act in the U.S. Carl recalled, "There was a whole new generation of fans out there and some of them weren't even as old as the songs themselves. Our concerts were selling out and we were singing and playing better than ever." 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 "Wishing You Were Here". At the end of 1974, Rolling Stone proclaimed the Beach Boys "Band of the Year" based on the strength of their live performances. Early recording history Caribou and Brother sessions (1974) To take advantage of 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. At this time, Wilson co-wrote numerous songs with poet Stephen Kalinich, including "Child of Winter (Christmas Song)", "California Feelin'", "You're Riding High on the Music", "Lucy Jones", and "Grateful Are We for Little Children". "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." "Grateful Are We for Little Children" later became Wilson's "Saturday Morning in the City". Other tracks recorded in 1974 were "River Song", "Our Life, Our Love, Our Land", "Don't Let Me Go", "Barnyard Blues", early versions of "It's OK" and "Good Timin", an alternate version of "Ding Dang", and renditions of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" and "Honeycomb". "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 sounded similar to "The Trader" from Holland. "Honeycomb"