Beach Boys Campfire Acoustic Session - "Endless Summer" - FULL 

This is basically Beach Boys Party, Vol. 2 and I absolutely adore it

When Brian starts singing Be My Baby in A, then Carl starts playing and it's perfectly on pitch haha

This is a gem. Serious BB fans know the off and on estrangement the band members have had. To see all of them enjoy each other's company in this situation is so cool.

Carl had to be some kind of guitar genius to play all these songs pretty much unaccompanied. These are not simple I-IV-V progression songs. Very impressive!

Great to Brian having a great time!!!

Carl! RIP gorgeous man

22:00 Brian is the first to react when the little girl gets too close to the fire. For some reason this really got me super emotional. People write him off as having all those problems, and he did, but this is a really awesome moment of how aware he really is. Just a beautiful moment!

Brian’s voice is loud and clear here and he sings tons of falsetto, despite some of the comments. Foskett is shadowing him for sure but Brian is doing it.

Gotta love Carl wearing a black suit to the campfire.

9:37 Brian Wilson falsetto!

this made this 64 year old guy tear up. Some of the best songs of my youth from the best group of my youth.... the guys enjoying each other, the families smiling and singing along. This was Americana, the one I grew up in,not the one we have now. How sad to have lost it. Play the Beach boys at my funeral. I loved their music and the mourners will too,lol.

When they broke into Surfer Girl, I think every hair on my body stood on edge. Amazing what they can do with basically just their voices.

Love hearing Carl play acoustic guitar. A rarity!!!

The way they just went into Surfer Girl gave me chills.

Adding this comment in years later. I am 72 years old and surfer girl was the first record I ever bought.

If you grew up with the Beach Boys, how can you not love them? They were us, and we were them.

gotta appreciate how Brian (despite his damaged voice) goes for pretty much all the high parts. though the early end of their hearts were full of spring is a shame.

I’ve never felt joy the way Brian did when they broke in to Be My Little Baby.

Saw Billy Hinche in there too. RIP Carl, Billy and Dennis. We miss you guys! ✨✨✨🎶🎶🙏💙🙏🎶🎶✨✨✨

You can see Brian was still heavily medicated at the time.......and even tho he had his issues...you can see how much Carl adored his older brother

I love how they all instinctively knew what harmonies they could contribute with unexpected songs like Be My Baby and Smoky Joes Cafe, just from having worked together so long and all Brian’s arrangements and working with them in the 60s

Looks like Al has his son Matt with him when he was little... Now he sings falsetto for Brian Wilson's band with his dad, that's so cool. Matt has chops too... I'll be seeing them all in 10 days in Atlantic City....can't wait !!

Al Jardine and Bruce are great!!! Mike sounds great here too! Lovely to see Brian and Carl jamming together like this! Just listened to the album Surfs Up and it’s amazing!

Hearing them sing together on In My Room had me sobbing, and The Hearts Were Full Of Spring broke me ...

There was magic in the air this night long ago. You can still feel it all these years later. How many "bands" could pull this off? I am biased, I suppose. I am 63, the first time I saw them live was Anaheim stadium in the summer of 1976. Brian had not toured in a while, and at some point in the show Mike stepped up to the microphone and said, "ladies and gentlemen, we'd like to welcome to the stage our brother, cousin, and the heart of the Beach Boys, Brian Wilson. The place erupted. It was festival seating, the stage was in center field, my girlfriend and I got there in the wee hours and set our blanket down on second base. When they got rolling with Brian on the keyboards, the big electronic sign flashed "Club level patrons please refrain from dancing and stomping". I turned around, and you could see that level of the stadium moving up and down as people moved with the music. I can still see that in my memory. That girlfriend? We were high school sweethearts. Class of 1976. We married in in 1980. She is still my girl, and we still smile and dance at 63 when we hear these guys sing. They are a big part of the soundtrack of our lives, and our love story.

This should be put on TV again as a prime time special for all of us that grew up with these guys in the 60's to see that for a time in the late eighties they really still could be amazing together .

this must've been the best campfire music company you can EVER get

Seeing Brian joking with Mike is great. It's sad when a group like this, especially a family group, has grudges against each other. Great video.

Brian, under the control of Landy here or not, has some great energy to him. Love the way he tells stories here

This is wonderful, deserves a DVD release!

This is such a wonderful treatise on love and harmony. Brian was just becoming “Brian” again around this time and you can see the gratitude by the band. Their harmonies take barbershop to a whole different plane. Great hearing the spontaneous oldies. Awesome!

If Heaven has a clambake this is how I imagine it Gosh--how beautiful was Carl Wilson's voice. World class harmonies coming through. Brian's falsetto was always in that fine register that required scrupulous discipline to keep in check--especially considering his partial deafness. He pushed it early on and I am sure it was harder as he got older with even more hearing loss that comes with aging, but he is willing to go for it every time here. His love of music shines through. Al Jardine and Bruce Johnston have obvious talent. And that very interesting guy, Mike Love, with his wit and perfect singing voice, musicality the perfect complement to his cousins' guarded personalities and delicate dreamlike falsettos.

It saddens me that post baby boomer generations grew-up without the wonderment and honest to goodness brilliance of groups like The Beach Boys and other bands of the sixties. Had they been so lucky to have been immersed in such music, there is no doubt they would have had the foundation of beautiful music and the harmony it brought to America, and that things would have been as innocent as my generation. May we never let the magic of The Beach Boys slip the bonds of truly an amazing period in American music history.

New "Beach Boys Party album" completed, Awsome!

It makes me feel so happy knowing there are so many people who love this as much as I do. Truly makes me believe in the world 🌍

Brian Wilson’s falsetto was still there!! I love this video!!

I'm 45 and I'm a big Beach Boys fan. This was really cool to watch. They were truly a very talented band. The Harmony of their voices together is Amazing. I wish Dennis the only surfer of the group was there. RIP Dennis and Carl.

These guys singing the Ronettes- priceless❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

This is the most heart warming and wholesome video I've ever seen! Its so nice to see them all so happy, reflecting back on their memories:)

This is great...is this all family I wonder? Al's a lovely Dad.

Good grief this is AWESOME! The real Beach Boys Party! Didn't even know it existed!

Right at the end Brian said ..Hey, Dennis is good.. he still heard his voice singing too...lovely )))

You can just see the admiration Mike has for Brian and is just totally in the moment😊

This was a great moment caught in time between all the guys it shows the real love and harmony in the group God Bless Them

The nearest thing to this regarding their main competitors - The Beatles (albeit they admired each other) was when the 3 surviving Beatles sat on George's lawn with a ukulele and instantly remembered some song George had written in India. Made me think as I watched it ''The little buggers like friends again - what was the stupid break up about?'' - similar emotions come to mind watching these guys.

I've been a Beach Boys fan since 1964, but I have never seen this. Amazing!

Brian is hilarious here, that windscreen story cracked me up😂

I'm reading the comments and everyone feels the same. This is an amazing find. I never heard of this or saw it anywhere. I'm 57 and a Beach Boys Fan. WTH. Hearing everyone including Brian in the late 80's sing like this is great. It's like a legit sit at the campfire and wing songs with the freakin Beach Boys. Thanks for the post...

Honest joy here. We all need this.

Carl put up with so much from Brian but you could see how much he loved his brother.

Awesome relaxed session with the harmonies they're famous for, nice

Man, those vocals and harmonizing, years later at that.

When u have talent at the level these guys have and put it together this is what u see and hear 5 voices sounding as one

1:31-1:47 Brian's look to Mike🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Love to Brian after all those years light up at the suggestion of be my baby if I'm not mistaken he's obsessed with that song 😊

Songs of my youth. God Bless them Beach Boys!

my God, was Carl Wilson such an underrated guitarist. 👏👏👏

So beautiful!! Listening to them talk about their childhood of singing together at their parents' parties; it is easy to see why they have that wonderful harmony. They have been singing together since they were kids and have perfect confidence in each other.

I love this. It's so wholesome, especially considering the animosity between them today

The Beach Boys troubled ingenious leader, Brian Wilson, at age 8, insisted to his parents that he be allowed to force younger brother Carl Wilson to learn harmonies when he was just 5. IT WORKED!!!

What a great performance. Brian sounds amazing; and yu have to love him scolding the little one as she is getting too close to the fire during Barbara Ann

Are you kidding me most groups couldn't sound half as good in a studio these guys are on a beach with out electricity no amps 'microphones or studio tricks

I DREAMED THIS last night and NOW I'm here singing along on my kitchen counter. I'M so HAPPY ! We've been having fun all summer long !

What a group of talent they all have clear voices

It's so wonderful to share this hour with them. Knowing the heartbreaking things they have all been through it's easy to see their love for each other got them through it all. Brian looks so proud to have the family all gathered around. Then there's patient and loving Carl who gave stability to his brothers. I love his songs most of all.

Nice Brian falseto!!!

Those harmonies are just❤❤❤

This clip is a genuine cultural video time capsule. For those of us who grew up on the Beach Boys' music, it is a precious gem, significantly better even than the many BB concert videos out there. I watched the "Endless Summer" TV series when it aired originally in the summer of 1989. It already felt nostalgic even back then. Now, having found this video on RU-vid, I'm sure I'll watch it repeatedly. Very many thanks to DanThomasMusic for posting.

This brought back great memories. Made me happy

So cool...especially Be My Baby.

Literally started smiling while watching this. Magical to see them all together, relaxed, just jamming and having fun.

Great songs. Great voices. Great memories.

BBoys own many of the greatest moments in music history. This is one of them.

This is awesome. Everyone sounds great and everyone is in good spirits!

WHO NEEDS A STUDIO?!!??! THIS WAS AWESOME.. LOLLL SO FUN... GOOD COMPANY. Brian is one heck of a good looking man. Wow so so talented, beautiful voice....brian & carls voices..harmonizing one of the best ...along side of the carpenters

A friend of mine, Ron Coleman.. was a member of The Delroys, who recorded "Bermuda Shorts". He was also one of the writers. I told him it was one of the first songs The Beach Boys sang when they were forming. He was very happy to hear that.

I grew up in the 60's. Low key, I always kind of liked the Beach Boys, but I was more of a British invasion fan. A month ago, I watched the movie and then played a live Beach Boys concert on You Tube. I woke up with a smile on my face. Since then, I've been You Tubing the band through the State of Washington, Washington, DC, Paris, Costa Rica, England, etc. My family gets worried now when I (living in Missouri) say things like "take your shoes off because it's not cool to wear shoes while you're surfing." They are like WTF? I am currently happily lost in a Beach Boys time machine. Belatedly, I realize, they weren't just "fun" ... they were groundbreaking geniuses who created a definitive style of music. And nobody could stop them. Not the Beatles, the drug culture or even Charles Manson. The mesh of brothers and cousins was God-ordained. Even the evil father reminds me of a scripture ... "What was intended for bad was turned into good." This year, I have had spinal surgery and two brain surgeries, but my heart is, nonetheless, lately lighter because of the BB's!!!

First time I heard the Beachboys was 1962 I was in 2 grade..a group of us were hanging around the corner on a busy street ..when the cars stopped for the light we would listen to the car radios…heard ..409..I was hooked..still cruise today listening to them.

How good is this 👏👏👏

Incredible video, thanks so much

A real gem thanks 😊

I remember when this was televised back in the 80s. These are historic Beach Boy gems of them sitting around a campfire with even Brian lucid and relaxed.

This is the first band I ever heard. I was 3 years old. I used to borrow the Beach Boy 45’s from my sister and blast them from her record player. I still like them as much now as I did in 1960, maybe even more.

What a terrific video. Thank you.

Thank you for this amazing post!

Priceless Video! Thanks so much for sharing !

This is great, thanks for posting this.

They killed Be My Baby!

Thank you, thank you, thank you for posting this!❤

THANK YOU!!!

This is excellent, they are relaxed, great harmonies yeah! 👍😄👑✅🎶🎤🎸🕺💯

Thanks Dan, this is so amazing!

This is terrific

Nice job. Well done!

What a Gem, thank You 😊

Fantastic stuff

Absolute gold! What a joy to see them all together (minus Dennis of course RIP)

This is such a heartwarming video. Thanks for posting it.❤

thank you so much for posting this. I remember watching it more than 10 years ago, and then I couldn't find it anymore. I missed this!

Thank you for this video as awesome and brings back lovely memories 👍