Mike Love’s vocals jumped straight in. “Fun is in, it’s no sin, it’s that time again,” he sang, and it was — time for the Seashore Boys to ship one other summer time anthem and land one other hit from their 15 Huge Ones album, with “It’s OK.” The track made its US chart debut on August 21, 1976.
The 15 Huge Ones LP had made its chart debut as America celebrated the bicentennial of its independence, and what higher image of cultural pleasure did the nation possess than the Seashore Boys? As they continued to journey the brand new wave of recognition that had began two years earlier with their Limitless Summer time compilation, the group now went backwards to go forwards.
In different phrases, 15 Huge Ones was comprised largely of recent covers of outdated rock’n’roll classics, together with the lead single, a spirited tackle Chuck Berry’s “Rock ’n’ Roll Music.” That reached No.5 within the US, remarkably their finest singles chart rating there since “Good Vibrations” nearly a decade earlier.
‘Good Vibrations’ steals the present
Within the UK, a brand new 20 Golden Greats compilation topped the chart in that summer time of 1976, though paradoxically “Rock ‘n’ Roll Music” was upstaged by a reissue of “Good Vibrations,” launched to advertise the British retrospective. That 1966 traditional returned to the UK Prime 20.
“It’s OK” had a British connection of its personal. The saxophone on the monitor was performed by longtime Seashore Boys devotee and studio/songwriting mastermind Roy Wooden, a lot liked for his data with The Transfer, the early ELO, Wizzard, and his solo hits. Bolstered by an NBC TV particular that aired in early August known as The Seashore Boys: It’s OK, the monitor rose to No.29 in America, because the 15 Huge Ones album gained gold certification.
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