Wild Honey
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- This article is about the Beach Boys album. For the play, see Wild Honey (play).
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| Studio album by The Beach Boys | ||
| Released | 18 December 1967 | |
| Recorded | 26 September- 15 November 1967 |
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| Genre | Rock | |
| Length | 24:24 | |
| Label | Capitol Records | |
| Producer(s) | The Beach Boys | |
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| The Beach Boys chronology | ||
| Smiley Smile (1967) |
Wild Honey (1967) |
Friends (1968) |
Wild Honey is an album released by The Beach Boys in 1967. It was their thirteenth studio album and sixteenth overall, and, as a group production, was the first Beach Boy album not to be solely produced by Brian Wilson, who had gradually abdicated the band's musical leadership following the difficult sessions for the aborted Smile LP.
The closing track, "Mama Says", is a chant originally recorded for the abandoned Smile performance of "Vegetables". It was the first of several stray Smile tracks used to close a later Beach Boys album.
The title track became the advance single, a minor hit with only a short chart stay. Its follow-up, "Darlin' ", reached the US Top 20, while the album itself reached #24 in the US and #7 in the UK. The track "Here Comes the Night" was later redone as a disco song in the late 1970's but was not a hit. "How She Boogalooed It", co-written by Al Jardine, Mike Love, Bruce Johnston and Carl Wilson, was the first Beach Boys original not to be written or co-written by Brian Wilson.
In 2001 Capitol Records reissued Wild Honey on a Beach Boys Double CD with Smiley Smile and bonus tracks including an alternate version of Heroes and Villans that contains the "cantina section", two incomplete versions of Good Vibrations, You're Welcome, Their Hearts Were Full Of Spring, and Can't Wait Too Long. This printing of the CD also included in depth liner notes by David Leaf, as well as previously unreleased Smile session photos by Jasper Dailey.
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[edit] Track listing
All songs by Brian Wilson/Mike Love, except where noted.
- "Wild Honey" – 2:37
- Features Carl Wilson on lead vocals
- "Aren't You Glad" – 2:16
- Features Mike Love [verses], Brian Wilson [verses and chorus] and Carl Wilson [chorus] on lead vocals
- "I Was Made To Love Her" (Henry Cosby/Sylvia Moy/Lola Mae Hardaway/Stevie Wonder) – 2:05
- Features Carl Wilson on lead vocals
- "Country Air" – 2:20
- Features group vocals
- "A Thing Or Two" – 2:40
- Features Mike Love, Carl Wilson, and Brian Wilson on lead vocals
- "Darlin' " – 2:12
- Features Carl Wilson on lead vocals
- "I'd Love Just Once To See You" – 1:48
- Features Brian Wilson on lead vocals
- "Here Comes The Night" – 2:41
- Features Brian Wilson on lead vocals
- "Let The Wind Blow" – 2:19
- Features Mike Love and Brian Wilson on lead vocals
- "How She Boogalooed It" (Mike Love/Bruce Johnston/Al Jardine/Carl Wilson) – 1:56
- Features Carl Wilson on lead vocals [long mistakenly credited to Jardine]
- "Mama Says" – 1:05
- Features group vocals
[edit] Singles
- "Wild Honey" b/w "Wind Chimes" (from Smiley Smile) (Capitol 2028), 23 October 1967 US #31; UK #29
- "Darlin'" b/w "Here Today" (from Pet Sounds) (Capitol 2068), 18 December 1967 US #19; UK #11. (UK B-side was "Country Air")
Wild Honey is now paired on CD with Smiley Smile, with bonus tracks from that period.
[edit] Sources
- Smiley Smile/Wild Honey CD booklet notes, David Leaf, c.1990.
- "Look! Listen! Vibrate! Smile!", Domenic Priore, c.1995
- "The Nearest Faraway Place: Brian Wilson, The Beach Boys and the Southern California Experience", Timothy White, c. 1994.
- "Wouldn't It Be Nice - My Own Story", Brian Wilson and Todd Gold, c. 1991.
- "Top Pop Singles 1955-2001", Joel Whitburn, c. 2002.
- "Top Pop Albums 1955-2001", Joel Whitburn, c. 2002.
- All Music Guide.com
