Various books about the Beach Boys

'Back To The Beach', Kingsley Abbott, Helter Skelter UK, 2nd edition

'Pet Sounds', Kingsley Abbott, id.

'You Still Believe In Me', Charles Granata, also about Pet Sounds

'The BBs And The California Myth', David Leaf, 1985 (2nd hand and expensive)

'The Nearest Faraway Place', Timothy White, Henry Holt USA, 2nd hand very cheap, mucho facts as background info

'Wouldn't It Be Nice', Brian Wilson, autobio with Todd Gold, an alleged autobio BTW, cobbled together but still indispensable

'Heroes And Villains', Steven Gaines, USA, sensationalist but indispensable, and one of the sources for the above autobio

'Look! Listen! Vibrate! Smile', Domenic Priore, A4 format exhaustive press cuttings-cum-research tome on SMiLE

'SMiLE', Domenic Priore, 2005, the story of SMiLE, hotly debated here but necessary

'The BBs On Record' by Andrew G. Doe, very handy and worthwhile

'The Beach Boys', Byron Preiss, reasonable in pruned form, essential in the original Ballantine deluxe photo+art format

'Surf's Up', Brad Elliott, THE vinyl discography of them all

'Dennis Wilson, The Real Beach Boy', Jon Stebbins, very good book on Denny's music and antics

SOURCE: SmileShop Msg by Prof. Souris P.-Flogiston 2004?

2011 BONUS:

2011 -> andrewhickey.info

Beach Boys Books (repost from 2004)

Source: http://b5.boards2go.com/boards/board.cgi?action=read&id=1099119051&user=Bellagio
BB Books Posted on 10/30/2004 at 08:50:51 by AGD

I'd have to say that, because of their relative rarity, just about any book on the BB is a must buy, although, of course, some are more essential than others. Here's a list, most likely incomplete, what I'd consider to be essential has a *:

1976 The Beach Boys/Ken Barnes
1976 Southern California Pastoral/Bruce Golden
1977 The Beach Boys/John Tobler
1979 The Beach Boys/ Byron Preiss
*1979 The Beach Boys & The Southern California Myth/David Leaf (reissued and updated as The Beach Boys 1985)


*1982 Surf's Up! The Beach Boys On Record 1961-1981/Brad Elliot
*1985 The Beach Boys Silver Anniversary/John Milward
*1986 Heroes & Villains/Steve Gaines
*1988 Dumb Angel Gazette #2 - Look ! Listen ! Vibrate ! Smile !/comp. Domenic Priore
1991 Denny Remembered/Ed Wincensten
1991 Wouldn't It Be Nice/Brian Wilson with Todd Gold
*1992 The Wilson Project/Stephen J. McParland
*1992 Tape #10/Stephen J. McParland
1994 The Smile File/Dwight Cavanagh
*1994 The Beach Boys In Their Own Words/ed. Nick Wise
*1994 The Nearest Faraway Place/Timothy White
1995 The Rainbow Files - The Beach Boys On CD/Rene Hulz & Hans Christian Skotte
1995 The Dark Stuff/Nick Kent
*1997 The Complete Guide To The Music Of The Beach Boys/Andrew Doe & John Tobler (reissued and updated 2004)
*1997 How Deep Is The Ocean/Paul Williams
*1997 Back To The Beach/ed. Kingsley Abbott
1999 SMiLE, Sun, Sand & Pet Sounds/comp Stephen J. McParland, 1999
1999 Add Some Music To Your Day: Analyzing and Enjoying the Music of The Beach Boys/ed. Don Cunningham & Jeff Bleiel
*2000 Dennis Wilson - The Real Beach Boy /John Stebbins
*2000 In The Studio with Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys: Our Favorite Recording Sessions/Stephen J. McParland
2001 Dumb Angel/Adam Webb
*2001 The Beach Boys Pet Sounds - The Greatest Album Of The 20th Cetury/Kingsley Abbott
*2003 Wouldn't It Be Nice: Brian Wilson and the Making of Pet Sounds/Charles A. Granta
*2004 The Beach Boys on CD (illustrated guide)/Joe Thomas
*2004 This Whole World: The Complete Beach Boys Single And EP Cover Collection/Manfred Schmidt & Christian Haschke
2004 Brian Wilson Solo: The Complete Guide To The Solo Works of Brian Wilson/Joe Thomas and Kie Miskelly
2004 The Japanese CD Releases of The Beach Boys & Brian Wilson/Joe Thomas
*2004 The Beach Boys: The Definitive Diary Of America's Greatest Band on Stage And In The Studio/Keith Badman

(Addition by Ralph: )
some more:
The Beach Boys by Dean Anthony (1985)

A couple of related interesting books are:
"The Wrecking Crew" by Hal Blaine (1990)
Surf City / Drag City by Rob Burt (1986)

SMiLE! It's MOJO '60s

It's a new kind of MOJO Special Edition, a deluxe package devoted to the decade that a sage once described as the greatest in the history of mankind.

2011/06/11 ->mojo4music.com

+ single details

TWO OF A KIND

No interpretations, this is what they really said...




In Their Own Words (1994) & The Essential Interviews (2009)

ROCKIN' READS

Seven recent books in a nutshell

If 2009 saw women dominating the music world on the radio and through album sales, 2010 is shaping up to be a banner year for songstresses on bookstore shelves.

June 13, 2010 TIM SHELLBERG
nwtimes.com

PLAY SONGS OF THE BEACH BOYS: PIANO ACCOMPANIMENTS TO ROCK CLASSICS [VHS]

Amazon has still a few in stock!
Learn how to play nine of the Beach Boys' most popular songs on piano, with the instructional video Play Songs of the Beach Boys: Piano Accompaniments to Rock Classics, taught by Billy Hinsche, with an introduction by Audree and Carl Wilson.

http://www.amazon.com/
Play-Songs-Beach-Boys-Accompaniments

+ billyhinsche.com/vhs-videos.html

STEVIE WONDER BIOGRAPHY RELEASED TO CELEBRATE SINGER'S 60TH BIRTHDAY

May 13 was his 60th birthday. A belated happy birthday to Stevie Wonder!

Signed, Sealed and Delivered: The Soulful Journey of Stevie Wonder’ by acclaimed popular music writer Mark Ribowsky is the definitive biography of one the world’s most influential and inspirational living musicians

18th May 2010 Laura
http://glasswerk.co.uk/news/national/8537/
Stevie+Wonder+Biography+Released+To+Celebrate+Singers+60th+Birthday

+ http://www.soulculture.co.uk/featuredbanner/
happy-birthday-stevie-wonder-an-ode-to-music-of-my-mind/

+ http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2010/may/13/
happy-birthday-stevie-wonder-60

+ http://www.clashmusic.com/feature/
10-things-you-never-knew-about-stevie-wonder

+ http://www.soulculture.co.uk/features/articles-features/
where-im-coming-from-the-influence-of-stevie-wonder-today/

+ express.co.uk/posts/view/174043/
The-sad-world-of-Stevie-Wonder


In Dutch:
+ nrcboeken.nl/recensie/
het-recht-op-alle-vrouwen-ter-wereld

+ vkblog.nl/bericht/315252/
De_21ste_verjaardag_van_Stevie_Wonder

BOOKS BY BOB GREENE

When We Get To Surf City is his latest book from 2008



From WikipediaRobert Bernard Greene, Jr. was an award winning columnist for the Chicago Tribune newspaper, where he worked for 24 years.
Greene has written books on subjects varying from Michael Jordan, to small towns, to U.S. presidents.
His Hang Time: Days and Dreams with Michael Jordan became a bestseller.
Greene has two children, Nick and Amanda, from a 31-year marriage with Susan Koebel Greene.

more... en.wikipedia.org

QUARRINGTON TRIBUTE INVOLVES MANY

QUOTE:

A Renaissance man in the most hands-on sense, Quarrington was an accomplished non-fiction writer and novelist, musician, screenwriter and educator.
He's best known for his novel Whale Music which is loosely based on the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson.
Whale Music won the 1989 Governor General's Award and became a film by the same name in 1994.

April 8, 2010 ERROL NAZARETH
http://www.lfpress.com/entertainment/music/2010/04/08/13521051.html

+ About the book 'Whale Music'
http://www.beachboys.com/booksIV.html

THE MAN BEHIND THE BRITISH INVASION

What would the music industry look like without Sid Bernstein?

We might have been spared the recent Depeche Mode concert at Ramat Gan Stadium, for one, since it was his idea to hold rock concerts in sports stadiums.
And perhaps Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys would not have worked so hard on the fantastic harmonies in "Pet Sounds," because he would not have been familiar with the Beatles, the inspiration for and main catalyst of the work, who Bernstein first brought to the United States. Many more years might have passed before white American audiences were exposed to Ray Charles and James Brown had Bernstein not been the first to take the risk with them.

9/2/2010 Noya Kochavi
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1148560.html

+ Sid brought the first bands of the British invasion to America which included the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Moody Blues, The Animals, The Kinks, Herman's Hermits, Dave Clark Five, Manfred Mann and Gerry and the Pacemakers. Among the groups he managed were The Rascals, Melba Moore, Laura Branigan and Phoebe Snow. He introduced ABBA to America...the list goes on and on.

http://www.sidbernsteinpresents.com/

RAPID TRANSIT

Rebecca Brown: American Romances (City Lights Books, 2009)

Like cowgirls? Like flyboys? Like reading? Then you’ll really like Rebecca Brown.

feb 2010 Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
http://www.brooklynrail.org/2010/02/books/rapid-transit-feb-10

SONGWRITERS FROM THE 805 ARE WELL-REPRESENTED IN NEW CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL BOOK

Start typing the words “the rose” into Google, and before you can even hit enter on your keyboard, the search engine generates a list of things it thinks you’re searching for.
Topping the list is not “the Rose Bowl” (No. 2) or “the Rose Parade” (it didn’t even make the cut), but “the rose lyrics.”

December 18, 2009 Mark Wyckoff
http://www.vcstar.com/news/2009/dec/18/ladling-up-musical-history-songwriters-from-the/


+ http://hangout.altsounds.com/news/112262-chicken-soup-for-the-soul-the-story-behind-the-song.html

IT'S BACK TO THE BEACH WITH WILSON

In the pantheon of great American composers, a few names immediately come to mind.
Irving Berlin. Cole Porter. George Gershwin.

But Beach Boys leader Brian Wilson?
Gershwin’s estate certainly believes Wilson belongs on that list. Last month, the composer’s family enlisted the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer to complete some of Gershwin’s unfinished compositions, song fragments left scattered about after Gershwin’s death in 1937.

November 8, 2009, JOSEPH HUDAK
http://www.timesleader.com/features/It_rsquo_s_back_to_the_beach_with_Wilson_11-08-2009.html

PRAY FOR SURF: BOOKS BY PETER KREEFT

http://www.peterkreeft.com/books.htm

STILL AWESOME AFTER ALL THESE YEARS: AN INTERVIEW WITH PRODUCER PHIL RAMONE

If you've ever read his Friday Huffington Post column Dog Ears Music, you're aware that Phil Ramone is fond of some pretty great records.

October 16, 2009, Mike Ragogna
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-ragogna/still-awesome-after-all-t_b_323334.html

NEW BOOK: THE WAY WE WERE CALIFORNIA

Nostalgic Images of the Golden State (Hardcover)

Not yet released. A christmas gift?

Publisher: Globe Pequot Press (8 Dec 2009) http://www.amazon.co.uk/Way-We-Were-California-Nostalgic/dp/0762754524/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1253812060&sr=8-1

A STEP-BY-STEP BREAKDOWN OF THEIR GUITAR STYLES AND TECHNIQUES

Explore the classic guitar work of the pioneers of California pop-rock with this outstanding book/CD pack.

Includes transcriptions, lessons, and in-depth analysis of a dozen of The Beach Boys' finest songs:
Be True to Your School * California Girls * Dance, Dance, Dance * Don't Worry Baby * 409 * Fun, Fun, Fun * Good Vibrations * Help Me Rhonda * I Get Around * Kokomo * Shut Down * Surfin' U.S.A.


amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Beach-Definitive-Collection-Step-Step/dp/0634040162

THE BEACH BOYS NOTE FOR NOTE VOCAL SHEET MUSIC BOOK

12 sundrenched hits from The Beach Boys, with vocal parts transcribed exactly as recorded – lead, harmony and background parts, and all inflections.

Includes a keyboard reduction of the instrumental parts, and chords labeled to be played by any instrument.

Songs:
Barbara Ann • California Girls • Don't Worry Baby • Fun, Fun, Fun • God Only Knows • Good Vibrations • I Get Around • In My Room • Little Deuce Coupe • Surfer Girl • Surfin' U.S.A. • Wouldn't It Be Nice.

eBay
http://cgi.ebay.com/The-Beach-Boys-Note-for-Note-Vocal-Sheet-Music-Book-NEW_W0QQitemZ360186008268QQcategoryZ378QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp4340.m263QQ_trkparmsZalgo=SIC&its=I%2BC&itu=UCI%2BIA%2BUA%2BFICS%2BUFI&otn=10&ps=63

+ same
http://www.amazon.com/Beach-Boys-Note-Note-Transcriptions/dp/0634033735

HOUND DOG

The Leiber & Stoller Autobiography

In 1950 a couple of rhythm and blues-loving teenagers named Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller met for the first time.
Leiber was looking for someone to help compose music for lyrics he'd written, and a friend recommended a piano player named Mike Stoller.

June 2009
http://books.simonandschuster.com/Hound-Dog/Jerry-Leiber/9781416566809

AL JARDINE TALKS ABOUT LIFE INSIDE THE BEACH BOYS IN REVEALING INTERVIEW

Interviews with members of the Beach Boys over the years, like a lot of celebrity interviews, are notable for sticking to the company line.

But in the August issue of Record Collector, which still can be found on newsstands in the U.S. if you hurry, Al Jardine talks openly and honestly about the group in an interview with Ken Sharp.

2009 aug 25, Steve Marinucci
http://www.examiner.com/x-19248-Vintage-Rock-n-Roll-Examiner~y2009m8d25-Al-Jardine-talks-about-life-inside-the-Beach-Boys-in-revealing-interview