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Title: The Summer of 63
Review: If you were a teenager in the Summer of '63 (or '64, '65, and '66) you were listening to the Beach Boys. Their songs were playing on car radios, on transistor radios at the beach, and on radios in your room. The "hit" radio versions were "singles" mixed in mono for maximum impact over the "one speaker" radios that most teens were listening to.Some, but not all, teens could afford to buy albums, and bought the "stereo" album mixes of those hits. But, the stereo mixes were NOT the hit versions we had heard (and burned into our memories) during weeks of radio re-playing.The strong point of this "ultimate" Beach Boys CD is that when two mixes are available, the "hit" version, often in mono, is the mix that is used. These are the REAL thing, just the way they sounded back in 1963.Thirty of the Beach Boys best songs...an audio "time machine" that can transport "baby boomers" back four decades in time...on a single CD at an attractive price. What more could a Beach Boy fan ask for?
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