Beach Boys Concert


Beach Boys Concert is the first live album by American rock band the Beach Boys, released on October 19, 1964. It is their seventh album in all, and their third alone in the same year. It was their first of two chart-topping albums in the US, as well as the first live album to top pop music record charts, maintaining its position for four weeks during a sixty-two-week chart stay, and becoming another gold seller. Their other chart-topping album was the Endless Summer compilation in 1974.
The album was recorded live at the Memorial Auditorium in Sacramento, California. Because Brian Wilson was about to vacate his position in the live group, and would only perform sporadically with them over the course of the next three decades, it is one of the few live documents of the original line up of the Beach Boys in officially released LP form.
In 2014, Live in Sacramento 1964 was released, containing additional performances from these concert dates.

Recording

The album includes several songs that the Beach Boys regularly performed live but had not previously included on an album, such as "Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow", "The Wanderer" and "Monster Mash". "The Little Old Lady from Pasadena" was actually a Jan & Dean hit. Alongside those were a sampling of their favorites, such as "Hawaii", "Fun, Fun, Fun", and "I Get Around".
"Little Deuce Coupe," "In My Room," "Johnny B. Goode," "Monster Mash," and "Long Tall Texan" dated from the December 21, 1963 show.

Variations

A truncated version was released on Pickwick Records as Wow! Great Concert! Beach Boys Concert When their albums were remastered for CD in 1990, Concert was paired on CD with Live in London, with bonus tracks from both periods. Bonus tracks include "Don't Worry Baby " and "Heroes And Villains ".

Track listing

;Side one
  1. "Fun, Fun, Fun" – 2:26
  2. "The Little Old Lady from Pasadena" – 3:00
  3. "Little Deuce Coupe" – 2:27
  4. "Long, Tall Texan" – 2:32
  5. "In My Room" – 2:25
  6. "Monster Mash" – 2:27
  7. "Let's Go Trippin'" – 2:34
;Side two
  2. "Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow" – 2:18
  3. "The Wanderer" – 2:00
  4. "Hawaii" – 1:51
  5. "Graduation Day" – 3:29
  6. "I Get Around" – 2:42
  7. "Johnny B. Goode" – 1:56

    Personnel

;The Beach Boys