| | Sundazed to issue deluxe album edition of Dennis Wilson’s Pacific Ocean Blue In conjunction with Sony-BMG/ Legacy Recordings Sundazed is proud to announce that we will be issuing the deluxe album edition of Dennis Wilson’s Pacific Ocean Blue on High Definition Blue-Colored vinyl!
BEACH BOY DENNIS WILSON’s
PACIFIC OCEAN BLUE: LEGACY EDITION
"Everything that I am or will ever be is in the music.
If you want to know me, just listen." — Dennis Wilson
Arrives in stores May 13, 2008, on CD from Caribou/Epic/Legacy and a double gatefold vinyl LP edition from Sundazed Music
Eternal Beach Boy Dennis Wilson’s 1977 solo album, the first solo album by any Beach Boy — out-of-print and unobtainable for more than a decade except as a pricey collectors item or bootleg — will return to circulation on the occasion of its 30th anniversary, and the 25th anniversary of its creator’s untimely death in 1983, at age 39.The double-CD PACIFIC OCEAN BLUE: LEGACY EDITION arrives in stores May 13th on Caribou/Epic/Legacy, a division of SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT. A deluxe blue-colored, high-definition vinyl edition of the LP will also be released at the same time, on Sundazed Music.
As of this writing, complete component details of the PACIFIC OCEAN BLUE: LEGACY EDITION package are still being finalized, as the tape vaults of the Beach Boys and Caribou Records continue to be combed for new treasure. Initial plans call for disc one to include the original 12-song LP sequence: 1. River Song • 2. What’s Wrong • 3. Moonshine • 4. Friday Night • 5. Dreamer • 6. Thoughts of You • 7. Time • 8. You and I • 9. Pacific Ocean Blue • 10. Farewell My Friend • 11. Rainbows • 12. End of the Show. In addition, disc one will contain previously unreleased bonus tracks that have never appeared on any bootleg product.
Disc two of PACIFIC OCEAN BLUE: LEGACY EDITION will be a godsend to Dennis Wilson and Beach Boys devotees around the world – especially those who have been aware of the Bambu album he had hoped to release as a follow-up, but never completed. The tape archive is the source for over a dozen bonus tracks, all previously unreleased, from the original Pacific Ocean Blue and Bambu sessions. Bambu has been referenced as "Bamboo" in numerous articles on Dennis and the Beach Boys, but paperwork that accompanied the sessions now reveals the artist always intended for the album to be titled Bambu.
All unreleased tracks have been mixed by Wilson’s original engineer John Hanlon (the Beach Boys; Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young; Jayhawks; R.E.M; Gillian Welch) with Gregg Jakobson (original co-producer and co-writer) and Jim Guercio (producer and owner of Caribou Records).
Liner notes for PACIFIC OCEAN BLUE: LEGACY EDITION will come from a variety of Beach Boys scholars. David Leaf is the author of the Brian Wilson biography Beach Boys and the California Myth (1978), and the follow-up, Beach Boys: Spirit of America (1985). He has annotated nearly 30 Beach Boys-related reissue projects, including the Good Vibrations: Thirty Years Of the Beach Boys (1993) and The Pet Sounds Sessions (1997) box sets, which he co-produced. Leaf is also an award-winning television producer, director and writer of more than 50 entertainment-related biographies and specials, including An-All Star Tribute To Brian Wilson (TNT, 2001), and Beautiful Dreamer: Brian Wilson and the Story of SMiLE (Showtime, 2004). Additional essays will feature by Jon Stebbins (author of Dennis Wilson: The Real Beach Boy), Mojo magazine contributing editor Ben Edmonds, and David Beard (editor of the Beach Boys fanzine, Endless Summer Quarterly).
The set’s full-color booklet will include extensive discographic information and memorabilia. Among these are the images taken for the original LP package by photographer and lifelong friend Dean Torrence (of Jan & Dean), thought for decades to be lost but later uncovered in the Sony Music archives.
Long considered one of the Rosetta Stones of Beach Boys iconography, Dennis Wilson’s Pacific Ocean Blue has been a collectors item virtually since the day it was released. The LP edition, although it sold as well as any Beach Boys title at the end of the 1970s, was out-of-print in the catalog by the early ’80s, when the group’s Caribou Records deal with Epic ran out. |
Darn I was hoping for the
Darn I was hoping for the Mike Love reissue.
"Looking Back With Love", really?
There are loads of sealed LP copies on eBay, as cheap as $5! Plus here’s a minty radio promo 45 of the title track… nice to see the pig on a Mike Love record sleeve.
I’m very excited about the Dennis Wilson release - I’d just read about it last night, but only about the CD issue… the LP will be purty.
Great album...
I will augment my vinyl and crappy bootlegs with this gem.
Indeed its a great LP.
Indeed its a great LP. Dennis’s record is better than what his bandmates were doing at that time. Brian is not the only talented guy in that band.
"Carry Me Home"
Brian is not the only talented guy in that band.
Totally. I love the post-Pet Sounds albums (1967 to ‘74), but Dennis is the one who really carried Brian’s vision into the ’70s. Under his watch, it evolved into something new. I’m convinced Lindsey Buckingham listened to plenty of Pacific Ocean Blue (as well as Gene Clark’s No Other) before producing Tusk.
The second disc of this reissue looks to be the "Bamboo" sessions, but that stills leaves loads of rarities from the early and mid ’70s, including the ballad "Carry Me Home" — my all-time fave Dennis song.
Agreed
Brian is not the only talented guy in that band.
Totally. I love the post-Pet Sounds albums (1967 to ‘74), but Dennis is the one who really carried Brian’s vision into the ’70s. Under his watch, it evolved into something new. I’m convinced Lindsey Buckingham listened to plenty of Pacific Ocean Blue (as well as Gene Clark’s No Other) before producing Tusk.
The second disc of this reissue looks to be the "Bamboo" sessions, but that stills leaves loads of rarities from the early and mid ’70s, including the ballad "Carry Me Home" — my all-time fave Dennis song.
Yeah totally, I think the problem some folks have with the Beach Boys is the stereotype that they were just a surf/hotrod band. After 1965 they seldom talked about either subject, and its when Brian gradually got less involved the other guys had to step up to the plate and made some incredible music. My favorite Beach Boys album is Sunflower from 1970. It didnt sell but what a record. Dennis has got four tracks on that record.
I dont know whats going on with Dennis’s early recording, or if Sundazed is planning to put that out at a later date.
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