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« on: September 07, 2015, 10:13:34 AM »

I bought an LP at a car boot at the weekend.  Generic surfer pictuure on the cover, no title just 'The Beach Boys' and these tracks:

Side One:
Hoow She Boogalooed It
Don't Talk
Car Crazy Cutie
We'll Run Away
Misirou
Whistle In

Side Two:
Summertime Blues
Anna Lee The Healer
Boogie Woodie
Tell me Why
Louie Louie
Good To my Baby

Why?  Can anyone tell me the rationale behind these choices?  Price, availability, some linking theme, finding ones that hadn't already appeared on compilations, fast buck?  I'd  like to know how an album like this came about..
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« Reply #1 on: September 07, 2015, 10:46:20 AM »

I bought an LP at a car boot at the weekend.  Generic surfer pictuure on the cover, no title just 'The Beach Boys' and these tracks:

Side One:
Hoow She Boogalooed It
Don't Talk
Car Crazy Cutie
We'll Run Away
Misirou
Whistle In

Side Two:
Summertime Blues
Anna Lee The Healer
Boogie Woodie
Tell me Why
Louie Louie
Good To my Baby

Why?  Can anyone tell me the rationale behind these choices?  Price, availability, some linking theme, finding ones that hadn't already appeared on compilations, fast buck?  I'd  like to know how an album like this came about..

Those were simply the song titles I was thinking of that day
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« Reply #2 on: September 07, 2015, 12:13:59 PM »

Yeah, me too, in that exact order also.
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« Reply #3 on: September 07, 2015, 12:23:40 PM »

Yeah, me too, in that exact order also.

Shhh....   Now folks will know we collaborated on that release...
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« Reply #4 on: September 07, 2015, 09:06:32 PM »

Honestly, it was probably just someone's favorite BBs songs of the month, maybe loaded on their iPod Shuffle and played in that order one day, and he or she just happened to be in the position to authorize a budget Beach Boys release, and so voila! The rest is history.
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« Reply #5 on: September 07, 2015, 10:38:31 PM »

I believe that this one was produced by Zeppo Wilson.
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« Reply #6 on: September 08, 2015, 01:51:16 AM »

This was my first Beach Boys album. It left me ... confused.
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« Reply #7 on: September 08, 2015, 04:40:58 AM »

Huh!  This was a compilation that a friend of mine from Norway put onto a cassette tape quite a good few years ago and mailed over to me.  I thought she had selected the songs herself but apparently not.  It is certainly an odd choice of songs.  Sort of nice though not to have the usual compilation tracks for a change!   LOL
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« Reply #8 on: September 08, 2015, 05:21:20 AM »

Side One:
Hoow She Boogalooed It
Don't Talk
Car Crazy Cutie
We'll Run Away
Misirou
Whistle In

Side Two:
Summertime Blues
Anna Lee The Healer
Boogie Woodie
Tell me Why
Louie Louie
Good To my Baby

Why?  Can anyone tell me the rationale behind these choices? 

The only rationale I can discern is that each track is from a different BB album, from Surfin' Safari through to Friends, leaving out Christmas, In Concert and (less logically) Summer Days...    
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« Reply #9 on: September 08, 2015, 12:48:50 PM »

This was my first Beach Boys album. It left me ... confused.
I am impressed that you continued to explore the band.
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« Reply #10 on: September 08, 2015, 08:52:07 PM »

It contains 2 instrumentals...thus making it, at the very least, equal to Pet Sounds.  Don't Talk also does that.  Other than that...suggestions on how to avoid going too hit heavy for whatever contingent heads out on tour?  [And no Barbara Ann]

Or?

A dart board was used...much like the way real meteorologists 'do' their weather forecasting?  Sometimes it works.  Sometimes?  Not so much.
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« Reply #11 on: September 08, 2015, 10:18:48 PM »

It was compiled and sold by scandanavian flea marketeers to make a quick profit from rabid but unemployed Norwegian fans of surf music.     Subsequently booted for sale at flea markets and truck stops in kentucky and Indiana.  Released with several different album covers and liner notes written and translated by apprentices in back alley print shops.
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« Reply #12 on: September 08, 2015, 10:57:49 PM »

Who picks the tracks for compilations like this?


Guy's name is Jim McAbernathy.  Lemme know if you need his phone number.

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« Reply #13 on: September 09, 2015, 10:57:33 AM »

This was my first Beach Boys album. It left me ... confused.
I am impressed that you continued to explore the band.

Ha, well, I could tell it wasn't a proper compilation even at that age (or maybe my parents explained to me). One the one hand a curious LP of forgettable filler tracks, on the other hand their place in all the rock history books I was reading as one of the greatest and most creative of bands. Plus I can't remember a time when I didn't know "Wouldn't it Be Nice", "Surfin' USA" or "I Get Around". I think we imbibe them with our mother's milk.

Going back to this record some years later, I thrilled to "Anna Lee", which apart from "Don't Talk" seemed to be definitely the standout track.

I think we had a thread about this before and another budget compilation was mentioned, a kind of companion volume of sorts, of other obscure tracks including "All I Want To Do" and that sometimes the two records have been packaged together.
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« Reply #14 on: September 09, 2015, 09:21:51 PM »

Good To My Baby is enough to hook anybody on the Beach Boys, really... if you think about it.  How can you not want more of THAT? 

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« Reply #15 on: September 10, 2015, 03:32:13 AM »

Good To My Baby is enough to hook anybody on the Beach Boys, really... if you think about it.  How can you not want more of THAT? 



Pity ya gotta wait 'til the last track to hear it, though. Not that the others are BAD, but really...
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« Reply #16 on: September 10, 2015, 06:33:47 AM »

Capitol was putting together a lot of weird BB compilations back in the early 80's. Here are some titles and tracklistings from weird Capitol compilations I had on cassette from the early 80s:

Here are some tracklistings from some of the compilation cassettes I have (note the instrumental "Pet Sounds" on the album titled "Golden Harmonies!"):

"The Beach Boys" (not to be confused with the self-titled '85 album)
Release Date: 1983
Label: Capitol/SM (Special Markets)

Side One:
1. Sloop John B.
2. Catch A Wave
3. The Warmth Of The Sun
4. Wild Honey

Side Two:
1. 409
2. Hushabye
3. Don't Back Down
4. Why Do Fools Fall In Love
5. Summer Means New Love

"Summer Dreams"
Release Date: 1983
Label: Capitol/SM (Special Markets)

Side One:
1. Shut Down
2. Do You Remember
3. Summertime Blues
4. Your Summer Dreams
5. Girl Don't Tell Me

Side Two:
1. Heroes & Villains
2. Let Him Run Wild
3. Then I Kissed Her
4. Pet Sounds

"For All Seasons"
Release Date: 1984
Label: Capitol/SM (Special Markets)/Pair Records

Program 1:
1. Surfin' Safari
2. Darlin'
3. Girls On The Beach
4. Let's Go Trippin'
5. I Get Around
6. Hushabye
7. Summertime Blues
8. This Car Of Mine

Program 2:
1. Be True To Your School
2. Surfer Girl
3. Louie, Louie
4. Finders Keepers
5. Wouldn't It Be Nice
6. Don't Worry Baby
7. Devoted To You
8. Why Do Fools Fall In Love

"Golden Harmonies"
Release Date: 1985
Label: Capitol/SM (Special Markets)/Pair Records

Program 1:
1. Help Me Rhonda
2. Dance, Dance, Dance
3. When I Grow Up (To Be A Man)
4. Johnny B. Goode
5. Fun, Fun, Fun
6. Keep An Eye On Summer
7. 409
8. Pet Sounds

Program 2:
1. Little Deuce Coupe
2. Do You Wanna Dance
3. Sloop John B.
4. Shut Down
5. Surfin' USA
6. The Little Old Lady From Pasadena
7. The Wanderer
8. Surfin'
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