Sunflower

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Sunflower
Studio album by The Beach Boys

Publication
(s)

August 31, 1970

Label (s) Brother Records , reprise

Format (s)

LP, CD

Genre (s)

skirt

Title (number)

12

running time

36 min 55 s

occupation

production

The Beach Boys

Studio (s)

Brother Studios

chronology
Live in London
(1970) 		Sunflower Surf's Up
(1971)

Sunflower is an album by the US group The Beach Boys . It was released in collaboration between Brother Records and Reprise / Warner Bros.

history

The Beach Boys had founded the record company Brother Records in 1966, but they were contractually bound to Capitol Records until 1969 . It was only with Sunflower that they were able to sign a distribution contract for several records with Reprise Records , a division of Warner Bros. , in order to secure worldwide distribution.

The band began in 1969 with the recordings for the first album, which had the working title Reverberation . Parts of it, along with other newly recorded songs, were finally offered to Warner Bros in early 1970. They then sent the group back to the studio to make revisions. In May 1970 they offered the record company the revised album with partly new material, which was now called Add some music . But this was also rejected by the record company. Finally it was agreed to publish the best songs from the three projects under the title Sunflower . The cover used was the one 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 reached number 64 on the Billboard charts. The second single was Slip On Through / This Whole World in May 1970, but this did not reach the charts. The third single from the album, Tears In The Morning / It's About Time , released in October 1970, was just as unsuccessful as the fourth single Cool, Cool Water / Forever .

Lenny Waronker had Cool, Cool Water is one of the Smile / Wild Honey sessions and Brian persuaded to finish it for Sunflower and publish a single. Very pleased with this song, he said: “ If I ever get the opportunity to produce Brian, I'd encourage him to do something that combined the vividness of 'Good Vibrations' with the non-commercial gentleness of 'Cool, Cool Water' . “It was originally intended for a Coca-Cola commercial .

The album only came to # 151 on the US Billboard charts . It reached # 29 in the UK .

Sunflower was chosen in the 2003 list of the " 500 best albums of all time " published by the American music magazine Rolling Stone .

Track list

  1. Slip on Through (Dennis Wilson) - 2:17
  2. This Whole World (Brian Wilson) - 1:56
  3. Add Some Music to Your Day (Brian Wilson / Joe Knott / Mike Love) - 3:34
  4. Got to Know the Woman (Dennis Wilson) - 2:41
  5. Deirdre (Bruce Johnston / Brian Wilson) - 3:27
  6. It's About Time (Dennis Wilson / B. Burchman / Al Jardine / Carl Wilson) - 2:55
  7. Tears in the Morning (Bruce Johnston) - 4:07
  8. All I Wanna Do (Brian Wilson / Mike Love) - 2:34
  9. Forever (Dennis Wilson / Gregg Jakobson) - 2:40
  10. Our Sweet Love (Brian Wilson / Carl Wilson / Al Jardine) - 2:38
  11. At My Window (Brian Wilson / Al Jardine) - 2:30
  12. Cool, Cool Water (Brian Wilson / Mike Love) - 5:03

Song info

  • Bruce Johnston complained in an interview that he had given Brian Wilson credit for half of the song Deirdre , even though Deirdre had contributed no more than 2 lines.
  • Cool, Cool Water contains the "Water" part of the Smile album.
  • Tears in the morning was released as a single in the Netherlands, where it came in at number 6.
  • Add some music to your day was written with Joe Knott, who contributed parts of the lyrics. However, he was dissatisfied with the end result.
  • Forever is a love song to Dennis' wife Barbara Wilson. It was re-recorded by John Stamos in the early 1990s .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Booklet of the CD Sunflower / Surf's Up , Columbia Records 2000
  2. ^ Andrew G. Doe, The Beach Boys and Brian Wilson, The Complete Guide in their music .
  3. ↑ US Billboard Hot 100 Albums
  4. ↑ everyhit.com
  5. ^ The RS 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. ( Memento of June 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) In: Rolling Stone , posted on November 18, 2003.
  6. ↑ Peter Doggett: Hang in there, brother. The Beach Boys without Brian Wilson . In: Kingsley Abbott (eds.): The Beach Boys and Brian Wilson . Hannibal, Publishing Group Koch, ISBN 978-3-85445-160-0
The Beach Boys
Studio albums

Surfin 'Safari (1962) • Surfin' USA (1963) • Surfer Girl (1963) • Little Deuce Coupe (1963) • Shut Down Vol. 2 (1964) • All Summer Long (1964) • The Beach Boys' Christmas Album ( 1964) • The Beach Boys Today! (1965) • Summer Days (And Summer Nights !!) (1965) • Beach Boys' Party! (1965) • Pet Sounds (1966) • Smiley Smile (1967) • Wild Honey (1967) • Friends (1968) • Stack-O-Tracks (1968) • 20/20 (1969) • Sunflower (1970) • Surf's Up (1971) • Carl and the Passions - "So Tough" (1972) • Holland (1973) • 15 Big Ones (1976) • The Beach Boys Love You (1977) • MIU Album (1978) • LA (Light Album) ( 1979) • Keepin 'the Summer Alive (1980) • The Beach Boys (1985) • Still Cruisin' (1989) • Summer in Paradise (1992) • Stars and Stripes Vol. 1 (1996) • That's Why God Made the Radio ( 2012)

Live albums

Beach Boys Concert (1964) • Live in London (1970) • The Beach Boys in Concert (1973) • Good Timin ': Live at Knebworth England 1980 (2002)