You sessions. The composition remained dormant until 1998, when it was finally finished by Wilson as "She Says That She Needs Me" for his 1998 Imagination solo album. The Beach Boys' version of "Sherry She Needs Me" was later released in 2013 for the Made in California box set.
Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!) includes Bruce Johnston's first appearance on a Beach Boys album. As Brian Wilson's stage replacement, he was not yet considered an "official" member, but Wilson appreciated Johnston's skills enough to have him contribute vocally and instrumentally on the album. Johnston would often accompany the group on photo shoots, but he was prohibited from having those pictures published on album covers due to a preexisting contract with Columbia Records. Consequently, his image would not grace the jacket of a Beach Boys' album until he appeared on the back cover of Wild Honey in 1967. Along with Johnston, Al Jardine is also missing from the Summer Days cover photo depicting the group on a sailboat, having missed the shoot due to illness.
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