The Seaside Boys’ spectacular 1963 in America included three Prime 10 US singles and three Prime 10 albums. The nation’s favourite pop vocal group had been already climbing the charts once more with “Fun, Fun, Fun” because the LP it opened, Shut Down Quantity 2, was launched on March 2, 1964.
The reply to the query of no matter occurred to Quantity 1 is that Capitol had launched the multi-artist Shut Down album the earlier summer season. That was in response to the success of the Seaside Boys’ music of that identify, issued because the B-side of “Surfin’ USA” and a Prime 30 American hit in its personal proper.
That first quantity additionally accommodates the connection between the Seaside Boys and actor Robert Mitchum. Shut Down featured the group’s title music and one other of their early scorching rod-inspirednumbers, “409,” together with tracks by the Cheers, the Piltdown Males, the Tremendous Shares and others. However it additionally featured Mitchum’s “The Ballad of Thunder Road,” the “death on the highway” quantity that he co-wrote and sang for the 1958 film Thunder Street.
When Shut Down Quantity 2 got here out, the title utilized this time to the Seaside Boys and nobody else. “Fun, Fun, Fun” was en path to a No.5 peak on the Sizzling 100, their second-highest exhibiting to this point after the No.3 success of “Surfin’ USA.” The group’s subsequent single, the good “I Get Around,” wasn’t on the LP, however its B-side, the attractive “Don’t Worry Baby,” was, and once more made the Prime 30 by itself power.
The album additionally contained such whimsies as “In The Parkin’ Lot,” “Pom, Pom Play Girl,” and the jokey, spoken phrase nod to skilled boxing, “‘Cassius’ Love vs. ‘Sonny’ Wilson.” As typically of their early days, it additionally had the Seaside Boys remaking rock’n’roll hits, with variations of Frankie Lymon and the Youngsters’ 1956 staple “Why Do Fools Fall In Love,” and Richard Berry’s 1955 authentic “Louie Louie,” a success for the Kingsmen even because the boys had been laying down their interpretation.
Additionally of nice observe on the album is “Keep An Eye On Summer,” a captivating Brian Wilson/Mike Love quantity that additionally carried a writing credit score for Capitol engineer Bob Norberg. Wilson remade the music in positive type for his 1998 solo album Creativeness.
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Maybe as a result of the viewers’s consideration – certainly, the eye of everybody in America – was distracted by the newly all-conquering Beatles, Shut Down Quantity 2 took some six weeks to make the American charts. It climbed to No.13, a modest efficiency by their latest requirements, however had a 38-week run and was licensed gold on the finish of 1966.
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