All Summer Long (album)

All Summer Long is the sixth album by American rock band the Beach Boys, released July 13, 1964 on Capitol Records. It was the first LP the group recorded since the British Invasion. The album rose to number 4 in the U.S. during a 49-week chart stay, and was certified gold by the RIAA. Lead single "I Get Around" was issued in May and became the band's first number one hit in the U.S.

"Girls on the Beach" redirects here. For the 1965 film, see The Girls on the Beach.
All Summer Long
Studio album by
the Beach Boys
ReleasedJuly 13, 1964 (1964-07-13)
Recorded
  • October 10, 1963
  • February 4 – May 19, 1964
StudioWestern, Hollywood
Length25:10
LabelCapitol
ProducerBrian Wilson
The Beach Boys chronology
Shut Down Volume 2
(1964)		 All Summer Long
(1964)		 Four by the Beach Boys
(1964)
The Beach Boys UK chronology
Beach Boys Concert
(1965)		 All Summer Long
(1965)		 Surfin' U.S.A.
(1965)
Singles from All Summer Long
  1. "I Get Around"
    Released: May 11, 1964

Content

The album marked the most complex arrangements on a Beach Boys record to date, as well as being the first that was not focused on themes of cars or surfing.[1] None of the songs are about cars (although one track, "Little Honda", is about a motorcycle), and the only reference to surfing is in "Don't Back Down".[2] Production-wise, the album introduced exotic textures to the band's sound as exemplified by the piccolos and xylophones of its title track.[3] After All Summer Long, the band did not revisit themes related to California beach culture until the 1968 single "Do It Again".[4]

During the filming of the 1995 documentary Brian Wilson: I Just Wasn't Made for These Times, Brian was asked by Don Was, who had been trying to get Wilson to discuss Smile, to talk about "the heaviest work" that Wilson had ever done. Wilson suddenly became excited by the question and proceeded to give vivid recollections of the tracking date for "Drive-In", which he considered to be the best record he had ever made. The footage was not used in the documentary.[5]

Reception
Retrospective professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[4]
Blender[6]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[7]
MusicHound3.5/5[8]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[9]

Actress Peggy Lipton told Teen Set that the Beatles' John Lennon and Paul McCartney were "infatuated with the Beach Boy sound. ... They played All Summer Long all night long and asked me many questions about them. Paul and John were fascinated by Brian’s style of composing and arranging."[10]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love except where noted.

Side one
No.TitleLead vocal(s)Length
1."I Get Around"Mike Love with Brian Wilson2:14
2."All Summer Long"Love with group2:08
3."Hushabye" (Doc Pomus, Mort Shuman)B. Wilson with Love2:41
4."Little Honda"Love1:52
5."We'll Run Away" (B. Wilson, Gary Usher)B. Wilson2:02
6."Carl's Big Chance" (B. Wilson, Carl Wilson)instrumental2:03
Side two
No.TitleLead vocal(s)Length
1."Wendy"Love with group2:21
2."Do You Remember?"Love with B. Wilson1:40
3."Girls on the Beach"B. Wilson with D. Wilson2:28
4."Drive-In"Love1:49
5."Our Favorite Recording Sessions" (B. Wilson, Dennis Wilson, C. Wilson, Love, Al Jardine)spoken word2:00
6."Don't Back Down"Love with B. Wilson1:52
Total length:25:10

Note

Personnel
The Beach Boys performing "I Get Around" on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964

Partial credits courtesy of session archivist Craig Slowinski. They are amalgamated from all tracks except "Drive-In” (only partial credits for this song), “We'll Run Away", "Carl's Big Chance", "Do You Remember?", and "Our Favorite Recording Sessions'.[12]

The Beach Boys

Session musicians and technical staff

Charts
Chart (1964) Peak
position
US Billboard 200[4] 4

References

Citations

  1. Badman 2004, pp. 57–59.
  2. Holmes, Chris (October 25, 2011). "The Popdose Guide to the Beach Boys". Popdose.
  3. Schinder 2007, p. 110.
  4. Unterberger, Richie. "All Summer Long – The Beach Boys | Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved 2013-07-15.
  5. Beard, David, ed. (Winter 2015). "Brian Wilson - The Andy Paley sessions". Endless Summer Quarterly. Vol. 29, no. 112. p. 24.
  6. Wolk, Douglas (October 2004). "The Beach Boys Little Deuce Coupe/All Summer Long". Blender. Archived from the original on June 30, 2006. Retrieved June 2, 2017.
  7. The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music, Concise (4th Edition), Virgin Books (UK), 2002, ed. Larkin, Colin.
  8. Graff, Gary; Durchholz, Daniel, eds. (1999). MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Farmington Hills, MI: Visible Ink Press. p. 83. ISBN 1-57859-061-2.
  9. Brackett, Nathan; with Hoard, Christian, eds. (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). New York, NY: Fireside/Simon & Schuster. p. 46. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
  10. Lambert 2016, p. 127.
  11. Doe, Andrew G. "Album Archiveq". Bellagio 10452. Endless Summer Quarterly. Archived from the original on March 24, 2012.
  12. Boyd, Alan; Linette, Mark; Slowinski, Craig (2014). Keep an Eye On Summer 1964 (Digital Liner). The Beach Boys. Capitol Records. Mirror

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