Dennis Wilson
‘Do You Wanna Dance’: Take Your Partners With The Mamas and the Papas
A look into the many versions of the song written and first recorded by Bobby Freeman.
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Features3 months ago‘Sunflower’: The Beach Boys’ Slow-Blooming Favorite
The reputation of the 1970 album among the group's fans and media has only grown in later years.
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Features3 months ago
‘Surf’s Up’: The Socially Aware Album That Made The Beach Boys Cool Again
The group's landmark 1971 album 'Surf's Up' was both socially relevant and evocative of their initial glory.
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News3 months ago
See Second Beach Boys ‘Feel Flows’ Featurette, ‘White Hot Glistening’
‘White Hot Glistening’ is a lyric from ‘Feel Flows’ itself, the Carl Wilson/Jack Rieley composition from 1971's 'Surf's Up.’
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Features5 months ago
‘Friends’: The Beach Boys Miss Top 100, But Make New Connections
Released on June 24, 1968, the self-produced album was not successful in the US, but has steadily grown in stature.
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Features5 months ago
Best Beach Boys Songs: 25 Essential Tracks For Fun, Fun, Fun
Hailed as America’s band, The Beach Boys gave the world so much more than the surf-pop that made their name – as the best Beach Boys songs reveal.
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Features5 months ago
‘It’s Quite A Feeling, The West Coast Sound’: Brian Wilson In Ten Quotes
Ten historic quotes from the first decade or so of Brian and the Beach Boys’ worldwide acclaim.
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Features6 months ago
Song And Dance Man: Bobby Freeman, ‘Do You Wanna Dance’ Originator
Freeman had his own hit with the song at 18 and saw it covered by everyone from the Beach Boys to John Lennon.
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Features9 months ago
‘The Beach Boys Today!’: 1965 Album Maps The Path To ‘Pet Sounds’
Released on March 8, 1965 and charting on the 27th, the group's eighth album maintained their spectacular run of success.
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Features10 months ago
‘20/20’: Looking Back At The Beach Boys’ Eclectic Late 60s Classic
With their February 1969 album, ‘20/20,’ The Beach Boys consolidated their career to date while hinting at what lay ahead…
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Features11 months ago
‘Holland’: The Beach Boys Brilliantly Recreate California In Utrecht
It may not have been one of the group's most commercially successful LPs, but 'Holland' was, and remains, an admirable, self-contained and cohesive body of songs.
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Features11 months ago
‘In The Still Of The Nite’: Five Satins’ Grammy Hall of Famer Inspires Beach Boys
The Five Satins' 'In The Still Of The Nite,' a hit in both 1956 and 1960, later became one of the Beach Boys' '15 Big Ones.'
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News11 months ago
Sweaters, Snakes, And Joni Mitchell: James Taylor Remembers 1970
The new clip is on the revered singer-songwriter's YouTube channel, along with each of the individual songs in the set.
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Features11 months ago
Full Sail: Remembering The Beach Boys’ Carl Wilson
In celebration of the late Beach Boys singer, a look back over some of Carl’s greatest performances.
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Features12 months ago
Dennis Wilson’s Best Beach Boys Songs: 10 Overlooked Classics
Demonstrating a late-flowering but deep and instinctive talent, Dennis Wilson’s best Beach Boys songs remain highlights of the group’s later period.
