Stack-O-Tracks

Occupation

Stack -O -Tracks is an album by the U.S. band The Beach Boys. It was released on August 19, 1968 by Capitol Records.

Genesis

The record sales of the Beach Boys stagnated in 1968. Both albums 1967 Smiley Smile and Wild Honey flopped and Friends did not meet the expectations of the record company. When it became clear that the Beach Boys would not import in 1968 another album, the record company decided to release an instrumental album. The titles offer a cross-section through the various Beach Boys albums. From the hits to key album tracks, everything is included. In some places you can still hear remnants of the mixed out singing.

Behind Stack -O- Tracks was the idea of ​​music-loving fans ( no instruments played ) the possibility to offer to sing the songs in a simple frame. The album contained a detailed booklet by all the texts and also the chord tables were printed.

With Stack -O- Tracks the Beach Boys released one of the first karaoke LPs history. Only much later emerged similar albums by other artists. A similar approach pursued only three years earlier released LP The Surfing Songbook of Rincon Surf Side Band ( Dunhill 50001, 1965) with instrumental versions of popular surf -music hits; the album the lyrics were settled to sing along. However, not contained as Stack -O- Tracks, the original instrumental tracks of hits, but new recordings.

The album was to not accepted by the fans little and sold correspondingly poor. It was the first Beach Boys release that did not come in the charts. Due to the poor sales was the album one of the most sought after for collectors, by sale of the first edition were pressed no further more. For 20 years there was no secondary publication, to Capitol Records in 1990, the album along with Beach Boys ' Party! re-released. 2001, this pressing was also released in Germany. The package includes with Help Me, Rhonda, California Girls and Our Car Club three instrumental versions as bonus tracks. The new edition contains neither texts nor chords.

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