Next generation of the Beach Boys family joins a few original members to re-record "Add Some Music to Your Day" in new Omnivore Recordings album out April 23, 2021

"Add Some Music To Your Day" will definitely add some cheer to your day. Get details on a special Omnivore Recordings release via a new media release posted below and make sure to watch the official music video for "Add Some Music To Your Day" too!...Robert Kinsler

Next generation of the Beach Boys Family joins a few original members to re-record "Add Some Music To Your Day" as the crown jewel of new Omnivore Recordings release due Friday, April 23, 2021

California Music Presents Add Some Music contains tracks by Beach Boys Mike Love, Al Jardine, David Marks, Bruce Johnston and longtime associate Jeffrey Foskett; with Carnie and Wendy Wilson; Christian, Hayleigh and Ambha Love; Matt Jardine; and Justyn Wilson. Arranged and produced by Rob Bonfiglio.

A portion of the proceeds from sales will be donated to feedingamerica.org

Watch the album trailer HERE.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — “The world could come together as one.”

 

These lyrics are from the 1970 Beach Boys composition “Add Some Music to Your Day,” and they are the inspiration for a new Omnivore Recordings album, California Music Presents Add Some Music, due out April 23, 2021 on CD and Digital. Initiated by Beach Boys historian and documentarian David Beard, California Music Presents Add Some Music is an uplifting collection celebrating all that is good about one of California’s greatest exports … music! Watch the music video for "Add Some Music To Your Day" HERE.

 

In 2020, Beard re-recorded the classic 1970 Beach Boys song “Add Some Music to Your Day” (written by Brian Wilson, Mike Love and Joe Knott) with Beach Boys members Mike Love, Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston and David Marks and the children of the Beach Boys, including Carnie and Wendy Wilson (Brian Wilson’s daughters), Christian, Hayleigh and Ambha Love (Mike Love’s children); Justyn Wilson (son of Carl Wilson); and Matt Jardine (son of founding Beach Boys member Al Jardine). Their brilliant new rendering of “Add Some Music to Your Day” was arranged and produced by Rob Bonfiglio (member of the Brian Wilson Band and husband to Carnie Wilson).

 

Filling out the ten tracks are recordings by Love, Jardine, Johnston, Marks longtime Beach Boys associate Jeffrey Foskett, Bonfiglio, and a previously unreleased recording of The Beach Boys’ classic ‘Friends” from the next generation. A portion of the proceeds of this release will be donated to http://www.feedingamerica.org.

 

From Beard’s liner notes: “Gathering together these incredible talents in order to help those in need is as good as it gets, and when it comes to the music of The Beach Boys, it makes sense. We get to listen to music while helping others. It’s ventures like this one that make the future a little brighter.”

 

Quotes from The Beach Boys:

“‘Add Some Music to Your Day’ brings to mind almost a decade ago when, Brian, Alan, Bruce, David and I gathered around the piano during the 50th Reunion Tour. It’s a real joy to listen to this new incarnation of the song recorded with so many family members. The hope expressed in the lyric of the song is that music can bring people together. The world in harmony — something that is desperately needed. It’s a sweet song with an uplifting message. A special thanks to David Beard for all his work in getting us all together for this sweet song with a purpose. Peace and Love.”

 —Mike Love

 

“It’s been a great pleasure to be involved in this new version of ‘Add Some Music to Your Day,’ something we should ALWAYS be doing and having the proceeds go to the charity Feeding America to help feed the hungry is something I truly believe in. Thank you, David Beard, and everyone involved!” —Al Jardine

 

“I’ve always loved ‘Add Some Music to Your Day’ as a wonderful sweet song to have originally recorded and I’m honored to be part of this new ‘next century’ recording. I also think that the additional vocals from our close family and friends sounds great! Best of all: Musically we all are part of helping to benefit Feeding America.” —Bruce Johnston

 

“I am honored to be part of this worthwhile project, especially with the other Beach Boys! Thanks to David Beard” —David Marks

 

Track Listing:

1) Add Some Music To Your Day – California Music

2) Ram Raj – Mike Love

3) Jenny Clover – Al Jardine

4) She Believes in Love Again – Bruce Johnston

5) Long Promised Road – David Marks

6) Friends – Christian Love, Matt Jardine, Carnie Wilson, Wendy Wilson, Justyn Wilson, Ambha Love, Adam Jardine, Carl B. Wilson

7) Get Together – Jeffrey Foskett

8) Golden State – Rob Bonfiglio

9) Add Some Music to Your Day (A Capella Version) – California Music

10) Add Some Music to Your Day (Instrumental) – California Music

 

Read more in the Endless Summer Quarterly:

https://esquarterly.com/esq-store/spring-2021-issue-133-california-music/

 

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Brian Wilson's 11th solo studio album, titled "No Pier Pressure," to be released April 7 by Capitol Records

Exciting breaking news of interest to fans of Brian Wilson, as well as lovers of the great duo She & Him, country singer-songwriter Kacey Musgraves and other modern-day sonic heroes. I love the album title too!

BRIAN WILSON'S 11TH SOLO STUDIO ALBUM, TITLED 'NO PIER PRESSURE,' TO BE RELEASED APRIL 7 BY CAPITOL RECORDS New Album Features Collaborations with Beach Boys Bandmates, Kacey Musgraves, fun.'s Nate Ruess, She & Him's Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward, Peter Hollens, and Capital Cities' Sebu Simonian

Hollywood, California - January 29, 2015- He is one of popular music's most deeply revered figures, a legendary writer, producer, arranger and performer of some of the most cherished music in pop music history. Indeed, it is no exaggeration to call Brian Wilson one of the most gifted and influential composers of the past 50 years. For the release of his 11th solo studio album, titled No Pier Pressure, Wilson has returned to Capitol Records, his original label home with The Beach Boys.  The album will be released April 7 in standard 13-track and deluxe 16-track editions, each available on CD and digitally, as well as a 16-track 2LP edition on 180-gram vinyl. For the No Pier Pressure sessions, Brian Wilson reunited with longtime collaborator Joe Thomas, with whom he co-produced The Beach Boys' No. 3 Billboard album That's Why God Made The Radio for the iconic band's 50th anniversary reunion in 2012.  In addition, Wilson was  joined at Hollywood's Ocean Way Studios by talented musicians he personally invited to record with him, including his former Beach Boys bandmates Al Jardine, David Marks and Blondie Chaplin, as well as Kacey Musgraves, fun.'s Nate Ruess, She & Him's Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward, Peter Hollens, Capital Cities' Sebu Simonian, and trumpet master Mark Isham.  Wilson has also brought in session all-stars Don Was, drummer Jim Keltner, Dean Parks, and Kenny Aronoff.  Members of Wilson's longtime touring band, including Scott Bennett, Paul Mertens, Darian Sahanaja, and Probyn Gregory also participated in the sessions, along with Matt Jardine, son of Al Jardine, and former bandmate Jeffrey Foskett.  Wilson and Thomas began collaborating on the new songs during The Beach Boys' whirlwind 50th anniversary activities throughout 2012, a banner year for the band which also included a GRAMMY® Award win for Brian for The Beach Boys' long-awaited SMiLE Sessions release.  He told family, friends, and journalists around the world that he looked forward to returning to the studio when he got back home to California.   Always most inspired when creativity is given time and space to freely flow, Wilson initially envisioned the sessions for his new album with The Beach Boys in mind, but that was not to be.  Wanting to find the right voices to complete his vision, Wilson saw an opportunity to finally become hip with his kids and recruited some amazing young vocalists who have been inspired by his music to do the job.  Throughout his iconic career, Wilson has brought ingenious vision to his own compositions, as well as to those for which he has collaborated, weaving a lush, vibrant tapestry of intricately nuanced vocal harmonies and instrumental arrangements for himself, his bandmates and others.  For more than 50 years, fans have marveled at the sheer beauty of the music that springs forth from Wilson's imagination into glorious song. Camped out at Ocean Way, Wilson took a fluid, woodshedding approach to the recording process, deftly tailoring the vocal and instrumental parts and arrangements to each participant.  Wilson worked to hone the arrangements, often assembling pieces from various takes, a signature style of recording he has enjoyed since his earliest sessions with The Beach Boys.  In fact, several of the songs were written during the recording process. Brian Wilson began his career as a teenaged founding member of The Beach Boys, who signed with Capitol Records in July 1962 and released their first album, Surfin' Safari, that same year. The band's initial surf-rock focus was soon broadened to include other themes, and 1966's Pet Sounds is universally hailed as one of the greatest albums of all time.  Wilson's innovative vocal and instrumental arrangements for major hits including "I Get Around," "California Girls," "Wouldn't It Be Nice," "God Only Knows," and the No. 1 smash "Good Vibrations" made The Beach Boys America's preeminent band of the 1960s. Brian Wilson has also achieved great solo success with 10of his own albums released to date, including his acclaimed 2004 completion of an album he first began recording in the '60s, Brian Wilson Presents... SMiLE, which reached Billboard's Top 20 and earned him his first GRAMMY® Award for a recording.  Wilson won his second GRAMMY Award® for producing The Beach Boys' acclaimed 2011 release, The SMiLE Sessions.  Wilson has also performed major, sold-out SMiLE and Pet Sounds tours in recent years with his own band.  Wilson is a Kennedy Center Honors recipient, a Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee, and a UK Music Hall of Fame inductee.  As a member of The Beach Boys, Wilson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988 and honored with The Recording Academy's Lifetime Achievement GRAMMY® Award in 2001. www.brianwilson.com BRIAN WILSON:  No Pier Pressure [CD, digital] 1. This Beautiful Day 2. Runaway Dancer [featuring Sebu Simonian] 3. What Ever Happened [featuring Al Jardine and David Marks] 4. On The Island [featuring She & Him] 5. Our Special Love [featuring Peter Hollens] 6. The Right Time [featuring Al Jardine and David Marks] 7. Guess You Had To Be There [featuring Kacey Musgraves] 8. Tell Me Why [featuring Al Jardine] 9. Sail Away [featuring Blondie Chaplin and Al Jardine] 10. One Kind Of Love 11. Saturday Night [featuring Nate Ruess] 12. The Last Song13. Half Moon Bay BRIAN WILSON:  No Pier Pressure (Deluxe Edition) [CD, digital] (added tracks in bold) 1. This Beautiful Day 2. Runaway Dancer [featuring Sebu Simonian] 3. What Ever Happened [featuring Al Jardine and David Marks] 4. On The Island [featuring She & Him] 5. Our Special Love [featuring Peter Hollens] 6. The Right Time [featuring Al Jardine and David Marks] 7. Guess You Had To Be There [featuring Kacey Musgraves] 8. Don't Worry 9. Somewhere Quiet 10. I'm Feeling Sad 11. Tell Me Why [featuring Al Jardine] 12. Sail Away [featuring Blondie Chaplin and Al Jardine] 13. One Kind Of Love 14. Saturday Night [featuring Nate Ruess] 15. The Last Song 16. Half Moon Bay BRIAN WILSON:  No Pier Pressure [2LP 180g vinyl] Side A 1. This Beautiful Day 2. Runaway Dancer [featuring Sebu Simonian] 3. What Ever Happened [featuring Al Jardine and David Marks] 4. On The Island [featuring She & Him] Side B 1. Our Special Love [featuring Peter Hollens] 2. The Right Time [featuring Al Jardine and David Marks] 3. Guess You Had To Be There [featuring Kacey Musgraves] 4. Tell Me Why [featuring Al Jardine] Side C 1. Sail Away [featuring Blondie Chaplin and Al Jardine] 2. One Kind Of Love 3. Saturday Night [featuring Nate Ruess] 4. The Last Song Side D 1. Half Moon Bay 2. Don't Worry 3. I'm Feeling Sad 4. Somewhere Quiet

Performance of the Beatles' 'Revolver' and 'Abbey Road' to benefit Autism Think Tank and the Children’s Music Fund

Is is just me, or does it seem that just about every news release landing in my inbox this week has something to do with the Fab Four? Well, if it takes a massive 50th anniversary celebration of the Beatles arrival in the U.S. to highlight benefits like this one, that's a good thing!

WILD HONEY PRESENTS THE BEATLES’ REVOLVER AND ABBEY ROAD LIVE ONSTAGE Benefit for the Autism Think Tank and the Children’s Music Fund to take place Saturday, March 1, at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre

Colin Hay LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Benefit-concert producers the Wild Honey Foundation, with generous support fromTruetone Music, will present the classic Beatles records Revolver and Abbey Road albums, performed in their entirety and in order by a star-studded house band and guest singers. The event, which will benefit the Autism Think Tank and the Children’s Music Fund, will take place Saturday, March 1, 2014 at 8 p.m., at the historic Wilshire Ebell Theatre, 4401 W. 8th St., Los Angeles. Current members of the Wild Honey Orchestra include a who’s who of respected L.A. recording artists: musical director Rob Laufer, guitar, vocals; Jim Laspesa (Dave Davies/Susannah Hoffs), drums; Derrick Anderson (Bangles), bass; Rusty Squeezebox (Baby Lemonade, Love), guitar; Willie Aron, keyboards, vocals; Jordan Summers, keyboards; Nelson Bragg (Brian Wilson Band), percussion, vocals; multi-instrumentalist Probyn Gregory (Brian Wilson Band); Sarah Kramer, horns; and Kaitlin Wolfberg, strings; with special guest appearances by current Paul McCartney guitarist Rusty Anderson (schedule pending) and Laurence Juber (Wings). Guitar legend Laurence Juber Vocalists include The Bangles, Matthew Sweet, Al Stewart, Denny Laine (Wings, Moody Blues), Jody Stephens (Big Star), Grammy Award-winner Dan Wilson, Colin Hay (Men at Work), The Muffs, Chris Stamey (The dB’s), Paisley Underground legends The Three O'Clock, Louise Goffin, Christine Collister (Richard Thompson band),  Paul Chastain (Velvet Crush), Tommy Keene, David Marks (Beach Boys), Keith Allison (Paul Revere & the Raiders/stellar 1960s sideman), Tim Piper/Cosmo Topper (Just Imagine Show), Rob Laufer, Darian Sahanaja (Wondermints), John Wicks (The Records), John Easdale (Dramarama), Val McCullam (Jackshit, Jackson Browne), Steve Stanley (the Now People). Mike Viola, Steve Barton & Dave Scheff (Translator), Bill Berry, Kristian Hoffman, Andrew Sandoval, David Goodstein, Morty Coyle, and the always-possible Very Special Guests.  The Bangles' Susanna Hoffs and Matthew Sweet. As with last year’s sold-out Wild Honey Rubber Soul and Sgt. Pepper show at the El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood, this event will benefit the  Autism Think Tank The non-profit organization brings together a team of top autism specialists, via an Internet medical conference, to tackle the seemingly intractable and painful medical/psychological issues faced by kids like Wild Honey co-organizer Paul Rock’s nine-year-old son Jake, a non-verbal autistic boy with extreme digestive distress and self-injury issues. Thanks to Jake’s recent involvement with the Think Tank (made possible by one of the three sponsorships raised by the previous show), there has been a huge reduction in his digestive-distress-induced self-injury. Building on this success, the proceeds from this show will help the Think Tank relieve the suffering of even more kids like Jake.   The show will also support the  Children’s Music Fund, a Southern California non-profit, in their effort to provide music therapy and musical instruments for children, adolescents, and young adults with chronic or life-altering illness. Founded by Autism Think Tank member Dr. Raffi Tachdjiian, an UCLA allergist and pediatric pain specialist, the Children’s Music Fund works to harness the amazing healing power of playing and listening to music to reduce the pain and suffering of kids with autism, cancer, and many other debilitating conditions.   Dating back to 1994, Wild Honey’s grassroots benefit/tribute shows have featured appearances by Brian Wilson,Dave Davies from the Kinks, the late Alex Chilton, Danny Hutton from Three Dog Night, Chuck Negron, Dan Wilson, P.F. Sloan, John Brion, Peter Case, The Plimsouls, Victoria Williams, The Williams Brothers, Dave Alvin, The Blue Shadows, Aimee Mann, Michael Penn, Scott Miller from the Loud Family, Ann Magnuson, and so many more. The shows have been produced at various Los Angeles-area locations including the Morgan-Wixson Theater in Santa Monica, the Roxy, the Knitting Factory (Hollywood) and the El Rey Theatre. Over the years, Wild Honey shows have raised funds and awareness for the Sweet Relief Musicians Fund, Habitat for Humanity, the Liberty Hill Foundation, USC Norris Cancer Center, and the Coalition to End Gun Violence while paying tribute to musical idols:  Brian Wilson, The Kinks, The Byrds, The Everly Brothers, The Hollies, Harry Nilsson, Pete Townshend, solo Paul McCartney, and Elvis Costello.   For more information about the Autism Think Tank and the Children’s Music Fund please go tohttp://www.autismthinktanknj.com/http://thecmf.org/who-we-are For more information on the Wild Honey Foundation, please go to:https://www.facebook.com/groups/183120448393501/