Surf City and Other Swingin' Cities

by Jan & Dean

Surf City and Other Swingin' Cities cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: July 1963
  • Label: Liberty
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 30:10
  • Community rating: 2.73/5 from 2 ratings

Artists on this release: Glen Campbell, Tommy Tedesco, Bill Pitman, Roy Katon, Earl Palmer, Leon Russell, Ray Pohlman, Jan Berry, Jimmy Bond, Jay Migliori, The Matadors, Billy Strange, Steve Douglas, Hal Blaine, Tom Scott

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Bolstered heavily by songwriting contributions from Brian Wilson, this record helped definitively codify the mythical, sun-drenched California lifestyle for a global audience. The soaring falsetto harmonies and driving rock instrumentation created an impossibly pristine vision of endless summers and teenage freedom. Anchored by its legendary title track, the album stands as a towering achievement in early 1960s pop culture marketing.

Genres

Descriptors: conceptual, melodic

Tracklist

  1. Surf City (2:24)
  2. Memphis Tennessee (2:33)
  3. Detroit City (2:56)
  4. Manhattan (2:20)
  5. Philadelphia, PA (2:15)
  6. Way Down Yonder In New Orleans (2:45)
  7. Honolulu Lulu (2:17)
  8. Kansas City (2:33)
  9. I Left My Heart In San Francisco (2:34)
  10. You Came A Long Way From St. Louis (2:18)
  11. Tallahassee Lassie (2:10)
  12. Soul City (3:05)

Credits

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