Beach Boys Concert
Beach Boys Concert is the first live album by American rock band the Beach Boys, released on October 19, 1964. It is their seventh album in all, and their third alone in the same year. It was their first of two chart-topping albums in the US (the other was their 1974 greatest hit compilation, Endless Summer), as well as the first live album to top pop music record charts, maintaining its position for four weeks during a sixty-two-week chart stay, and becoming another gold seller.
| Beach Boys Concert | ||||
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| Live album by The Beach Boys | ||||
| Released | October 19, 1964 | |||
| Recorded | December 21, 1963; August 1964 | |||
| Venue | Memorial Auditorium, Sacramento, California (1963; August 1, 1964) | |||
| Studio | Western, Hollywood (August 30) | |||
| Genre | Surf rock, rock and roll | |||
| Length | 32:07 | |||
| Label | Capitol | |||
| Producer | Brian Wilson | |||
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The album was recorded live at the Memorial Auditorium in Sacramento, California, though it received heavy post-production treatment. Because Brian Wilson was about to vacate his position in the live group, and would only perform sporadically with them over the course of the next three decades, it is one of the few live documents of the original line-up of the Beach Boys that has been officially released.
In 2014, Live in Sacramento 1964 was released, containing additional performances from these concert dates.