That's Why God Made the Radio
That's Why God Made the Radio is the 29th album by the Beach Boys and the first since 1996. Was released worldwide June 1, 2012 to mark the 50th anniversary of the Beach Boys.
Formation
The end of 2011, according to rumors, the Beach Boys would again come together in the old line and make a tour and an album. Beginning of 2012, then a new recording of Do It Again, participated in the all surviving Beach Boys, and the release of a new album appeared was announced on 1 June 2012. Simultaneously, a new world tour was announced, which includes 50 concerts and launched on 26 April 2012.
The genesis of the album That's Why God Made the Radio began in the late 1990s. Brian Wilson worked at this time with Joe Thomas on a few songs for his album Imagination. During this collaboration, among others, two or three songs that did not want to publish on his solo album, Brian Wilson emerged. One of the songs was That's Why God Made the Radio. Wilson wanted to keep these songs for a possible new album by the Beach Boys. To initiate the production of a new album by the Beach Boys, Brian Wilson sent his brother Carl Wilson, a demo recording of the piece Lay Down Burden, at that time still the title of Lay Down Your Burden wore. However, Carl Wilson's cancer prevented cooperation. Brian Wilson and Joe Thomas arranged the song around after Carl Wilson's death in the ballad Lay Down, Burden and published them on Brian Wilson's fifth solo album. After Carl Wilson's death, the work on a new album by the Beach Boys were hired.
Years later, Brian Wilson took Thomas to contact and reported that he was working on a new album and wants to use old demo recordings of their earlier collaboration. Wilson, Thomas and Jeffrey Foskett arranged some songs from the audio material present, took demos on and placed them in front of Capitol Records. Overall, Wilson presented the record company four pieces, such as the song That's Why God Made Radio. The label was interested in cooperation, accepted the idea of a new album by the Beach Boys to publish and negotiated a contract for the album.
A short time later, Wilson and Thomas met with Mike Love in a steak house and asked him if he was interested to act as a lyricist and singer with the album. This readily agreed.
Originally, the album was to be called Summer's Gone. But since Mike Love won against Brian Wilson, it was named after the song That's Why God Made the Radio. According to another source, however, it was Brian Wilson himself, who changed the album name because he allegedly was a lot of fun the new work with the other Beach Boys, and he therefore no longer wanted a sad title for the album.
On 16 May 2012, the Beach Boys were encountered while shopping channel QVC to introduce the album That's Why God Made the Radio. During the broadcast, viewers had the opportunity to purchase the album. QVC accepted nearly 20,000 orders. According to estimates by the music industry, the album sold 60000-65000 times until 10 June 2012.
The album reached number three on June 18, 2012 the U.S. Billboard charts. This was That's Why God Made the Radio 's first album since the Beach Boys 15 Big Ones in 1976, which made it into the top 10 of the U.S. Billboard charts. With the album succeeded the Beach Boys to break the record for the longest period of time between two places in the top -10 a band. Record holder until then had been the Beatles. In the German album charts, the album reached number 36 and left this after a week.
Title list
Information about the songs
- The origin of the song That's Why God Made the Radio Demos is based on which Brian Wilson and Joe Thomas worked in the 90s. They were at this time neighbors in St. Charles ( Illinois). According to Thomas Wilson did not publish the song as a soloist, but held it back for a future album of the Beach Boys. The Name That 's Why God Made the Radio Brian fell after a baseball game of the Chicago White Sox in the late 1990s, one that he had visited with Joe Thomas.
- Shelter provides loud Joe Thomas an extension of the song In My Room dar.
- Is not It Time should not immediately be released on the album. Two months before the release of the leaders decided at short notice to take it but on the album.
- Beaches in Mind is one of the first songs of the album That's Why God Made the Radio on the Mike Love cooperated.
- Jon Bon Jovi collaborated on the song Summer's Gone. He contributed some verses and changed the melody in different places. During his work on the play Bon Jovi called the song Brian Wilson's My Way.
- Wilson and Thomas developed the song Spring Vacation from the same demo recording from the also the song Lay Down, Burden resulted. Mike Love in the studio needed only five minutes to write the text for Spring Vacation.
- The song Daybreak over the Ocean was written by Mike Love in 1978 for one of his unreleased solo albums. In addition to his children Love Hayleigh, Christian, and earlier tour musician Adrian Baker can be heard on the recording. Later, Wilson, Jardine, Johnston and Foskett sang a more vocal tracks for the song.