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Rarities (The Beach Boys album)

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Released
  
1983

Compiler
  
Brad Elliot

Artist
  
Producer
  
Genre
  
Rock music

Length
  
30:25

Rarities(1983)
  
Release date
  
1983

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Lost & Found (1961–62), Endless Harmony Soundtrack, Ten Years of Harmony, Hawthorne - CA, Sunshine Dream

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Rarities is a Beach Boys compilation album released in 1983 by Capitol Records. It is a collection of outtakes, alternate mixes & B-sides recorded between 1962 & 1970. Included are songs written or made popular by The Beatles, The Box Tops, Stevie Wonder, Ersel Hickey and Lead Belly. Also featured are several standards, such as "The Lord's Prayer" and "Auld Lang Syne". The album sold poorly and was quickly deleted.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "With a Little Help from My Friends" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 2:22
  2. "The Letter" (Wayne Carson) – 1:47
  3. "I Was Made to Love Her" [alternate version] (Henry Cosby, Lula Mae Hardaway, Sylvia Moy, Stevie Wonder) – 2:34
  4. "You're Welcome" (Brian Wilson) – 1:06
  5. "The Lord's Prayer" (Albert Hay Malotte) – 2:31
  6. "Bluebirds over the Mountain" (Ersel Hickey) – 2:49
  7. "Celebrate the News" [alternate version] (Dennis Wilson, Gregg Jakobson) – 3:03
  8. "Good Vibrations" [alternate version] (B. Wilson, Mike Love) – 3:33
  9. "Land Ahoy" (B. Wilson) – 1:42
  10. "In My Room [German version]" (B. Wilson, Gary Usher) – 2:15
  11. "Cottonfields" (Lead Belly) – 3:02
  12. "All I Want to Do" [live] (D. Wilson) – 2:30 (1:39 on some pressings)
  13. "Auld Lang Syne" (Traditional) – 1:11

CD bonus tracks

  1. "Medley: Good Vibrations/Help Me, Rhonda/I Get Around/Little Deuce Coupe/Little Honda/Hawaii/409/Noble Surfer/Dance, Dance, Dance/Shut Down/Surfin' Safari/Barbara Ann/Surfin' U.S.A./Fun, Fun, Fun" [Up Tempo Version] – 6:51
  2. "Medley: Surfer Girl/Girls on the Beach/Ballad of Ole' Betsy/We'll Run Away/Caroline, No/The Surfer Moon/In My Room" [Ballad Version] – 9:39
  3. "Beach Boys Medley: Good Vibrations/Help Me, Rhonda/I Get Around/Shut Down/Surfin' Safari/Barbara Ann/Surfin' U.S.A./Fun, Fun, Fun" [Single Version] – 4:10

Reviews

In a brief review, AllMusic's William Ruhlmann called Rarities a collection of "alternate takes, surprising cover versions, and different mixes of familiar songs make this a delight for collectors and hard-core fans. To anyone else, it's pleasant but non-essential."

Songs

1With a Little Help From My Friends2:22
2The Letter1:47
3I Was Made to Love Her2:34

References

Rarities (The Beach Boys album) Wikipedia