Endless Summer

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compilation
First released:
Jun 24 1974

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Endless Summer is a pop compilation album by The Beach Boys, released on June 24, 1974.

A collection of hits from the pre-Pet Sounds period, Endless Summer (reportedly named by Mike Love), was compiled by their old label Capitol Records while The Beach Boys were contracted with Reprise Records. The compilation displays a number of oddities, including the inclusion of album versions of "Be True To Your School", "Help Me Ronda", and "Fun, Fun, Fun" instead of the hit-single versions, a difference which is subtle in the last case, but more prominent in the first two. 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. 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 are from Smiley Smile.

Endless Summer is notable, however, for reclaiming the band's commercial glory at home, spending 155 weeks on the Billboard album chart, and peaking at #1, selling over three million copies.

Although released as a 'double album' (two LPs in a gatefold sleeve) in the USA, in the UK, the album was released on one LP with ten songs on each side.

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Catalog number:
GZS-1076
Release dates:
  • Mar 31 1995 in United States

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Classic Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Surf Rock. Vote on Genres

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5 stars The Soundtrack Of A Sub-Culture
This is the perfect title for a Beach Boys retrospective. These songs are constants of the oldies-radio format, especially during the summer. All of those sixties-sounding songs (classic, to the point of being nearly cliche) are here: "Surfin' Safari" "Catch A Wave" "Surfer Girl" "Surfin' U.S.A." "Shut Down" "Little Deuce Coupe" "California Girls" "I Get Around" and so on. If it was about Waves, Women, or Wheels and it had perfect harmony, it's probably on this album. And there are just enough s…
Written by David W. Coleman "Sportside Books"
3 stars Good but not the original Endless Summer.
The album and original CD (which i have) is great. One of the best collections of the BB's. However this MP3 offering by Amazon is not what I have. As they are listed here some of the stereo versions have been replaced with mono. Why do they have to mess with a known good thing?

The songs 'In My Room' and 'Surfer Girl' are fantastic in stereo.

Granted some songs are in mono because they were the early Beach Boys.

Here are the stereo versions from the original CD that are now offered in mono on t…
Written by Cuppa

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Endless Summer 21 tracks format: 1 x CD
release dates: Oct 25 1990
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20 tracks format: 2 x CD
release dates: Jun 24 1974 in United States
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Endless Summer 21 tracks format: 1 x CD
release dates: Oct 25 1990
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Endless Summer 21 tracks format: 1 x vinyl
record label: Capitol
catalog number: svbb-11307
release dates: Oct 28 2008
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