Sunflower (The Beach Boys album)

Occupation

• Vocals: Mike Love, Brian Wilson
• Guitar, Vocals: Carl Wilson
• Guitar, Vocals: Al Jardine
• Drums, vocals: Dennis Wilson
• Bass, keyboards, vocals: Bruce Johnston

Sunflower is an album by the U.S. band The Beach Boys. It was published in collaboration between Brother Records and Reprise / Warner Bros.

History

The Beach Boys had the record label Brother Records founded in 1966, but they were contractually bound to 1969 on Capitol Records. Only with Sunflower they could into a distribution agreement across multiple disks with Reprise Records, a sub-division of Warner Bros., signed, in order to secure worldwide distribution.

The band started in 1969 with the recording of the first album, which led the working title Reverberation. Parts of it, with other newly recorded songs, they eventually offered in early 1970 Warner Bros. This sent the group then returned to the studio to make revisions. In May 1970, she offered the record company to the revised album with some new material, which now add some music was. But this was rejected by the record company. Finally, it was agreed to publish from the three projects, the best songs under the title Sunflower. As a cover that was used, which was originally intended for the album add some music. It shows the Beach Boys with their children.

To bridge the waiting time for the album, the single add some music / Susie Cincinnati was released in February, 1970, which came into the Billboard charts at # 64. As a second single Slip On Through / This Whole World was released in May, 1970, but this did not reach the charts. The third single from the album, released in October 1970 Tears In The Morning / It ' s About Time was as unsuccessful as the fourth single Cool, Cool Water / Forever.

Leonard Waronker had Cool, Cool Water from the Smile / Wild Honey sessions and heard Brian persuaded to finish it for Sunflower and to publish it as a single. Very fond of this song, he said: "If I ever get the opportunity to produce Brian, I'd Encourage him to do something did combined the vividness of ' Good Vibrations ' with the non -commercial gentleness of ' Cool, Cool Water '. "It was originally intended for a commercial for Coca Cola.

The album was only at # 151 of the U.S. Billboard charts. In the UK it reached number # 29

Sunflower was elected in 2003, published by the American music magazine Rolling Stone list of the " 500 Greatest Albums of All Time ".

Title list

Song Info

• Bruce Johnston complained in an interview that he had Brian Wilson gave the credit for the half of the song Deirdre, although this had contributed no more than 2 lines.
• Cool, Cool Water contains the "Water " part of the Smile album.
• Tears in the morning was published in the Netherlands as a single and came there on rank 6
• Add some music to your day has been written with Joe Knott, contributed the parts of the texts. However, he was not satisfied with the final result.
• Forever is a love song to Dennis' wife, Barbara Wilson. It was re-recorded in the early 1990s by John Stamos.