When it comes to recording original Christmas music, there are two camps ... orchestral backing for his own 1964 holiday album. The Beach Boys’ Christmas Album combines upbeat originals like ...

While those songs might have been the most popular of the summer, they weren't necessarily about summer, or any of the things redolent of the season: beaches, sunshine, putting school in the rear-view ...

and some very primitive percussion, and that’s enough to make “Anna Lea, The Healer” one of the most truly gorgeous sounding songs in The Beach Boys’ catalog. Some of the stuff produced ...

That makes it almost impossible to whittle their vast catalog of classic songs down to the very best. Still, we managed to come up with a list of the Top 10 Beach Boys Songs. So surf's up ...

5. The Beach Boys didn’t record another Christmas song until 1974. A full Christmas albums was planned for 1977, then discarded, although tracks from the sessions saw the light of day on a 1998 ...

And then there was the very real claim that the Beach Boys were part ... freshly composed songs, with everyone chipping in to make up for Wilson's increasing absence. The best songs from this ...

The Beach Boys’ story is one of contradictions ... They’re still a band, but not really. Their best album isn’t technically an album. In 1967, Brian Wilson holds a mirror reflecting ...

After more than a week of counting down its 100 Best Albums of All Time, Apple Music has released its top ... Springsteen’s “Born to Run” and Beach Boys’ “Pet Sounds.” ...

Beach Boys frontman Mike Love, ostensibly an authority on beaches, recorded a cover of Ramones “Rockaway ... 12 Sides of Summer is a mix of original songs and covers. He’s included renditions ...