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The Beach Boys – 1965

This is the fifth entry in my on going series of Beach Boys yearly deep dives and this one is posted as yesterday was the 60th Anniversary of the release of the ‘Summer Days (& Summer Nights)’ album 

With Brian Wilson off of the road, 1965 would be the year he could finally start concentrating on writing and producing material for the band, as well as others. A deep dive box set for Wilson’s none Beach Boys productions should really be a future project. Anyway, Wilson decided it was time to take the band away from the styles and lyrical subjects that they had used in the past. He also experimented with the LP as an art from. This was shown on ‘The Beach Boys Today!’ album where side one is uptempo tracks whereas side two is made up of ballads. 

‘The Beach Boys Today!’ was also their first album of the year. Like the previous two years, the band put out three albums in 1965, even though ‘Beach Boys’ Party’ was essentially a stop gap made up mostly of covers. However, it was still something different as it was made to sound like an impromptu session recoded with acoustic instruments with a party atmosphere. The recording was anything but. The songs were recorded individually in the studio having been rehearsed beforehand. Some consider this to be the first unplugged album. 

Even though albums up to and including Beach Boys Today! had dedicated Stereo mixes, for some reason, in 1965, it was decided that these would be replaced with Duophonic mixes. Duophonic mixes consisted of two mono signals with an almost imperceptible time delay (measured in milliseconds) between them. As far as I can tell, the only difference between the two master recordings of ‘Graduation Day’ on Disc 9 is that one has a spoken intro and the other does not.

I have not included the sessions for the ‘Beach Boys’ Party!’. This is down to the fact that the Party LP has received an official multi disc sets that the albums before then had not. Therefore I felt that this was a good place to stop (so no ‘Pet Sounds’ etc in future). 

Sources for the songs included on this set. 

1 – Unsurpassed Masters Vol. 8 – The Alternate “Today’ Album, Part 2 (Bootleg)

2 – Today!

3 – Today! (2012 Remaster)

4 – Summer Love Songs

5 – Unsurpassed Masters Vol. 9 – The Alternate ‘Summer Days (and Summer Nights!)’ Album, Vol. 2 (Bootleg)

6 – Summer Days (and Summer Nights)

7 – Summer Days (and Summer Nights) (2012 Remaster)

8 – Sounds of Summer: The Very Best of the Beach Boys (2003)

9 – The Warmth of the Sun

10 – Unsurpassed Masters Vol. 7 – The Alternate ‘Today’ Album, Part 1 (Bootleg)

11 – Today!/Summer Days and Summer Nights!) (1990 Reissue)

12 – Hawthorne, CA: Birthplace Of A Musical Legacy

13 – Alternate Dumb Angel 1 (Bootleg)

14 – Unsurpassed Masters Vol. 11 – Miscellaneous Trax, Vol. 3 (Bootleg)

15 – Unsurpassed Masters Vol. 9 (1965) – The Alternate ‘Summer Days (and Summer Nights!)’ Album, Vol. 2

16 – Stack -O-Tracks

17 – Remember The Zoo (Bootleg)

18 – Good Vibrations: Thirty Years Of The Beach Boys

19 – Endless Harmony Soundtrack (1998 Version)

20 – Made In California (2012 Box Set)

21 – Pet Sounds DVD-A (2003)

22 – Sounds Of Summer: The Best Of The Beach Boys (Expanded Super Deluxe)

Disc 1

  1. Good To Me Baby (Takes 1, 2, 3 & 4) – 1
  2. Good To Me Baby (Take 5) – 1
  3. Good To Me Baby (Takes 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 & 13) – 1
  4. Good To Me Baby (Take 14) – 1
  5. Good To Me Baby (Takes 16 & 17) – 1
  6. Good To Me Baby (Vocal Overdub Takes 1a, 2a & 3a) – 1
  7. Good To Me Baby (Vocal Overdub Take 4a) – 1
  8. Good To Me Baby (Mono) – 2
  9. Good To Me Baby (Duophonic) – 2
  10. Good To Me Baby (Stereo) – 3
  11. Good To Me Baby (2009 New Stereo Mix) – 4
  12. Good To Me Baby (2021 Stereo Mix) – 22
  13. Help Me, Rhonda (Take 1) – 5
  14. Help Me, Rhonda (Takes, 2, 3, 4 & 5) – 5
  15. Help Me, Rhonda (Take 6) – 5
  16. Help Me, Rhonda (1st Vocal Overdub) – 5
  17. Help Me, Rhonda (2nd Vocal Overdub) – 5
  18. Help Me, Rhonda (Mono) – 6
  19. Help Me, Rhonda (Duophonic) – 6
  20. Help Me, Rhonda (Stereo) – 7
  21. Help Me, Rhonda (Single Version) – 8
  22. Help Me, Rhonda (2021 Streo Mix) – 22

Disc 2

  1. Please Let Me Wonder (Rehearsals) – 1
  2. Please Let Me Wonder (Rehearsal) – 1
  3. Please Let Me Wonder (Takes 1, 2 & 3) – 1
  4. Please Let Me Wonder (Take 4) – 1
  5. Please Let Me Wonder (Takes 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 & 10) – 1
  6. Please Let Me Wonder (Take 11) – 1
  7. Please Let Me Wonder (Takes 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 & 17) – 1
  8. Please Let Me Wonder (Take 18) – 1
  9. Please Let Me Wonder (Takes 19, 20 & 21) – 1
  10. Please Let Me Wonder (Take 22) – 1
  11. Please Let Me Wonder (Takes 23, 24 & 25) – 1
  12. Please Let Me Wonder (1st Vocal Overdub) – 1
  13. Please Let Me Wonder (2nd Vocal Overdub Takes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, & 8) – 1
  14. Please Let Me Wonder (2nd Vocal Overdub Take 9) – 1
  15. Please Let Me Wonder (Track Only) – 1
  16. Please Let Me Wonder (Vocal Track) – 1
  17. Please Let Me Wonder (Mono) – 2
  18. Please Let Me Wonder (Duophonic) – 2
  19. Please Let Me Wonder (Stereo) – 3
  20. Please Let Me Wonder (2007 New Stereo Mix) – 9

Disc 3

  1. I’m So Young (Rehearsals) – 1
  2. I’m So Young (Take 1) – 1
  3. I’m So Young (Instrumental Insert) – 1
  4. I’m So Young (Vocal Intro Session) – 1
  5. I’m So Young (1st Vocal Overdub) – 1
  6. I’m So Young (2nd Vocal Overdub Takes 1 & 2) – 1
  7. I’m So Young (2nd Vocal Overdub Take 3) – 1
  8. I’m So Young (2nd Vocal Overdub Takes 4 & 5) – 1
  9. I’m So Young (Mono) – 2
  10. I’m So Young (Duophonic) – 2
  11. I’m So Young (Stereo) – 3
  12. I’m So Young (2009 New Stereo Mix) – 4
  13. I’m So Young – Alternate Take (Rehearsal & Takes 1, 2, 3, 4, & 5) – 10
  14. I’m So Young – Alternate Take (Take 6) – 10
  15. I’m So Young – Alternate Take (Takes 7, 8, 9, 10 & 11) – 10
  16. I’m So Young – Alternate Take (Take 12) – 10
  17. I’m So Young – Alternate Take (1st Vocal Overdub) – 10
  18. I’m So Young – Alternate Take (2nd Vocal Overdub) – 10
  19. I’m So Young – Alternate Take (Master) – 11

Disc 4

  1. In The Back Of My Mind (Takes 1 & 2) – 1
  2. In The Back Of My Mind (Takes 3 & 4) – 1
  3. In The Back Of My Mind (Takes 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 & 10) – 1
  4. In The Back Of My Mind (Takes 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 & 21) – 1
  5. In The Back Of My Mind (Take 22) – 1
  6. In The Back Of My Mind (Takes 23, 24, 25, 26 & 27) – 1
  7. In The Back Of My Mind (Take 28) – 1
  8. In The Back Of My Mind (Take 31) – 1
  9. In The Back Of My Mind (Mono Instrumental Insert) – 1
  10. In The Back Of My Mind (Stereo Backing Track) – 13
  11. In The Back Of My Mind (1st Vocal Overdub) – 1
  12. In The Back Of My Mind (2nd Vocal Overdub Takes 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5) – 1
  13. In The Back Of My Mind (2nd Vocal Overdub Take 6) – 1
  14. In The Back Of My Mind (2nd Vocal Overdub Takes 7, 8, 9, 10 & 11) – 1
  15. In The Back Of My Mind (2nd Vocal Overdub Take 12) – 1
  16. In The Back Of My Mind (Mono) – 2
  17. In The Back Of My Mind (Duophonic) – 2
  18. In The Back Of My Mind (Stereo) – 3
  19. In The Back Of My Mind (Instrumental – Dennis Thanks Everybody) – 12
  20. Bull Sessions With ‘Big Daddy’ (20 Minute Version) – 1
  21. Bull Sessions With ‘Big Daddy’ – 2

Disc 5

  1. The Little Girl I Once Knew (Intro Rehearsals) – 14
  2. The Little Girl I Once Knew (Rehearsals) – 14
  3. The Little Girl I Once Knew (Rehearsal) – 14
  4. The Little Girl I Once Knew (Take 1) – 14
  5. The Little Girl I Once Knew (Take 2) – 14
  6. The Little Girl I Once Knew (Takes 3, 4, 5 & 6) – 14
  7. The Little Girl I Once Knew (Takes 7, 8, 9 & 10) – 14
  8. The Little Girl I Once Knew (Takes 11, 12, 13, 14 & 15) – 14
  9. The Little Girl I Once Knew (Insert Vocal Rehearsal #1) – 14
  10. The Little Girl I Once Knew (Insert Vocal Rehearsal #2)- 14
  11. The Little Girl I Once Knew (Insert Vocal Rehearsal #3)- 14
  12. The Little Girl I Once Knew (Insert Vocal Rehearsal #4) – 14
  13. The Little Girl I Once Knew (Insert Vocal Rehearsal #5)- 14
  14. The Little Girl I Once Knew (Insert Vocal Rehearsal #6) – 14
  15. The Little Girl I Once Knew (Single Version) – 11
  16. Let Him Run Wild (Take 16) – 15
  17. Let Him Run Wild (Instrumental Insert) – 15
  18. Let Him Run Wild – 16
  19. Let Him Run Wild (1st Vocal Overdub 1 & 2) – 15
  20. Let Him Run Wild (1st Vocal Overdub 2) – 15
  21. Let Him Run Wild (2nd Vocal Overdub 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8) – 15
  22. Let Him Run Wild (Mono Mix) – 15
  23. Let Him Run Wild (Mono) – 6
  24. Let Him Run Wild (Duophonic) – 6
  25. Let Him Run Wild (Stereo) – 7
  26. Let Him Run Wild (2007 New Stereo Mix) – 9
  27. Let Him Run Wild (Alternate Backing Vocals) – 11
  28. Let Him Run Wild (Remember The Zoo Version) – 17

Disc 6 

  1. The Girl From New York (Take 1) – 15
  2. The Girl From New York (Take 2)- 15
  3. The Girl From New York (Takes 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 & 13) – 15
  4. The Girl From New York (Take 15) – 15
  5. The Girl From New York (Take 16) – 15
  6. The Girl From New York (Take 17) – 15
  7. The Girl From New York (Vocal Overdub) – 15
  8. The Girl From New York (Mono) – 6
  9. The Girl From New York (Duophonic) – 6
  10. The Girl From New York (Stereo) – 7
  11. Amusement Parks USA (Take 9) – 15
  12. Amusement Parks USA (1st Vocal Overdub) – 15
  13. Amusement Parks USA (2nd Vocal Overdub) – 15
  14. Amusement Parks USA (Mono) – 6
  15. Amusement Parks USA (Duophonic) – 6
  16. Amusement Parks USA (Stereo) – 7
  17. Salt Lake City (Intro Rehearsal) – 15
  18. Salt Lake City (Rehearsals) – 15
  19. Salt Lake City (Takes 1, 2 & 3) – 15
  20. Salt Lake City (Takes 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8) – 15
  21. Salt Lake City (Take 9) – 15
  22. Salt Lake City – 16
  23. Salt Lake City (Mono) – 6
  24. Salt Lake City (Duophonic) – 6
  25. Salt Lake City (Stereo) – 7
  26. Salt Lake City (2001 Stereo Mix) – 12

Disc 7

  1. Girl Don’t Tell Me (Rehearsals) – 15
  2. Girl Don’t Tell Me (Takes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6) – 15
  3. Girl Don’t Tell Me (Take 7) – 15
  4. Girl Don’t Tell Me (Takes 8, 9 & 10) – 15
  5. Girl Don’t Tell Me (Takes 11, 12, 13, 14 & 15) – 15
  6. Girl Don’t Tell Me (Take 16) – 15
  7. Girl Don’t Tell Me (Instrumental Insert) – 15
  8. Girl Don’t Tell Me (Vocal Overdub) – 15
  9. Girl Don’t Tell Me (Mono) – 6
  10. Girl Don’t Tell Me (Duophonic) – 6
  11. Girl Don’t Tell Me (Stereo) – 7
  12. You’re So Good To Me (Rehearsals) – 15
  13. You’re So Good To Me (Take 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, & 6) – 15
  14. You’re So Good To Me (Take 7a) – 15
  15. You’re So Good To Me (Take 7b) – 15
  16. You’re So Good To Me (Takes 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 & 16) – 15
  17. You’re So Good To Me (Take 17) – 15
  18. You’re So Good To Me (Takes 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 & 23) – 15
  19. You’re So Good To Me (Take 24) – 15
  20. You’re So Good To Me (Instrumental Insert) – 15
  21. You’re So Good To Me – 16
  22. You’re So Good To Me (Mono) – 6
  23. You’re So Good To Me (Duophonic) – 6
  24. You’re So Good To Me (Stereo) – 7
  25. You’re So Good To Me (2007 New Stereo Mix) – 9

Disc 8

  1. California Girls (Rehearsals) – 15
  2. California Girls (Takes 5 & 6) – 15
  3. California Girls (Take 7) – 15
  4. California Girls (Takes 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 & 14) – 15
  5. California Girls (Take 15) – 15
  6. California Girls (Takes 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37 & 38) – 15
  7. California Girls (Takes 39 & 40) – 15
  8. California Girls (Take 41) – 15
  9. California Girls (Takes 42, 43 & 44) – 15
  10. California Girls (Take 43 Complete) – 15
  11. California Girls – 16
  12. California Girls (Session) – 16
  13. California Girls (Vocals) – 18
  14. California Girls (Mono) – 6 
  15. California Girls (Duophonic) – 6
  16. California Girls (Stereo) – 7
  17. California Girls (1998 Stereo Remix) – 19
  18. California Girls (2002 Stereo Mix) – 20
  19. Summer Means New Love (Mono) – 6
  20. Summer Means New Love (Duophonic) – 6
  21. Summer Means New Love (Stereo) – 7
  22. Summer Means New Love (Stereo Remix) – 21

Disc 9

  1. Then I Kissed Her (Rehearsals) – 15
  2. Then I Kissed Her (Takes 1 & 2) – 15
  3. Then I Kissed Her (Takes 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 & 12) – 15
  4. Then I Kissed Her (Takes 13, 14 & 15) – 15
  5. Then I Kissed Her (Take 16) – 15
  6. Then I Kissed Her (1st Instrumental Insert) – 15
  7. Then I Kissed Her (2nd Instrumental Insert) – 15
  8. Then I Kissed Her (1st Vocal Overdub) – 15
  9. Then I Kissed Her (2nd Vocal Overdub) – 15
  10. Then I Kissed Her (Mono) – 6
  11. Then I Kissed Her (Duophonic) – 6
  12. Then I Kissed Her (Stereo) – 7
  13. Then I Kissed Her (2007 New Stereo Mix) – 9
  14. Sandy (Rehearsals #1) – 15
  15. Sandy (Rehearsals #2) – 15
  16. Sandy (Track Only) – 15
  17. Sandy (Instrumental Insert #1) – 15
  18. Sandy (Instrumental Insert #2) – 15
  19. Sandy (Chorus Rehearsal) – 15
  20. Sandy (1st Vocal Overdub) – 15
  21. Sandy (2nd Vocal Overdub) – 15

Disc 10

  1. Do You Wanna Dance? (Take 1) – 1
  2. Do You Wanna Dance? (Takes 2 & 3) – 1
  3. Do You Wanna Dance? (Instrumental Insert) – 1
  4. Do You Wanna Dance? (Vocal Overdubs) – 1
  5. Do You Wanna Dance? (Mono) – 2
  6. Do You Wanna Dance? (Duophonic) – 2
  7. Do You Wanna Dance? (Stereo) – 3
  8. Graduation Day (Vocal Rehearsals) – 15 
  9. Graduation Day (Vocal #1) – 15
  10. Graduation Day (Vocal #2) – 15
  11. Graduation Day (Vocal Overdub) – 15
  12. Graduation Day – 11
  13. Graduation Day (Vocal Introduction Studio Version) – 11
  14. I’m Bugged At My Old Man (Mono) – 6
  15. I’m Bugged At My Old Man (Duophonic) – 6
  16. I’m Bugged At My Old Man (Stereo) – 7
  17. And Your Dreams Come True (Mono) – 6
  18. And Your Dreams Come True (Duophonic) – 6
  19. And Your Dreams Come True (Stereo) – 7
  20. And Your Dreams Come True (Stereo Remix) – 12

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