Little Deuce Coupe

For the title track, see Little Deuce Coupe (song).
For the Twyla Tharp ballet using Little Deuce Coupe song, see Deuce Coupe.

Little Deuce Coupe
Studio album by
the Beach Boys
ReleasedOctober 7, 1963[1]
Recorded
  • April 19, 1962 ("409")
  • January 5 – September 2, 1963
StudioWestern, Hollywood
GenreHot rod rock[2]
Length25:25
LabelCapitol
ProducerBrian Wilson
The Beach Boys chronology
Surfer Girl
(1963) 		Little Deuce Coupe
(1963) 		Shut Down Volume 2
(1964)
The Beach Boys UK chronology
Surfin' U.S.A.
(1965) 		Little Deuce Coupe
(1965) 		Beach Boys' Party!
(1966)
Official audio
"Little Deuce Coupe" on YouTube
Contemporary professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Record Mirror[3]
Retrospective professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Blender[4]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[5]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[6]

Little Deuce Coupe is the fourth album by the American rock band the Beach Boys, released October 7, 1963 on Capitol Records. It reached number 4 in the US during a chart stay of 46 weeks, and was eventually certified platinum by the RIAA. It is considered to be one of the earliest examples of a rock concept album.[7]

The album was released three weeks after Surfer Girl. Four of the tracks from Little Deuce Coupe ("409", "Shut Down", "Little Deuce Coupe", and "Our Car Club") had already appeared on previous albums, and discounting an alternate recording of "Be True to Your School", no tracks from the album were issued as an A-sided single.

  1. ^ Badman, Keith. The Beach Boys. The Definitive Diary of America's Greatest Band: On Stage and in the Studio Backbeat Books, San Francisco, California, 2004. p. 42
  2. ^ a b AllMusic review
  3. ^ Jones, Peter; Jopling, Norman (November 13, 1965). "The Beach Boys: Little Deuce Coupe" (PDF). Record Mirror. No. 244. p. 8. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 1, 2022. Retrieved August 18, 2022.
  4. ^ Wolk, Douglas (October 2004). "The Beach Boys Little Deuce Coupe/All Summer Long". Blender. Archived from the original on June 30, 2006. Retrieved June 2, 2017.
  5. ^ Larkin, Colin, ed. (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). London: Oxford University Press. p. 479. ISBN 978-0-19-531373-4.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ Springer, Matt (October 7, 2015). "52 Years Ago: The Beach Boys Release a Concept Album About Cars, 'Little Deuce Coupe'". Ultimate Guitar.