Little Deuce Coupe/All Summer [Extra tracks, Import]

The Beach Boys | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 9, 1999)
• Format: Extra tracks, Import
• Label: Pid
• ASIN: B00000I94W
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,705,996 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Little Deuce Coupe

2. Ballad Of Ole' Betsy

3. Be True To Your School

4. Car Crazy Cutie

5. "Cherry, Cherry Coupe

6. Shut Down

7. Spirit Of America

8. Our Car Club

9. No-Go Showboat

10. A Young Man Is Gone

11. Custom Machine

12. I Get Around

13. All Summer Long

14. Hushabye

15. Little Honda

16. We'll Run Away

17. Carl's Big Chance

18. Wendy

19. Do You Remember?

20. Girls On The Beach

See all 27 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Two of the group's original hit LPs for Capitol digitally remastered & together on one CD with the original cover art of each, a 24 page booklet with extended liner notes, previously unreleased photos and track-by-track annotations and the bonus tracks 'B --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What a fond trip down memory lane!, November 21, 1999

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Steve Vrana (Aurora, NE) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Little Deuce Coupe / All Summer Long (Audio CD)

I'll admit up front that two of the stars I gave this 2-on-1 CD was simply for all the wonderful memories this release from 1964 conjures up. All Summer Long was only my second LP purchase. [The first was Meet the Beatles earlier in the year when I was all of eleven!]

With more than 6,000 titles in my music collection now, I've enjoyed the opportunity to go back and revisit some of these old records on CD and it reminded me of what I loved about these records in the first place. Sure, you still hear the hits on the classic rock stations--and there's plenty of them here: "I Get Around," "Wendy" and "Little Honda" from All Summer Long, as well as "Little Deuce Coupe," "Shut Down," "409" and "Be True to Your School" from Little Deuce Coupe.

But there are other gems on this release to savor: the always tight harmony singing on "Hushabye," the goofiness of "Drive-In," the heartache of "We'll Run Away," the hard-driving "Don't Back Down." Okay, "Our Favorite Recording Sessions" is tough to listen to more than once or twice, especially since it sounds a little too scripted.

The bottom line is this: This disc finds its way into my CD player more often than any of the five discs from the Beach Boys box set. Okay, let's set the way-back machine to 1964. Ready? "Round, round, get around, I get around, yeah, get around, oo-ooh, I get around..." (Enjoy!)

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Record!! Nice Booklet too., October 29, 1999

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Ryan Davis (Indiana,USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Little Deuce Coupe/All Summer (Audio CD)

Little Deuce Coupe/All Summer Long is a must for fans. Little Deuce Coupe starts out with the title song and other hits such as; Be True to Your School; 409; Shut Down, and other hit car songs. Then we have All summer long with the title song, and other smash hits; the album starts off with I Get Around, a beach boys #1 hit, and perhaps one of there best. Then come titles like Husabye, Little Honda, Wendy, Girls on the Beach, and Dont Back Down. This cd also comes with a informatable booklet that is interchangable so you pick the cover from the two that you like the best.

You definitely get your moneys worth with this one.

5.0 out of 5 stars The Hardest Rocking Car Songs, The Most Romantic Ballads, March 19, 2007

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Lily Bart "lilybits" (The House of Mirth) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Little Deuce Coupe / All Summer Long (Audio CD)

This double album combines LITTLE DEUCE COUPE with ALL SUMMER LONG. As a result, you get the most propulsive, driving rock and roll sound of the early Beach Boys, ("Little Deuce Coupe" "409" "Shut Down") combined with ballads like "Girls On the Beach" and "Hushabye." It's impossible to exaggerate the clean,lush, precision of the Beach Boys' harmonies on "Hushabye," which was originally a primitive Fifties song by a forgotten group called the Mystics. Then there are the driving fast songs on SUMMER which have a sweeter, sleigh bell sound, like "Drive In" and "Do You Remember."

On top of all that this CD package provides great bonus rarities like "Be True To Your School" (the rare hit single version, with twanging guitars and sound effects) and "Carl's Big Chance" the instrumental featuring guitarist Carl Wilson, which shuffles along nicely and even sounds a bit bluesy at times.

This is a spectacular combination of two great albums, just as powerful as the big anthologies which they did in the Seventies, SPIRIT OF AMERICA and ENDLESS SUMMER.