Found "Celebration" on vinyl here's my review

[CenturyDeprived]

Almost Summer Director, Marty Davidson, contacted the BB's to do the soundtrack - but the soundtrack rights/distribution what have you was with MCA, and the BB's exclusive CBS! contract didn't allow it.  However, individual members could be involved thus Celebration came into being.  According to per Ian and Jon's book, p234/235 (far left and far right hand side text respectively).

And of all the times that this unusual event happened, it was a bizarre stroke of odd luck that this one time forced to release a track under a pseudonym, that Brian writes one of his most catchy throwback type of songs (which would probably have been a hit if released as a "BB" track).

If I didn't know any better, I'd almost think this was a passive aggressive move by Brian to deprive "The BBs" name from having his better material. Not sure if that's actually true, but it's a very odd coincidence that this all happened this way, in true oddball BB fashion.

[MikestheGreatest!!]

I can report seeing Country Pie done by the BB's at a concert in Springfield MO, in 78 or 79 I think.  It was performed enthusiastically and very well received by the audience.  Only time I have ever heard the song performed in my life.  I liked it but even at the time it seemed a bit of a novelty tune, ala their performance of Okie from Muskogee which was also enjoyable but you wouldn't really want them to have put that on a single or an album!

[Steve Latshaw]

<<May I point out, mildly, that "Almost Summer" wasn't a Beach Boys release ?>>

Yes - which is why I put "Beach Boys" in quotation marks. 

Even so,  I should have noted it as "Celebration/movie version which contains alternate lyrics referencing the individual Beach Boys."

I stand corrected.

[Smilin Ed H]

Is Carl on bvs for Country Pie??