The Beach Boys March 7, 2009
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Signature sounds of the 1960s California surfin’ culture
The Beach Boys’ sunny vocal harmonies are one of the signature sounds of the modern era. They return to the Vilar Performing Arts Center for an encore, after selling out the theatre in winter 2008.
The Beach Boys began mostly as a family affair in the Los Angeles suburb of Hawthorne, California in 1961. Brothers Brian, Carl and Dennis Wilson joined with cousin Mike Love and friend Alan Jardine to form the original group.
Their earliest hits, “Surfin’,” “Surfin’ Safari,” “Surfin’ U.S.A.” and “Surfer Girl,” all released in 1962-63, helped raise the profile of the state of California and the sport of surfing. The group also celebrated the Golden State’s obsession with hot-rod racing (“Shut Down,” “409,” “Little Deuce Coupe”) and the pursuit of happiness in less complicated times (“Be True to Your School,” “Fun, Fun, Fun,” “I Get Around”).
The Beach Boys showed increasingly sophisticated arrangements with such harmony-filled pop tunes as “Help Me, Rhonda,” “California Girls,” “Wouldn’t It Be Nice,” “God Only Knows” and “Sloop John B.” Their release “Good Vibrations” returned The Beach Boys to the top of the charts in 1966.
The Beach Boys were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988.
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