The Beach Boys - Break Away (1969) 

It was a hit here in the uk

@@allanarmstrong4333 Got to number 6. Always stick this on the pub' jukebox!!!!

Here in the UK, we never fell out of love with the Beach Boys

Maybe a hit here in Australia, I was only 4 yo but my older brother who was 14 played it a lot on his record player and it stuck in my mind for 50 years. It came to me out of the blue this morning and had to look it up.

It was a hit in South Africa. The Beach Boys were GODS in our sunny country! Still legends.

None of their get ups looked cool even for 1968-69.

lol

LOL!! Funniest comment. You made my day 😄😁

The Dude on lead vocals 😂

@@kellyweingart3692, Carl. Best vocalist on the band! Brian will agree. I wish Carl Dean was still here! steve

A Rasputin version of a Californian? But, he FAILED at both attempts. steve

lol

Maharishi Californian 😂

Hilarious?

Yes!!!

not a single time

haha

I mean this is a studio track overlaid over Tv or gig footage

Rasputin can't hit them, either. I think it was some bad synching. Everyone was off, except for Carl and Alan. You can HEAR the drums, and Dennis Carl is right on. steve

It's because they overlayed the actual studio recording over the live performance, so of course it won't match up.

This entire period of the Beach Boys (1967-1972) is very overlooked… or ‘underrated’, to use the parlance of our times. At least in America. They were able to maintain their popularity in other countries during that era. Namely the UK. Youth culture was less dictated by the west coast hippie elite over there. In America they had basically been blacklisted by the end of ‘67 for being a no show at Monterrey Pop, and for not delivering on the promise of the much-hyped SMiLE album. They were deemed ‘uncool’ by the Lou Adlers and the Bill Grahams of the day, and fell out of favor with the American public for about 6 or 7 years. It was ridiculous. They were making some of their best music ever during that period.

That's Al lipping Brian's vocal.

@@evanwright9016 *carls vocal

@@evanwright9016 they are lipsycncing in this, but that is Al’s vocal on the original recording

Very useful

Al is originally from Lima Ohio, let alone California.

Disagree, sorry.

Sorry, but I agree with Bob. They are not underrated here. (Well, for the last 55 years.) steve

@@steveskouson9620 The Beach Boys post Pet Sounds was completely underrated, Steve. They barely sold any records in the States, and yet were producing some of the greatest albums in the history of music.

@@fshoaps No, they weren't "underrated." They just were not very good in the late 60's. Get it straight.

@@mikeymutual5489 Are you kidding me? Have you listened to "Friends", "Wild Honey", and "Sunflower"? Some of the best sounding records they made, and they barely made a dent in the United States.

Mike was heavily influenced in the drug culture of that time...I think he saw himself as John Lennon / Charles Manson..😅😂😊

Mike and Al weren’t into the drug culture at all. Mike was into TM.

@@Irene-qe5hu Oh, the irony. No, Mike was very outspokenly anti-drugs. Supposedly even a teetotaler when it came to alcohol too. He had this crazy over the top countercultural image he liked to put out to the world, with the beard, the long hair, and in this instance, the oversized mumu that beckons to ‘come join my cult’… but it was all just for show.

Nikhil Soneja@ - This tune is more like a song style of The Four Seasons.

I personally think it sounds more like the Bee Gees

I personally think it sounds like late 60’s Beach Boys. I guess that’s just me. 🤷‍♂️

he was definitely too stoned to try & play in sync lol. Good ole Dennis the menace

Plus he didn’t even play on the actual song.

@@SlickNickVids he likely did. They weren't using the wrecking crew or other studio musicians anymore by 1969.

Dennis looks at the drums and the drums play

Well, that's because they're just lip syncing to their record. How would you feel if it didn't matter what note you played or sang, or whether you kept time on the drums? Kind of silly, right?

It probably would have, had it been promoted (here in the states). It did very well in other countries where it was actually being promoted and played on the radio. In America during this time (late 60’s), the Beach Boys were blacklisted by both the industry and the hippie elite. I know how crazy that sounds, but it’s true. Those were very different times. The Beach Boys had fallen from favor during those heady days in their home country, for a number of reasons. The biggest reason being that they bailed last minute on the generation-defining Monterrey Pop festival, where they were scheduled to be the headlining band. There were also other reasons why they were excommunicated by the countercultural cognoscenti, but mostly it was because of their being a no show at Monterrey Pop. Like I said, they remained extremely popular in most other countries.

@@eghdf8888 I love the Bean Club. I even signed up for their “bean of the month” program. This month it’s Fava beans. Next will be Navy beans. I’m just hoping that chickpeas will qualify as beans. We’ll see. Fingers crossed. 🤞

Old man Murry wrote the lyrics, under a pen name. Since this would have been after they fired him as their manager, Brian, Dennis, and Carl probably weren't too keen on promoting it, and giving their abusive father claim to co-writing a big hit.

@@jamesmcmillan8610 You mean “Reggie Dunbar”? Nah, even though it was written during a turbulent period (between the Wilson boys and their pop), according to Brian it was completely Murry’s idea to use the pseudonym of “Reggie Dunbar”. Murry was a weirdo in his own right. From what I’ve learned, by this time (1969), Murry had lost all faith in the continued success of his sons’ and nephew’s band. That’s why he sold off the rights to the songs at a rock bottom price that same year. He really thought it was over for the Beach Boys. It really messed Brian up (even worse than he already was at that time). It sort of kicked off Brian’s whole ‘stay in bed’ marathon, which lasted a long time. Then Murry died a few years later. He had his own demons that were taking him down back then. As far as the promotion (of the single) issue goes, they did try to promote it just as much as they had put effort into promoting their earlier singles. Their efforts weren’t the issue, it was the fact that in ‘69 they had all but been blacklisted in their home country by both the hippie elite, who were really getting a leg up on the American music industry at the time, and FM radio programmers, who had been instructing DJ’s to _not_ play new Beach Boys music on the air. I know that sounds very ‘conspiracy nut’, but it’s the truth. After their big no show at Monterrey Pop, the BB’s had really fallen out of favor with the American hippie cognoscenti, who like I said earlier were basically in charge of pop culture in ‘69 and calling all the shots. They were still a big deal in other countries at the time though. This song was a high charting hit in both the UK and in Ireland, the Netherlands, and Australia. In America it only made it to #63 on the charts.

I agree 100%. Can you post one of Carl's bad vocals? Didn't think so! steve

I love Carl singing this song and the other song I love to this day is God only Knows, his vocals just touch my soul.R.I.P. Carl and Dennis...🙏❤🙏❤🇬🇧

@@Irene-qe5hu Dennis Carl, and Carl Dean. I miss them both! Saw Brian, first show of his last concert tour, here in Phoenix. Played with some group from Chicago. Miss Terry Kath as well. Oh, listen to Darlin. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Lt2tvNzt1CU.html&ab_channel=ZinigoaZaa steve

I love The Beach Boys, but I love Oasis too. Both are two of my favorite bands... Calling The Beach Boys "barber shop quartet bullshit" is just his stupid opinion, but Noel is a great songwriter too.

"Barber shop quartet bullshit" sounds hella good compared to that godawful grunge rock.

Liam. Who cares what he has to say about, oh I dunno… *ANYTHING?* All that guy has ever done, besides playing in the most derivative and mediocre band of all time, is talk smack on just about everyone else. I have no problem with Noel, however.

@jonathanbirch2022It was Liam who said that.

As always...

No. Someone overdubbed the original studio recording to the televised performance, and not very professionally I might add. This kind of thing happens a lot on YT uploads. If this was the actual audio from the original Beat Club televised performance, it would be much lower sound quality, albeit visually synced up.

@@bobradford2637 *one of them.

@@Shikta-poobah67 do you think nirvana is better?

@@julianG1212 No.

@@marcthemusicmanjacoby9380 Nah. No one was getting high in 1969. 🙄

“Come join my cult. You too can wear a giant oversized mumu and learn to chant”

@@bgbstrm2352 Seems that it was a big hit everywhere *_BUT_* in their home country. Such a shame. The hippie elite were in the process of ruining everything (here in America) at that time. The Beach Boys were collateral damage.

@@Milton1079 “lovable” 🤣🤣🤣

no

@@oldbeatpete yes

Carl had one of the best voices you’ll ever be privileged to hear.

Youre forgetting Brahm. But yea, I think Bach wouldve had a soft spot for the Beach Boys had he been alive in the late 1960s.

Tatsuro Yamashita actually does quite an admirable job of it on his 'Big Wave' album which is a mix of originals and covers - but yes no one does it quite like them

Also Dennis was a fantastic songwriter in his own right. So was Carl, Bruce and Al. The early 70s is just them flexing that.

@@jadentrez The Beatles never even attempted to carry on without Lennon, or any other original band member, so I’m not getting the comparison here. One thing the Beach Boys really did have over the Beatles was the ability to play all their more complicated, experimental songs live, note for note. The Beatles could make magic in the studio, but there was a good reason why they stopped playing live in ‘66.

@@Shikta-poobah67 The point is that the Beach Boys had the good fortune to find replacements and keep going through the rough times and managed to keep putting out good work post-1970. The Beatles could have given John and George a break and carried on with other musicians but unlike the Beach Boys they didn't have brothers or cousins to step in and help carry the load until John or George were ready to come back.

@@jadentrez I suppose. I dunno, comparing the individual stories of the Beach Boys and the Beatles is really a case of apples and oranges, from what I can tell. You already mentioned the one big difference, and that’s the fact that the Beach Boys were/are a family institution, from their inception. Sure, they carried on with only one Wilson brother for a while (really *NOT* my favorite era of the BB’s), and have had a revolving door cast of additional members over the years/decades. After ‘67 Brian was only marginally involved for the duration of their existence, with sporadic periods of major input, but they were inconsistent and typically short lived. And then then there was Dennis quitting and rejoining them a million different times in the first half of the 70’s. With the Beatles it was strictly the ‘fab four’ thing, and that was always non-negotiable. John, Paul, George, Ringo… end of story. Etched in stone. I respected them tremendously for that. I thought their breakup was well timed, and in my opinion ended on a high note. At least musically it did. I enjoyed much of what the Beach Boys did in their post-60’s years. At least most of their 70’s stuff was decent. Then there was this *_REALLY_* long gap between roughly 1978 and 2012 where I could only name about three songs they did in that entire period that I liked. If it hadn’t been for their redemption on “That’s Why God Made The Radio”, I would’ve continued to lament the fact that they didn’t just pack it in at the end of the 70’s. At any rate, my main point is that it has always been very difficult for me to compare those two bands when it comes to the way their stories played out. Two very different sets of circumstances.

@@Shikta-poobah67 I agree with you. The Beatles break up was probably right on time, and the four of them were irreplaceable. But at the same time that's what I admire about the Beach Boys. They had a certain durability that allowed them to keep going even when their guiding spirit, Brian Wilson, was on ice. I mean, Carl Wilson in particular stepped up big time.

A on this essay.

Hey where's love haha!

Al’s not singing falsetto. He’s also the one 60 years later who sounds closest to what he did when they were young.

‘That,’ not ‘dat.’ Grow up!

@@heli-crewhgs5285 thanks dad

He was into fake woke shit during this period. Like enlightened and what not. Basically hippy

He found Jesus

God bless the Wilson Brothers. I was crushed when I read about Dennis' drowning in December of 1983. I had the opportunity to express my feelings about Denny to Carl in 1985 and his brother's passing was devastating to him and Brian.

Brian Wilson learned it from the Four Freshmen

@Fs1e, Your intuition is right on target. It's not just you. 99% of true Beach Boys Fans would agree with you. The only person impressed with Mike...was, Mike!

@@timford3599 hi ,,I suppose he contributed either vocally,,,but definitely not visually,,,

You won't know unless you try, it could be the best thing you have done in your life so far and if not.. it wasnt meant to be ...make a complete new start....what is for you, won't pass you by... good luck.,💯🙋🏼‍♀️👍🙏🇬🇧

@Irene-qe5hu weird coincidence, got a girlfriend with the name Irene half a year ago. and she has helped me out that way

I'm surprised he can even stand up. He probably doesn't even know what country he's in. :?

Narcissists never do see themselves as others see them. They are so in love (no pun intended) with themselves that in their minds they are the center of the universe. Mike is the poster child of true self involvement. His name should have been Richard because he was, and is, a total DICK!

Amen