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''15 Big Ones'' is the 20th studio album by the American rock band
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, released July 5, 1976, by
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. It includes a mix of original songs and renditions of
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and R&B standards. The LP was the band's first album with production credited solely to
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since ''
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'' (1966). As such, its release was accompanied by a controversial media campaign that declared his comeback as an active member of the Beach Boys' recording and touring group. Following their previous album, ''
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'' (1973), the band had focused on touring and attracting bigger concert audiences, especially after the unexpected success of their greatest hits compilation '' Endless Summer'' (1974). They attempted to record a new album at Caribou Ranch studio in late 1974, but it was soon abandoned, partly due to Wilson being unable or unwilling to participate. At the end of 1975, his bandmates and manager Stephen Love prevailed upon him to produce the group's next release, hoping that a new album bearing his production label credit would prove lucrative. Most of ''15 Big Ones'' was hastily recorded in early 1976 at the band's Brother Studios. The project was marred by creative disputes, time constraints, health issues among the band members, and interference from Brian's psychologist,
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. One of the proposed titles, ''Group Therapy'', was rejected in favor of a title that referred to both the number of tracks and the group's 15th anniversary. To support the album, Brian joined his bandmates on a major concert tour for the first time since 1964. The group also commissioned an
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television special, titled ''
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'', that aired in August. Despite mixed reviews, ''15 Big Ones'' was the Beach Boys' best-selling album of new material since 1965, earning a
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from the
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. It peaked at number 8 in the U.S. and number 31 in the UK. Three singles were issued: a cover of
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's " Rock and Roll Music" (number 5) and the originals " It's OK" (number 29) and " Everyone's in Love with You". The former two were their only top 30 hits in this decade. Brian later referred to ''15 Big Ones'' and its 1977 follow-up, '' The Beach Boys Love You'', as his favorite and most artistically representative work.


Background

In January 1973, the Beach Boys' previous album, ''
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'', was released amid generally favorable reviews and top 40 entries in the U.S. and UK charts. Early copies of the LP were packaged with a bonus EP, '' Mount Vernon and Fairway'', that was produced by
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and
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. Brian's original concept for ''Mount Vernon and Fairway'' was to be "much more ambitious", consisting of renditions of 1950s songs like " A Casual Look". His bandmates took issue with the space it would have taken on the LP, and he subsequently lost interest, leaving Carl to finish the project. The group maintained a touring regimen, but recorded very little in the studio for the next two years. Several months earlier, they had announced that they would complete their unfinished album ''
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'', but this never came to fruition, and plans for its release were once again abandoned. Following the June 1973 death of the Wilsons' father and former band manager Murry, Brian retreated into his bedroom and withdrew further into drug abuse, alcoholism, chain smoking, and overeating. He reflected, "I used my room as my little castle. Added to that, I was very depressed with the Beach Boys. I couldn't talk to them and nobody in the band could relate to me. This went on for about two and a half years. But, on and off, I'd sometimes go and record." In October 1973, the band fired their manager,
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. By his account, he had "pulled away" from the band due to "terribly complex, complicated and horribly distasteful situations involving aspects of their business and financial management." Rieley's position was succeeded by
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's brother Steve and
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manager
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.
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and Ricky Fataar, who had joined the Beach Boys as official members in 1972, left the band in December 1973 and November 1974, respectively. The Beach Boys' greatest hits compilation '' Endless Summer'' was released in June 1974 to unexpected success, becoming the band's second number-one U.S. album in October. The LP had a 155-week chart run, selling over 3 million copies, and led the group to reclaim themselves as the number-one act in the U.S. amid a new generation of fans. Guercio prevailed upon the group to swap out newer songs with older material in their concert setlists, partly to accommodate their growing audience and the demand for their early hits. Later in the year, members of the band appeared as guests on Chicago's hit "
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". At the end of 1974, ''
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'' proclaimed the Beach Boys "Band of the Year" based on the strength of their live performances.


Early recording history (1974–1975)

To capitalize on their sudden resurgence in popularity, the Beach Boys accepted Guercio's invitation to record their next Reprise album at his Caribou Ranch studio, located around the mountains of Nederland, Colorado. These October 1974 sessions marked the group's return to the studio after a 21-month period of virtual inactivity, but the proceedings were cut short after Brian had insisted on returning to his home in Los Angeles. Guercio remembered, "From the day he got here, he said, 'I want to go home.'" Further complicating matters, a fire broke out in the studio and destroyed some of the tapes, after which the band resumed recording in November at their newly-constructed Brother Studios in Santa Monica. Only four songs have been documented as being recorded at Caribou: "
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", " Good Timin", " Ding Dang", and " Child of Winter (Christmas Song)". Wilson had resumed his songwriting collaboration with poet Stephen Kalinich (who did not accompany the band to Colorado), resulting in such songs as "Child of Winter", " California Feelin'", "You're Riding High on the Music" (written for John Kay) and "Lucy Jones" (intended for an unrealized Wilson-produced Kalinich rock album). "You're Riding High on the Music" was never recorded. "Lucy Jones", as described by Kalinich, "was just a funky song, and Brian and I were having fun." Long believed to have been written by Wilson and Kalinch in 1974, "Grateful Are We for Little Children" dates from their earlier collaboration in the late 1960s. In November 1974, Mike Love told ''
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'' that the band had completed "about 40 tracks" and that their next album would be completed by January 1975. Love reported, "Brian is very involved with the LP. ..The album's a combination between ''Sunflower'' and ''Holland''. It's got some of the feel that ''Holland'' had, but also sounds a bit like ''Sunflower'' in certain respects." The material was written by himself ("about ten" of the songs), Brian (five), Carl and Dennis ("about five" each), and Jardine ("a couple"). The group had actually completed only a few tracks, abandoning the rest. Additional songs recorded in 1974 had included " River Song", "Our Life, Our Love, Our Land", "Don't Let Me Go", "Barnyard Blues", an early version of " It's OK", and a rendition of "
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". "Don't Let Me Go" is a song composed by Carl with lyrics by Love, while "Our Life, Our Love, Our Land" is a song written by Love that he described as an "ethnic" thing that had resembled "The Trader" from ''Holland''. "Honeycomb" featured Brian's wife Marilyn on lead vocal. Released as a single at the end of December 1974, "Child of Winter" was the first Beach Boys record since 1966 to have displayed the label credit "Produced by Brian Wilson". The band toured for most of 1975, playing college football stadiums and basketball arenas. Meanwhile, Brian produced California Music's covers of " Jamaica Farewell" and " Why Do Fools Fall in Love?". Over the summer, the touring group played a co-headlining series of concert dates with Chicago, a pairing that was nicknamed " Beachago". The tour was massively successful and restored the Beach Boys' profitability to what it had been in the mid-1960s. In a July 1975 article for ''
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'', Nick Kent reported that Carl Wilson had cited "Rollin' Up to Heaven" (retitled from "Ding Dang"), "California Feelin", and "Good Timing" as "titles to new Brian Wilson songs recorded for the next Warner/Reprise album". Carl told Kent that the new songs demonstrated Brian's new "funky" approach. In September, the band recorded an unreleased version of the Del-Vikings' " Come Go with Me". In October, Wilson recorded a rendition of
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' " Come to the Sunshine", also intended for the band's forthcoming album, but a dispute prevented the track's inclusion. Although another joint tour with Chicago had been planned for the summer of 1976, the Beach Boys' association with Guercio and his Caribou Management company ended early in the year. Stephen Love subsequently took over as the band's ''de facto'' business manager.


Main production (January–May 1976)


Overview

By the time ''15 Big Ones'' was recorded, the Beach Boys had fallen three albums behind schedule in their contract with Warner Bros. In late 1975, Wilson volunteered himself into psychologist
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's 24-hour therapy program. Encouraged by the positive results of Landy's treatment, Stephen Love and Wilson's bandmates requested that Wilson produce the album that became ''15 Big Ones''. He had not been credited as the sole producer on a Beach Boys LP since ''
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'' (1966). The principal ''15 Big Ones'' sessions lasted from January 30 to May 15, 1976 at Brother Studios. Studio staff engineers Stephen Moffitt and Earle Mankey, the latter a former member of Sparks, were enlisted for the project. Carl and Dennis assisted Brian with the instrumental tracks, while
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and Mike Love contributed just vocals. Group meetings were supervised by Landy. Band road manager Rick Nelson acknowledged that Landy had attempted to exert unwelcome artistic control over the group. Landy remarked in a 1988 interview, "Brian and I did that lbumtogether." In the assessment of biographer
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, one of the "more distressing" characteristics of the recordings is the quality of Wilson's singing. Carlin writes that Wilson's "powerful but tender falsetto" had degenerated into "a baritone croak." In his 2016 memoir, '' I Am Brian Wilson'', it is stated that he suffered from a bout of laryngitis during the sessions, adding that his hoarse voice on the album was not his "normal voice ..It was an assumed voice." ''15 Big Ones'' is distinguished for its use of Moog and
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s, played by Wilson himself, signaling a more electronic-heavy sound compared to his past productions. Mankey surmised that Wilson had employed synthesizers "to fake string parts ..and not have to worry about anything else. He was in there to play the part and get out."


Original concept

As a warm-up exercise, Brian first recorded a batch of oldies with many of the session musicians that he had worked with during the mid-1960s. Initially, Wilson was to have produced one or two albums of all-original material after finishing these oldies exercises. '' Crawdaddy'' journalist Timothy White, an observer of much of the album's recording, explained that the premise "represented a compromise at a stage when the Boys had felt stymied as a unit and reluctant to commit their own recent or stockpiled individual compositions to a communal album that didn't mainly feature Brian's work." Wilson recalled, "It was a little scary because he other Beach Boys and Ihad drifted apart, personality-wise. A lot of the guys had developed new personalities through
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. It was a bit scary and shaky. But we went into the studio with the attitude that we had to get it done." Stephen observed that the band "had mixed feelings about rian's comebackbecause they knew it would frustrate their own designs for their own music. But they probably liked it economically, because they knew it was going to get them a bigger record deal." According to biographer Keith Badman, discussions over each potential album track had lasted up to eight hours. According to Dennis, the group "couldn't agree on enough" with regards to the songs that they had stockpiled. Shortly before the sessions had commenced, Dennis explained that the fate of the band's wealth of unreleased material depended on the individual songwriters, noting that the pressure to release songs had detracted from the creative enjoyment. He reported that the group had planned to issue one album of oldies and a potential double album consisting of "all-new material that stretches from hard rock 'n' roll to these wordless vocals we've been doing that sound like the Vienna Boys Choir."


Session difficulties

Following two days in the studio, during which the band recorded " Palisades Park" and "
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", the sessions temporarily halted due to disagreements regarding the album's direction. According to Brian, "I started to change my mind bout producing the album and they said, 'Come on, come on, Brian. You can't stop.'" Mankey said, "It was really tense in the studio. Brian would come in around nine or ten in the morning. One day, they would get something done, and the next day they would do nothing except fight." He remembered that Wilson had also run into difficulty engaging with musicians he was unfamiliar with, calling it "the fastest sessions ever. ..At the end of the song Brian would say, 'That sounded great, guys!' and head for the door." The other band members struggled to accommodate Brian's now-haphazard approach to music production. Carl said, "I believe that Brian was consciously under-producing the album and that was his choice – we deferred to him. But when we voted to do it that way with those particular songs, I left the studio right there on the spot because I was very disenchanted." Without Brian's knowledge, members of the band later refined the mixes in opposition to his preferred "dry" production aesthetic. Jardine reported that he and his bandmates had felt that Brian, at this time, had lacked the competence to singlehandedly produce the album. A ''
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'' journalist reported that Jardine and Mike Love were "all for letting Brian take full charge, even though Love makes no secret of resenting him." Mankey remembered that everybody in the studio had felt sorry for Brian and offered their assistance in bettering his work, with the exception of Love and Jardine, who "just thought it was crap. They'd show up and say it was terrible." Dennis later complained that he had been "unhappy with the oldies – absolutely", advocating for all-original content given ample Brian Wilson compositions had been available. He said, "Steve Love, Mike Love and Alan Jardine were pushing to get it out – it was just a big push. ..Carl and I were really upset." Stephen countered by emphasizing the necessity of timely releases to meet business demands and market momentum, even if it meant artistic compromises. Mike did not believe that time constraints were to blame for the album's "rough sections", explaining that it was not publicly disclosed that Carl had suffered "a debilitating back injury" and had been "self-medicating and drinking". Sessions resumed in early March. Ultimately, a compromise was reached, with the album including a mix of covers and originals. Brian told an interviewer, "''15 Big Ones'' started out as an album of nothing but oldies, but then we ran out of them. Halfway through, Mike Love decided to make the record half old and half new. I didn't like the idea at first, but he literally forced us to do it his way. I resented that." The group had recorded about two dozen different songs, mostly cover versions, by the time the sessions had wrapped.


Songs


Originals

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" was written by Wilson while his wife Marilyn was away in Europe. " Everyone's in Love with You", written about the
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, was Mike Love's second ever solo contribution to a Beach Boys album. "That Same Song" was described by Carlin as "a whimsical history of world music that came close to sparking the gospel fire it set out to ignite". "T M Song" begins with a mock argument between the band members, possibly based on the real life arguments that had been occurring among themselves. Two of the songs predated the album by several years. The first, " Susie Cincinnati", is Al Jardine's only writing contribution to the album. It was recorded in 1969 during the sessions for the album ''
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'' (1970). Brian included it on ''15 Big Ones'' "because it's a good song", although Dennis felt that it was a "silly piece of shit". "Back Home" was originally written in 1963 by Brian and his roommate Bob Norberg. It is semi-autobiographical; Brian sings in the chorus of wanting to return to Ohio, which happened to be the homestate of his great-grandparents. Carlin notes the ''15 Big Ones'' version for featuring "a throbbing bass, bouncing organ riffs, and a spirited vocal from Brian."


Cover versions

According to Wilson, "We thought about songs that were standards and, since they were acceptable once, we figured they would be acceptable again. ..We figured it was a safe way to go." The eight selections included on the album were " Rock and Roll Music" (originally by
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), " Chapel of Love" (originally by Darlene Love), " Talk to Me" (originally by Little Willie John), " Palisades Park" (originally by Freddy Cannon), "A Casual Look" (originally by the Six Teens), "Blueberry Hill" (originally by
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), " In the Still of the Night" (originally by the Five Satins), and " Just Once in My Life" (originally by
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). "Rock and Roll Music" was chosen, according to Love, because he felt that the band could possibly repeat the success they had with covering Berry's " Sweet Little Sixteen" as " Surfin' U.S.A." (1963). Dennis was originally slated to sing the lead on "Blueberry Hill", but Wilson gave the part to Love so that Love would not feel left out. "Palisades Park" had been the source of inspiration for the Beach Boys' songs "
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" (1962) and " Amusement Parks U.S.A." (1965). Carl recorded his vocal in one take. Brian praised Carl's performance and ranked it as "one of my top five Beach Boys vocals. He nailed it." In the assessment of musicologist Philip Lambert, most of the covers remained faithful to the originals, however, "Blueberry Hill", "Talk to Me", and "Palisades Park" were the exceptions in which the listener gets "more of a sense of the younger Brian Wilson, not just reproducing originals but dignifying them with his own personal flavorings".


Outtakes

Although they were not included on the album, the band also recorded versions of "
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", " On Broadway", " Mony, Mony", " Running Bear", " Shake, Rattle and Roll", " Secret Love", " Don't Fight the Sea", "
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", " Michael Rowed the Boat Ashore", and " Let's Dance". Other discarded tracks included the originals "Short Skirts" (Brian), "Gold Rush" (Jardine), "Lisa", "Glow, Crescent, Glow" (Mike), "10,000 Years Ago", and " Rainbows" (Dennis).


Packaging and artwork

''Group Therapy'' was a title for the album that had been proposed by either Dennis or Brian. Brian's 2016 memoir states, "That was the name of a band
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was in back in the '60s, and that might have been in the back of my mind, but mainly I thought of it because it summed up everything that was happening at the time." The title was rejected in favor of Dean Torrence's suggestion, ''15 Big Ones'', which referred to both the number of tracks and the group's 15th anniversary. ''15 Big Ones'' was packaged with cover artwork that showed photos of the individual band members inside five interlocking rings, resembling the logo for the
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. This was an intentional reference to the fact that 1976 had been an Olympic year. A logo that displayed the band's name, designed by Torrence, was introduced with this release, becoming the Beach Boys' official logo until the 2010s. Mike Love reflected, "The images of Brian, Dennis, Carl, Al, and me in five interlocking circles could have been a metaphor for five bandmates united in common purpose, or five guys living in their separate worlds. With us, it was both."


Release


Publicity campaign

To highlight Brian's recovery and his return to writing and producing, Stephen Love devised a promotional campaign with the tagline "Brian Is Back!", and paid the
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publicity agency $3,500 per month to implement it (equivalent to $ in ). In Gaines' description, the resultant "media coverage was enormous", appearing across ''
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'', ''
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'', ''
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'', '' Crawdaddy'', the ''
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'', and the ''
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''. It marked the highest level of press attention that Wilson had received since
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's "
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" campaign from 1966. In June 1976, Brian gave his first press interviews in several years, and in July, the band produced a six-hour documentary retrospective for U.S. radio. At the centerpiece of the "Brian Is Back!" campaign was the release of ''15 Big Ones'' on July 5. On August 5,
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premiered a
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-produced television special about the band, called simply ''
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''. It included live performances of "Rock and Roll Music", "It's OK" (both drawn from their July 5 concert at Anaheim Stadium), and "That Same Song" (filmed with the 75-piece Double Rock Baptist Choir). On August 23, the band were given a five-page cover story on that week's issue of ''
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'' magazine. On September 17, Brian appeared as a guest presenter on
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's ''Annual Rock Music Awards'' program, where he was nominated for the Hall of Fame category and lost to
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. Carl and Dennis accompanied him to the podium. On November 16, BBC-2 premiered an episode of ''
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'' that included host Bob Harris' interview with Brian, which had been filmed on September 21. Wilson made his first talk show appearance on November 23, on ''
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'', followed by an appearance on ''NBC's Saturday Night'', on November 26. Both appearances included a performance of "Back Home". That month, ''Rolling Stone'' published David Felton's feature story, "The Beach Boys: The Healing of Brother " . Despite its success, the "Brian Is Back" promotion proved controversial. Felton's cover story had presented unfavorable depictions of the band and their entourage of family and friends. Landy involved himself by openly discussing Wilson's condition and other aspects of his personal life to reporters. Wilson often solicited drugs from his interviewers, possibly in jest, and remarked on one occasion that he had "felt like a prisoner". Writing in 1980, '' Sounds'' journalist Sandy Robertson reflected on earlier optimistic coverage of Wilson, noting that the small, troubling details—such as Wilson's denial of access to his funds, demeaning treatment by Landy, and a controlling teenage bodyguard—marked a sharp contrast from Wilson's past as a creator of hits such as " California Girls" and "
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". ''
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concurred that the coverage had been "heartbreaking and horrifying in equal measure, depicting a halting, visibly terrified man".


Concert tours

Starting on July 2, 1976, Wilson made regular concert appearances with his bandmates for the first time since December 1964, singing and alternating between piano and bass. Some reports erroneously state that it was the first time Wilson had appeared onstage with the band since 1964; in fact, Wilson had last done so in 1973. From July 3 to August 15, 1976, the group embarked on a string of major stadium concert dates across the U.S. Supporting musicians included Billy Hinsche (guitar), Ed Carter (guitar, bass), Ron Altbach (keyboards), and Carlos Muñoz (keyboards). The setlists for these dates included the ''15 Big Ones'' selections "Susie Cincinnati", "Palisades Park", "It's OK", "A Casual Look", "Back Home", and "Rock and Roll Music". In his review of the Beach Boys' concert at Anaheim, ''Melody Maker'' reporter Harvey Kubernick wrote that Wilson "seemed uncomfortable on stage" and "shouldn't be subjected to being propped up on stage for video purposes or group/media examination. His contributions this afternoon were nil!" Following the tour, the Beach Boys played a further dozen concert dates at stadiums and basketball arenas, this time without Brian's participation.


Commercial performance and singles

''15 Big Ones'' peaked at number 8 in the U.S., becoming their first top 10 album of new material since ''Pet Sounds'', and their highest-charting studio album since '' Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)'' (1965). It also became their second Warner Bros. release to be certified gold. On May 24, 1976, lead single "Rock and Roll Music" (backed with "T M Song") was released as the band's first new single in 16 months, peaking in the U.S. at number 5, their highest chart position for a single since "
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" (1966). The second single, "It's OK" (backed with "Had to Phone Ya"), was issued in the U.S. on August 30 and peaked at number 29. On November 8, the third and last single, "Susie Cincinnati" (backed with "Everyone's in Love with You") was issued in the U.S. and failed to chart.


Critical reception

''15 Big Ones'' received mixed reviews and was largely disliked by the group's fanbase. Much of the criticism centers around the cover songs, Dennis' and Brian's rough vocal performances, and the record's perceived unfinished, forced, and rushed quality. White wrote in his ''Crawdaddy'' review that the album was a disappointment; although it "does boast several bright moments – but no brilliant ones." Less favorably, a reviewer for ''
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'' described the album as "the kind of music one might expect to find at a rock star's funeral." According to Carlin, most other reviewers "gave ''15 Big Ones'' gentle treatment", such as in ''Newsweek'', which described the album as "fascinating ..a curiously unshakable unity." Similarly, Jim Miller of ''Rolling Stone'' decreed that it was "the most idiosyncratic — and flaky — record I have heard in some time, and it fascinates me." Among retrospective reviews,
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's John Bush felt that most of the covers were "simply too well known to be reworked effectively, by anyone", but favorably compared "It's OK" and "Had to Phone Ya" to "Brian's odd pop songs on late-'60s albums like ''Friends'' and ''20/20''."
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bemoaned the selection of covers and their lack of a "playful, goofy vocal intensity". '' Blender''s
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wrote that the album is " erwhelmed by clunky covers and bored performances". ''
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''s Eric Kempfe described the album as "muddy and confused" and highlighted "Had to Phone Ya" and "Back Home" as the best originals. Kempfe added that, with the exception of "Just Once in My Life", the covers "are notable only for the morbid fascination they hold ..Brian's once-sweet falsetto is reduced to a hoarse crackle; as a result, Mike Love's painful nasal whine is the dominant voice on the record." In his book ''Icons of Rock'', Scott Schinder called ''15 Big Ones'' "largely a letdown, largely of lackluster remakes of rock and roll oldies, along with a handful of lightweight but charming new songs by Brian. Rock critic Nick Kent called it "utterly uninspired and weary-sounding ..clearly intended only as therapy for Wilson's long dormant production talents." Musician Dennis Diken of
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, who wrote the liner notes to the album's 2000 reissue, acknowledged such criticisms and opined, "If you can accept all these points and put it behind you that this isn't ''Smile'', ''Pet Sounds'' or even '' Wild Honey'', give ''15 Big Ones'' a spin and dig on what is a very cool and fun Beach Boys album."


Aftermath and legacy

At the time, Brian described the album as "nothing too deep" and promised that his next effort would be as ambitious as "Good Vibrations". He mentioned that he felt ''15 Big Ones'' was "a good album" and "if you listen to it, you can see where all the work went", adding that if it had been disliked by "the kids", then it "would have wrecked me and I'd probably have hidden out again." In a 1998 interview, he referred to ''15 Big Ones'' and the band's next release, '' The Beach Boys Love You'' (1977), as his favorite Beach Boys albums. "That's when it all happened for me. That's where my heart lies." Other members of the band, including Carl and Dennis, disparaged the album in the press when it was released. Dennis felt that it was "a great mistake to put Brian in full control" and that the "whole process was a little bruising." He admitted, "We were heartbroken. People have waited all this time, anticipating a new Beach Boys album, and I hated to give them this." Mike Love declined to comment on the album when asked by a reporter. In White's belief, the troubled sessions "precipitated the abrupt solo career decisions by Dennis and Carl Wilson", and what he had witnessed convinced him that "the greatest obstacle the Beach Boys face is that of five divergent personalities, fraught with jealousies, fears, foibles, conflicting interests and basic stylistic disagreements." Matijas-Mecca argued that ''15 Big Ones'' marked the beginning of a one-and-a-half-year period in which "Brian produced some of his most creative and interesting (if not necessarily commercial) music since he abandoned ''SMiLE''." Journalist Brian Chidester similarly described the era as the end of "Wilson's full retreat as leader of the Beach Boys", although Wilson "never returned to the form that saw him produce groundbreaking works like ''Pet Sounds'' and ''Smile''." Diken wrote, "One might also view the album as Brian's salvation from a goal-less downward spiral and an imminent crash landing."


Track listing

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.


Personnel

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– lead (3, 8, 10–11) and backing vocals (all tracks), guitar (10) *
Mike Love Michael Edward Love (born March 15, 1941) is an American singer and songwriter who is one of the vocalists of the Beach Boys, of which he was an original member alongside his cousins Brian Wilson, Dennis Wilson, and Carl Wilson and their frien ...
– lead (1–3, 5, 11–12) and backing vocals (all tracks), arranger (2, 5) *
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– lead (3–4, 7, 13) and backing vocals (all tracks except 5), organ (1–2, 6–9, 12–13, 15), piano (1–4, 6–7, 9, 11, 14–15), Moog bass (1-2, 4, 6, 13–15),
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(1),
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(4–5, 14–15), bass guitar (10), harmonica (10), chimes (12), bells (13), arranger (1–3, 6–15) *
Carl Wilson Carl Dean Wilson (December 21, 1946 – February 6, 1998) was an American musician, singer, and songwriter who co-founded the Beach Boys. He was their lead guitarist, the youngest sibling of bandmates Brian Wilson, Brian and Dennis Wilson, ...
– lead (3, 6, 9, 15) and backing vocals (1–3, 5–7, 9–15), guitars (2, 4–5, 10, 12–13), bass (5–6, 11), synthesizer (9),
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(13), percussion (13, 15) *
Dennis Wilson Dennis Carl Wilson (December 4, 1944 – December 28, 1983) was an American musician, singer, and songwriter who co-founded the Beach Boys. He was their drummer and the middle brother of bandmates Brian Wilson, Brian and Carl Wilson as well as ...
– lead (3, 14) and backing vocals (1–3, 6, 10, 12, 14), drums (1–8, 11, 13–15), percussion (11), vibraphone (8) Touring members * Ron Altbach – piano (5), harpsichord (5), accordion (7) *Ed Carter – guitar (1, 3, 5–8, 11, 15) * Billy Hinsche – guitar (1, 3, 6, 8, 11, 15) Guests * Daryl Dragon
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(10), vocal arrangement (5) *Dennis Dragon – drums (10) * Ricky Fataar – drums (2), percussion (15) *
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– backing vocals (10, 15), piano (12) * Charles Lloyd – flute (5) * Toni Tennille – backing vocals (5) * Marilyn Wilson – backing vocals (1–3, 7) * Roy Wood (credited as "Roy Wood and
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") – saxophone (2) Additional session musicians *Mike Altschul – saxophone (1, 4),
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(1) *Ben Benay – guitar (9) *
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– drums (9, 12) * Jerry Cole – guitar (9) * Steve Douglas – saxophone (1, 3–9, 12), horns (11), flute (8) * Dennis Dreith – saxophone (1, 4), clarinet (1–3) * Tim Drummond – bass (7) * Gene Estes – percussion (6) *Carl L. Fortina – accordion (9, 12) * Jim Hughart
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(12) *Jules Jacobs – clarinet (2–3) *
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– saxophone (9) * Jackie Kelso – saxophone (1, 4), clarinet (1) * Jack Nimitz – saxophone (1, 4), clarinet (1) * Jay Migliori – saxophone (5–8), horns (11), flute (8) *Carol Lee Miller –
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(1, 4) * Ray Pohlman – bass (9) * Lyle Ritz – bass (3, 9) * Bobby Shew – trumpet (3) * Tommy Tedesco – guitar (12) *
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– percussion (9), bells (9, 12) *Maureen L. West – harp (5) The Sid Sharp Strings (3, 6–7) *Murray Adler – violin (7) *Arnold Belnick – violin (3) *Henry Ferber – violin (3) *Lori Klass – violin (7) *Lou Klass – violin (6) *Bernard Kundell – violin (6) *William Kurasch – violin (7) *James Getzoff – violin (6) *Henry L. Roth – violin (6) *Sidney Sharp – violin (3, 7) *Tibor Zelig – violin (7) Technical * Dean Torrence and Jim Evans – album cover, art direction and logo


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