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The Beach Boys are promising a bright forecast for summer 2017 with a new 50th anniversary collection due on June 30 from Capitol/UMe. Sunshine Tomorrow, a new 2-CD and digital collection, not only premieres the first-ever true stereo mix of 1967's Wild Honey, but also premieres a whopping 54 rarities recorded that year including the live album Lei'd in Hawaii, session material from both Wild Honey and Smiley Smile, and further live recordings (spanning 1967-1970). The new stereo mix of Wild Honey will also be released on 180-gram vinyl.
1967 - Sunshine Tomorrow captures one of the most significant periods in The Beach Boys' history, and will undoubtedly shed light on the band's creative process during this time. The group's final studio session for the abortive masterwork SMiLE was held on May 18, 1967, while sessions began for the controversial, stripped-down Smiley Smile just weeks later on June 3. By the end of the year, the band that had been unable to complete SMiLE for a variety of well-chronicled reasons turned in two vastly different, completely fascinating studio albums: the hazy, homemade psychedelia of Smiley Smile on September 18 followed by the rocking tribute to Motown, R&B and soul, Wild Honey, on December 18.
The recording process didn't slow down the band's prolific pace. On August 25 and 26, 1967, The Beach Boys (sans Bruce Johnston, but with Brian Wilson returning to the concert stage for the first time in over two years to play organ) recorded two concerts and rehearsals in Honolulu for a live album to be titled Lei'd In Hawaii. A little more than two weeks later, the band (with both Brian and Bruce present) began re-recording the live set in-studio at Brian's house and at Wally Heider Recording in Hollywood, after the Honolulu concert tapes were found to be unusable. Once completed and mixed, audience overdubs were planned to be added, but the project was then cancelled. The raw, crackling, in-studio performances of the band led them to Wild Honey, consisting primarily of new Wilson/Love originals including the top 20 hit single "Darlin'," sung so memorably by Carl Wilson in one of his best R&B performances.
A mere two days after concluding the Wild Honey sessions on November 15, 1967, Mike Love, Carl and Dennis Wilson, Al Jardine, and Bruce Johnston returned to the road for The Beach Boys' Thanksgiving Tour, premiering several songs from the upcoming album at their concerts. These November '67 live versions of "Wild Honey," "Country Air," "Darlin'," and "How She Boogalooed It" appear here, along with a 1970 recording of "Aren't You Glad."
Disc 1 of Sunshine Tomorrow explores Wild Honey via the new stereo mix by Mark Linett and Alan Boyd as well as via session outtakes and alternates, and the live material. (Note that the album's final track, "Mama Says," could not be mixed to stereo, as the multitrack master no longer exists. Additionally, the organ solo on "How She Boogalooed It" was overdubbed as the song was being mixed to mono, so that section is also heard in mono on the new mix.)
Disc 2 begins with 10 session takes from Smiley Smile (including a brief instrumental fragment found in a tape box marked "Redwood" - the original name of Three Dog Night, championed by Brian Wilson), plus the complete Lei'd in Hawaii as derived from the original mono mixes from the assembled master ½" reel, dated September 29, 1967, and discovered in the Brother Records Archives. This disc also features a handful of tracks from the August 1967 Hawaii shows and rehearsals, three more tracks from the Thanksgiving tour featuring future Captain Daryl Dragon on keyboards, and additional studio recordings including one of the legendary SMiLE opus "Surf's Up" recorded during the Wild Honey sessions.
The liner notes for Sunshine Tomorrow by Linett and Boyd feature contributions and memories from Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, and Bruce Johnston. This sure-to-be-illuminating chronicle of The Beach Boys in one of their most boundary-pushing periods, in which they regrouped after surviving the personal and professional trauma of SMiLE, arrives from Capitol Records and UMe on June 30. Pre-order links can be found below. Surf's up!
The Beach Boys, 1967 - Sunshine Tomorrow (Capitol/UMe, 2017) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Link TBD)
CD 1
Wild Honey (New Stereo Mix) (original mix released as Capitol ST 2859, 1967)
(New stereo mix, except as noted *. Recorded September 15 to November 15, 1967 at Brian Wilson's house and at Wally Heider Recording in Hollywood, California)
1. Wild Honey (2:45)
2. Aren't You Glad (2:16)
3. I Was Made To Love Her (2:07)
4. Country Air (2:21)
5. A Thing Or Two (2:42)
6. Darlin' (2:14)
7. I'd Love Just Once To See You (1:49)
8. Here Comes The Night (2:44)
9. Let The Wind Blow (2:23)
10. How She Boogalooed It (1:59)
11. Mama Says * (Original Mono Mix) (1:08)
Wild Honey Sessions: September - November 1967 (Previously Unreleased)
12. Lonely Days (Alternate Version) (1:45)
13. Cool Cool Water (Alternate Early Version) (2:08)
14. Time To Get Alone (Alternate Early Version) (3:08)
15. Can't Wait Too Long (Alternate Early Version) (2:49)
16. I'd Love Just Once To See You (Alternate Version) (2:22)
17. I Was Made To Love Her (Vocal Insert Session) (1:35)
18. I Was Made To Love Her (Long Version) (2:35)
19. Hide Go Seek (0:51)
20. Honey Get Home (1:22)
21. Wild Honey (Session Highlights) (5:39)
22. Aren't You Glad (Session Highlights) (4:21)
23. A Thing Or Two (Track And Backing Vocals) (1:01)
24. Darlin' (Session Highlights) (4:36)
25. Let The Wind Blow (Session Highlights) (4:14)
Wild Honey Live: 1967 - 1970 (Previously Unreleased)
26. Wild Honey (Live) (2:53) - recorded in Detroit, November 17, 1967
27. Country Air (Live) (2:20) - recorded in Detroit, November 17, 1967
28. Darlin' (Live) (2:25) - recorded in Pittsburgh, November 22, 1967
29. How She Boogalooed It (Live) (2:43) - recorded in Detroit, November 17, 1967
30. Aren't You Glad (Live) (3:12) - recorded in 1970, location unknown
31. Mama Says (Session Highlights) (3:08)
(Previously unreleased vocal session highlights. Recorded at Wally Heider Recording, November 1967)
CD 2
Smiley Smile Sessions: June - July 1967 (Previously Unreleased)
(Recorded June and July 1967 at Brian Wilson's house, Western Recorders, SRS, and/or Columbia Studios, except as noted *)
1. Heroes And Villains (Single Version Backing Track) (3:38)
2. Vegetables (Long Version) (2:55)
3. Fall Breaks And Back To Winter (Alternate Mix) (2:28)
4. Wind Chimes (Alternate Tag Section) (0:48)
5. Wonderful (Backing Track) (2:23)
6. With Me Tonight (Alternate Version With Session Intro) (0:51)
7. Little Pad (Backing Track) (2:40)
8. All Day All Night (Whistle In) (Alternate Version 1) (1:04)
9. All Day All Night (Whistle In) (Alternate Version 2) (0:50)
10. Untitled (Redwood) * (0:35)
(Previously unreleased instrumental fragment. Studio and exact recording date unknown. Discovered in tape box labeled "Redwood")
Lei'd In Hawaii "Live" Album: September 1967 (Previously Unreleased)
(Recorded September 11, 1967 at Wally Heider Recording in Hollywood, CA, with additional recording September 29, 1967 (except as noted *). Original mono mixes from assembled master ½" reel, dated September 29, 1967, discovered in the Brother Records Archives.)
11. Fred Vail Intro (0:24)
12. The Letter (1:54)
13. You're So Good To Me (2:31)
14. Help Me, Rhonda (2:24)
15. California Girls (2:30)
16. Surfer Girl (2:17)
17. Sloop John B (2:50)
18. With A Little Help From My Friends * (2:21)
(Recorded at Brian Wilson's house, September 23, 1967)
19. Their Hearts Were Full Of Spring * (2:33)
(Recorded during rehearsal, August 26, 1967, Honolulu, Hawaii)
20. God Only Knows (2:45)
21. Good Vibrations (4:13)
22. Game Of Love (2:11)
23. The Letter (Alternate Take) (1:56)
24. With A Little Help From My Friends (Stereo Mix) (2:21)
Live In Hawaii: August 1967 (Previously Unreleased)
(The Beach Boys recorded two complete concerts and rehearsals in Honolulu on August 25 and 26, 1967. Brian Wilson rejoined the group onstage for these shows; Bruce Johnston was not present. The following tracks derive from the original 1" 8-track master reels discovered in the Brother Records Archives.)
25. Hawthorne Boulevard (1:05)
26. Surfin' (1:40)
27. Gettin' Hungry (3:19)
28. Hawaii (Rehearsal Take) (1:11)
29. Heroes And Villains (Rehearsal) (4:45)
Thanksgiving Tour 1967: Live In Washington, D.C. & Boston (Previously Unreleased)
(The touring Beach Boys - Mike, Carl, Dennis, Al, and Bruce - embarked on a Thanksgiving Tour immediately after delivering the finished Wild Honey album to Capitol Records. For this tour, the band was augmented by Ron Brown on bass and Daryl Dragon on keyboards.)
30. California Girls (Live) (2:32) - recorded in Washington, DC, November 19, 1967
31. Graduation Day (Live) (2:56) - recorded in Washington, DC, November 19, 1967
32. I Get Around (Live) (2:53) - recorded in Boston, November 23, 1967
Additional 1967 Studio Recordings (Previously Unreleased)
33. Surf's Up (1967 Version) (5:25)
(Recorded during the Wild Honey sessions in November 1967)
34. Surfer Girl (1967 A Capella Mix) (2:17)
(Previously unreleased mix of Lei'd In Hawaii take from the Wally Heider Recording sessions in September 1967)
The Beach Boys, Wild Honey [New Stereo Mix] 180-gram Vinyl Edition (Capitol/UMe, 2017) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Links TBD)
(New stereo mix, except as noted *. Recorded September 15 to November 15, 1967 at Brian Wilson's house and at Wally Heider Recording in Hollywood, California)
1. Wild Honey (2:45)
2. Aren't You Glad (2:16)
3. I Was Made To Love Her (2:07)
4. Country Air (2:21)
5. A Thing Or Two (2:42)
6. Darlin' (2:14)
7. I'd Love Just Once To See You (1:49)
8. Here Comes The Night (2:44)
9. Let The Wind Blow (2:23)
10. How She Boogalooed It (1:59)
11. Mama Says * (Original Mono Mix) (1:08)
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It's good to bea Beach Boys fan these days! Great collection of the 1967 efforts.
This is utterly utterly good news! Wild Honey has long been my favorite BB album, and I listened a lot to smileyu smile recently... The release of the Smile Sessions and the reconstruction of the Smile album gave another light to the minimalism and madness behind Smiley Smile and its recent stereo mix.
Looks kind of like their 1967 "Copyright dump". Still, it's on CD this time rather than just downloads, and it includes Wild Honey in stereo (mostly), which was missing from the mono / stereo reissues of a few years ago.
Capitol will have to release more than this to extend the UK/Europe copyright protection on all of the already bootlegged post-Smile 1967 Beach Boys vault material. My guess is that Capitol will offer some download-only release later this year; likely complete November/December 1967 concerts, or the actual Honolulu concerts in their entirety. The problems with those concerts are not so much recordings problems as they are sloppy performances by the group.
I was just thinkin a few days ago that 'it's about time' for an archival BB release, & this is my fav era & maybe next year it'll be a Friends release! I'm gettin picky in my older age, this tho I will buy on 6/30! (BTW- I saw the BB's in Duluth, MN 7/68, wonderful concert tho it lasted about 45 mins like many back then)
45 minutes? Were there multiple acts on the bill?
Yes. And usually 2 shows in the same night.
Hey Zubb: Opening act was Crow from Mpls, then The Human Beinz, Gary Pucket & the Union Gap, the the BB's. About 2-1/2 hours total
Wow! That sounds so cool! If only we could have a time machine.
Now THIS is what I'm talking about. What a great value too! That's a lot of music on 2 CDs and it almost makes me glad the Beach Boys aren't revered as much as the Beatles so they didn't put it on 6 CDs and charge 130 bucks or something. I'm couldn't care less about Wild Honey in stereo. To me, the Beach Boys should always be in mono because that's the way Brian wanted it and mixed it. The rest though, is a treasure trove! Can not wait for this release.
It's amazing how much extra room there is on a CD where the main album is only 25 minutes long...
Yeah! Quality over quantity and all that....
Have been waiting for this album in stereo for a long time. Finally. This will be an amazing addition for any Beach Boys fan.
Now, the group's debut album "Surfin' Safari" will be the only Capitol Beach Boys album not available in stereo. The 3 hits on that album ("Surfin'","Surfin' Safari" & "409") predate the group's signing with Capitol, and were actual 1-track recordings, However, at least in theory, for the other 9 songs(which were recorded on 3-track at Capitol studios), it should be possible to remix them for stereo(four of the songs HAVE appeared in clandestine, one-pass-of-the-tape stereo remixes on an unofficial release "Unsurpassed Masters Vol.1"). They are "Summertime Blues", "Cuckoo Clock", "County Fair" & "Heads You Win, Tails I Lose". Presumably, computer generated "Extraction" mixes could be created for the 3 mono songs, though, of late,it appears The Beach Boys have turned against the idea of "extraction " mixes. They opted against creating an extraction mix for the acapella song which closes the "Wild Honey" album.
Yeh, like everyone, I had high hopes for the holy grail of stereo mixes - Good Vibrations, from the last Smiley Smile stereo mix. It was OK but it didn't blow your mind or anything. There's only so much can be done with these extraction mixes.
I love this collection, which is a great addition to my Beach Boys collection. I started collecting Beach Boys music when I was 11.5 years old (January 1968, when I bought the "Wild Honey" L.P.). The album cover claimed "stereo", but the album was pure mono(not even simulated stereo). The Beach Boys got Capitol's intended message, and delivered their next album ("Friends") in stereo. British Decca pulled a similar stunt with the UK version of "The Rolling Stones-Out of Our Heads"(the so-called Uk "stereo" version is actually pure mono, not even simulated stereo). The Stones delivered a stereo mix of their next album,"Aftermath".
I obtained the CD edition of "Sunshine Tomorrow" for a very reasonable $15.99. One thing that has stunned me, is Capitol's price for the 88.2Khz/24-bit download. While most high resolution audio downloads that are equivalent in length to a 2-CD set sell for $24.99 to $29.99, Capitol has priced this Beach Boys download at an outrageous $66.99. There is no justification for this greed, which could kill off the High Resolution download market. $66.99? No way. I found another way to "obtain" this download. Does the 24-bit version actually sound better than the CD edition? On the mono soundboard concert recordings, definitely No. On the stereo studio tracks, perhaps very slightly. Certainly, not worth $66.99.
And Capitol is not to be trusted. Remember their Beach Boys "Live in Sacramento 1964" "Copyright Extension" download-only release? Though The Beach Boys hold the original 3-track tapes, Capitol's release did the cheap and lazy thing, dubbing the one-pass-of-the-tape clandestine mixes that had appeared on bootleg CD's from the "Sea of Tunes" label. Yet, Capitol released a 192Khz/24-bit download of it. When the high resolution download sellers discovered Capitol's deception (that the material was upconverted from a 44.1Khz/16-bit CD), the high resolution download sellers stopped selling this bogus high resolution download. The big labels will hoodwink the public if they can get away with it. I'm still not entirely convinced by High Resolution audio. In two-thirds of albums that I've encountered, the High Resolution version isn't audibly better.
Just got my CD copy in the mail, and noticed the text stating the band would record each verse and chorus separately, then dub the mixdown several times onto another tape... but no one was able to even venture a guess that the untitled "Redwood" track is an alternate backing track for a verse in "Time to Get Alone"??? Other than this head-scratcher of a "gee, we never noticed..." moment, I'm surprisedly enjoying this set quite a bit more than I expected (obvious live edits included)!