The chart date of October 30, 1971 marked the looks of a single from the album that grew to become a brand new landmark within the already fabled profession of the Seaside Boys. The group’s seventeenth studio LP Surf’s Up had been launched on the finish of August to among the finest opinions they’d had in years. Rolling Stone talked about their “remarkable comeback,” whereas Melody Maker noticed how they have been “back in fashionable favor.”
Your complete line-up had composer credit on Surf’s Up, and one of many highlights was “Long Promised Road,” written by new supervisor Jack Rieley and Carl Wilson, with Carl taking the lead vocal. The album is rightly lauded for the majesty of Brian Wilson’s title observe collaboration with Van Dyke Parks and for Brian’s magnificent “‘Til I Die.” However with Rieley on board, the Seaside Boys now confirmed their hand as an outfit with a number of songwriting abilities.
Within the aforementioned assessment of Surf’s Up in Melody Maker, author Richard Williams had specific reward for “Long Promised Road” and Carl Wilson and Jack Rieley’s different collaboration “Feel Flows.” Williams wrote that they have been “quite simply the best ‘inner quest’ songs I’ve ever heard, and they lack nothing in terms of jewelled arrangements.”
“Long Promised Road” was first launched as a single in Could 1971, forward of the album, however didn’t make the US chart, and missed the UK itemizing when issued nearly concurrently. Second time round, within the slipstream of the constructive response to Surf’s Up, it entered the Sizzling 100 at No.93 within the week that the LP achieved its No.29 peak in America. “Long Promised Road” solely reached No.89. However even then, it was the group’s first single to make the US chart for 19 months, and the Seaside Boys have been vital favorites as soon as once more.
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