He's French, lives in London and has released a couple of CDs.

Wangberg produced "Glad", a band including the young Tim B. Schmitt for Terry Melcher's Equinox Label.

Germany: BW & VDP: Sail Away 1 Track promo CD (5:14) WB PRCD 110

They (that is Howie and Mark) even cut a Christmas 45 feat. Linda Ronstadt
The Christmas Spirit: Christmas Is My Time of Year/Will You Still Believe In Me White Whale WW 290 (1968)

Beach Boys fan pre-internet primary sources for my collection and knowledge:

Beach Boys Freaks United - Lillie
Pet Sounds fanzine - Leaf
Add Some Music fanzine - Cunningham
Friends Of The Beach Boys fanzine - Taber (Cancelled subscription after 1rst issue)
Endless Summer Quarterly fanzine - Mast, Edgil, Dempsey
Beach Boys Stomp fanzine - Grant
The Clown Princes of Rock & Roll - A California Saga - Colville
Friends of Dennis Wilson fanzine - Duffy
Peter Reum auction lists
Derek Bill auction lists
Steve Bates auction lists

No forgetting Stephen McParland's Beach Boys Australia

No, I didn't subscribe to that one. I never subscribed to Stomp either, though later on I read a few back-issues. I think there was/is a German fanzine too.

"California Saga" which folded a couple of years ago after a run of more than 30 years

Beach Boys fan pre-internet primary sources for my collection and knowledge:

Beach Boys Freaks United - Lillie
Pet Sounds fanzine - Leaf
Add Some Music fanzine - Cunningham
Friends Of The Beach Boys fanzine - Taber (Cancelled subscription after 1rst issue)
Endless Summer Quarterly fanzine - Mast, Edgil, Dempsey
Beach Boys Stomp fanzine - Grant
The Clown Princes of Rock & Roll - A California Saga - Colville
Friends of Dennis Wilson fanzine - Duffy
Peter Reum auction lists
Derek Bill auction lists
Steve Bates auction lists

No forgetting Stephen McParland's Beach Boys Australia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GozQ3hvy6N0 Intro and tag remind you of??

"Looking Over My Shoulder" his second album is indeed recommended, not just because of "Dear Brian". "Ring Ring" from his third and last album was a successful 45 in Germany and Holland (1979). After that he sang quite a lot of songs on various Alan Parsons Project albums and produced Runrig, a Scottish band quite popular all over Europe.
Albums:
Home Of The Brave (Polydor 1975) produced by Malcolm Cecil and Robert Margouleff
Looking Over My Shoulder (Polydor 1978) produced by Chris Rainbow
White Trails (EMI 1979) produced by Chris Rainbow
Plus a string of about 8 45s (often with non-lp B-sides or different versions)
You can find them here http://www.45cat.com/artist/chris-rainbow

[This was the first album of theirs I bought:]

So, this is a band I've recently fallen under the spell of.

It started about a year ago, when I was working in a record store and came across a band with a name that had been bouncing around in my head, but had no idea why. So, as any well-meaning person with easy access, I decided to investigate.

This was the first album of theirs I bought:

Looking for this image, I just learned that the seagull, shipmast, and crescent moon on the cover spell out X-T-C in a camouflaged fashion. Always something new to learn. Strangely, my copy of that album came in a green paper bag like this:

Full title "Black sea In A Green Paperbag"

It looks like they have 4 singles out on Norton Records.

Here they are http://www.45cat.com/45_search.php?sq=New+Surfsiders&sm=se

I would love to know more about The Beach Boys - Good Time.  Never heard of that one.

A handmade affair - probably one of the first (1978) - 200 made
Side one:
1.We got Love (studio)
2.Child Of Winter
3.Loop de Loop
4. Sound Of Free
5.Lady
6.Monkey's uncle
side two
1.The revolution
2.Number One
3.I do
4.She rides with me
5.Shyin' Away
6.Fallin' in Love
7.Why do fools fall in love (California Music)
8.Yes Sir that's my baby

White Label with just A and B rubberstamped on it and Nr.
Sleeve has xeroxed black and pic of the BB and Brian

Have never seen/heard about that one! Where did it originate, do you know? Any numbers?

As far as I know it was made by some German fans; matrix numbers in the runout grooves have been erased, soundquality is quite poor, probably copied from vinyl sources or cassette tapesta

I would love to know more about The Beach Boys - Good Time.  Never heard of that one.

A handmade affair - probably one of the first (1978) - 200 made
Side one:
1.We got Love (studio)
2.Child Of Winter
3.Loop de Loop
4. Sound Of Free
5.Lady
6.Monkey's uncle
side two
1.The revolution
2.Number One
3.I do
4.She rides with me
5.Shyin' Away
6.Fallin' in Love
7.Why do fools fall in love (California Music)
8.Yes Sir that's my baby

White Label with just A and B rubberstamped on it and Nr.
Sleeve has xeroxed black and white pic of the BB and Brian

"Duchesse" is a European cheapo label, their CDs are usually sold for about € 5.00 in supermarkets.

Here's the record http://www.45cat.com/record/nc268037us

Good job, thanks a lot Peter, cheers Gerhard

Has anyone ever noticed that towards the end of How Can I Be Down, someone says "keep recording"? This is the first time I've found something like this on my own, I feel special

Zekley produced another version of that song (as Yodar Critch)
THE VISIONS: How Can I Be Down/Threshold Of Love UNI 55031 (1967). I feel that he's singing lead on that version - worth picking up.
Before YELLOW BALLOON cut their album Zekley released two other songs that went onto it as a 45
THE GROUP: Baby Baby It's You/Can't Get Enough Of Your Love WB 5840 I suspect him singing lead on both.
THE FUN AND GAMES album (also a Zekley production) has some great moments, too. Their non-LP 45 We (UNI 55128) is great, too.

studio version clocks 5:05

Not sure what you meant on your last post, Lee.

He means they could have picked one of the many instrumentals recorded at the time for use as a b-side, had the decided to release it back then. Like "Boogie Woodie" or "The Rocking Surfer".

Correct.  They didn't necessarily need to record two songs in German -- just release an instrumental on the b-side.

Lee

To compete with The Beatles they would have had to.

It was really a fault of the publishers, not of the authors. The remaining copies were partly sold back to Manfred and Christian and Medium Books, a company that specializes in rock books - I think it's still available there.  But it's the pics that count, right? So hats off to Manfred and Christian. A must for collectors!! A labour of love indeed.

Assume In My Room was the only song they cut in German? Brad implied more but surely they would have surfaced by now if Boyd & Linett Invetigations had turned anything up?

So the project must have been scrapped at an early stage - if a German language release was really intended  they would have needed a B-side.

Most Japanese 45s have the lyrics printed on the back of the inlay - here's an example from the Dance Dance Dance 45 I got today (last verse after the instrumental break):
"Had a weekend lean of gas, well I sure could fly
I played it cool this morning just to be on the sky"

no credit was given for the German translator, who - as already said - put the lyrics into a kind of an 18th century idiom, so that it really sounds strange for a native speaker. Literally retranslated it's something like that:

There is a place (es gibt einen Ort)
There I go (da geh' ich hin)
Whisper joy and grief (flüst're Freud und Leid)
All alone (ganz allein)

Lock and bolt (Schloss und Riegel)
lock out (schließen aus)
fear and worries here (Angst und Sorgen hier)
All alone (ganz allein)

dreaming here (träume hier)
making plans (schmiede Pläne)
without praying for sleep (ohne Schlaf zu fleh'n)
By my crying and my sighing (durch mein Weinen und mein Seufzen)
laughing (I) look back (lachend schau zurück)

It is dark (dunkel ist's)
I am alone, but (ich bin allein, doch)
I am not afraid (fürchte ich mich nicht)
all alone (ganz allein)

"He's a Doll" by The Honeys b/w "The Love of a Boy and a Girl." White label promos are rare, but red label stock copes are almost non-existent.

Well, almost...

I Feel Free, Strange Brew - great songs indeed!!

sorry to hear that, John is a great guy, I even met his mom when i spent a couple of days at his place in the late seventies.