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Al Jardine’s forthcoming solo CD, “A Postcard From California”, will include a Beach Boys song from 1978 that has never been released. The basic track for “Don’t Fight the Sea” was recorded in 1978, along with the late Carl Wilson’s vocals. Brian Wilson, Mike Love and Al Jardine have recently completed the overdubs.

Al Jardine - Don’t Fight the Sea

The full track list for “A Postcard From California” will be:

1. A Postcard From California
2. Looking Down the Coast
3. Don’t Fight the Sea
4. Tidepool Interlide
5. California Saga
6. Honking Down the Highway
7. Driving
8. San Simeon
9. Help Me Rhonda
10. California Feelin’
11. And I Always Will
12. California Dreamin’.

Among the artists guesting on the album are Neil Young, Flea, Brian Wilson, Glen Campbell, Stepehn Stills, David Crosby and Steve Miller.

You can hear some track samples at:
http://www.aljardine.com/photo.html

With summer now finally upon us and some welcome warm weather, it’s a good time to break out some of those Beach Boys classics. If you don’t have any Beach Boys records in your collection, you might want to take a look at the new release: ‘The Beach Boys - Summer Love Songs.’ There are 20 tracks in total and all have been remastered very nicely by Mark Linett.

While the material is for the most part familiar, there are some interesting tracks for the collector on this set, including:

• Fallin in Love, which is an unreleased Dennis Wilson track
• New stereo mixes of Why Do Fools Fall In Love, Don’t Worry Baby, Hushabye, I’m So Young, Good To My Baby and Time To Get Alone.

You can pick the CD up at Amazon (UK), Amazon (US) and Play (UK).

Head over to the Beach Boys video page to watch some great performances.

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