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Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!) is the ninth studio album by American rock band the Beach Boys, released on July 5, 1965, on Capitol.[1] The band's previous album, The Beach Boys Today! (released March 1965), represented a departure for the group through its abandonment of themes related to surfing, cars, and teenage love,[2] but it sold below Capitol's expectations. In response, the label pressured the group to produce bigger hits.[3] Summer Days thus returned the band's music to simpler themes for one last album, with Brian Wilson combining Capitol's commercial demands with his artistic calling.[4]

Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)
Studio album by the Beach Boys
Released	July 5, 1965 (1965-07-05)
Recorded	February 24 – June 4, 1965
Studio	Western, Gold Star, and Columbia, Hollywood
Genre	Rock
Length	26:42
Label	Capitol
Producer	Brian Wilson
The Beach Boys chronology
The Beach Boys Today! (1965) Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!) (1965) Beach Boys' Party! (1965)
The Beach Boys UK chronology
Pet Sounds (1966) Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!) (1966) Best of The Beach Boys (1966)
Singles from Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)
"Help Me, Rhonda" Released: April 5, 1965 "California Girls" / "Let Him Run Wild" Released: July 12, 1965

Produced by Wilson, Summer Days reached number two on the US Billboard 200 and number four on the UK Albums Chart. Two singles were issued from the album: "Help Me, Rhonda", which became the group's second chart-topper in the US, and "California Girls", which peaked at number three.

Background

Carl Wilson reflected of Summer Days, "There was a time when it was uncool to be into the Beach Boys, and when we did that album, it started to bother us, doing this same stuff, because we thought we were trapped into having to sing about a certain thing."[5]

Unreleased material

One outtake from the album's sessions is known as "Sandy" or "Sherry She Needs Me",[6] and was written by Brian Wilson with Russ Titelman alongside "Guess I'm Dumb".[7] "Sherry She Needs Me" was revisited by the Beach Boys during 1976's The Beach Boys Love You sessions. The composition remained dormant until 1998, when it was finally finished by Wilson as "She Says That She Needs Me" for his 1998 Imagination solo album. The Beach Boys' version of "Sherry She Needs Me" was released in 2013 for the Made in California box set.[8]

Cover photo

Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!) includes Bruce Johnston's first appearance on a Beach Boys album. As Brian Wilson's stage replacement, he was not yet considered an "official" member, but Wilson appreciated Johnston's skills enough to have him contribute vocally and instrumentally on the album. Johnston would often accompany the group on photo shoots, but he was prohibited from having those pictures published on album covers due to a preexisting contract with Columbia Records. Along with Johnston, Al Jardine is also missing from the Summer Days cover photo depicting the group on a sailboat, having missed the shoot due to illness.[9]

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[10]
Blender	[11]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[12]
MusicHound	4/5[13]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[14]

Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!) proved to be another gold-selling success for the Beach Boys in the U.S., where it hit number 2 behind The Rolling Stones's Out of Our Heads. Along with 1963's Surfin' U.S.A. it remains the group's highest-charting studio album in the U.S. The following year, the album would reach number 4 in the United Kingdom. The album's lead single, "Help Me, Rhonda", topped the US Billboard Hot 100.[15]

In a 2011 reappraisal, BBC Music observed that the track listing of Summer Days reads "like a Greatest Hits," and felt the album is unfairly disparaged for being "simply loaded with proud pop songs." Comparing to the Beach Boys' later work: "If Pet Sounds is the critics’ favorite, Summer Days is perhaps the people's day at the beach."[16] That same year, the online journal Rocksucker praised the album, ranking it 4th in its list of "Ten Underappreciated Beach Boys LPs," but considers it "an inconsistent collection of which the high points are truly great and the low points ranging from merely good to just-about-passing-muster."[17]

Release history

In the early 1970s, as part of Capitol Records' repackage series of their Beach Boys albums, Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!) was retitled California Girls and deleted two tracks: "Amusement Parks U.S.A." and "I'm Bugged at My Ol' Man".^{[citation needed]} In 1990, the album was reissued paired with The Beach Boys Today!; this package featured extensive liner notes and bonus tracks from that period.[4] In its 2012 reissue, the album received its first true stereo mix.^{[citation needed]}

Track listing

Notes

• Mike Love was not originally credited for "The Girl from New York City", "Amusement Parks U.S.A.", "Salt Lake City", "Help Me, Rhonda", "California Girls", "Let Him Run Wild", and "You're So Good to Me". His credits were awarded after a 1990s lawsuit.[18]

Personnel

Sourced from Musician's Union AFM contract sheets and surviving session audio, documented by Craig Slowinski.[19][20]

The Beach Boys

• Al Jardine – lead, harmony and backing vocals; electric rhythm guitar; handclaps
• Mike Love – lead, harmony and backing vocals; handclaps
• Brian Wilson – lead, harmony and backing vocals; bass guitar; acoustic upright piano; hammond organ; handclaps
• Carl Wilson – harmony and backing vocals; lead, rhythm, acoustic and 12-string guitar; handclaps
• Dennis Wilson – harmony and backing vocals; drums, tambourine, handclaps

Guests

• Bruce Johnston – harmony and backing vocals; acoustic grand piano, Hammond organ, celeste; handclaps
• Ron Swallow – tambourine

Session musicians

Technical

• Chuck Britz – engineer

Charts

Year	Chart	Position
1965	US Billboard 200	2[21]
1966	UK Top 40 Albums	4[22]

References

Bibliography

• Badman, Keith (2004). The Beach Boys: The Definitive Diary of America's Greatest Band, on Stage and in the Studio. Backbeat Books. ISBN 978-0-87930-818-6.
• Schinder, Scott (2007). "The Beach Boys". In Schinder, Scott; Schwartz, Andy (eds.). Icons of Rock: An Encyclopedia of the Legends Who Changed Music Forever. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0313338458.
• Tobler, John (1978). The Beach Boys. Chartwell Books. ISBN 0890091749.
• Wilson, Brian; Greenman, Ben (2016). I Am Brian Wilson: A Memoir. Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0-306-82307-7.

External links

• Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!) at Discogs (list of releases)

На других языках

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[de] Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)

Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!) ist ein Album der US-Musikgruppe The Beach Boys. Es wurde am 5. Juli 1965 veröffentlicht. Produziert wurde das Album von Brian Wilson.

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[es] Summer Days (and Summer Nights!!)

Summer Days (and Summer Nights!!) es el noveno álbum de estudio por The Beach Boys, y el segundo de 1965. El álbum anterior de la banda, Today! (marzo de 1965), representó la salida del grupo de temas como el surf, los automóviles y el amor adolescente,[4] pero se vendió por debajo de las expectativas de Capitol. En respuesta, el sello presionó al grupo para producir éxitos más grandes.[5] Summer Days devolvió así la música de la banda a temas más simples para un último álbum, con Brian combinando las demandas comerciales de Capitol con su vocación artística.[6]

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[ru] Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)

Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!) — девятый студийный альбом американской рок-группы The Beach Boys. Пластинка вышла в июле 1965 года на Capitol Records и заняла 2-е место в американском хит-параде журнала Billboard. Пластинка включает хит-синглы «Help Me, Rhonda» и «California Girls».

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