Track Listing

1. Don't Worry, Baby [new stereo mix from newly recovered analog multi-track master]
2. Why Do Fools Fall In Love [new stereo mix from newly recovered analog multi-track master]
3. Wouldn't It Be Nice
4. God Only Knows
5. Surfer Girl
6. California Girls
7. Please Let Me Wonder
8. In The Parkin' Lot
9. Your Summer Dream
10. Kiss Me, Baby
11. Hushabye [new stereo mix]
12. I'm So Young [new stereo mix]
13. Good To My Baby [new stereo mix]
14. Fallin' In Love [previously unreleased track, written and recorded by Dennis Wilson]
15. Time To Get Alone [new stereo mix]
16. Our Sweet Love
17. Help Me, Rhonda
18. Keep An Eye On Summer
19. Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder)
20. Girls On The Beach

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #30330 in Music
• Released on: 2009-05-19
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

Album Description
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.

Customer Reviews

Still More Treasures for Beach Boys Fans
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)

More Stereo
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.

The Beach Boys are SUMMER!!!
It's a great way to start out summer... with a "new" Beach Boys CD!! Even though I have almost all of these songs, I don't have them compiled like this; and, again, it is a great way to start out summer with Beach Boys tunes!! I especially like the fact that some of the lesser-known "summer" songs are here; "In the Parkin' Lot", "Your Summer Dream", "Keep an Eye on Summer" and "Girls on the Beach". They keep makin' them, I'll keep buyin' them!! Good value for your money!!! KEEP AN EYE ON SUMMER...