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The Beach Boys Party! Uncovered And Unplugged / Expanded 2CD set

By Justyn Barnes

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Pull the party poppers for another 50th anniversary celebration as Capitol/Universal Music release The Beach Boys Party! Uncovered and Unplugged, a remixed, remastered and expanded two-CD edition of their joyous 1965 album of covers…

The original Beach Boys’ Party! was perhaps the first-ever ‘unplugged’ rock and roll album, with only acoustic guitars, bass, bongos, harmonica and tambourine employed as instrumentation. It only came about because Capitol Records were pressurising the band to put out another long-player – their tenth studio album. Brian Wilson was busy working on future masterpiece Pet Sounds, so as fellow band member Mike Love puts it: “We said, ‘Well, what can we do quickly and easily?’ And we decided to make this party album.”

Recorded over several experimental sessions at the Western Recorders in Hollywood, the band invited a few friends and collaborators to join them in the studio as they recorded spontaneous covers of contemporary hits by The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan and many more. Their cover of The Regents’ Barbara-Ann would go on to become a signature Beach Boys song, minus the hyphen in the original title. They even made self-parodying versions of two of their own biggest hits, I Get Around and Little Deuce Couple. With many songs recorded, they then returned to the studio with friends and family for a three-hour session recording party sounds and chatter to layer over the music.


For the new two-CD edition The Beach Boys Party! Uncovered and Unplugged, The Beach Boys and producer Mark Linett have stripped away the overdubbed party sounds from the album’s original 12 tracks so that the songs can be heard as they were first recorded. A massive 69 songs/outtakes/dialogue tracks from all of the band’s Party! recording sessions are also included.

The CDs are packaged with notes from Linnet, essays by Beach Boys historians Alan Boyd and Craig Slowinski and photos from the sessions.

The two-CD edition of The Beach Boys Party! Uncovered And Unplugged is released on 20 November 2015, with a vinyl edition – featuring the album’s original 12 tracks, each remixed, remastered and stripped of party sounds – to follow on 11 December

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2CD Edition

Disc 1

  1. Hully Gully
  2. I Should Have Known Better
  3. Tell Me Why
  4. Papa Oom Mow Mow
  5. Mountain Of Love
  6. You Got To Hide Your Love Away
  7. Devoted To You
  8. Alley Oop
  9. There’s No Other (Like My Baby)
  10. I Get Around / Little Deuce Coupe
  11. The Times They Are A-Changin’
  12. Barbara Ann
  13. Let’s Get This Party Rolling (session #2 – 9/8/65)
  14. I Should Have Known Better #1
  15. Ruby Baby #1
  16. (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction #1
  17. Hully Gully #1
  18. Blowin’ In The Wind
  19. Dialog: ‘The Sunrays’
  20. Ruby Baby #2
  21. Dialog: ‘The Masked Phantom’
  22. Hully Gully #2
  23. Dialog: ‘Carl, Go Get Your Bass’
  24. Hully Gully #3
  25. (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction #2
  26. Dialog: ‘That’s A Bad Guitar’
  27. Ruby Baby #3
  28. Dialog: ‘What’s The Matter Carl?’
  29. Ruby Baby #4
  30. Dialog: ‘Carl’s Tires’
  31. I Should Have Known Better #2
  32. I Should Have Known Better #3
  33. Dialog: ‘Wasn’t That Great Folks?’
  34. Tell Me Why #1
  35. Don’t Worry Baby
  36. You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away #1
  37. Little Deuce Coupe #1
  38. California Girls

Disc 2

  1. She Belongs To Me / The Artist (Laugh At Me) #1
  2. Fooling Around: Hang On Sloopy / You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’ / Twist And Shout
  3. Riot In Cell Block No.9 #1
  4. Fooling Around: The Diary
  5. Dialog: ‘I Think We Better Do This Next Week’
  6. Dialog: ‘Let’s Cook Now And Eat Later’
  7. Tell My Why #2
  8. I Should Have Known Better #4
  9. Dialog: ‘What I Want To Do’
  10. Dialog: ‘Are We Still In The Party?’
  11. Mountain Of Love #1
  12. Dialog: ‘Where s Denny?’
  13. Devoted To You #1
  14. Dialog: ‘What Are You Doing Now’
  15. You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away #2
  16. Dialog: ‘This Phony Party’ / Ticket To Ride
  17. Alley Oop #1
  18. Alley Oop #2
  19. Dialog: ‘Tune It Like This’
  20. There’s No Other (Like My Baby) #1
  21. There’s No Other (Like My Baby) #2
  22. Dialog: ‘Do The Splits’
  23. Devoted To You #2
  24. Devoted To You #3
  25. You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away #3
  26. I Get Around
  27. Little Deuce Coupe #2
  28. Mountain Of Love #2
  29. Ticket To Ride #2
  30. Riot In Cell Block No.9 #2
  31. The Artist (Laugh At Me) #2
  32. One Kiss Lead To Another
  33. You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away #4
  34. You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away #5
  35. Dialog: ‘What Did You Stop Us For Chuck?’
  36. The Times They Are A-Changin’
  37. Fooling Around: Heart And Soul / Long Tall Sally
  38. Fooling Around: The Boy From New York City
  39. Smokey Joe’s Café
  40. Dialog: ‘I Got One More’
  41. Barbara Ann #1
  42. Barbara Ann #2
  43. Barbara Ann #3

Vinyl Edition:

A-side

  1. Hully Gully
  2. I Should Have Known Better
  3. Tell Me Why
  4. Papa Oom Mow Mow
  5. Mountain Of Love
  6. You Got To Hide Your Love Away
  7. Devoted To You

B-side

  1. Alley Oop
  2. There’s No Other (Like My Baby)
  3. I Get Around / Little Deuce Coupe
  4. The Times They Are A-Changin’
  5. Barbara Ann

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