California Gold: The Very Best of the Beach Boys

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Surfin' U.S.A.
  2:28
  4.5 ★
• 2
  Surfer Girl
  2:26
  3.7 ★
• 3
  Little Deuce Coupe
  1:40
  3.4 ★
• 4
  In My Room
  2:12
  3.0 ★
• 5
  Fun, Fun, Fun
  2:19
  4.4 ★
• 6
  The Warmth of the Sun
  2:52
  3.5 ★
• 7
  Be True to Your School
  2:07
  4.2 ★
• 8
  I Get Around
  2:13
  4.6 ★
• 9
  Don't Worry Baby
  2:47
  4.1 ★
• 10
  All Summer Long
  2:06
  3.8 ★
• 11
  Little Honda
  1:51
  3.4 ★
• 12
  Wendy
  2:14
  2.6 ★
• 13
  Girls on the Beach
  2:22
  4.0 ★
• 14
  Do You Wanna Dance?
  2:17
  3.5 ★
• 15
  When I Grow Up (to Be a Man)
  2:00
  2.6 ★
• 16
  Dance Dance Dance
  1:58
  4.0 ★
• 17
  Then I Kissed Her
  2:15
  4.0 ★
• 18
  Help Me Rhonda
  2:47
  4.0 ★
• 19
  California Girls
  2:37
  4.2 ★
• 20
  The Little Girl I Once Knew
  2:31
• CD 2
• 1
  Barbara Ann
  2:06
  4.0 ★
• 2
  Sloop John B.
  2:56
  4.0 ★
• 3
  You're So Good to Me
  2:14
  3.0 ★
• 4
  God Only Knows
  2:50
  4.2 ★
• 5
  Wouldn't It Be Nice
  2:23
  4.4 ★
• 6
  You Still Believe in Me
  2:30
• 7
  Caroline, No
  2:51
  3.0 ★
• 8
  Good Vibrations
  3:37
  4.2 ★
• 9
  Heroes and Villains
  3:37
  3.2 ★
• 10
  Wild Honey
  2:37
  3.5 ★
• 11
  Darlin'
  2:12
• 12
  Friends
  2:31
  3.0 ★
• 13
  Do It Again
  2:25
  3.8 ★
• 14
  I Can Hear Music
  2:38
  3.4 ★
• 15
  Bluebirds Over the Mountain
  2:51
  3.0 ★
• 16
  Cottonfields (The Cotton Song)
  3:00
  3.0 ★
• 17
  Breakaway
  2:53
• 18
  California Dreamin'
  3:10
  4.0 ★
• 19
  Kokomo
  3:36
  4.4 ★
• 20
  Still Cruisin'
  3:35
  4.0 ★

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Release credits

• Al Casey
  guitar [2]
• Al De Lory
  harpsichord [7], organ [19], piano [5], tack piano [2]
• Al Jardine
  background vocals [1.8, 1.10, 1.12, 1.15, 2.5, 2.19], bass guitar [8, 12], electric bass guitar [10, 15], guitar [11, 17], lead vocals [2.18, 1.17-18], vocal [11, 19]
• Alan Boyd
  producer [3]
• Alan Robinson
  French horn [4]
• Barney Kessel
  guitar [7], mandoguitar [5]
• Bill Halverson
  engineer [10]
• Bill Pitman
  guitar [5], instrument [17]
• Billy Strange
  12 string guitar [2], guitar [2], tambourine [19]
• Brian Wilson
  Hammond organ [8, 18], arranger [1.3, 1.7-8, 1.10-13, 1.15, 1.19, 2.2, 2.4-5, 2.7], background vocals [8, 10, 12, 15, 18], bass guitar [2, 11, 17], harpsichord [8, 15], lead vocals [2.1-3, 2.5, 2.7, 2.9, 2.12, 1.2, 1.4, 1.6, 1.8-9, 1.12-13, 1.15, 1.15-16], marimba [10], mix [15], organ [12], piano [2, 8, 12, 17-18], producer [1.2-13, 1.15-19, 2.1-5, 2.7-11, 2.13], upright piano [15], vocal [2.4, 1.11, 1.17], xylophone [10]
• Bruce Botnick
  recording [8]
• Bruce Johnston
  background vocals [5, 19], lead vocals [15], organ [17], producer [15], vocal [1.17, 1.19, 2.4]
• Cappy Lewis
  harmonica [15]
• Carl Fortina
  accordion [4-5]
• Carl Wilson
  12 string guitar [19], background vocals [1.2, 1.8, 1.10, 1.12, 1.15, 1.18, 2.5, 2.19], electric guitar [8, 10, 15], guitar [2, 11-12, 17-18], lead vocals [4, 8, 10-12, 14-15, 18-19], producer [13-15], solo [15], vocal [11, 17, 19]
• Carol Kaye
  bass guitar [17-19], electric bass guitar [2, 5, 7], guitar [4, 7]
• Chuck Britz
  editor [15], engineer [2.2-4, 2.7-8, 1.1-4, 1.6-19], recording [8]
• Darrel Terwillinger
  viola [4]
• David Marks
  background vocals [2], guitar [2]
• Dean Torrence
  lead vocals [1]
• Dennis Wilson
  background vocals [1.2, 1.8, 1.10, 1.12, 1.18, 2.5], baritone vocals [15], drums (drum set) [2, 8, 10-12, 15], hi-hat [15], lead vocals [13-14], other vocals [11], vocal [11, 17, 19]
• Derry FitzGerald
  mix [8]
• Don Randi
  tack piano [4]
• Frank Capp
  castanets [17], glockenspiel [2], percussion [5], vibraphone [1.19, 2.7]
• Frank Marocco
  accordion [4-5]
• Glen Campbell
  electric bass guitar [8], guitar [2.7, 1.17]
• Hal Blaine
  bell [4], drums (drum set) [1.17-19, 2.2, 2.4-5, 2.7], percussion [1.8, 2.7], timbales [8]
• Howard Roberts
  guitar [19]
• Jack Nimitz
  bass saxophone [2.2, 1.19]
• James E. Bond
  double bass [17]
• Jay Migliori
  baritone saxophone [1.19, 2.5], clarinet [4], fife [10], flute [2, 7], piccolo [10]
• Jeffrey Foskett
  acoustic guitar [19]
• Jerry Cole
  12 string guitar [2.5, 1.19], guitar [2]
• Jesse Erlich
  cello [4]
• Jim Gordon
  percussion [4]
• Jim Horn
  flute [2, 4, 7]
• Jim Keltner
  drums (drum set) [19]
• Jim Lockert
  engineer [8-10]
• Joel Peskin
  alto saxophone [19]
• Keith Wechsler
  engineer [19-20], mix [19-20]
• Larry Knechtel
  harpsichord [4], piano [5]
• Larry Levine
  engineer [5], recording [8]
• Leon Russell
  organ [17], piano [19]
• Leonard Hartman
  bass clarinet [4], clarinet [4]
• Leonard Malarsky
  violin [4]
• Lyle Ritz
  bass guitar [5], double bass [2.2, 2.4, 2.7, 1.19]
• Mark Linett
  mix [3, 9], producer [3, 9]
• Mike Love
  background vocals [2.19, 1.2, 1.12, 1.18], bass vocals [8, 10, 15], lead vocals [1.1, 1.3, 1.5, 1.7-8, 1.8, 1.10, 1.12, 1.15, 1.15-16, 1.19, 2.2, 2.5, 2.8, 2.13, 2.15, 2.19], vocal [2.8, 1.11, 1.17]
• Nick Venet
  producer [1]
• Plas Johnson
  flute [7], tenor saxophone [5]
• Ralph Valentin
  engineer [4-5]
• Ray Pohlman
  electric bass guitar [1.8, 2.4-5]
• René Hall
  guitar [17]
• Rodney Clark
  bass [19]
• Ron Swallow
  tambourine [17]
• Roy Caton
  trumpet [1.19, 2.5]
• Ry Cooder
  slide guitar [19]
• Sid Sharp
  violin [4]
• Stephen W. Desper
  engineer [13-15]
• Steve Douglas
  alto saxophone [7], tambourine [7], temple blocks [2], tenor saxophone [1.10, 1.19, 2.5]
• Terry Melcher
  producer [18-20], tambourine [4]
• The Beach Boys
  performer [19], producer [8-10]
• Van Dyke Parks
  accordion [19]
• William Green
  flute [4, 7]
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Issues

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  California Gold: The Very Best of the Beach Boys

  2x CD
  1990