We all know in regards to the timeless musical legacy of the Seaside Boys, and the way their recordings have endured throughout so many many years. However when precisely have been they first deemed worthy of a compilation album? The reply is throughout the Billboard album chart of October 8, 1966, when the primary Seaside Boys Greatest Of peaked at No.9.
Capitol launched the 12-track assortment in early July that 12 months, simply two months after the Pet Sounds album and simply as that future basic was, extremely, spending its solely week within the US High 10 at No.10. Better of the Seaside Boys, in its American version, contained all of the group’s early single successes comparable to “Surfin’ USA,” “Surfer Girl,” and “Little Deuce Coupe,” in addition to “In My Room,” “You’re So Good To Me,” and “Wendy.”
However as a result of the label rushed the album out, and in a marked distinction from trade follow nowadays, it didn’t embody something from Pet Sounds, and subsequently didn’t characteristic both “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” or “God Only Knows.” These two tracks have been launched on a US single from Pet Sounds on the similar time of the best-of album, with “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” reaching No.8 because the A-side and “God Only Knows” listed individually at a modest No.39 peak.
Internationally, “God Only Knows” grew to become the highest aspect, occurring to achieve No.2 within the UK, the place a unique model of the Greatest Of album then got here out within the November. It had an alternate monitor itemizing that allowed for the inclusion of “God Only Knows” in addition to the 2 earlier UK singles of 1966, each of them High 3 hits, “Barbara Ann” and “Sloop John B.”
The US album, after reaching No.8, went gold six months later and, by the early Nineties, was double platinum. The UK model was an enormous success, peaking at No.2 and mounting a 139-week run on the charts. Brian Wilson might not been finest happy that his and the group’s creativity was being interrupted by such retrospective consideration, and the primary compilation was outmoded by newer ones comparable to 50 Huge Ones. However in 1966, the primary wave of Seaside Boys nostalgia had nicely and actually arrived.
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