Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)

Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)
Studio album by
the Beach Boys
ReleasedJuly 5, 1965 (1965-07-05)
RecordedFebruary 24 – June 4, 1965
StudioWestern, Gold Star, and Columbia, Hollywood
GenrePop[1]
Length26:42
LabelCapitol
ProducerBrian Wilson
The Beach Boys chronology
The Beach Boys Today!
(1965) 		Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)
(1965) 		Beach Boys' Party!
(1965)
The Beach Boys UK chronology
Pet Sounds
(1966) 		Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)
(1966) 		Best of The Beach Boys
(1966)
Singles from Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)
  1. "Help Me, Rhonda"
    Released: April 5, 1965
  2. "California Girls" / "Let Him Run Wild"
    Released: July 12, 1965

Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!) is the ninth studio album by the American rock band the Beach Boys, released on July 5, 1965, by Capitol Records.[2] The band's previous album, The Beach Boys Today! (released March 1965), represented a departure for the group through its abandonment of themes related to surfing, cars, and teenage love,[3] but it sold below Capitol's expectations. In response, the label pressured the group to produce bigger hits.[4] Summer Days thus returned the band's music to simpler themes for one last album, with Brian Wilson combining Capitol's commercial demands with his artistic calling.[5]

Produced by Wilson, Summer Days reached number two on the US Billboard 200 and number four on the UK Albums Chart. Two singles were issued from the album: "Help Me, Rhonda", which became the group's second chart-topper in the US, and "California Girls", which peaked at number three.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference BBC was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Badman 2004, p. 96.
  3. ^ Schinder 2007, p. 111.
  4. ^ Wilson & Greenman 2016, p. 89.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference davidleaf was invoked but never defined (see the help page).