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Post by Vale on Jan 8, 2019 5:33:37 GMT -5
Ten Years of Harmony is an official double album compilation album released by the Beach Boys in 1981, and spanning their entire Brother Records-era up to that point (1970–80), including some unreleased or rare material. Although the song "Darlin'" was recorded in 1967 while at Capitol Records, the version on Ten Years of Harmony is a live version, recorded in 1973 for the album The Beach Boys in Concert. Source wikipediaReleased: December 7, 1981
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Post by Vale on Jan 8, 2019 5:34:57 GMT -5
9. This was my first ever cd that I bought about The Beach Boys back in the early 90s. I'm very fond of it. I memorized all the lyrics on the booklet and I never got tired of listening to it, I was attending high school and I can say that this was my induction into The Beach Boys world. I have very good memories about that time when I was listening to it. I used BB lyrics to study english at school and it was fun. About the record, I think this is a great compilation with some unreleased tracks. My favorites at that time were California Saga, It's Beautiful Day, River Song and Feel Flows; today every song.
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Post by filledeplage on Jan 8, 2019 9:09:54 GMT -5
9. This was my first ever cd that I bought about The Beach Boys back in the early 90s. I'm very fond of it. I memorized all the lyrics on the booklet and I never got tired of listening to it, I was attending high school and I can say that this was my induction into The Beach Boys world. I have very good memories about that time when I was listening to it. I used BB lyrics to study english at school and it was fun. About the record, I think this is a great compilation with some unreleased tracks. My favorites at that time were California Saga, It's Beautiful Day, River Song and Feel Flows; today every song. Vale - good taste in music! I wore out the vinyl of Ten Years of Harmony. I gave Ten Years of Harmony a 10!
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Post by E on Jan 8, 2019 11:57:50 GMT -5
Wonderful compilation. Couple of duff later songs but some interesting alternate versions and a rarity or two. I'd like this one on CD! Probably 10, warts and all
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Post by Jason (The Real Beach Boy) on Apr 2, 2019 7:53:33 GMT -5
7.5. Some curious choices for sure (She's Got Rhythm? Really?) but for a retrospective of the Brother period to that point, it does the job. The Good Vibrations box set and to a lesser extent Made in California are a better overall anthology of this era.
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Post by lonelysummer on Apr 9, 2019 21:28:30 GMT -5
Bought this album when it came out. Yeah, some of the song choices are weak - 3 songs from MIU? But this was the album that introduced me to the wonders of Sunflower and Surf's Up. The ends of sides 3 and 4 blew my mind - Trader, Long Promised Road, Surf's Up, Feel Flows, River Song, Till I Die. I guess it was worth sitting through She's Got Rhythm and Woncha Come Out Tonight to hear those songs. San Miguel is a blast; Sea Cruise, less so.
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Post by petsite on Feb 2, 2020 22:01:26 GMT -5
From the old ADD SOME MUSIC fanzine. There was a lot of back and forth in the group about what to include. Everything with the group was always a battle.
Sifting Sands: Ten Years Of Harmony
Brad Elliott
For most Beach Boys fans the recent CBS compilation, Ten Years Of Harmony, was a welcome addition to their collection. The handsomely packaged set included not only several single mixes and edits previously unavailable in album format, but also a previously unreleased single mix ("School Days"), and two tracks which had never seen the light of day in any form ("San Miguel" and "Sea Cruise").
The assembling of Ten Years Of Harmony however, proved to be no easy task. CBS executives spent more than a year working to release the package. In the course of that year the album underwent several major revisions and countless minor changes. To some of those involved, the final package was a severe disappointment.
The idea of a compilation album was first proposed in the fall of 1980. As originally planned, Ten Years’ Harmony, an original title, would have been only one disc. The target release date was January, 1981. Early on, CBS pegged "Come Go With Me" as the album's first single. Also scheduled for inclusion were "San Miguel", the vetoed mix of "School Days" and, at Bruce Johnston's insistence, "The Lord's Prayer". ("That's gonna go in the compilation album", Bruce said last February. "We're gonna lease that from Capitol. Lease it back and put it on, because it's never been on an album").
Before a track lineup could be formed, however, the album's release was postponed to May and then to September.
Among the group members, Bruce at least was thinking about the track lineup. "The compilation album, if we get it out, will be, on the fan level, the best album they've ever had. Because it's gonna cover all the period from, say, ‘68, ‘69 on. It's gonna get the best of everything, like "Til I Die," "Disney Girls," "Sail On Sailor," "San Miguel".
Bruce’s most ambitious thoughts concerned the Smile tapes. "We're gonna collage the Smile album in this compilation. We're gonna go through the Smile album and just take little, sections of the tunes we have and put it out as a kind of sampler of the Smile album. We're just going to skim the Smile tapes and make a beautiful six minute collage". He was quick to add, "Brian doesn't know this".
CBS kept the compilation album on its list of projected September releases, and in July received from Caribou records a master for the record:
Side One: "The Trader", "Deidre", "Long Promised Road", "The Night Was So Young", "Sail On Sailor", "Come Go With Me".
Side Two: "Marcella", "Surf's Up", "Cool Cool Water", "Don't Go Near The Water", "Talk To Me", "Til I Die".
CBS executives were dumbfounded. This was not the record they had expected.
Within a few short weeks, CBS' questions were answered. A CBS promotion man mentioned the tape to Bruce Johnston, who expressed complete surprise at the existence of a track lineup. The Beach Boys, Bruce insisted, had made no such thing. It quickly became evident that Caribou president James William Guercio had thrown the tape together, reportedly because the Beach Boys had seemed in no hurry to assemble a lineup.
In a subsequent conference telephone call, Bruce, Mike Love, Alan Jardine, and CBS’ two in-house Beach Boy fans brainstormed a rough lineup for a two-record set. Agreed upon were:
"Add Some Music", "Roller Skating Child", "Disney Girls", "It's A Beautiful Day", "California Saga: California", "Marcella", "Rock And Roll Music", "Goin' On", "It's OK", "Cool Cool Water", "San Miguel", "Good Timin’", "Sail On Sailor", either "Wouldn't It Be Nice"(live) or "Darlin’" (live), "Lady Lynda", "The Trader", "Come Go With Me", "Deidre", "Mona", "Don't Go Near The Water", "Surf's Up", "She's Got Rhythm", "Honkin’ Down The Highway", "’Til I Die", "Long Promised Road", and either "River Song", or "You And I" (both from Dennis' Pacific Ocean Blue).
Suggested by the CBS executives, but vetoed by the three Beach Boys, were the studio version of "We Got Love", "Child Of Winter", and the unreleased single mix of "School Days".
However, the Beach Boys suggested several ‘bonus’ tracks which they would be interested in including. If the tapes could be found, they suggested including a song from the encore (with Elton John) of the group's June 3, 1972 London concert, and "Jumpin’ Jack Flash" from the Washington, D.C. show of the 1975 Beachago tour. There was also talk of the group making a quick trip into the studio to cut "Back In The USSR".
By late September the contents were firming up. The tentative lineup at that time was:
Side One: "Add Some Music To Your Day", "Roller Skating Child", "Disney Girls", "It's A Beautiful Day", "California Saga: California" (preferably the single version, if the master tape could be found), "Marcella".
Side Two: "Rock And Roll Music", "Goin’ On", "It's OK", "Cool Cool Water" (the single edit, hopefully), "San Miguel", "Good Timin’", "Sail On Sailor".
Side Three: "Darlin’" (live), "Lady Lynda", "Sea Cruise", "The Trader", "Mona", "Don't Go Near The Water" (or possibly "Feel Flows"), "Surf's Up".
Side Four: "Come Go With Me", "Deidre" (or maybe "This Whole World"), "She's Got Rhythm", "River Song", "Long Promised Road", "Honkin’ Down The Highway", "Til I Die".
As the cover art was worked up and liner notes drafted, David Leaf, author of The Beach Boys And The California Myth was asked for his advice. He submitted another track proposal:
Side One: "Surf's Up", "Cool Cool Water" (45 edit), "This Whole World", "Add Some Music To Your Day", "Disney Girls", "Feel Flows", "’Til I Die".
Side Two: "Long Promised Road", "San Miguel", "Marcella", "Sail On Sailor", "The Trader", "California Saga: California" -(45 mix).
Side Three: "Good Timin’", "Goin’ On", "Sweet Sunday Kind Of Love", "Matchpoint Of Our Love", "The Night Was So Young", "Baby Blue", "Lady Lynda".
Side Four: "Come Go With Me", "It's OK", "Rock And Roll Music", "It's A Beautiful Day", "Sea Cruise", "She's Got Rhythm", "Roller Skating Child".
Although Leaf's grouping of tracks somewhat chronologically and by tempo was not adopted, his efforts were directly responsible for the inclusion, on the next CBS lineup, of "This Whole World" and "Feel Flows" instead of "Mona" and "Honkin' Down The Highway". Also added, at the insistence of CBS, was the single mix of "School Days".
Approximately a month before the album's release, Carl Wilson went into the group's tape library to find the master tapes for the twenty eight songs. Luck was with him and all the masters were located, including those for the "California Saga" and "Cool Cool Water" singles. Also, it was at that time that the compilation's last track, "Wontcha Come Out Tonight" was added, bringing the number of included songs to twenty nine, and finalizing the track lineup.
One last problem remained: the inner gatefold. The photo of the group, taken backstage at the 1977 Central Park concert, already had been selected. At issue was a proposal to “doctor” Bruce into it. Carl put his foot down. Bruce was not a Beach Boy on a par with the others, and should not be included in the main photo. If Bruce wanted his photo on the album, Carl stated, he could have a small 'mug' shot. Bruce decided that if he wasn't wanted in the main photo, he didn't want to be pictured on the album. He is not.
Carl also insisted that individual production credits be given, prompting a few minor squabbles in places (most notably whether Brian would be credited for tracks from the MIU album: he is on only "Wontcha Come Out Tonight," which he wrote and sang. At about the same time, the planned liner notes were shelved and replaced by the song lyrics. That decision was probably CBS’. The record was due for release immediately, and another squabble, which the liner notes likely would have generated, might have caused further delay.
Despite the many problems in assembling and releasing Ten Years Of Harmony, CBS is pleased with the package, and already is considering a one-record Ten Years Of Harmony, Vol. 2. for release next fall.
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Post by lonelysummer on Feb 3, 2020 0:30:59 GMT -5
Fascinating stuff. And after all that, we're lucky we got anything at all.
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Post by petsite on Feb 3, 2020 18:44:09 GMT -5
I LOVED LOVED LOVED this part of the story:
CBS kept the compilation album on its list of projected September releases, and in July received from Caribou records a master for the record:
Side One: "The Trader", "Deidre", "Long Promised Road", "The Night Was So Young", "Sail On Sailor", "Come Go With Me".
Side Two: "Marcella", "Surf's Up", "Cool Cool Water", "Don't Go Near The Water", "Talk To Me", "Til I Die".
CBS executives were dumbfounded. This was not the record they had expected.
Within a few short weeks, CBS' questions were answered. A CBS promotion man mentioned the tape to Bruce Johnston, who expressed complete surprise at the existence of a track lineup. The Beach Boys, Bruce insisted, had made no such thing. It quickly became evident that Caribou president James William Guercio had thrown the tape together, reportedly because the Beach Boys had seemed in no hurry to assemble a lineup.
Some where taken aback at the sheer balls Guercio had in doing that to the group (with an OBVIOUSLY inferior lineup on tape like TALK TO ME??). It was a slap in the face. I thought it was SO appropriate for the group at that time. I know I have stated before on this board and others my utter ANGER at the Beach Boys of 1981-1982. Mike and company were SO FREAKING arrogant. They acted as if they didn't really care about the group's fans. They had, at least to me, the view of GIVE US YOUR MONEY AND SHUT UP! Their shows sucked out loud and with issues that could have been fixed so easily. You DON'T let Brian do DON'T WORRY BABY!! Simple as that. It really sucked to be a fan during this time. The crap about not working on TYOH while dangling the LP in front of fans was another issue. Hell, CBS even cut off tour support monies because Mike refused to work on putting any product together. They took an advance and then gave the label the finger.
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Post by resroc62 on Oct 14, 2020 20:14:42 GMT -5
I have a feeling that the Ten Years of Harmony UHQ cd will be postponed indefinitely. Some sites have stopped advertising it. I love this compilation and was looking forward to a clean remaster of the original vinyl release.
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Post by Mikie on Oct 14, 2020 20:37:57 GMT -5
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Post by Moon Dawg on Oct 17, 2020 16:11:44 GMT -5
Ten Years of Harmony was a revelation when first heard in Dec 1983. (Got it from my my record club at a very low price. Columbia House or RCA? Cannot remember.) It was my introduction to 70s Beach Boys, beyond having heard "Sail On Sailor", "Rock and Roll Music" and "It's OK" on the radio. I had Endless Summer, Spirit of America, Pet Sounds (the 1981 Capitol re-issue), and a couple of other albums, but this set opened up the seventies era of the band for me in a major way. Liked the early 70s stuff, while later efforts like "Wontcha Come Out Tonight" made me wonder what had gone wrong, even if "Good Timin" and "River Song" were quickly identified as quality efforts.
Interesting to read the backstory behind this compilation. Sales had gone a bit flat by 1981. Not much love for Bruce from Carl really. Sounds like Bruce was the one member who put a bit of heart into this release. Would be fascinating to hear what he had in mind for the SMiLE collage. Liked David Leaf's concept for the double album.
I recall listening to "Surf's Up" and "Feel Flows" from my bedroom window while looking out at the nighttime December snow.
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Post by resroc62 on Oct 26, 2020 22:25:11 GMT -5
I have a feeling that the Ten Years of Harmony UHQ cd will be postponed indefinitely. Some sites have stopped advertising it. I love this compilation and was looking forward to a clean remaster of the original vinyl release. Sadly, this UHQ release has now been cancelled as I first feared it would.
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Post by AGD on Nov 5, 2020 3:07:53 GMT -5
Bear in mind that on the American CD release (but not the European), some of the alternates - California Saga-California (45 mix), Rock And Roll Music (45 mix), School Day (unreleased 45 mix) - were replaced by the standard versions. However on the original US vinyl release, the 'wrong' ( 15BO) version of "Come Go With Me" was used.
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Post by petsite on Nov 25, 2020 0:32:23 GMT -5
Bear in mind that on the American CD release (but not the European), some of the alternates - California Saga-California (45 mix), Rock And Roll Music (45 mix), School Day (unreleased 45 mix) - were replaced by the standard versions. However on the original US vinyl release, the 'wrong' ( 15BO) version of "Come Go With Me" was used.
It's why I play my EU version of the CD.
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Post by lonesurf on Dec 10, 2020 22:55:33 GMT -5
From the article: “Despite the many problems in assembling and releasing Ten Years Of Harmony, CBS is pleased with the package, and already is considering a one-record Ten Years Of Harmony, Vol. 2. for release next fall.”
Based on how hard it was to get the original TYOH released, I would have loved to see the tentative track list for this proposed follow up release!
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Post by petsite on Apr 27, 2021 14:37:20 GMT -5
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Post by chewy on May 4, 2021 18:28:18 GMT -5
does the US lp contained the aformentioned 45 mixes?
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Post by Al S on May 4, 2021 20:51:27 GMT -5
From the old ADD SOME MUSIC fanzine. There was a lot of back and forth in the group about what to include. Everything with the group was always a battle. Sifting Sands: Ten Years Of Harmony Carl also insisted that individual production credits be given, prompting a few minor squabbles in places ( most notably whether Brian would be credited for tracks from the MIU album: he is on only "Wontcha Come Out Tonight," which he wrote and sang. Wrrrrrong!!! LOL
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Post by Al S on May 4, 2021 23:53:11 GMT -5
does the US lp contained the aformentioned 45 mixes? Yeah, the original vinyl of Ten Years, but not the US CD, as per AGD above.
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Post by Awesoman on Aug 10, 2021 9:04:36 GMT -5
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Post by drbeachboy (Dirk) on Aug 10, 2021 9:24:36 GMT -5
I bought it a few months back. Nice sounding CD and sounds very much like the LP. I have only played it in a regular CD player.
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Post by boogieboarder on Aug 10, 2021 9:32:32 GMT -5
This is one of those irritating compilations. Completists have to buy it because it has a couple of rarities. But if you’re a big fan like me, you never listen to the album, because, at least in my case, I’d prefer to hear the original albums like “Sunflower” and “Surf’s Up” all the way through. New fans who want to sample the best of an artist’s work might wonder why inferior tracks are chosen, when obvious better songs were available for a compilation, or don’t even know or care that a non-album or rare mix was used. I guess it’s a one size fits all approach that The Beach Boys have done a lot - bloating my Beach Boys collection with so much duplication.
To add to my irritation, I had to shell out twice to buy both the local and European imported versions when upgrading my collection from vinyl to CD. That's because the US record company had the arrogance to substitute album versions for rare mixes in some cases. I say arrogance because at least in one case, “California Saga,” they acknowledged that they did so deliberately because they felt that the single mix master tape was not as high a recording recording quality as the LP mix.
So I’m the guy who rated this a two.
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Post by E on Aug 10, 2021 10:02:42 GMT -5
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Post by E on Aug 11, 2021 7:20:59 GMT -5
Next day delivery too. That's one Christmas present taken care of...
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