BEACH BOYS DUECE COUPE & SHUT DOWN 200 GRAM AUDIOPHILE VINYL + HDCD OF TITLES
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THE ULTIMATE AUDIOPHILE SET OF TWO BEACH BOYS CLASSICS FOR THE COLLECTOR WHO WANTS IT ALL IN THE FINEST 200 GRAM VINYL AND HDCD CD PRESSING EVER MADE.
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The Beach Boys Little Deuce Coupe 200 GRAM LIMITED EDITION LP
The Ultimate Pressings of the Beach Boys Discography from Analogue Productions!
200g Vinyl LP Pressed at Quality Record Pressings!
Mastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio from the Original Master Tapes or Best Sources Available!
A musical legacy that began in Hawthorne, California and went on to conquer the world. Analogue Productions presents the ultimate pressings of 14 essential Beach Boys albums! Mastered by Kevin Gray, most from the original master tapes, and plated and pressed by Quality Record Pressings, the finest LP pressing facility in the world, these are awesome recordings to experience. And the look of each album befits its sonic superiority! Presented in "old school" Stoughton tip-on jackets, these time honored favorites shine brighter than the originals!
Released just one month after the Surfer Girl album, Little Deuce Coupe was, incredibly, the Beach Boys' fourth album in less than a year. Brian Wilson and the band responded by turning in arguably their most consistent effort to date — and a concept album, to boot.
Little Deuce Coupe expanded the band's subject matter to encompass 1963 America's burgeoning love affair with hot rods, surrounding previously released cuts such as the title track, "409," and others with strong new material (much of it cowritten by Wilson and a DJ, Roger Christian). A highpoint: the a cappella James Dean tribute "A Young Man Is Gone" (a reworking of Bobby Troup's beautiful "Their Hearts Were Full of Spring"), a prime example of Wilson's arranging genius and the band's vocal prowess. "Their Hearts Were Full Of Spring" had been a standard for the vocal group The Four Freshmen, whose lush and distinctive jazz-based vocal arrangements had a huge influence on Brian's musical development.
Apart from Surfin' Safari, which was mono only, the Beach Boys did turn in stereo masters on all of their early albums up until 1965. The Beach Boys Today! was the first LP for which they only delivered a mono master.
The stereo editions of Surfin' USA, Surfer Girl, Little Deuce Coupe, Shut Down Vol. 2, All Summer Long, Beach Boys Christmas Album and Beach Boys Concert were all mixed in stereo by their own preferred engineer, Chuck Britz, ostensibly under the group's supervision.
"Brian may or may not have been present for those mixing sessions — evidence suggests that he trusted Chuck's skills enough to let him prepare those mixes on his own — but the group held onto their multitrack tapes and delivered stereo masters to Capitol, rather than allowing Capitol to prepare their own stereo versions. Later, when Brian was only delivering mono masters, Capitol would prepare the Duophonic pseudo stereo editions for the stereo market," says Alan Boyd, producer and Beach Boys' archivist.
The Beach Boys' practice of double-tracking their vocals really lends itself to stereo mixes. Split left and right, as they are on a lot of those early stereo versions, those doubled vocal parts can really envelop the listener, surrounding them with Wilsons, Loves and Jardines!
All of the newer stereo mixes on these remastered albums (The Beach Boys Today!, Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!), The Beach Boys' Party, Pet Sounds and Smiley Smile) were all done by Mark Linett on behalf of the Beach Boys.
Features:
• Pressed on 200g Virgin Vinyl
• Mastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio from the original master tapes or best sources available
• Lacquer plating by Gary Salstrom
• Pressed at Quality Record Pressings
• Stereo
• Meticulous test pressing evaluation and quality control
• "Old school" Stoughton tip-on jackets
• Deluxe Packaging - Highest quality jackets and rice paper inner sleeves
• Audio Production - Mark Linett
• For Brother Records - Elliott Lott
Selections:
Side One:
1. Little Deuce Coupe
2. Ballad Of Ole' Betsy
3. Be True To Your School
4. Cherry, Cherry Coupe
5. 409
Side Two:
1. Shut Down
2. Spirit Of America
3. Our Car Club
4. No-Go Showboat
5. A Young Man Is Gone
6. Custom Machine
The Beach Boys Shut Down Volume 2 200 GRAM LIMITED EDITION LP
The Ultimate Pressings of the Beach Boys Discography from Analogue Productions!
200g Vinyl LP Pressed at Quality Record Pressings!
Mastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio from the Original Master Tapes or Best Sources Available!
A musical legacy that began in Hawthorne, California and went on to conquer the world. Analogue Productions presents the ultimate pressings of 14 essential Beach Boys albums! Mastered by Kevin Gray, most from the original master tapes, and plated and pressed by Quality Record Pressings, the finest LP pressing facility in the world, these are awesome recordings to experience. And the look of each album befits its sonic superiority! Presented in "old school" Stoughton tip-on jackets, these time honored favorites shine brighter than the originals!
Apart from Surfin' Safari, which was mono only, the Beach Boys did turn in stereo masters on all of their early albums up until 1965. The Beach Boys Today! was the first LP for which they only delivered a mono master.
The stereo editions of Surfin' USA, Surfer Girl, Little Deuce Coupe, Shut Down Vol. 2, All Summer Long, Beach Boys Christmas Album and Beach Boys Concert were all mixed in stereo by their own preferred engineer, Chuck Britz, ostensibly under the group's supervision.
"Brian may or may not have been present for those mixing sessions — evidence suggests that he trusted Chuck's skills enough to let him prepare those mixes on his own — but the group held onto their multitrack tapes and delivered stereo masters to Capitol, rather than allowing Capitol to prepare their own stereo versions. Later, when Brian was only delivering mono masters, Capitol would prepare the Duophonic pseudo stereo editions for the stereo market," says Alan Boyd, producer and Beach Boys' archivist.
All of the newer stereo mixes on these remastered albums (The Beach Boys Today!, Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!), The Beach Boys' Party, Pet Sounds and Smiley Smile) were all done by Mark Linett on behalf of the Beach Boys.
Shut Down Volume 2 is the fifth studio album by the Beach Boys, and the first of four they would release in 1964. Shut Down Volume 2 reached number 13 in the US charts during a chart stay of 38 weeks. The "Volume 2" in the album title refers to a multi-artist album featuring and named for the Beach Boys' song "Shut Down," released eight months earlier by the band's label.
"The first Shut Down was a hugely successful Capitol Records Various Artists compilation LP that had included a pair of Beach Boys tracks. Whereas their previous album Little Deuce Coupe had been a full-on car themed concept album, the Beach Boys' Shut Down Volume 2 was pretty much evenly split between songs with car themes and various high school and summertime-themed tunes. The album sought to further the Beach Boys beyond its ironic sea-and-sun fetish (none but Dennis Wilson ever surfed) into the burgeoning hot-rod subculture...the high points remain nothing short of spectacular, including the Mike Love-propelled 'Fun, Fun, Fun,' Wilson's knowing nod to Phil Spector, 'Don't Worry Baby,' and the (hit) 'The Warmth of the Sun.
Features:
• Pressed on 200g Virgin Vinyl
• Mastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio from the original master tapes or best sources available
• Lacquer plating by Gary Salstrom
• Pressed at Quality Record Pressings
• Stereo
• Meticulous test pressing evaluation and quality control
• "Old school" Stoughton tip-on jackets
• Deluxe Packaging - Highest quality jackets and rice paper inner sleeves
• Audio Production - Mark Linett
• For Brother Records - Elliott Lott
Selections:
1. Fun, Fun, Fun
2. Don't Worry Baby
3. In The Parkin' Lot
4. "Cassius" Love Vs "Sonny" Wilson
5. The Warmth Of The Sun
6. This Car Is Mine
7. Why Do Fools Fall In Love
8. Pom, Pom Play Girl
9. Keep An Eye On Summer
10. Shut Down, Part II
11. Louie, Louie
12. Denny's Drums
Little Deuce Coupe/All Summer Long [Remaster AUDIOPHILE HDCD] by Beach Boys 2 LP'S IN 1 CD + BONUS TRACKS
Album Features Artist: The Beach Boys Format: CD Release Year: 2001 Record Label: Capitol Genre: Oldies, Rock 'N' Roll
Track Listing
1. Little Deuce Coupe
2. Ballad of Ole' Betsy
3. Be True to Your School
4. Car Crazy Cutie
5. Cherry Coupe Cherry
6. 409 - (stereo)
7. Shut Down
8. Spirit of America
9. Our Car Club
10. No-Go Showboat
11. A Young Man Is Gone
12. Custom Machine
13. I Get Around - (stereo)
14. All Summer Long - (stereo)
15. Hushabye
16. Little Honda
17. We'll Run Away
18. Carl's Big Chance
19. Wendy
20. Do You Remember?
21. Girls on the Beach
22. Drive-In
23. Our Favorite Recording Sessions - (stereo)
24. Don't Back Down
25. single version, bonus track) Be True to Your School - (stereo
26. All Dressed up for School - (bonus track)
27. bonus track) Little Honda - (alternate take
28. bonus track) Don't Back Down - (alternate take
Details Playing Time: 58 min. Distributor: EMI Music Distribution Recording Type: Studio Recording Mode: Mono SPAR Code: n/a
Album Notes
2 LPs on 1 CD: LITTLE DEUCE COUPE (1963)/ALL SUMMER LONG (1964).The Beach Boys: Brian Wilson, Carl Wilson, Mike Love, Dennis Wilson, Al Jardine.Additional personnel includes: The Honeys (background vocals).Producer: Brian Wilson.Reissue producer: Mark Linett.Recorded at Western Studios, Hollywood, California between January 31, 1963 &September 16, 1964.Originally released on Capitol (1998/2110).Includes liner notes by David Leaf & Mark Linett.LITTLE DEUCE COUPE is arguably the first rock & roll concept album. Combining car songs from the Beach Boys' previous three albums with several new car-related numbers, it celebrates the simple joys of being a teenage automobile owner. Hit singles "Little Deuce Coupe" and "Be True To Your School" showed that Brian Wilson was becoming a remarkably sophisticated producer, songwriter, and arranger. He had mastered the art of vocal arrangements, as shown by the spectacular five-part harmonies on "Spirit of America" and "A Young Man Is Gone," their touching tribute to James Dean. This is a fun, unpretentious evocation of a California summer.On this disc, DEUCE COUPE is coupled with ALL SUMMER LONG. The sustained Number One success of the latter's "I Get Around" established the group as America's best hope against the Beatles' continued dominance of the airwaves. The already-elaborate vocal harmonies grow more lush, the melodies more far-ranging, as Brian's rich falsetto dominates the vocal mix on beauties like "Girls On The Beach" and a hymn-like cover of the doo-wop classic "Hushabye." Wilson also masterfully streamlined his Phil Spector/Wall Of Sound influence so that a large multi-track L.A. studio production still sounds as if it's being produced by a small combo
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