THE BEACH BOYS 1964 KEEP AN EYE ON SUMMER (follow up to The Big Beat 1963)

[ESQ Editor]

Here's the complete liner notes link —
http://www.thebeachboys.com/#?news=4102

Here's the complete iTunes link for the music —
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/keep-eye-on-summer-beach-boys/id942040096

“The Beach Boys Live In Sacramento 1964”: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/beach-boys-live-in-sacramento/id942017956

Produced by Mark Linett & Alan Boyd
Mixed and mastered by Mark Linett at Your Place Or Mine Recording
Original recordings produced by Brian Wilson
Sessionography and research by Craig Slowinski

Special Thanks: Betty Collignon, Margaret Gwynne & Jihae Simmons
Production Assistant: Diva Ward
Brother Records Photo Archives: Trisha Campo
Associate Producer: Monty (Wooley) Linett
For Brother Records: Elliott Lott

THE BEACH BOYS 1964
KEEP AN EYE ON SUMMER


1.   Fun Fun Fun (Session Highlights and Stereo Mix) (7:39)
2.   Fun Fun Fun (A Capella) (2:23)
3.   Fun, Fun, Fun (2013 Stereo Mix) (2:14)
4.   Why Do Fools Fall In Love (Session Highlights and Stereo Mix) (4:59)
5.   Why Do Fools Fall In Love (New Stereo Mix) (2:09)
6. Don’t Worry Baby (Session Highlights and Instrumental Mix with Backing Vocals) (4:42)
7.   Don’t Worry, Baby (2009 Stereo Mix) (2:50)
8.   In The Parkin’ Lot (Session Highlight and A Capella Mix) (4:38)
9.   Warmth of the Sun (Session Highlights and Instrumental Mix with Backing Vocals) (5:09)
10. Warmth of the Sun (2012 Stereo Mix) (3:03)
11. Pom Pom Play Girl (Session Highlights and Instrumental Mix with Backing Vocals) (4:54)
12. Pom Pom Play Girl (New Stereo Mix) (1:33)
13. Denny’s Drums (Session Highlight and Alternate Take) (3:23)
14. Keep An Eye On Summer (Instrumental Mix with Backing Vocals) (2:28)
15. Endless Sleep (Larry Denton Vocal) (2:32)
16. I Get Around (Session Highlight and Instrumental Mix with Backing Vocals) (5:34)
17. I Get Around (A Capella) (2:16)
18. All Summer Long (Session Highlights and Stereo Mix) (4:46)
19. All Summer Long (A Capella) (2:19)
20. All Summer Long (2007 Stereo Mix) (2:09)
21. Hushabye (Instrumental Mix with Backing Vocals) (2:42)
22. Girls On The Beach (Alternate Vocal Session Highlights and Master A Capella Mix) (5:27)
23. Wendy (Vocal Session Highlights and A Capella Mix) (4:40)
24. Don’t Back Down (Alternate Version Session Highlight and New Stereo Mix) (2:04)
25. Little Saint Nick (Drive In) (Vocal Session Highlights and New Stereo Mix) (3:21)
26. Untitled Jam/Let’s Live Before We Die (Session Highlights and Instrumental) (3:24)
27. Little Honda (Alternate Version Session Highlight and New Stereo Mix) (2:46)
28. Little Honda (Unreleased Single Mix) (1:52)
29. She Knows Me Too Well (Vocal Session Highlight and Track with Backing Vocals) (2:43)
30. She Knows Me Too Well (A Capella) (2:46)
31. Don’t Hurt My Little Sister (Session Highlight and A Capella Mix) (2:36)
32. Christmas Eve (Instrumental Mix) (3:09)
33. Jingle Bells (Instrumental Mix) (2:33)
34. When I Grow Up (A Capella) (2:11)
35. Fun Fun Fun (Live) (2:17)
36. I Get Around (Live) (2:16)
37. I’m So Young (Alternate Version Session Highlight and New Stereo Mix) (4:02)
38. All Dressed Up For School (Session Highlights and New Stereo Mix) (3:47)
39. Dance Dance Dance (Alternate Version New Stereo Mix) (2:05)
40. Dance Dance Dance (Session Highlights and Instrumental Mix) (4:44)
41. Dance Dance Dance (A Capella) (2:06)
42. I Get Around (Live BBC 1964) (2:02)
43. The Little Old Lady From Pasadena (Live BBC 1964) (3:07)         
44. Graduation Day (Live BBC 1964) (2:14)
45. Surfin’ USA (Live BBC 1964) (2:24)
46. Johnny B Goode (Live Single Mix) (1:52)

[alf wiedersehen]

Ooh, this is good.
Thanks for posting this.

[ontor pertawst]

Terrific liner notes!

[mikeyj]

Not available in the Australian iTunes store I really wish they released these on CD.

[The Shift]

This IS available in the UK store at first glance on phone. Need to reach desktop…

… but maybe David might know whether this is likely to be available as a high-res download from any of the burgeoning number of sites offering such wares?

[bossaroo]

46 tracks for $11.99? ok  

this is a beautiful thing.

[Andrew G. Doe]

Going through the sessionography, and have an observation for Craig - the possible date of 1/20/64 ascribed a session for "Keep An Eye On Summer" at Western is highly unlikely, given that the band were playing in Adelaide, South Australia that night. The alternative of 2/2/64 is also questionable as the last show of the band's Australasian tour was on the previous night... although it is just possible as, in crossing the International Date Line, a day was gained, i.e. Tuesday becomes Monday, thus if they flew out of Auckland on the evening of the first, they would also arrive in LA on the first. However, it's more likely they arrived early in the morning of the 2nd (assuming they didn't stopover in Hawaii).

Another instance of an AFM contract being incorrectly dated ?

This mild head-scratcher aside, an outstanding release.

[WWDWD?]

“The Beach Boys Live In Sacramento 1964” also released.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/beach-boys-live-in-sacramento/id942017956

That's been booted heaps but is this the first official release?

[Eric Aniversario]

Does anyone know if this will be released through avenues other than itunes? Like Amazonmp3? I'm excited about this compilation, but have never been a fan of itunes. If this is that only release, I will buy it, but if it will roll out on Amazon eventually, I'd much rather wait.

[Micha]

“The Beach Boys Live In Sacramento 1964” also released.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/beach-boys-live-in-sacramento/id942017956

That's been booted heaps but is this the first official release?

Well, it's about time! Screw the 1964 "live" album, this is how good they really were! That version of I Get Around is SUPERIOR to the studio version IMHO!

Hey, what's keeping that Sydney performance of "What'd I Say" from (re-)release?

[Alan Smith]

Not available in the Australian iTunes store

Yet -hang in there. In took several weeks for the Big Beat to appear last year.

[mikeyj]

Does anyone know if this will be released through avenues other than itunes? Like Amazonmp3? I'm excited about this compilation, but have never been a fan of itunes. If this is that only release, I will buy it, but if it will roll out on Amazon eventually, I'd much rather wait.

Hi Eric,

I know the Big Beat 1963 was released on Amazon and other sites (eg: Google Play - https://play.google.com/store/music/album?id=Ba2wvotzfd5hthw2klhwjqqa23i) so I assume it will be released at a later date just like I assume it will be on the Australian iTunes/Google Play stores eventually because that's what happened with the Big Beat 1963.

[The Shift]

“The Beach Boys Live In Sacramento 1964” also released.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/beach-boys-live-in-sacramento/id942017956

That's been booted heaps but is this the first official release?

According to the sleeve notes on the UK iTunes site, this is lifted from the Sea of Tunes releases (less several tracks). Note also the stated release date of 1997.

That said, the timing are not the same as the SoT… and the copyright is credited to Capitol…

But I suspect an iBootleg.

[mikeyj]

Not available in the Australian iTunes store

Yet -hang in there. In took several weeks for the Big Beat to appear last year.

I only just realised the Big Beat was in the iTunes store so I just went and bought it (on Google Play) then

I really hope we don't have to wait a few weeks for this release to appear though because this looks a lot tastier than the Big Beat so I'm really desperate to hear it!

[Niko]

Christmas came early!

[Custom Machine]

Great stuff!  Thanks for the link, David, to Craig's very informative sessionography.  Wish the liner notes and sessionography would have been included with the download as an iTunes digital booklet.

[rab2591]

This is incredible. Woke up in the middle of night to this news, and I can't get back to bed because I'm listening to all of these glorious tracks.

So many new gems, session banter, and every track is mixed perfectly (the liner notes are really appreciated too). Can't express enough thanks to Mark and Alan for assembling this whole collection (*just now noticed Craig's sessionography, huge thanks to you as well!)

Without a doubt one of the best Beach Boys releases. And for only $12??

[Alan Smith]

Not available in the Australian iTunes store

Yet -hang in there. In took several weeks for the Big Beat to appear last year.

I only just realised the Big Beat was in the iTunes store so I just went and bought it (on Google Play) then

I really hope we don't have to wait a few weeks for this release to appear though because this looks a lot tastier than the Big Beat so I'm really desperate to hear it!

Hmmm - well, if last year is anything to go by, Big Beat was announced green for go by ESQ editor around December 11.  I was unable to get my filthy stinking hands on it via iTunes Oz until the 16th of Jan.  Guessing the iTunes updater guy was on annual leave or something....

I notice iToones has a song called "Keep an Eye on Summer" from an album called "Big Beat Bombs" for sale.

[beacharg]

Great comp!!! I'll wait until is released on Amazon!

[Andrew G. Doe]

Not available in the UK ?

[edit]

OHFERFUCKSSAKE !

Try to buy from iTunes - "not available in the UK, changes to iTunes US".

So I do.

"This user ID is invalid in the US, change to iTunes UK".

Never bought from iTunes before, and now, I never will. Bunch of pox-ridden scrofulous shitweasels.

With very small dicks.

[Matt Bielewicz]

I have a stoopid question. Was The Big Beat ever officially available in the UK?

Yeah, yeah, I know. I asked that here a year ago. But I ask because when I couldn't immediately find it on-line last year via UK outlets (as that's where I am), I gave up looking, as I wasn't particularly bothered about getting my hands on any of the stuff that was slated for the release. I meant to look again later in the year, but you know, life got in the way. So I've *never* bought it.

(This also goes to show how unbothered I was by obtaining the material; by contrast, I drove several hundred miles to obtain the SMiLE Sessions a couple of days early. If the material merits it, I *will* find a way to get it.)

This new release is a different kettle altogether. I seriously want this one. So I'm wondering... if The Big Beat eventually happened for UK buyers, that's good, because it means this one will too, even if it takes a while.

So... did all the Big Beat owners resident in the UK have to resort to dark methods to get a copy? This will influence what I do about obtaining the new release...

Sigh. Why can't they just bring this sh*t out on CD. They want my money, I have the money: you'd think we could come to some arrangement...!

[Matt Bielewicz]

Never mind. It would seem that The Big Beat 1963 was released on iTunes UK in late December, and on Amazon UK in late January. I didn't bother Googling just now, because I drove myself crazy in early December last year trying to find it. Every time I searched for it, whether with Google or through iTunes or wherever, I found a million and one references to the release, all of which were useless as they led back to the link on the US iTunes store, which of course as former colonial overlords, we're not allowed to use this side of the pond. Hence my exasperated wish that Capitol would just stick the damn thing out on a silver disc.

Ergo, I'm guessing the new release will happen for the UK as well. Evenn-tchuall-eee, as Manuel once said in Fawlty Towers.

Anyway, with this one, I'm *so* there. The track list is about a million times more interesting than anything on The Big Beat!

[lostbeachboy]

I guess that barrel has been scraped.

[c-man]

Going through the sessionography, and have an observation for Craig - the possible date of 1/20/64 ascribed a session for "Keep An Eye On Summer" at Western is highly unlikely, given that the band were playing in Adelaide, South Australia that night. The alternative of 2/2/64 is also questionable as the last show of the band's Australasian tour was on the previous night... although it is just possible as, in crossing the International Date Line, a day was gained, i.e. Tuesday becomes Monday, thus if they flew out of Auckland on the evening of the first, they would also arrive in LA on the first. However, it's more likely they arrived early in the morning of the 2nd (assuming they didn't stopover in Hawaii).

Another instance of an AFM contract being incorrectly dated ?

This mild head-scratcher aside, an outstanding release.

Sacre bleu! Seems like an error always finds its way into these things, no matter how hard one tries! This should probably read "2/20/64" - it's from Capitol's files, as transcribed by a certain someone once upon a time - somewhere along the line, the "0" was probably dropped. AGD's Bellagio site reports the date as 2/19, so that helps solidify it.

[Matt Bielewicz]

Paging Mr Doe - that earlier link posted at the head of the thread WAS to the iTunes USA, so it's no surprise it doesn't work here.

HOWEVER - I can confirm that the new release IS on the UK iTunes, as that's where I am, and I'm downloading it now!

Andrew, you may have already found this in the interim, but in case you haven't:

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/keep-eye-on-summer-beach-boys/id945875792

Happy listening. And thank god for copyright laws! (Never thought I'd find myself saying that).

Oh, and... the next few Decembers are going to be good times to be Beach Boys fans...!