11 June 2025
Musical wizard and Beach Boys mastermind BRIAN WILSON has past away, aged 82.
His family broke the news via social media.
He recorded/released 29 LPs with The Beach Boys and 11 solo albums.
He also worked/recorded with multiple other artists. R.I.P.
Brian Wilson: Story
Great 7″ singles from the past
10 December 2022
Band: The Beach Boys
Formed in 1961
Single: Good Vibrations
B-side: Let’s Go Away for A While
Note 1: Legend goes that the song’s title was inspired
by Wilson‘s obsession with cosmic vibrations, as his mother
would tell him as a kid that dogs sometimes bark at people
in response to their ‘bad vibrations‘.
Note 2: Over 90 hours of tape was consumed for the recordings
of the good vibes, with a total cost of production estimated
to be in the tens of thousands of dollars.
Score: The single hit the top spot of the US charts
on 10 December 1966, 53 years ago today.
Also #1 in the UK.
Sing it, boys…
THE BEACH BOYS: Facebook
Top singles from the past…
10 December 2020
Band: The Beach Boys
Formed in 1961
Single: Good Vibrations
B-side: Let’s Go Away for A While
Note 1: Legend goes that the song’s title was inspired
by Wilson‘s obsession with cosmic vibrations, as his mother
would tell him as a kid that dogs sometimes bark at people
in response to their ‘bad vibrations‘.
Note 2: Over 90 hours of tape was consumed for the recordings
of the good vibes, with a total cost of production estimated
to be in the tens of thousands of dollars.
Score: The single hit the top spot of the US charts
on 10 December 1966, 53 years ago today.
Also #1 in the UK.
Sing it, boys…
THE BEACH BOYS: Facebook
Knockouts from the past…
4 November 2019
Band: The Beach Boys
Song: Good Vibrations
B-side: Let’s Go Away for A While
Note 1: Music by Brian Wilson, lyrics by Mike Love
Note 2: Legend goes that the song’s title was inspired
by Wilson‘s obsession with cosmic vibrations, as his mother
would tell him as a kid that dogs sometimes bark at people
in response to their ‘bad vibrations’
Note 3: Over 90 hours of tape was consumed for the recordings
of the good vibes, with a total cost of production estimated
to be in the tens of thousands of dollars
Note 4: The single hit the top spot of the US and UK charts
in November 1966, 53 years ago
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