WikiPedia and Amazon and All Music Guide almost make this unnecessary, but for the record, I want to argue that the combo package of The Beach Boys Today! with Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!) [love those exclamations points-although I don't think the Beach Boys ever released an album with three (!!!) exclamation points in the title] [I do think, however, that is because of the Beach Boys’ abuse of ! that I learned to do the same thing on my own writing-or maybe it was Mad). Anyway, the point being that this remarkable CD combo, with some editing, still sends shivers down my backbone even though I have gone way way past the age counting-up fadeout on “When I Grow Up (To Be a Man)”….(they end it when they get into their twenties, of course).
So, I’d get this thing if you don’t have it. And then create a new CD with these cuts, and you will own one of the greatest albums ever made!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1. Do You Wanna Dance 2. Good To My Baby 3. Don’t Hurt My Little Sister 4. When I Grow Up 5. Help Me, Rhonda (use LP version only) 6. Dance, Dance, Dance 7. Please Let Me Wonder 8. I’m So Young 9. Kiss Me Baby 10. She Knows Me Too Well 11. The Girl From New York City 12 Then I Kissed Her 13. Salt Lake City 14. Girl Don’t Tell Me 15. California Girls 16. Let Him Run Wild 17. You’re So Good To Me 18. Summer Means New Love 19. The Little Girl I Once Knew 20. And Your Dreams Come True
No shit, pal. Create that and you have one helluva a summer album
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