Music / All Summer Long

All Summer Long is The Beach Boys' seventh studio album, released in 1964. It is notable as the first album they released after the The British Invasion happened in the US.

This album is home to some major events in The Beach Boys' career. One of its singles, "I Get Around", was their first song to top the US charts and put them up as the American answer to The Beatles. It, as well as other songs such as "Little Honda", the title track, and "Wendy", would go on to be a staple of the band's concerts. It was also during this album's recording that manager/father figure Murry Wilson would be fired, resulting in more artistic freedom for the band. This freedom includes a step back from the surf rock genre which defined their early sound (only one song on the album references surfing) while still keeping a summer vibe for this album.

While re-using and refining elements from their first five albums, All Summer Long has been considered to be one of the best early Beach Boys albums.

Tracklist:

Side One

1. "I Get Around" (2:14)
2. "All Summer Long" (2:08)
3. "Hushabye" (2:41)
4. "Little Honda" (1:52)
5. "We'll Run Away" (2:02)
6. "Carl's Big Chance" (2:03)

Side Two

1. "Wendy" (2:21)
2. "Do You Remember" (1:40)
3. "Girls On The Beach" (2:28)
4. "Drive-In" (1:49)
5. "Our Favorite Recording Sessions" (2:00)
6. "Don't Back Down" (1:52)

Principal Members:

• Al Jardine - guitar, backing and lead vocals
• Mike Love - lead vocals
• Brian Wilson - lead, harmony and backing vocals; piano; electric piano, harpsichord; Hammond B3 organ; xylophones or marimba
• Carl Wilson - guitar, backing and co-lead vocals
• Dennis Wilson - lead, harmony and backing vocals; drums; brushed drums; percussion

Little Saint Tropes:

• Badass Boast: "I Get Around":
  My buddies and me are getting real well known
  Yeah, the bad guys know us and they leave us alone
• Car Song: "I Get Around"
• Cover Version: "Hushabye", originally by The Mystics.
• Drive-In Theater: "Drive-in"
• Filler: "Our Favorite Recording Sessions" is a spoof track where the band messes up the recording of "Do You Remember" and the title track.
• Great Escape: "We'll Run Away"
  They warned us that we can't live on love forever
  But we just tell them we'll get by somehow
  Our problems will be greater
  We'll worry about them later
  We'll run away and get married anyhow
• Heavy Meta: "Do You Remember" is about rock 'n' roll and the artists who contributed to its foundation.
• Instrumentals: "Carl's Big Chance"
• List Song: "Do You Remember" name-checks a number of early rock 'n' roll acts.
• Lyrical Cold Open: "Hushabye", "We'll Run Away" and "Girls on the Beach".
• One-Woman Song: "Wendy"
• One-Word Title: "Hushabye", "Wendy" and "Drive-in".
• Product Placement: "Little Honda" (duh) and the title track:
  'Member when you spilled Coke all over your blouse
  (...)
  Miniature golf and Hondas in the hills
• Shout-Out:
  • Dick Dale, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Danny & The Juniors and Elvis Presley are mentioned as pioneering rock 'n' roll figures on "Do You Remember".
    • ''Goodness Gracious, great balls of fire!''
  • "Drive-in" has Mike Love doing a Smokey the Bear impression:
    And remember, only you can prevent forest fires
  • "Little Honda"
    It's not a big motorcycle
    Just a groovy little motorbike
    It's more fun that a barrel of monkeys
    That two-wheeled bike
• Spoken Word in Music: "Our Favorite Recording Sessions"
• Step Up to the Microphone: Dennis sings the bridge of "Girls on the Beach".
• Stop and Go: "Don't Back Down" has a few seconds of silence before its last verse starts.
• Studio Chatter: You can hear someone coughing on the instrumental bridge of "Wendy".
• The Cameo: Beach Boys sound engineer Chuck Britz can be heard on "Our Favorite Recording Sessions".
• Title Track
• 12-Bar Blues: "Do You Remember", which is no surprise since it talks about rock 'n' roll. "Little Honda" as well.