Beach Boys-California Girls (1970)


 

Artist: The Beach Boys

Title: California Girls

Label: Capitol

Format: CD

Cat: CDP 7 48046 2

Year of Release: 1970

Country and Year of Edition: US 1987

Listed Condition: VG+/VG+

Sell Date: 8/22/22

Sell Price: $3.49

Discogs Last Sold:6/26/22 M/NM $1.20

Low: $0.60

Median: $2.97

Average: $3.79

High: $8.90

Current low price:$1.50

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 30

Have/Want: 177/77

Where Sold:  Lynnfield, MA

Time it took to sell: 9 years

Where and When Bought: record club early 90's

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A-

Sad To See It Go: No

Summer Days (And Summer Nights) from 1965 endured a couple decades of truncation starting in 1970 when Capitol issued California Girls.  This release took out the second cut "Amusement Parks USA" and second to last "I'm Bugged At My Old Man."   The history of Capitol butchering the Beatles by holding off tracks through Revolver is one thing.  This is different.  Maybe Brian Wilson or the rest of the band hated the tracks.  Maybe Capitol chopped them off to save publishing on a budget reissue.  One things is for sure, those two tracks left off are definitely weak filler.  

This album continued in short form in 1971 when coupled with All Summer Long  in a budget 2-for series Capitol did with the Beach Boys catalog.  With the CD reissue era in full swing, Capitol changed the cover back to the photo from Summer Days (And Summer Nights), but instead of taking advantage of the CD's capacity for bonus tracks, they kept it to 10 and kept the reissue title California Girls.  It probably sold more that way, being arguably the Beach Boys signature song.  This despite the fact that "Help Me Rhonda" spent a couple weeks #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 in it's 14 week chart run in April/May 1965, but "California Girls" only peaked at #3 on an 11 week run in July and August that year.

I wrote about this in April 2021 when I sold a vinyl copy of the version paired with All Summer Long.  Since I was always buying these albums used "after the fact" in the reissue era, I never really thought about Summer Days (And Summer Nights) and California Girls being the exact same record even after I got the restored version in a 2-for CD (1990's The Beach Boys Today! had that albums cover on the face).  The song for me is still "Let Him Run Wild."  Carl Wilson's sung "Girl Don't Tell Me" is another standout this time around.  The album finally got a stand-alone stereo mix release in 2012.

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