Beach Boys Concert

Not to be confused with the 1973 live album, The Beach Boys in Concert.
Beach Boys Concert
Live album by
the Beach Boys
ReleasedOctober 19, 1964
RecordedDecember 21, 1963; August 1964
VenueMemorial Auditorium, Sacramento, California (1963; August 1, 1964)
StudioWestern, Hollywood (August 30)
GenreSurf rock, rock and roll
Length32:07
LabelCapitol
ProducerBrian Wilson
The Beach Boys chronology
Four by the Beach Boys
(1964) 		Beach Boys Concert
(1964) 		The Beach Boys' Christmas Album
(1964)
The Beach Boys UK chronology
The Beach Boys' Christmas Album
(1964) 		Beach Boys Concert
(1965) 		All Summer Long
(1965)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Blender[2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[4]

Beach Boys Concert is the first live album by the American rock band the Beach Boys, released on October 19, 1964. It is their seventh album in all, and their third alone in the same year. It was their first of two chart-topping albums in the US (the other was their 1974 greatest hit compilation, Endless Summer), as well as the first live album to top pop music record charts,[5] maintaining its position for four weeks during a sixty-two-week chart stay, and becoming another gold seller.

The album was recorded live at the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium in Sacramento, California, though it received heavy post-production treatment. Because Brian Wilson was about to vacate his position in the live group, and would only perform sporadically with them over the course of the next three decades, it is one of the few live documents of the original line-up of the Beach Boys that has been officially released.

In 2014, Live in Sacramento 1964 was released, containing additional performances from these concert dates.[6]

  1. ^ Unterberger, Richie (1964-10-19). "Concert – The Beach Boys : Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved 2012-06-11.
  2. ^ Wolk, Douglas (October 2004). "The Beach Boys Concert/Live in London". Blender. Archived from the original on June 30, 2006. Retrieved June 2, 2017.
  3. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
  4. ^ Brackett, Nathan; with Hoard, Christian, eds. (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). New York, NY: Fireside/Simon & Schuster. p. 46. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
  5. ^ Moskowitz 2015, p. 42.
  6. ^ "Beach Boys Release Two Expansive Archival Digital Albums Featuring Music from 1964". WFJA Classic Hits 105.5'. December 7, 2014. Archived from the original on May 12, 2015. Retrieved January 14, 2015.