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  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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  Features1 month 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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  Features1 month 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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  Features5 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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  Features5 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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  Features7 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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  Features7 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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  News7 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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  Features7 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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  Features8 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.

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  Features8 months ago

  ‘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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  Features11 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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  Features11 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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  Features1 year ago

  The Beach Boys: The Greatest Vocal Group Ever?

  At the dawn of rock’n’roll, rhythm’n’blues vocal groups from street corners across America dominated the teenage-dream world of radio.