The Beach Boys in Concert is the second live album officially released in the U.S. by The Beach Boys

The Beach Boys

The Beach Boys are an American rock band, formed in 1961 in Hawthorne, California. The group was initially composed of brothers Brian, Dennis and Carl Wilson, their cousin Mike Love, and friend Al Jardine. Managed by the Wilsons' father Murry, The Beach Boys signed to Capitol Records in 1962...

, nine years after Beach Boys Concert

Beach Boys Concert

Beach Boys Concert is a live album by The Beach Boys, released in 1964. It is their seventh album in all, and their third alone in the same year...

(Live in London was released in the U. K. in 1970 and in the U. S. three years after "The Beach Boys in Concert" in 1976). Released in late 1973, the set proved to be a healthy seller in the U. S., giving the band their best chart peak since early 1968 with Wild Honey by reaching #24, and earning them their first gold record since 1966's Best of The Beach Boys

Best of The Beach Boys

Best of The Beach Boys is the first compilation album by The Beach Boys, released in the summer of 1966 just two months after Pet Sounds. It includes many of their most popular songs from 1963 to '65. The album reached #8 on the US charts and soon went gold...

. The album is now available on a single-disc CD.

Background

Compiled from two separate US jaunts in late 1972 and mid-1973, The Beach Boys In Concert was initially submitted to Reprise Records

Reprise Records

Reprise Records is an American record label, founded in 1960 by Frank Sinatra. It is owned by Warner Music Group, and operated through Warner Bros. Records.-Beginnings:...

 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

Heroes and Villains

"Heroes and Villains" is a song by the American rock band The Beach Boys, co-written by the group's leader Brian Wilson and lyricist Van Dyke Parks. Originally intended by Wilson to be the centerpiece of the ambitious but shelved album Smile, a re-recorded version of the song was released on Smiley...

", "Don't Worry Baby" and "Surfer Girl". Of the newer material, "Marcella", "Sail On, Sailor

Sail on, Sailor

"Sail On, Sailor" was the final song recorded for the 1973 Beach Boys album Holland. The song was written by Brian Wilson, Ray Kennedy, Tandyn Almer, Jack Rieley, and Van Dyke Parks.-Background:...

", "Funky Pretty" and "The Trader" are joined, among others, with Holland

Holland (album)

Holland is the nineteenth studio album by the American rock group The Beach Boys, released in January 1973. It was famously recorded in Baambrugge, Netherlands over the summer of 1972 using a reconstructed studio sent from home, and with two Brian Wilson tracks rush-recorded in Los Angeles and...

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 #25 in the US during a chart stay of 24 weeks.

Both Blondie Chaplin

Blondie Chaplin

Terence William 'Blondie' Chaplin is a musician from Durban, South Africa who first became known to international audiences through his brief stint in the early 1970s as a singer and guitarist for The Beach Boys...

 and Ricky Fataar

Ricky Fataar

Ricky Fataar is a South African multi-instrumentalist of Malay descent, who has performed as both a drummer, and a guitarist. He gained fame as an actor in the comedic television movie, The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash, a spoof on the actual history of The Beatles, and for his performance as a...

 would depart the band's line-up, in late 1973 and late 1974 respectively, making this the last album on which they appeared as official members.

Track listing

All tracks written by Brian Wilson

Brian Wilson

Brian Douglas Wilson is an American musician, best known as the leader and chief songwriter of the group The Beach Boys. Within the band, Wilson played bass and keyboards, also providing part-time lead vocals and, more often, backing vocals, harmonizing in falsetto with the group...

, Mike Love

Mike Love

Michael Edward "Mike" Love is an American singer/songwriter and musician with The Beach Boys. He was a founding member of the band along with his cousins Brian, Carl, and Dennis Wilson, and their friend Al Jardine, and continues to perform with the band to the present day...

, unless otherwise noted.

1. "Sail On, Sailor
   Sail on, Sailor
   "Sail On, Sailor" was the final song recorded for the 1973 Beach Boys album Holland. The song was written by Brian Wilson, Ray Kennedy, Tandyn Almer, Jack Rieley, and Van Dyke Parks.-Background:...
   
   " (Brian Wilson, Tandyn Almer
   Tandyn Almer
   Tandyn Almer is a musician, composer, lyricist, and record producer, most famous for writing the song "Along Comes Mary", the 1966 hit by the Association...
   
   , Ray Kennedy, Jack Rieley
   Jack Rieley
   Jack Rieley is an American record producer. He was the manager of the pop music group the Beach Boys during the early 1970s, and is credited with guiding them back to acclaim. He would also sometimes a co-songwriter with the rest of the band, usually penning lyrics.He also worked with Kool and the...
   
   , Van Dyke Parks
   Van Dyke Parks
   Van Dyke Parks is an American composer, arranger, producer, musician, singer, author and actor. Parks is perhaps best known for his contributions as a lyricist on the Beach Boys album Smile....
   
   ) – 3:21
2. "Sloop John B
   Sloop John B
   "Sloop John B" is the seventh track on The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds album and was also a single which was released in 1966 on Capitol Records. It was originally a traditional West Indies folk song, "The John B. Sails," taken from a collection by Carl Sandburg . Alan Lomax made a field recording of...
   
   " (Trad., Arr. Brian Wilson) – 3:12
3. "The Trader" (Carl Wilson
   Carl Wilson
   Carl Dean Wilson was an American rock and roll singer and guitarist, best known as a founding member, lead guitarist and sometime lead vocalist of The Beach Boys...
   
   , Rieley) – 4:46
4. "You Still Believe in Me
   You Still Believe in Me
   "You Still Believe in Me" is a song by the American rock band The Beach Boys, taken from their 1966 album Pet Sounds. It is the second track on the album. The song was composed and produced by Brian Wilson with the lyrics by Tony Asher.- Information :...
   
   " (Brian Wilson, Tony Asher
   Tony Asher
   Tony Asher is an American lyricist who co-wrote much of The Beach Boys 1966 album Pet Sounds in conjunction with front man Brian Wilson, including such classic songs as "God Only Knows" and "Wouldn't It Be Nice"...
   
   ) – 2:58
5. "California Girls
   California Girls
   "California Girls" is a song by American rock band The Beach Boys, featured on their ninth studio album Summer Days . Written by band-members Brian Wilson and Mike Love, the song features contrasting verse-chorus form...
   
   " – 2:57
6. "Darlin'" – 2:21
7. "Marcella
   Marcella (song)
   "Marcella" is a song written by Brian Wilson, Tandyn Almer and Jack Rieley for the American rock band The Beach Boys. It was released on their 1972 album Carl and the Passions - "So Tough". It is the last song to feature Bruce Johnston during his original tenure in the band.The tune was named for...
   
   " (Brian Wilson, Almer, Rieley) – 3:55
8. "Caroline, No
   Caroline, No
   "Caroline, No" is a song written by Brian Wilson and Tony Asher, recorded during the Pet Sounds sessions. It was released as a solo Brian Wilson single in March 1966 in advance of the album's release. The single was only a modest success, reaching number thirty-two in the US national chart and No....
   
   " (Brian Wilson, Asher) – 3:04
9. "Leaving This Town" (Carl Wilson, Ricky Fataar
   Ricky Fataar
   Ricky Fataar is a South African multi-instrumentalist of Malay descent, who has performed as both a drummer, and a guitarist. He gained fame as an actor in the comedic television movie, The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash, a spoof on the actual history of The Beatles, and for his performance as a...
   
   , Blondie Chaplin
   Blondie Chaplin
   Terence William 'Blondie' Chaplin is a musician from Durban, South Africa who first became known to international audiences through his brief stint in the early 1970s as a singer and guitarist for The Beach Boys...
   
   , Love) – 6:59
10. "Heroes and Villains
    Heroes and Villains
    "Heroes and Villains" is a song by the American rock band The Beach Boys, co-written by the group's leader Brian Wilson and lyricist Van Dyke Parks. Originally intended by Wilson to be the centerpiece of the ambitious but shelved album Smile, a re-recorded version of the song was released on Smiley...
    
    " (Brian Wilson, Parks) – 3:51
11. "Funky Pretty" (Brian Wilson, Rieley, Love) – 4:04
12. "Let the Wind Blow" – 4:22
13. "Help Me, Rhonda
    Help Me, Rhonda
    "Help Me, Rhonda" is a song written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love for their American rock band The Beach Boys. The song is the first Beach Boys song to feature a lead vocal by Al Jardine. It was released in March 1965 on the album Today! as "Help Me, Ronda"...
    
    " – 4:59
14. "Surfer Girl
    Surfer Girl
    Surfer Girl is the third studio album by The Beach Boys and their second longplayer in 1963. This was the first album by The Beach Boys for which Brian Wilson was given full production credit, a position Wilson would maintain until the end of the The Smile Sessions in 1967...
    
    " (Brian Wilson) – 2:35
15. "Wouldn't It Be Nice
    Wouldn't It Be Nice
    "Wouldn't It Be Nice" is the opening track on the 1966 album Pet Sounds and one of the most widely recognized songs by the American rock band The Beach Boys...
    
    " (Brian Wilson, Asher, Love) – 2:45
16. "We Got Love" (Fataar, Chaplin, Love) – 5:25
17. "Don't Worry Baby
    Don't Worry Baby
    "Don’t Worry Baby" is a song written by Brian Wilson and Roger Christian, produced by Wilson and first recorded by the Beach Boys. The band's version, a tender ballad with falsetto lead vocal by Brian, was first released on their 1964 album Shut Down Volume 2. It was also released as the B-side of...
    
    " (Brian Wilson, Roger Christian) – 3:11
18. "Surfin' USA
    Surfin' USA
    -Singles:* "Surfin' USA" b/w "Shut Down" , 4 March 1963, US #3; #34 UK-Personnel:*Brian Wilson - Vocals, bass, keyboards*Mike Love - Vocals, saxophone*Dennis Wilson - Vocals, drums...
    
    " (Chuck Berry
    Chuck Berry
    Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. With songs such as "Maybellene" , "Roll Over Beethoven" , "Rock and Roll Music" and "Johnny B...
    
    , Brian Wilson) – 2:49
19. "Good Vibrations
    Good Vibrations
    "Good Vibrations" is a song by American rock band The Beach Boys. Composed and produced by Brian Wilson, the song's lyrics were written by Wilson and Mike Love....
    
    " – 4:49
20. "Fun, Fun, Fun
    Fun, Fun, Fun
    "Fun, Fun, Fun", written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love, was a hit single by The Beach Boys that was released in 1964 on the band's album Shut Down Volume 2.- Composition :...
    
    " – 3:16

Personnel

The Beach Boys

• Carl Wilson
  Carl Wilson
  Carl Dean Wilson was an American rock and roll singer and guitarist, best known as a founding member, lead guitarist and sometime lead vocalist of The Beach Boys...
  
   – vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
  , lead guitar
  Lead guitar
  Lead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure...
  
  , electric piano
  Electric piano
  An electric piano is an electric musical instrument.Electric pianos produce sounds mechanically and the sounds are turned into electrical signals by pickups. Unlike a synthesizer, the electric piano is not an electronic instrument, but electro-mechanical. The earliest electric pianos were invented...
  
  
• Dennis Wilson
  Dennis Wilson
  Dennis Carl Wilson was an American rock and roll musician best known as a founding member and the drummer of The Beach Boys. He was a member of the group from its formation until his death in 1983...
  
   – vocals, electric piano, Moog synthesizer
• Mike Love
  Mike Love
  Michael Edward "Mike" Love is an American singer/songwriter and musician with The Beach Boys. He was a founding member of the band along with his cousins Brian, Carl, and Dennis Wilson, and their friend Al Jardine, and continues to perform with the band to the present day...
  
   – vocals, tambourine, electro-Theremin
• Alan Jardine – vocals, rhythm guitar
  Rhythm guitar
  Rhythm guitar is a technique and rôle that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with singers or other instruments; and to provide all or part of the harmony, ie. the chords, where a chord is a group of notes played together...
  
  
• Blondie Chaplin
  Blondie Chaplin
  Terence William 'Blondie' Chaplin is a musician from Durban, South Africa who first became known to international audiences through his brief stint in the early 1970s as a singer and guitarist for The Beach Boys...
  
   – lead guitar
  Lead guitar
  Lead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure...
  
  , bass guitar, vocals
• Ricky Fataar
  Ricky Fataar
  Ricky Fataar is a South African multi-instrumentalist of Malay descent, who has performed as both a drummer, and a guitarist. He gained fame as an actor in the comedic television movie, The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash, a spoof on the actual history of The Beatles, and for his performance as a...
  
   – drums
  Drum kit
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  , rhythm guitar, pedal steel guitar, flute, vocals

Additional musicians

• Ed Carter – bass guitar
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  , lead guitar
• Billy Hinsche
  Billy Hinsche
  William "Billy" Hinsche is an American musician who was part of the singing group Dino, Desi, & Billy. He has also provided backing vocals for Warren Zevon and toured with The Beach Boys. His sister, Annie Hinsche-Wilson-Karges, was married to the group's guitarist, Carl Wilson.- External links...
  
   – piano, electric piano, guitar
• Robert Kenyatta – percussion
• Mike Kowalski
  Mike Kowalski
  Mike Kowalski is a percussionist and musicologist. He is best known as one of the former drummers from the rock band The Beach Boys. He and saxophonist Joel C. Peskin recorded as The Backsters in 1984.-Early career:...
  
   – drums, percussion
  Percussion instrument
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• Carli Muñoz
  Carli Muñoz
  Carlos C. Muñoz, better known as Carli Munoz or Carli Muñoz , is a self-taught American jazz pianist.Although born and raised in Puerto Rico, his music of choice was jazz, European avant-garde and American pop music...
  
   – organ, electric piano

Unreleased Version

The original version of The Beach Boys In Concert was a single disc set, not a two-record set like the one that came out. The track lineup was as follows:

Side 1

1. "Wouldn't It Be Nice"
2. "Leaving This Town"
3. "Heroes and Villains"
4. "Marcella"
5. "You Need a Mess of Help To Stand Alone"

Side 2

1. "Let the Wind Blow"
2. "Do It Again"
3. "Wild Honey"
4. "Fun Fun Fun"
5. "Jumpin' Jack Flash"

• The version of "Heroes and Villains" from this album was later released on the Endless Harmony Soundtrack
  Endless Harmony Soundtrack
  Endless Harmony Soundtrack is an anthology album of previously unheard material by The Beach Boys, originally released by Capitol Records in August 1998. Named for Bruce Johnston's song on the 1980 album Keepin' the Summer Alive, it was designed as a tie-in with the band's biographical documentary...
  
  CD.

Sources

• The Beach Boys in Concert CD booklet notes, Paul Williams, c.2000.
• "The Nearest Faraway Place: Brian Wilson, The Beach Boys and the Southern California Experience", Timothy White, c. 1994.
• "Wouldn't It Be Nice - My Own Story", Brian Wilson
  Brian Wilson
  Brian Douglas Wilson is an American musician, best known as the leader and chief songwriter of the group The Beach Boys. Within the band, Wilson played bass and keyboards, also providing part-time lead vocals and, more often, backing vocals, harmonizing in falsetto with the group...
  
  and Todd Gold, c. 1991.
• "Top Pop Singles 1955-2001", Joel Whitburn, c. 2002.
• "Top Pop Albums 1955-2001", Joel Whitburn, c. 2002.
• Allmusic.com