The Beach Boys- Shindig! (ALL PERFORMANCES) 

It was good seeing Brian Wilson happy and playing with the group on that first number. He ran into such trouble later in life. As a 13 year old boy living in cold northern Ohio, what the Beach Boys and California represented to me was almost mythical. I wanted to be there someday. 12 years later I was living in northern California and I never looked back.

Absolutely priceless. They were in their prime here! Brian seems to be really enjoying himself. We recently saw Brian and Al in concert with Chicago! This takes me back to my youth. Thank you Beachboys for your incredible sounds and songs. Brian is a musical genius.

This delightful Shindig compilation really shows the Beach Boys in their prime, so healthy, so full of life, young and handsome! Their voices were just phenomenal. These live performances show just how ridiculously talented they all were. Holy cow could Brian hit those high notes! And his voice when he sang Please let me Wonder just melted me. Oh man the way those girls screamed at the Dennis Wilson closeups, lol. You just can't watch this video without smiling. This was a very badly needed pallette cleanser after watching some really depressing later stuff when Brian was so ill and out of it. Ah to be young again!

This is priceless. Love them all, but even the Mike Love haters gotta admit he really got into the character of the songs. So much fun to watch. 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜

Famous Rhonda by Al Jourdin . Love how they feature everyone - AL does a fabulous job with this. It’s crazy how all their voices just match each other perfectly / it has the beach boy sound big time. Great Job AL! ♥️

0:00 - Dance, Dance, Dance 2:11 - Little Saint Nick 3:50 - Monster Mash 5:13 - Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow 6:46 - Johnny B. Goode 8:49 - Fun, Fun, Fun 9:59 - Long Tall Texan 11:21 - Please Let Me Wonder 13:08 - Help, Me Rhonda 15:55 - Their Hearts Were Filled With Spring 17:31 - Do You Wanna Dance?

Great job. This is gold. Live for real. Brian’s falsetto and lead singing. Shy Carl. And Mike Love being, well Mike Love.

The screams whenever Dennis appeared onscreen were Beatlesesque. He was the sex symbol of the group.

Some really great live stuff. They all made their sound so amazing. Their Hearts Were Full of Spring is a terrific version with Dennis contributing so well. Dennis's lead on Do You Wanna Dance is impressive. They all were so talented and probably the best vocal group ever.

Great to see all these life performances!!

Brian was so gorgeous

Videos like this one are gold

Best American band ever

All us 60's Shindiggers know how especially great this video is. Thanks for your gift.

What a magical compilation of the early BB total immersion love it

I love the energy of these performances. Oh what it is to be young!

Group blessed with 5 lead singers.. & great musicians & song writers to boot.

I love these old live( or nearly) performances. I like to see Brian enjoying performing and love the great sound.

They will forever be my favorites

mike's vocals in monster mash was actually really cool

I was 5 when they came out. Growing up in Southern CA. My older bros were teenagers they would also go see these guys play. Later years working in the music biz in Hollywood i would meet most of the guys. Brian was borderline musical genius. The harmonies. Mike on vocals. Incredible! Memories 🎶🎶🎶

‘Their Hearts Were Full of Spring’ shows such incredible vocal talent! Their blend, phrasing and vocal dynamics were utterly superb! I could listen to that song every day forever!

Poor Dennis and Carl....their death was heartbreaking...💔😓💔😓💔

Brian was the nerd in a study group.... he was the one who did the homework and is so amazing

Dennis was so good looking.

I was a young kid then with 3 older sisters, I knew they were great then, followed them throughout my life and I am over 60 now...

This is the best bb video out there

Those were the days! No one can duplicate this no matter how hard they try! Looks like such a fun time! The audience was lucky to be there! Thoroughly enjoyed being entertained watching this performance for the first time ever! Thanks for posting!😊❤

Mike Love was a great frontman!

I remember that Old St Nick song but I didnt know the BB did it...being I the midwest and a little younger, I didn't know many details of thevBeach Boys until later yeard. Learning a lot now on the internet and RU-vid... some too much that I wish I didnt learn about the boys

Could you imagine seeing these cats at a house party in S.California in the 60's????

Together, they were the perfect storm!

really great to see these young guys. voices are so impeccable, sound great.

Anyone else get chills when Brian sings please let me wonder

Alan Jardine was always the secret weapon of the Beach Boys..........P E R I O D.

These guys could really play live!

Nobody smiles better than Dennis

There hearts were full of Spring (and Christmas.)

Classic Beach Boys are Best thing that could happen to anyone who wants to dance 🇺🇸

That was really good and I'm surprised that Mike showing so much animation during the monster mash! They all did so well!

Dennis absolutely smashing the drums on Dance Dance Dance!!

Wonderful memories....thank you

Good job putting this all together! Nice!

the ultimate dream--- to sing this with the original beach boys on stage-- imagine the euphoria omg

Awesome! Thanks for posting. 👍

If there’s a heaven it will be me up there playin guitar surrounded by those Shindig Dancers!

Lol Mike actually did really well on Monster Mash - very good version.

My unscientific observation is that you can tell which songs are live and which ones are recorded based on Dennis Wilson's energy.

The Beach Boys were the first concert I went to and it was something to see

I wish Al sang more. I love his voice.

This was al made worthwhile just to see Brian singing "Papa Oooomow Mow". Really. Great garage band stuff there, Brian! And I didn't know Carl played a Rickenbacker, either. Nice.

Brian and co.... showing us all that is good about pop music...

Brian was great and of course the chicks loved Dennis

Love little Saint Nick so much. My favourite Christmas song of all time

Americana at its Best 🇺🇸 ♥️

so good - they rock !

Omg I'd be going crazy if I was there

Great job! Thanks for uploading!

Al is replacing David Marks who played rhythm guitar in the first four albums so I've always wondered what the Beach Boys sound like with Dave and Carl instead of al and Carl playing guitar , and unfortunately other than a recording at the Azusa Boys Club which is very early, we have no recordings of the band before David left and Al rejoined. But if you listen to the early albums you hear that Dave and Carl were amazing guitarist together and defined the early Beach Boys sound. Al is fantastic but he was essentially a folk guitarist and he's doing his best here to try to keep up with that early Beach Boys sound but it's not something he contributed to or had composed. In fact he's a better bassist, so if you want to hear a fantastic bass part, listen to Al on don't worry baby among other beachboy tracks. Boy their history is complicated but there's no doubt that they are rocking here in this configuration as well.

That first song was a jam. These guys were good.

Dance dance dance. I like that song. I'm over the place when I listen to it. Today albums was a cool one. Mike Love was singing reason for the season at the CAC with this one..with Bruce and the crew.

This is good but the footage from the TAMI show movie is great to watch

December 23, 1964 April 21, 1965

Great editing! Thanks for uploading!

Great vid and really enjoy The Beach Boys, right up there with the boys from Jersey better known as the 4 Seasons.

Solid. Tight. Fun. Amazing.

To think they were just kids themselves. Great clips!

Claramente, una de las mejores bandas de la historia. 🎸

Interesting production. I was born in 1975, so I definitely missed this. It’s interesting how they use backing tracks for some of the songs, but not all of them… and on the ones they use tracks on, they kinda double them live. I think this was the early days of live performances on TV and they were experimenting with how to do it most effectively. American Bandstand didn’t use any actual live audio on their performances. This is like 50/50. I would have loved to be a fly on the wall when this was being taped. It’s featured on the opening of the film “Love & Mercy”.

This is gold all the way!

Mike Love was a show pony.Brian was always the star of the show

This was to be the unknown close of the 'golden era'. Brian was to totally relinquish is role as leader. Things would never be the same following this.

Fabulous thanks 😊

Awesome

Killing it

Mike Love invented the Moonwalk 17:37

It’s so embarrassing to see these people “dance”, and remember I was one of them occasionally!

There's actually a Red Skeleton show from April 1963 that features the Beach Boys with David Marks, they perform Surfin USA and at the 8:11 mark the whole band does a commercial for the Surfin USA album. Also a short video of surfing safari with David on guitar, and the band still wearing their Pendleton shirts....

Most of those songs they played live. A rare occurrence on those shows and they did it and so well.

You did a good job with this compendium

Give a shout-out to the Go Go Dancers! And the a capella harmonizing on "Hearts filled with Spring."

Yes always great to see Brian In the young days. It’s hilarious how all the girls scream every time the camera shows Dennis. Haha big grin from him. Wow. That’d give you a big ego eventually wouldn’t it ? And if a no / you’d be so used to hearing yes that you couldn’t cope with it. Guess he did as good as he could do. I like him very much & admire his work with The Beach Boys & music after that. ♥️ Personally I think he was underrated with his music skill.

They really had nowhere to hide in those pants 🤭 Almost sixty year old footage, what a treasure.

There’s just something about Brian’s mature smooth sexy voice that has lots of range & Availability. Very attractive. ♥️♥️🧸

Mike born old!!!!

This is the first rime I heard the beachboys sing a Christmas song live

When you see Brian playing bass on "Help Me Rhonda" he's actually playing to Carol Kaye's bass playing. Brian was producing this tune and fighting with his dad during the session.

dont care what anybody saids about it, but dennis was a damn good drummer

God they went off! On the other early striped shirt performances they seemed so shy….but they went tf off here!

I can't hardly believe it, I actually used to dance like that, too!

After reading several Beach Boys biographies I'm convinced that Mike Love is an interloper.

That monster mash was drugs. LOL!! 😂😂😂 Enjoyed songs I’d never heard before. 🙏

The Mike Love hate is tiresome. He has funny quirks in old tape, but regardless of the things that since have gone on, he has shown on later tracks and in backing vocals to be a good base singer. What goes on, goes on, they were a wonderful group, and they played their parts with excellence. I think Al Jardine should get more credit for his great work also, his vocal work when he got the chance was always top notch.

I Love this song especially Brian and his falsetto hes truely a Genus and Loved by many ❤‍🩹

I know his dad was hard on him like my dad. You know what the saying goes pressure makes diamonds. His music is three staff wide. Two treble clefs and one bass clef. Intervals all over the place. Slurs and ties. Rests in Kokomo every two Notes. Wayne Johnston

This is more better than the beach boys concert album. They should come up with something that will make everyone wants to go surfing and drive their car till it's time to go home.

I saw THE RIGHTEOUS BROTHERs dancing on the first song 🧡

what a fun set wow I wish I was around

I wonder why they never had a boom for Dennis. He sang too.

I never knew they did "The Monster Mash". How freaky was that performance by the lead singer. Geez, he's creepy.