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Beach Boys – 8 Original “Smile” Acetates from the collection of Van Dyke Parks

"A collection of eight original acetates from the Beach Boys' unfinished album Smile; from the collection of Van Dyke Parks, Brian Wilson's collaborator on the project.  We acquired these unique discs from Durrie Parks, Van Dyke's ex wife (Van Dyke and Durrie lived at Brian Wilson's house during the recording of Smile.)  Smile is the most legendary unreleased album of all time.  Intended as the follow up to the Beach Boys classic Pet Sounds, Wilson worked on Smile throughout 1966 and '67, finally abandoning it in favor of the much less ambitious Smiley Smile."

"These discs are truly fascinating pieces of the Smile puzzle.  Each contains a part or multiple parts of a song; together they illustrate how Wilson recorded each of the songs for Smile in pieces, and planned to fit the individual elements together--like puzzle pieces--after the fact.  You can hear this in finished songs like "Heroes and Villians.""

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The Cowsills - "Good Vibrations" ("It's Happening" 1969)

 

The Beach Boys - Live At Olympia, Paris, June 16, 1969 - Complete Show in 5 parts

     

The Beach Boys - "Barbara Ann", "God Only Knows" (Live UNICEF 1967)

Beautiful live Beach Boys footage from (I'm assuming) French TV. These guys always sounded amazing live.

The Beach Boys - "Roller Skating Child" - Concert Nassau Coliseum (Uniondale, NY) 05.14.1979

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The Beach Boys - "Your Song" - Fillmore East (New York, NY) 06.27.1971

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WFMU's Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban!: Bruce Johnston Rules?

"I've never had a very strong opinion of Bruce Johnston, one way or the other. As far as I was concerned, he was kind of just there in the Beach Boys, neither good nor bad. Recently, I bought this album, which I had never heard of, seen or listened to. About half of the record is just about what you'd expect: decent, but average Beach Boy style surf tunes with passable vocals. The rest is certainly NOT what you'd expect. I couldn't believe my ears..."

Get some wild sounding Surf mp3's @ WFMU Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban

The T.A.M.I. Show Collector's Edition will be released on March 23, 2010.

The greatest Rock and Roll concert movie ever made is finally coming out on DVD.

"Filmed just eight months after The Beatles appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, THE T.A.M.I. SHOW introduced rock n soul youth culture to America in the first concert movie of the rock era. One of the rarest and most sought-after performance films from its time, the 1964 concert event featured future Rock and Roll Hall of Famers The Rolling Stones, James Brown, Chuck Berry, The Beach Boys, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, The Supremes and many other American and British Invasion hitmakers in their prime."

"This legendary film has never been available on DVD and has not been seen in its entirety since it originally appeared in theaters in 1964. Mastered from a new High Definition transfer and UNCUT, this complete version features the Beach Boys performances that were removed following the films initial theatrical run. This is what music fans have been waiting for: the ultimate collectors edition of this long-unavailable landmark film."

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Beach Boys - Live (Paris, December 1970) - Part 1 (of 2)

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Beach Boys - Live (Paris, December 1970) - Part 2 (of 2)

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