Best of The Beach Boys

by The Beach Boys

Best of The Beach Boys cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 11 July 1966
  • Label: Capitol
  • Country: United States
  • Community rating: 4.14/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Released concurrently with their masterpiece 'Pet Sounds,' this compilation summarizes the band's wildly successful, sun-drenched early period for the American market. Gathering their definitive, beautifully harmonized anthems concerning cars, surfing, and teenage romance, the collection provides a pristine, immensely nostalgic overview of the foundational California sound that initially catapulted them to global superstardom.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, vocal-group, aquatic, compilation, summery

Tracklist

  1. Surfin' Safari
  2. Surfin' U.S.A.
  3. Little Deuce Coupe
  4. Fun, Fun, Fun
  5. I Get Around
  6. All Summer Long
  7. In My Room
  8. Do You Wanna Dance?
  9. Help Me, Rhonda
  10. California Girls
  11. Barbara Ann
  12. You're So Good To Me
  13. Sloop John B
  14. God Only Knows

Credits

  • The Beach Boys - primary artist
  • Brian Wilson - written-by, arranged by
  • Mike Love - written-by
  • Berry-Wilson - written by
  • Chuck Berry - written-by
  • Roger Christian - written-by
  • Gary Usher - written-by
  • Bobby Freeman - written-by

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