BEACH BOYS U.S.A. Singles Collection Sampler (2008 USA Capitol label promotional only 8-track CD box set sampler featuring Surfin' USA, Fun Fun Fun In My Room, I Get Around, Don't Worry Baby, Help Me Rhonda, California Girls and All Dressed Up For School, housed in a custom 'sand' textured digi-pak picture sleeve and factory sealed!).

The Beach Boys are an American rock band formed in Hawthorne, California in 1961. The group's original lineup consisted of brothers Brian, Dennis, and Carl Wilson, their cousin Mike Love, and their friend Al Jardine. Distinguished by their vocal harmonies and early surf songs, they are one of the most influential acts of the rock era. The group, led by their principal songwriter and producer Brian, pioneered novel approaches to popular music form and production, combining their affinities for jazz-based vocal groups, 1950s rock and roll, and black R&B to create their unique sound. He later arranged his compositions for studio orchestras and explored a variety of other styles, often incorporating classical or jazz elements and unconventional recording techniques in innovative ways.

The Beach Boys began as a garage band managed by the Wilsons' father Murry, with Brian's increasingly sophisticated songwriting and recording abilities dominating their creative direction. Emerging at the vanguard of the "California Sound", they performed original material that reflected a southern California youth culture of surfing, cars, and romance. After 1964, they abandoned the surfing aesthetic for more personal lyrics and multi-layered sounds. In 1966, the Pet Sounds album and "Good Vibrations" single vaulted the group to the top level of rock innovators and established the band as symbols of the nascent counterculture era. Following Smile's dissolution, Brian gradually ceded production and songwriting duties to the rest of the band, reducing his input because of mental health and substance abuse issues. The group's public image subsequently faltered, and despite efforts to continue their psychedelic avant-garde phase and reclaim their hippie audiences, they were dismissed as an embodiment of the values and outlooks shared by early 1960s white, suburban teenagers.

The continued success of their greatest hits albums during the mid 1970s precipitated the band's transition into an oldies act, a move that was denigrated by critics and many fans. Since the 1980s, much-publicized legal wrangling over royalties, songwriting credits and use of the band's name transpired. Dennis drowned in 1983 and Carl died of lung cancer in 1998. After Carl's death, many live configurations of the band fronted by Mike Love and Bruce Johnston continued to tour into the 2000s while other members pursued solo projects. Even though Wilson and Jardine have not performed with Love and Johnston's band since their one-off 2012 reunion tour, they remain a part of the Beach Boys' corporation, Brother Records Inc.

The Beach Boys are one of the most critically acclaimed, commercially successful, and widely influential bands of all time. The group had over eighty songs chart worldwide, thirty-six of them US Top 40 hits (the most by an American rock band), four reaching number-one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The Beach Boys have sold in excess of 100 million records world wide, making them one of the world's best-selling bands of all time and are listed at No. 12 on Rolling Stone magazine's 2004 list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time". They received their only Grammy Award for The Smile Sessions (2011). The core quintet of the three Wilsons, Love and Jardine were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988.

The Original US Singles Collection The Capitol Years 1962–1965 is a box set released in 2008 from Capitol, which features the original singles (in mono and stereo) from The Beach Boys from 1962–1965.

As with the Beatles, part of the timelessness of the Beach Boys’ legacy is their dual identity as teen-pop act and groundbreaking rock revolutionaries. Those whose affinity lies primarily with the sugary surf melodies of the former will be riding a wave of ecstasy over this current compilation. Arriving at a time when the CD is being phased out but vinyl enthusiasm has been rejuvenated, SINGLES aims to add value to a compact-disc collection of Brian Wilson & Co.’s early work (the first 16 singles, to be exact) by repackaging it in the original 45 sleeve art. The music contained within (“I Get Around,” “In My Room,” “Little Deuce Coupe,” “Surfin’ U.S.A.”) is most certainly in any fan's album rack, CD shelf, or iPod, but Capitol’s deluxe packaging (including a telescoping box and a 48-page photo book wrapped in faux sand) helps the listener to recreate this band's original era. Of course, audio completists are also offered several different takes and remasterings of songs such as “Help Me, Rhonda” and “Please Let Me Wonder”. - Kenneth Herzog

This listing is for a very rare, out of print PROMO CD title - a FACTORY SEALED PROMO CD PRESSED and ISSUED by CAPITOL / EMI Records, of a highly collectible title, featuring -

Beach Boys

PROMO CD Title -

U.S. Singles Collection - The Capitol Years 1962-1965 Sampler

Performers Include -

The PROMO CD is from the rare series of CDs made by CAPITOL / EMI (Out of Print).

• PROMO CD catalog # 509992 17747 20
  
• PROMO CD first issued in 2008
• PROMO CD made in the USA
• For promotional use only - not for sale.

The PROMO CD, Outer CASE and INSERTS are all assumed to be in MINT overall condition as this item is actually FACTORY SEALED! In top notch collectors grade condition.

This CD is an audiophile quality pressing (any collector of fine MFSL, half speeds, direct to discs, Japanese/UK pressings etc., can attest to the difference a quality pressing can make to an audio system).