Little Deuce

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The Beach Boys' fourth album found them trying to broaden their horizons--or at least move them farther inland. A "theme" album focusing on Southern California's burgeoning car culture, Little Deuce Coupe took its cue from a successful contemporary Capitol compilation (Shut Down) and gathers four of the band's previously released car songs--"409," "Little Deuce Coupe," "Shut Down," and "Our Car Club"--and surrounds them with eight new originals and a tribute to James Dean titled "A Young Man Is Gone," itself a rewrite of Bobby Troup's a cappella standard "Their Hearts Were Full of Spring." Collaborating with Los Angeles DJ-turned-lyricist Roger Christian (a key contributor to much of the band's early thematic sensibilities), Brian Wilson takes his musical growth another step forward here. And the success of the Mike Love vocal showcase "I Get Around" (the Beach Boys' first No. 1 single) began to build the band an international following as well. --Jerry McCulley --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

Little Deuce, Music, Beach Boys, Popular Music, Rock
Little Deuce Coupe/ All Summer Long
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • A car concept album & a small masterpiece of teenage angst on 1 CD!
  • Car songsfor cool kids
  • I'm not braggin', babe, so don't put me down.
  • An EXTREMO good album
  • An EXTREMO good album
 Little Deuce Coupe/ All Summer Long
The Beach Boys
Manufacturer: Capitol
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005A1MX
Release Date: 2001-03-13

Tracks:

  1. Little Deuce Coupe - Beach Boys
  2. Ballad Of Ole' Betsy - Beach Boys
  3. Be True To Your School - Beach Boys
  4. Car Crazy Cutie - Beach Boys
  5. Cherry, Cherry Coupe - Beach Boys
  6. 409 - Beach Boys
  7. Shut Down - Beach Boys
  8. Spirit Of America - Beach Boys
  9. Our Car Club - Beach Boys
  10. No-Go Showboat - Beach Boys
  11. A Young Man Is Gone - Beach Boys
  12. Custom Machine - Beach Boys
  13. I Get Around - Beach Boys
  14. All Summer Long - Beach Boys
  15. Hushabye - Beach Boys
  16. Little Honda - Beach Boys
  17. We'll Run Away - Beach Boys
  18. Carl's Big Chance - Beach Boys
  19. Wendy - Beach Boys
  20. You Remember? - Beach Boys
  21. Girls On The Beach - Beach Boys
  22. Drive-In - Beach Boys
  23. Our Favorite Recording Se - Beach Boys
  24. Don't Back Down - Beach Boys
  25. True To Your School - Beach Boys
  26. All Dressed Up For School - Beach Boys
  27. Little Honda (Alternate Take)
  28. Don't Back Down (Alternate Take)

Amazon.com

Released just one month after the Surfer Girl album, Little Deuce Coupe was, incredibly, the band's fourth album in less than a year. Brian Wilson and the band responded by turning in arguably their most consistent effort to date--and a concept album, to boot. Deuce Coupe expanded the band's subject matter to encompass 1963 America's burgeoning love affair with hot rods, surrounding previously released cuts such as the title track, "409," and others with strong new material (much of it cowritten by Wilson and a DJ, Roger Christian). A highpoint: the a cappella James Dean tribute "A Young Man Is Gone" (a reworking of Bobby Troup's beautiful "Their Hearts Were Full of Spring"), a prime example of Wilson's arranging genius and the band's vocal prowess. All Summer Long was notable not only for racheting up the band's standards and essentially bidding farewell to the surf songs that inspired both their name and reputation, but also for going toe-to-toe with one of rock's most explosive phenomena--Beatlemania--and coming away victorious, with the single "I Get Around" soaring to No. 1 in the spring of 1964. Essentially another loose concept record (revolving around the innocent hedonistic pursuits of an idyllic SoCal summer) that takes its cue from the effervescent title track, it also documents Brian's restless creativity pushing the band toward its performing peak. Bonus takes include the superior single take of band staple "Be True to Your School," alternate takes of "Little Honda" and "Don't Back Down," and the slightly salacious outtake "All Dressed Up for School." Both albums have also been sonically burnished via 24-bit digital remastering. --Jerry McCulley

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars A car concept album & a small masterpiece of teenage angst on 1 CD!.......2007-01-30

Little Duece Coupe is the ultimate car concept record and plays great even though a few tracks are a few years old and already released.
All Summer Long is highly recommended and Brian's first peak. These 7 songs listed here are ESSENTIAL listening.

Hushabye
Little Honda
We'll Run Away
Wendy
Girls On The Beach
Don't Back Down
All Dressed Up For School

5 out of 5 stars Car songsfor cool kids .......2006-12-10

Although the car or automobile has ruined the planet with its incessant demands for streets
and parking spaces and gas wars, these songs rule!

4 out of 5 stars I'm not braggin', babe, so don't put me down........2006-09-20

This CD features two Beach Boys albums.

Little Deuce Coupe was the Beach Boys' fourth album. It features a bunch of their car songs. Four of the songs had been on previous Beach Boys albums. Most of the songs are very good. One of the highlights is the moving a capella tribute to James Dean, "A Young Man is Gone".

All Summer Long was the Beach Boys sixth album. It also has a "theme", of sorts, that being "fun in the summertime". It was the Beach Boys best album at that point. It features their first #1 hit, "I Get Around". Other than that, it features a number of other songs that are considered to be Beach Boys classics; including "All Summer Long", "Little Honda", "Wendy" and "Girls on the Beach". No bad songs, although "Our Favorite Recording Sessions", which features outtakes of the Beach Boys messing up, is definitely "filler".

There are four bonus tracks; including the superior single version of "Be True To Your School", the previously unreleased "All Dressed Up For School", and alternate takes of "Little Honda" and "Don't Back Down". Any Beach Boys fan should enjoy this CD.

5 out of 5 stars An EXTREMO good album.......2006-01-02

This album has lots of their original stuff on it including their hit "Little Deuce Coupe"obviously. My Favorite Song is "Drive - In" on this album. I have an "opinion" about the Beach Boys... They're GREAT!!!!!!! I've seen a Beach Boys concert before that had almost EVERYTHING.... But all Beach Boys concerts now-a-days do.

5 out of 5 stars An EXTREMO good album.......2006-01-02

This album has lots of their original stuff on it including their hit "Little Deuce Coupe"obviously. My Favorite Song is "Drive - In" on this album. I have an "opinion" about the Beach Boys... They're GREAT!!!!!!! I've seen a Beach Boys concert before that had almost EVERYTHING.... But all Beach Boys concerts now-a-days do.
Little Deuce Coupe/All Summer Long
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • The Hardest Rocking Car Songs, The Most Romantic Ballads
  • We've been having fun.
  • back to the drawboard fellas.
  • good cd
  • What a fond trip down memory lane!
 Little Deuce Coupe/All Summer Long
The Beach Boys
Manufacturer: EMI Int'l
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000008DA1
Release Date: 1999-05-04

Tracks:

  1. Little Deuce Coupe
  2. Ballad of Ole' Betsy
  3. Be True to Your School
  4. Car Crazy Cutie
  5. Cherry, Cherry Coupe
  6. 409
  7. Shut Down
  8. Spirit of America
  9. Our Car Club
  10. No-Go Showboat
  11. Young Man Is Gone
  12. Custom Machine
  13. I Get Around
  14. All Summer Long
  15. Hushabye
  16. Little Honda
  17. We'll Run Away
  18. Carl's Big Chance
  19. Wendy
  20. Do You Remember?
  21. Girls on the Beach
  22. Drive-In
  23. Our Favorite Recording Sessions
  24. Don't Back Down
  25. Be True to Your School [Single Version]
  26. All Dressed up for School
  27. Little Honda [Alternate Take]
  28. Don't Back Down [Alternate Take]

Album Description

Two of the group's original hit LPs for Capitol digitally remastered & together on one CD with the original cover art of each, a 24 page booklet with extended liner notes, previously unreleased photos and track-by-track annotations and the bonus tracks 'B

Album Details

Two Releases on One CD. Includes Original Artwork, Extensive Booklet with Liner Notes and Previously Unreleased Photos. Digitally Remastered from the Original Master Tapes.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars The Hardest Rocking Car Songs, The Most Romantic Ballads .......2007-03-20

This double album combines LITTLE DEUCE COUPE with ALL SUMMER LONG. As a result, you get the most propulsive, driving rock and roll sound of the early Beach Boys, ("Little Deuce Coupe" "409" "Shut Down") combined with ballads like "Girls On the Beach" and "Hushabye." It's impossible to exaggerate the clean,lush, precision of the Beach Boys' harmonies on "Hushabye," which was originally a primitive Fifties song by a forgotten group called the Mystics. Then there are the driving fast songs on SUMMER which have a sweeter, sleigh bell sound, like "Drive In" and "Do You Remember."

On top of all that this CD package provides great bonus rarities like "Be True To Your School" (the rare hit single version, with twanging guitars and sound effects) and "Carl's Big Chance" the instrumental featuring guitarist Carl Wilson, which shuffles along nicely and even sounds a bit bluesy at times.

This is a spectacular combination of two great albums, just as powerful as the big anthologies which they did in the Seventies, SPIRIT OF AMERICA and ENDLESS SUMMER.

4 out of 5 stars We've been having fun........2006-09-20

This CD features two Beach Boys albums.

Little Deuce Coupe was the Beach Boys' fourth album. It features a bunch of their car songs. Four of the songs had been on previous Beach Boys albums. Most of the songs are very good. One of the highlights is the moving a capella tribute to James Dean, "A Young Man is Gone".

All Summer Long was the Beach Boys' sixth album. It also has a "theme", of sorts, that being "fun in the summertime". It was the Beach Boys best album at that point. It features their first #1 hit, "I Get Around". Other than that, it features a number of other songs that are considered to be Beach Boys classics; including "All Summer Long", "Little Honda", "Wendy" and "Girls on the Beach". No bad songs, although "Our Favorite Recording Sessions", which features outtakes of the Beach Boys messing up, is definitely "filler".

There are four bonus tracks; including the superior single version of "Be True To Your School", the previously unreleased "All Dressed Up For School", and alternate takes of "Little Honda" and "Don't Back Down". Any Beach Boys fan should enjoy this CD.

2 out of 5 stars back to the drawboard fellas........2000-09-27

i thought i'd be delighted by this cd , boy what a disappointment i found in the mixing, who ever did the job on this disc was sleeping while mixing this thing some tracks are good but most of them horrifingly mixed in mono the wrong ones. all have to say is the U.S issue of all summer long was great, but they pull it in the usa , so now you don't have a wonderful stereo version , but a sloppy mono copy that is'nt worthy of the beach boys tag. guys stereo works i just dig surfer girl/ shut down vol 2 that rocked i wish i could say the same for this disc.

i mean the ones like shut down & 409 sounds like i'm not hearing like i'm missing a speaker on my radio or something, there's no excitement . i have endless summer & made in the usa those mixes of those tracks jive & roll with energy that sounds like the the boys i've loved all these years. but do love the track car crazy cutie. better luck next time guys. thank goodness i bought a copy of all summer long before those guys at capitol pull it from the U.S .

5 out of 5 stars good cd.......2000-06-03

Thiws is yet again another great cd. both of the albums on here are great. and there are still no bad songs on here, but still the only bad part about here was the fact that Al Jardine is a part of the band.

5 out of 5 stars What a fond trip down memory lane!.......1999-11-21

I'll admit up front that two of the stars I gave this 2-on-1 CD was simply for all the wonderful memories this release from 1964 conjures up. All Summer Long was only my second LP purchase. [The first was Meet the Beatles earlier in the year when I was all of eleven!]

With more than 6,000 titles in my music collection now, I've enjoyed the opportunity to go back and revisit some of these old records on CD and it reminded me of what I loved about these records in the first place. Sure, you still hear the hits on the classic rock stations--and there's plenty of them here: "I Get Around," "Wendy" and "Little Honda" from All Summer Long, as well as "Little Deuce Coupe," "Shut Down," "409" and "Be True to Your School" from Little Deuce Coupe.

But there are other gems on this release to savor: the always tight harmony singing on "Hushabye," the goofiness of "Drive-In," the heartache of "We'll Run Away," the hard-driving "Don't Back Down." Okay, "Our Favorite Recording Sessions" is tough to listen to more than once or twice, especially since it sounds a little too scripted.

The bottom line is this: This disc finds its way into my CD player more often than any of the five discs from the Beach Boys box set. Okay, let's set the way-back machine to 1964. Ready? "Round, round, get around, I get around, yeah, get around, oo-ooh, I get around..." (Enjoy!)
Classic Broadway, Vol. 1
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Wonderful... the next best thing to watching the movies!
 Classic Broadway, Vol. 1

Manufacturer: Deuce Boxed Sets
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

GeneralGeneral | Musicals | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music
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ASIN: B00005YBWL
Release Date: 2001-06-18

Tracks:

  1. Overture
  2. You Did It
  3. I Could Have Danced All Night
  4. Wouldn't It Be Loverly
  5. With a Little Bit of Luck
  6. Rain in Spain
  7. On the Street Where You Live
  8. I'm an Ordinary Man
  9. I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face
  10. Get Me to the Church on Time
  11. Without You

Tracks:

  1. Tradition
  2. Matchmaker, Matchmaker
  3. If I Were a Rich Man
  4. Sabbath Prayer
  5. To Life
  6. Sunrise, Sunset
  7. Now I Have Everything
  8. Do You Love Me
  9. Far from the Home I Love

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Wonderful... the next best thing to watching the movies!.......2002-08-21

This CD contains highlights from My Fair Lady:
1. Overture
2. You Did It
3. I Could Have Danced All Night
4. Wouldn't It Be Loverly
5. With a Little Bit of Luck
6. The Rain in Spain
7. On the Street Where You Live
8. I'm an Ordinary Man
9. I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face
10. Get Me to the Church on Time
11. Without You
and highlights from Fiddler on the Roof:
1. Tradition
2. Matchmaker, Matchmaker
3. If I Were a Rich Man
4. Sabbath Prayer
5. To Life
6. Sunrise, Sunset
7. Now I Have Everything
8. Do You Love Me
9. Far From the Home I Love
This CD (and volume one which has highlights from Cabaret and South Pacific) are great to sing along with, simply listen to, or have as background music at a party!
Robert Burns: The Complete Songs, Vol. 9
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    		Robert Burns: The Complete Songs, Vol. 9

    Manufacturer: Linn Records
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B00005OR45
    Release Date: 2001-10-30

    Tracks:

    1. O Were My Love Yon Lilac Fair/Ye Jovial Boys - Ross Kennedy
    2. The Noble Maxwells - Karine Polwart
    3. O, Open The Door - Niall Kenny
    4. There Was Five Carlins - Kirsten Easdale
    5. While Larks With Little Wing - Ross Kennedy
    6. O Why The Deuce/Carl An The King Come/I Murder Hate - Niall Kenny
    7. O, Ken Ye What Meg O' Mill Has Gotten (Part One)/(Part Two) - Jim Reid
    8. Corn Rigs Are Bonie - Ross Kennedy
    9. Your Friendship/O How Can I Be Blithe - Kirsten Easdale
    10. As I Cam In By Our Gate-end/There Was A Jolly Gauger - Jim Reid
    11. Why Tell Thy Lover/Musing - Mairi Campbell
    12. O, Leeze Me On My Spinnin-wheel - Karine Polwart
    13. Where Braving Angry Winter's Storms - Kirsten Easdale
    14. My Heart's In The Highlands - Karine Polwart
    15. O, Kenmure's On And Awa/The Campbells Are Comin - Kirsten Easdale
    16. Will Ye Go To The Indies? - Jim Reid
    17. O Thou Pale Orb - Mairi Campbell
    18. Thine Am I - Jim Reid
    19. The Smiling Spring - Jim Reid
    20. My Heart Is Wae - Karine Polwart
    21. Ye Banks And Braes And Streams - Ross Kennedy
    Baby's First: Soothing Classic Little Angels/Var
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      		Baby's First: Soothing Classic Little Angels/Var

      Manufacturer: Deuce Boxed Sets
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

      GeneralGeneral | Children's Music | Styles | Music
      ASIN: B000060OUO
      Release Date: 2002-01-16
      Little Deuce Coupe & All Summer Long
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        		Little Deuce Coupe & All Summer Long
        Beach Boys
        Manufacturer: Musicrama/Koch
        ProductGroup: Music
        Binding: Audio CD
        ASIN: B0000DEMN1
        Release Date: 1999-10-22
        Little Deuce Coupe
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          		Little Deuce Coupe
          Beach Boys
          Manufacturer: EMI
          ProductGroup: Music
          Binding: Audio CD

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          ASIN: B00005HYGC
          Release Date: 2001-06-16

          Tracks:

          1. Little Deuce Coupe
          2. Ballad Of Ole Betsy
          3. Be True To Your School
          4. Car Crazy Cutie
          5. Cherry Cherry Coupe
          6. 409
          7. Shut Down
          8. Spirit Of America
          9. Our Car Club
          10. No-Go Showboat
          11. Young Man Is Gone
          12. Custom Machine
          13. Be True To Your School (Single Version)

          Album Details

          Japanese Re-release Digitally Remastered with a Bonus Track: 'be True to Your School' (Single Version).
          Little Deuce Coupe
          Average customer rating: 2 out of 5 stars
          • Four Star Music - get the other edition though
          		 Little Deuce Coupe
          The Beach Boys
          Manufacturer: Import [Generic]
          ProductGroup: Music
          Binding: Audio CD

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          ASIN: B0000089NN
          Release Date: 2005-10-10

          Tracks:

          1. Little Deuce Coupe
          2. Ballad of Ole' Betsy
          3. Be True to Your School
          4. Car Crazy Cutie
          5. Cherry, Cherry Coupe
          6. 409
          7. Shut Down
          8. Spirit of America
          9. Our Car Club
          10. No-Go Showboat
          11. Young Man Is Gone
          12. Custom Machine

          Album Description

          Japanese pressing packaged in a limited edition miniature LP sleeve for initial pressing only. To. 2005.

          Album Details

          Japanese Digitally Remastered Limited Edition Issue of the Album Classic in a Deluxe, Miniaturized LP Sleeve Replica of the Original Vinyl Album Artwork.

          Customer Reviews:

          2 out of 5 stars Four Star Music - get the other edition though.......2000-06-13

          Capitol's 1990 reissue of The Beach Boys' 1960s LPs gave us 2 of these albums on 1 CD at normal price. They're back for who knows how long - so get them while they're hot. On the 2-fer version of "Little Deuce Coupe," which is in STEREO by the way and not MONO as it is here, you also get "All Summer Long" plus you get a nice stack of bonus tracks. Don't pass up this warning - and get the 2-fer instead - quick!
          Little Deuce Coupe
          Average customer rating: 2 out of 5 stars
          • This Is NOT the real Little Deuce Coupe
          • An essential recording? No.
          		 Little Deuce Coupe
          The Beach Boys
          Manufacturer: Capitol
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          ASIN: B000002TR1
          Release Date: 1994-06-28

          Tracks:

          1. I Get Around
          2. Little Deuce Coupe
          3. Shut Down
          4. Fun, Fun, Fun
          5. This Car of Mine
          6. Help Me, Rhonda
          7. 409
          8. Drive-In
          9. Then I Kissed Her
          10. Little Honda
          11. Custom Machine
          12. Spirit of America

          Amazon.com essential recording

          The Beach Boys' fourth album found them trying to broaden their horizons--or at least move them farther inland. A "theme" album focusing on Southern California's burgeoning car culture, Little Deuce Coupe took its cue from a successful contemporary Capitol compilation (Shut Down) and gathers four of the band's previously released car songs--"409," "Little Deuce Coupe," "Shut Down," and "Our Car Club"--and surrounds them with eight new originals and a tribute to James Dean titled "A Young Man Is Gone," itself a rewrite of Bobby Troup's a cappella standard "Their Hearts Were Full of Spring." Collaborating with Los Angeles DJ-turned-lyricist Roger Christian (a key contributor to much of the band's early thematic sensibilities), Brian Wilson takes his musical growth another step forward here. And the success of the Mike Love vocal showcase "I Get Around" (the Beach Boys' first No. 1 single) began to build the band an international following as well. --Jerry McCulley

          Customer Reviews:

          2 out of 5 stars This Is NOT the real Little Deuce Coupe.......2002-01-11

          This isn't the real Little Deuce Coupe album. Buy the Little Deuce Coupe/All Summer Long twofer and you'll get the real Little Deuce Coupe album and also the great album All Summer Long.

          2 out of 5 stars An essential recording? No........1999-06-08

          I must respectfully disagree with Jerry McCulley concerning his review of this album. "Little Deuce Coupe" is by no means a bad record, but to pick this album as an "essential recording" instead of ALL SUMMER LONG, TODAY, SUMMER DAYS (AND SUMMER NIGHTS), FRIENDS and SUNFLOWER, to name just a few, boggles the mind.

          This is hardly an album that properly introduces a listener to Brian Wilson & Co. A Beach Boys collection is not THAT incomplete without "Little Deuce Coupe". It IS incomplete without the previously mentioned records.

          This album has a nice, pleasing pop sound, and Ballad of Ol' Betsy, Cherry Cherry Coupe and Shut Down are classics. But an essential recording? No.

          Furthermore, "I Get Around" does not appear on this album. Look it up.
          Roots of Rock n' Roll
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            		Roots of Rock n' Roll
            Fats Domino , and Little Richard
            Manufacturer: Deuce Boxed Sets
            ProductGroup: Music
            Binding: Audio CD

            GeneralGeneral | R&B | Styles | Music
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            ASIN: B00005YCIT
            Release Date: 1998-08-25

            Tracks:

            1. Blueberry Hill - Fats Domino
            2. My Blue Heaven - Fats Domino
            3. Ain't That a Shame - Fats Domino
            4. I'm in Love Again - Fats Domino
            5. My Girl Josephine - Fats Domino
            6. When My Dreamboat Comes Home - Fats Domino
            7. Going to the River - Fats Domino
            8. Whiskey Heaven - Fats Domino
            9. I'm Gonna Be a Wheel Someday - Fats Domino
            10. When the Saints Go Marching In - Fats Domino
            11. Long Tall Sally - Little Richard
            12. Good Golly Miss Molly - Little Richard
            13. Baby Face - Little Richard
            14. She's Got It - Little Richard
            15. Money Honey - Little Richard
            16. Lucille - Little Richard
            17. Tutti Frutti - Little Richard
            18. Short Fat Fanny - Little Richard
            19. Hound Dog - Little Richard
            20. Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On - Little Richard

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