15 Big Ones

Labels

• Brother Records
• Reprise Records

Occupation

• Vocals: Mike Love
• Guitar, Vocals: Carl Wilson
• Guitar, Vocals: Al Jardine
• Drums, vocals: Dennis Wilson
• Keyboard, Vocal: Brian Wilson

15 Big Ones is an album by American rock band The Beach Boys. The name 15 Big Ones is a hint to the fifteen pieces that contains the album as well as to the 15 years of band history since 1961. The album was produced by Brian Wilson.

Prehistory

The Beach Boys had since 1973, when they released the Netherlands, brought no new material onto the market. They focused on regaining through extensive touring their audience. The end of 1974, when they had enough material, Capitol Records released the Hitzusammenstellung Endless Summer, which came in at number 1 on the Billboard charts .. All songs were written and produced by Brian Wilson. Wilson, however, had in the late 1960s retreated more and more from the band. The group thus tried Wilson retrieve the boat, to produce the next album.

Brian Wilson began to write new songs together with his former partner Steven Kalinich. Among Child of was winter, which was released just before Christmas 1974 as a single.

15 Big Ones

The Beach Boys first began it, take some well-known rock 'n' roll classics. They did this because Wilson had produced no more material for several years and this should act as a test run. They took about a dozen of these classics. Then they ventured even closer to our own new pieces. After some time, however, Brian Wilson lost interest in this project. He left the studio with the words: "I've taken enough. I do not want to record the album is finished. " Al Jardine and Mike Love wanted the still enduring popularity of the Best - Ofs Endless Summer use and urged a rapid release of existing material. Carl and Dennis Wilson would still be time to continue working on new songs. Finally, Love and Jardine put through. The Beach Boys had to pull together and choose by show of hands 15 songs from the recorded material that should go on the album.

The album sold by the popularity of the band and the initiated " Brian is Back " campaign very well, while critics were dissatisfied with the included material. The album was backed by synthesizers, the voice of Brian Wilson was untrained and he had to "cheat" even in the first octave by studio technology.

As a studio musician took Hal Blaine (drums), Billy Hinsche, Ed Carter, Lyle Ritz, Ray poleman (bass and guitar), Brian Wilson's wife Marilyn Rovell, Toni Tenille and Bruce Johnston (all three background vocals ) to the recording of the album in part.

Chart success

The album reached number 8 in the U.S. Billboard charts and number 31 in the UK charts. It was the first studio album by the Beach Boys since 1966, received a gold record.

Title list

Song Info

• Rock and Roll Music is a cover of Chuck Berry. With the single, the Beach Boys their first Top 5 hit in the U.S. since managed to Good Vibrations.

• Had to Phone Ya was written by Brian for the duo "Spring", which consisted of his wife Marilyn and her sister Dianne Rovell. This shot shows the Beach Boys version of this piece.

• Chapel of Love was a Phil Spector - production and was originally written by The Dixie Cups.

• Talk to Me is a piece of rhythm & blues singer Little Willie John, it contains a brief part of the piece Tallahassee Lassie by Freddy Cannon.

• Back Home was recorded in 1963 and was written by Brian Wilson and his former roommate Bob Norberg. The song dispensed with studio musicians and sound experiments.

• It's OK was released as a single and reached number # 29 on the U.S. charts. Roy Wood and his band Wizzard play as guests of the horns. As a B-side song Had to Phone Ya was used.

• Everyone's in Love With You, That Same Song and TM song are a tribute to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of Transcendental Meditation. Several Beach Boys were, at least temporarily, followers of this doctrine. That Same Song is set with a gospel choir in the scene and is a slight allusion to the fact that the fans wanted to hear only their old hits.

• Palisades Park is by Chuck Barris and was known by Freddy Cannon.

• Susie Cincinnati is about a taxi driver in Ohio. It was already used as a B-side for Add Some Music to Your Day and Child of Winter. Originally, it should already be used for the album Sunflower. It is in the album version with a new mix. Dennis Wilson agreed to the publication, since he did not know that the song has been published.

• Blueberry Hill is a 1940 made ​​-derived title that was known mainly through the interpretation of Fats Domino.

• In the Still of the Night was written by Fred Parris and recorded by the doo-wop group The Five Satins 1954.

• A Casual Look is another Doo - Woop - song and originally recorded by The Six Teens. It was written by songwriter Ed Wells.

• Just Once in My Life was originally written by The Righteous Brothers and was another Phil Spector - production. Brian and Carl Wilson sang the song as a duet.

Screened songs

Songs that were not included for the album included the cover versions of You've Lost That Lovin ' Feelin ' and Come and Go with Me A variety of their own songs were also not taken into account, such as My Diane, which until 1978 was released on the MIU album. The material of Wilson / Kalinich, which was made ​​available to some critics, had been enthusiastically received. However, in the coming years nothing seemed it. Only in 2000 Brian Wilson released the re-recorded song California feel.