Summer Love Songs [Original recording remastered]

The Beach Boys | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 19, 2009)
• Original Release Date: 2009
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Capitol
• ASIN: B001XJNZ7M
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,167 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #15 in Music > Rock > Oldies & Retro > Surf Rock

Editorial Reviews

The Beach Boys have long been the world's leading, harmonious voice of summer fun, with an ocean's swell of universally-loved songs about the beach, surfing, hot rods, and in no small measure, girls and sun-kissed romance. 20 of The Beach Boys' best love songs, from tender ballads to boisterous romps, have been gathered for Summer Love Songs, a new 20-track CD and digital collection. Three classic tracks have been mixed in stereo for the first time, exclusively for this release, and three others have received new stereo mixes. Two of the new stereo mixes have been created from long lost, newly-recovered analog multi-track masters. A rare track, previously unreleased in the U.S. and long out-of-print in the U.K., is also included.

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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Still More Treasures for Beach Boys Fans, May 21, 2009

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Bill Anthony "billjbfan" (North Texas United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Summer Love Songs (Audio CD)

Another wonderful compilation with "audio production" in HDCD by Mark Linett (following his excellent CD compilations Endless Harmony, Hawthorne California, Sounds Of Summer, and Warmth Of The Sun, and ofcourse the catalog 2-fers). This one has a Love Songs theme, and therefore repeats some tunes from previous comps, although there are several new treasures here. Every track here is in stereo, except Help Me Rhonda (single version).

FIRST TIME IN STEREO:
Why Do Fools Fall In Love (album version)
I'm So Young
Good To My Baby

New stereo mixes were also made for
Don't Worry Baby, Hushabye, and Time To Get Alone, which were already available in stereo on previous CD releases.

Don't Worry Baby and Why Do Fools Fall In Love were mixed from newly-discovered multi-track master tapes.

Why Do Fools Fall In Love has a never-before-heard 26-second intro that features piano along with drums, bass, and celeste; then goes into the familiar album version (although now it's in stereo). Maybe Brian on piano? It sounds a lot like Brian doing a Phil Spector-type intro, and I wonder if it was actually a part of Why Do Fools Fall In Love originally...

Girls On The Beach doesn't have an "outro", as indicated on the Amazon track listing, but there is a hidden track - a 30-second excerpt of Don't Worry Baby (vocals only) after a few seconds of silence.

Fallin In Love (a.k.a. Lady) is a Dennis Wilson tune, recorded c. 1970 during the Sunflower sessions, that has not been previously released in the USA. (Dennis made a new version of the song with Daryl Dragon and released it as a solo single in the UK in December 1970)

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars More Stereo, May 28, 2009

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Michael Killen (Colorado) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Summer Love Songs [+digital booklet] (MP3 Download)

Another excellent mixing and remastering job by Mark Linett for Capitol with the brilliant "Don't Worry Baby" in newly remixed stereo worth the price alone. The previous stereo mix from the 60's was quite good for it's time but the left and right panned vocals were distracting. The mono version was, well, mono. This new version is fantastic with Brian's vocals (one of his best) dead center and the boys surrounding him double tracked in stereo. If all BB songs could be mixed this well we'd all be thrilled.

The rest of the CD is well paced and includes some other new stereo mixes that are welcomed and well done. Only the still mono "Help Me Rhonda" sticks out here as sonically frustrating. Perhaps more original masters will be found to alleviate this. Fans have also been waiting for, "I Get Around" and of course, "Good Vibrations" to magically appear in some lost Capitol vault. This collection lets us imagine what those gems might have sounded like in full stereo.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mono to Stereo = 5 Stars, November 12, 2009

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Alexander (Va, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Summer Love Songs (Audio CD)

Listening to the Beach Boys songs in mono my whole life, I had never really experienced how awesome their music is in Stereo. I bought their re-mastered "Pet Sounds" album a few months ago and was blown away by the audio quality. Seeing that most of these 'summer love songs' were in stereo I decided to buy this album.

This CD contains a few Beach Boys songs I had never heard before (which are excellent songs) and the songs I have heard before have been beautifully re-mastered from mono into stereo (except for 'Help Me Rhonda').

"Summer Love Songs" is a great collection of chill Beach Boys songs which deserve to be in every music lovers library. 5/5