Smile Beach Boys Album Covers
Into the late 80 s and a few books on brian and the beach boys were popping up in stores and further interest was being aroused in more and more cats who just wanted to hear the original album not remakes of smile tunes that had drifted onto the market over the years on various b b albums smile as a stand alone entity just had to be heard.
Smile beach boys album covers. It was to be a twelve track concept lp assembled from short interchangeable musical fragments similar to the group s 1966 single good vibrations instead the album was shelved and the group released a downscaled version smiley smile in september 1967. In 1963 the band gained national prominence with a string of top ten singles reflecting a southern california youth culture of surfing cars and romance dubbed the california sound. Nov 22 2016 explore sharon beach garrison s board beach boys album covers on pinterest. The beach boys began as a garage band led by brian and managed by the wilsons father murry.
I recently purchased the original smile album cover inserts from frank. See more ideas about album covers the beach boys boys. Best steve o may 19 2010 at 9 02 pm. The lettering is frank holmes work not a font unfortunately.
The return of their teenage cannon to pop culture prominence is announced by bearded brooding beach boys peeking out from green rousseau smiley foliage. For the first time they completely disappear from both sides of an album. On smiley s front and back covers there are no photographs or drawings of the beach boys individual or group. The album cover is very high quality silk screened and numbered with all of the flap fold marks etc.