The Beach Boys - «Surfer Girl» альбомы туралы

1963 album by the Beach Boys

the title track

Surfer Girl is the third studio album by the American rock band the Beach Boys, released September 16, 1963 on Capitol Records. It is largely a collection of surf songs. The LP reached number 7 in the U. S. and number 13 in the UK. Lead single "Surfer Girl", backed with "Little Deuce Coupe", was also a top 10 hit. This was the first album that officially credited Brian Wilson with production. It was also the first in which he used a string section (on "The Surfer Moon") and employed Wrecking Crew session musicians (on "Hawaii" and "Our Car Club"). Al Jardine, who had been replaced by David Marks, rejoined the band on this album, creating a six piece lineup. Surfer Girl was certified gold by the RIAA in November 1965, indicating over 1,000,000 copies sold. In 2017, it was ranked the 193rd greatest album of the 1960s by Pitchfork.

The massive success of the Beach Boys' March 1963 album, Surfin' U. S. A., granted Brian Wilson the leverage to convince Capitol to allow him full control over the band's productions, an unprecedented move in the music industry. Thanks to the band's hit single, "Surfin' U. S. A. ", they had become the preeminent vocal and instrumental group in America. Capitol signed his new girl group, the Honeys, which signaled the label's commitment to surf music. In addition to the Honeys, Wilson was focused on writing or production work with Jan and Dean and Bob Norberg. Still resistant to touring, he had ex member Al Jardine rejoin the group as his replacement at the band's concerts, starting in April. Meanwhile, Jan and Dean released Jan & Dean Take Linda Surfing, which featured the Wilson brothers and David Marks as guests on the tracks "Surfin'" and "Surfin' Safari".

Wilson produced Surfer Girl at Western Studio in Hollywood from approximately May 9 to July 16, 1963. He recalled some of the sessions lasting up to "nine and ten hours, unheard of periods of time." The 1990 CD liner notes state that the album's ten songs were recorded in one day, but this is unlikely, and since the American Federation of Musicians contracts have been lost, the exact dates and studios are not definitely known. "The Surfer Moon" was the first Beach Boys recording with a string section. Having recruited members of the Wrecking Crew to help realize his productions with the Honeys, this album also marked the first occasion that those musicians were enlisted for certain Beach Boys tracks – specifically, on two songs, "Hawaii" and "Our Car Club". Mike Love's sister Maureen played harp on "Hawaii" and "Catch a Wave".

Surfer Girl was ranked number 193 on Pitchforks list of the greatest album of the 1960s. Highlighting tracks such as "In My Room" and "Surfer Girl", contributor Quin Moreland wrote in the entry that "Wilson began to probe the wistfulness at his core, hinting at further genius to come." Reviewing Surfer Girl in AllMusic, Richie Unterberger highlighted "In My Room" as the most significant track and disregarded the remainder of the album as "surprisingly mediocre filler". Some reissues of the album omit "Little Deuce Coupe" and "Our Car Club".