By way of their UK viewers, the Seashore Boys’ 20/20 album was the present that stored on giving. Launched in early 1969, it had been launched the earlier summer season by “Do It Again,” which married trendy manufacturing with nostalgic lyrics and, whereas it peaked at No.20 within the US, went all the best way to No.1 throughout the Atlantic.
That was adopted by a modest No.33 success within the UK with the December 1968 launch, “Bluebirds Over The Mountain,” however that also outdid its greatest US place of No.61. For the third single, the group turned to the catalog of considered one of their greatest heroes.
The Seashore Boys’ model of “I Can Hear Music,” produced by Carl Wilson and that includes his lovely lead vocals, was a masterful adaptation of Phil Spector’s co-write with Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich. Inexplicably, the 1966 unique by the Ronettes had solely reached the anchor place of No.100 on the US chart, and that because the group’s final look there.
The California group’s cowl model would solely attain No.24 in America itself, however by then it had given the Seashore Boys their ninth UK Prime 10 single. Its recognition unfold throughout Europe, because it made the identical grade in Holland, Sweden and Poland. It entered the British chart on February 26, 1969 at No.47. In April, the only peaked at No.10, rubbing shoulders with one other arrival within the Prime 10, The Who’s “Pinball Wizard.”
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The track was considered one of a number of massive hits for the Seashore Boys within the UK that didn’t carry out anyplace close to as effectively for them again residence. Their British followers took the non-album single “Break Away” to No.6, earlier than the “Cottonfields” (re-recorded from 20/20) hit No.5 throughout the Atlantic however didn’t make the American chart in any respect.
Purchase or stream “I Can Hear Music” on the Seashore Boys’ 20/20 album.
