The Beach Boys in Concert
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| Live album by The Beach Boys | ||||
| Released | November 19, 1973 | |||
| Recorded | Winter 1972 and Summer 1973 | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 75:49 | |||
| Label | Brother/Reprise | |||
| Producer | The Beach Boys | |||
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| Encyclopedia of Popular Music | |
| MusicHound | 3.5/5 |
| Rolling Stone | (favorable) |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | |
The Beach Boys in Concert is the third live album released by the U.S. pop group The Beach Boys. It was released in late 1973. In the U.S. the live album was their first live album since Beach Boys Concert released nine years earlier. Their second, Live in London, was released in the UK in 1970, but was not released in the U.S. until 1976. The Beach Boys in Concert gave the band their best chart peak since 1967's Wild Honey by reaching number 25, and earning them their first gold record since 1966's Best of The Beach Boys. The album is now available on a single-disc CD.
The cover art includes a rendition of Cyrus Dallin's statue Appeal to the Great Spirit.
Compiled from two separate U.S. concert tours in late 1972 and mid-1973, The Beach Boys In Concert was initially submitted to Reprise Records as a single live disc and was rejected, before expanding into a double album. Highlights include updated interpretations of "Caroline, No", "You Still Believe in Me", "Heroes and Villains", "Don't Worry Baby", and "Surfer Girl". Of the newer material, "Marcella", "Sail On, Sailor", "Funky Pretty", and "The Trader" are joined, among others, with Holland out-take "We Got Love", which makes its debut here on a Beach Boys album. The Beach Boys in Concert (Brother/Reprise 2RS 6484) hit No. 25 in the US during a chart stay of 24 weeks.
This is the only live album and the final album on which Blondie Chaplin and Ricky Fataar appeared as official members, as both departed the band's line-up in late 1973 and late 1974 respectively.
All tracks written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love, unless otherwise noted.
The original version of The Beach Boys in Concert was a single disc set. The track lineup was as follows:
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