''Like a Brother'' is the only collaborative album by America's

Gerry Beckley Gerald Linford Beckley (born September 12, 1952) is an American singer, songwriter, and musician, and a founding member of the band America (band), America. Early life Beckley was born to an American father and an English mother. He began pla ...

, Chicago's

Robert Lamm Robert William Lamm (born October 13, 1944) is an American musician and a founding member of the rock band Chicago. He is best known for his songwriting, vocals, and keyboard melodies, most significantly on the band's debut studio album, ''Chic ...

, and

the Beach Boys The Beach Boys are an American Rock music, rock band formed in Hawthorne, California, in 1961. The group's original lineup consisted of brothers Brian Wilson, Brian, Dennis Wilson, Dennis, and Carl Wilson, their cousin Mike Love, and their f ...

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, ...

. It was also the final studio album by Wilson. It was released in 2000, two years after Wilson had died from

lung cancer Lung cancer, also known as lung carcinoma, is a malignant tumor that begins in the lung. Lung cancer is caused by genetic damage to the DNA of cells in the airways, often caused by cigarette smoking or inhaling damaging chemicals. Damaged ...

, and it was the last album he recorded before his death. The trio first appeared together on a rendition of "Without Her" from the 1995

Harry Nilsson Harry Edward Nilsson III (June 15, 1941 – January 15, 1994), sometimes credited as Nilsson, was an American singer-songwriter who reached the peak of his success in the early 1970s. His work is characterized by pioneering vocal overdub experi ...

tribute album '' For the Love of Harry: Everybody Sings Nilsson'', followed by "Watching The Time Go By" from Lamm's 1999 solo album ''In My Head''.

Track listing

Personnel

Credits from the original liner notes, as re-published on albumlinernotes.com. * Gerry Beckley – lead and backing vocals, acoustic guitars,

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, producer * Robert Lamm – lead and backing vocals, keyboards, producer * Carl Wilson – lead and backing vocals, electric guitars, producer * Paul Livant – electric guitars * Steve Tarshis – electric guitars * Michael Thompson – guitars *

Jason Scheff Jason Randolph Scheff (born April 16, 1962) is an American bassist, singer, and songwriter who was a frontman for the American rock band Chicago (band), Chicago from 1985 to 2016. Replacing former lead vocalist Peter Cetera, Scheff was the longe ...

– bass * Phil Galdston – keyboards, programming, producer * John Van Tongeren – keyboards * Tom Hammer – keyboards * Sammy Merendino – drums * Jimmy Hunter – drums * Michael Fisher – percussion *

Timmy Cappello Tim Cappello (born May 3, 1955), also credited as Timmy Cappello, is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, and vocalist. He is primarily known for his saxophone work supporting Tina Turner in the 1980s and '90s, as well as for his musical ...

– saxophone *

Van Dyke Parks Van Dyke Parks (born January 3, 1943) is an American multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, arranger, record producer, singer, and former Warner Bros. Records executive whose work encompasses orchestral pop, elaborate recording experiments, Ame ...

–

accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German language, German ', from '—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a Reed (mou ...

Steve Levine Steve Levine is a British record producer, best known for his work on Culture Club's studio albums. He won a Brit Award for Producer of the Year in 1984. He has also composed film and TV scores. History Levine's career began as a trainee tap ...

- producer ("Watching the Time", "Life in Motion", "Sheltering Sky")

References

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