Side One: "Add Some Music To Your Day", "Roller Skating Child", "Disney Girls", "It's A Beautiful Day", "California Saga: California" (preferably the single version, if the master tape could be found), "Marcella". There was also talk of the group making a quick trip into the studio to cut "Back In The USSR".īy late September the contents were firming up. If the tapes could be found, they suggested including a song from the encore (with Elton John) of the group's JLondon concert, and "Jumpin’ Jack Flash" from the Washington, D.C. However, the Beach Boys suggested several ‘bonus’ tracks which they would be interested in including. Suggested by the CBS executives, but vetoed by the three Beach Boys, were the studio version of "We Got Love", "Child Of Winter", and the unreleased single mix of "School Days". "Add Some Music", "Roller Skating Child", "Disney Girls", "It's A Beautiful Day", "California Saga: California", "Marcella", "Rock And Roll Music", "Goin' On", "It's OK", "Cool Cool Water", "San Miguel", "Good Timin’", "Sail On Sailor", either "Wouldn't It Be Nice"(live) or "Darlin’" (live), "Lady Lynda", "The Trader", "Come Go With Me", "Deidre", "Mona", "Don't Go Near The Water", "Surf's Up", "She's Got Rhythm", "Honkin’ Down The Highway", "’Til I Die", "Long Promised Road", and either "River Song", or "You And I" (both from Dennis' Pacific Ocean Blue). In a subsequent conference telephone call, Bruce, Mike Love, Alan Jardine, and CBS’ two in-house Beach Boy fans brainstormed a rough lineup for a two-record set. It quickly became evident that Caribou president James William Guercio had thrown the tape together, reportedly because the Beach Boys had seemed in no hurry to assemble a lineup. The Beach Boys, Bruce insisted, had made no such thing. A CBS promotion man mentioned the tape to Bruce Johnston, who expressed complete surprise at the existence of a track lineup. Within a few short weeks, CBS' questions were answered. This was not the record they had expected. Side Two: "Marcella", "Surf's Up", "Cool Cool Water", "Don't Go Near The Water", "Talk To Me", "Til I Die".ĬBS executives were dumbfounded. ![]() ![]() Side One: "The Trader", "Deidre", "Long Promised Road", "The Night Was So Young", "Sail On Sailor", "Come Go With Me". He was quick to add, "Brian doesn't know this".ĬBS kept the compilation album on its list of projected September releases, and in July received from Caribou records a master for the record: We're just going to skim the Smile tapes and make a beautiful six minute collage". We're gonna go through the Smile album and just take little, sections of the tunes we have and put it out as a kind of sampler of the Smile album. "We're gonna collage the Smile album in this compilation. It's gonna get the best of everything, like "Til I Die," "Disney Girls," "Sail On Sailor," "San Miguel".īruce’s most ambitious thoughts concerned the Smile tapes. Because it's gonna cover all the period from, say, ‘68, ‘69 on. "The compilation album, if we get it out, will be, on the fan level, the best album they've ever had. Lease it back and put it on, because it's never been on an album").īefore a track lineup could be formed, however, the album's release was postponed to May and then to September.Īmong the group members, Bruce at least was thinking about the track lineup. ("That's gonna go in the compilation album", Bruce said last February. Also scheduled for inclusion were "San Miguel", the vetoed mix of "School Days" and, at Bruce Johnston's insistence, "The Lord's Prayer". Early on, CBS pegged "Come Go With Me" as the album's first single. The target release date was January, 1981. As originally planned, Ten Years’ Harmony, an original title, would have been only one disc. The idea of a compilation album was first proposed in the fall of 1980. To some of those involved, the final package was a severe disappointment. ![]() In the course of that year the album underwent several major revisions and countless minor changes. CBS executives spent more than a year working to release the package. The assembling of Ten Years Of Harmony however, proved to be no easy task. The handsomely packaged set included not only several single mixes and edits previously unavailable in album format, but also a previously unreleased single mix ("School Days"), and two tracks which had never seen the light of day in any form ("San Miguel" and "Sea Cruise"). Everything with the group was always a battle.įor most Beach Boys fans the recent CBS compilation, Ten Years Of Harmony, was a welcome addition to their collection. There was a lot of back and forth in the group about what to include.
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