The Best of

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Surfin’ Safari
  2:05
• 2
  Surfin’
  2:11
• 3
  Surfin’ USA
  2:29
  4.5 ★
• 4
  Surfer Girl
  2:27
• 5
  Little Deuce Coupe
  1:40
• 6
  Shut Down
  1:50
  3.5 ★
• 7
  In My Room
  2:13
• 8
  409
  1:59
• 9
  Fun, Fun, Fun
  2:16
  4.4 ★
• 10
  Don’t Worry Baby
  2:49
  4.1 ★
• 11
  I Get Around
  2:15
  4.6 ★
• 12
  Little Honda
  1:52
• 13
  Do You Wanna Dance?
  2:17
• 14
  When I Grow Up (To Be a Man)
  2:00
• 15
  Dance, Dance, Dance
  2:00
• 16
  California Girls
  2:38
  4.2 ★
• 17
  You’re So Good to Me
  2:15
• 18
  Help Me Rhonda
  2:48
• 19
  Then I Kissed Her
  2:16
  4.0 ★
• 20
  Barbara Ann
  2:04
  4.0 ★
• CD 2
• 1
  Sloop John B
  2:58
  4.0 ★
• 2
  Wouldn’t It Be Nice
  2:23
  4.4 ★
• 3
  You Still Believe in Me
  2:31
• 4
  I Know There’s an Answer
  3:10
• 5
  God Only Knows
  2:49
  4.2 ★
• 6
  Good Vibrations
  3:36
  4.2 ★
• 7
  Heroes and Villains
  3:36
  3.2 ★
• 8
  Darlin’
  2:13
• 9
  Wild Honey
  2:38
• 10
  Friends
  2:33
• 11
  Do It Again
  2:19
• 12
  I Can Hear Music
  2:38
  3.4 ★
• 13
  Bluebirds Over the Mountain
  2:53
• 14
  Breakaway
  2:54
• 15
  Cotton Fields (The Cotton Song) (alternative version)
  2:25
• 16
  Rock and Roll Music
  2:30
  3.0 ★
• 17
  With a Little Help From My Friends
  2:26
• 18
  California Dreamin’
  3:10
  4.0 ★
• 19
  Kokomo
  3:36
  4.4 ★
• 20
  Still Cruisin’
  3:35

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Release credits

• Al Casey
  guitar [1]
• Al De Lory
  organ [16], piano [2], tack piano [1]
• Al Jardine
  background vocals [1.11, 2.2, 2.16, 2.19], bass guitar [11], guitar [19], lead vocals [1.19, 2.18], vocal [16]
• Alan Robinson
  French horn [5]
• Barney Kessel
  mandoguitar [2]
• Bill Pitman
  guitar [2], instrument [19]
• Billy Hinsche
  guitar [16]
• Billy Strange
  12 string guitar [1], guitar [1], tambourine [16]
• Brian Wilson
  Hammond organ [11], Moog [16], arranger [1.6, 1.8, 1.11, 1.16, 2.1-2, 2.5, 2.16], background vocals [2.16, 1.11], bass guitar [19], harpsichord [11], lead vocals [1.10-11, 1.17, 1.20, 2.1-2, 2.7], organ [16], piano [2.16, 1.11, 1.19], producer [1.6, 1.8-11, 1.16-17, 1.19-20, 2.1-2, 2.5-7, 2.11, 2.16], synthesizer [16], vocal [1.19, 2.5]
• Bruce Botnick
  recording [6]
• Bruce Johnston
  background vocals [2, 19], organ [19], vocal [1.16, 1.19, 2.5]
• Carl Fortina
  accordion [2, 5]
• Carl Wilson
  12 string guitar [16], background vocals [2.2, 2.16, 2.19, 1.11], electric guitar [11], guitar [19], lead vocals [5-6, 12, 18-19], producer [11-12], vocal [16, 19]
• Carol Kaye
  bass guitar [16, 19], electric bass guitar [1-2], guitar [5]
• Carol Lee Miller
  autoharp [16]
• Chuck Britz
  engineer [2.1, 2.5-6, 1.3, 1.6, 1.10-11, 1.16, 1.19], recording [6]
• Darrel Terwillinger
  viola [5]
• Dean Torrence
  lead vocals [20]
• Dennis Dreith
  clarinet [16], saxophone [16]
• Dennis Wilson
  background vocals [1.11, 2.2, 2.16], drums (drum set) [1.11, 2.16], vocal [16, 19]
• Derry FitzGerald
  mix [6]
• Don Randi
  tack piano [5]
• Ed Carter
  guitar [16]
• Frank Capp
  castanets [19], glockenspiel [1], percussion [2], vibraphone [16]
• Frank Marocco
  accordion [2, 5]
• Gene Estes
  percussion [16]
• Glen Campbell
  electric bass guitar [11], guitar [19]
• Hal Blaine
  bell [5], drums (drum set) [1.16, 1.19, 2.1-2, 2.5], percussion [11], timbales [11]
• Howard Roberts
  guitar [16]
• Jack Nimitz
  bass saxophone [2.1, 1.16], clarinet [16], saxophone [16]
• James E. Bond
  double bass [19]
• Jay Migliori
  baritone saxophone [1.16, 2.2], clarinet [5], flute [1]
• Jeffrey Foskett
  acoustic guitar [19]
• Jerry Cole
  12 string guitar [2.2, 1.16], guitar [1]
• Jesse Erlich
  cello [5]
• Jim Gordon
  percussion [5]
• Jim Horn
  flute [1, 5]
• Jim Keltner
  drums (drum set) [19]
• Jim Lockert
  engineer [6-7]
• Joel Peskin
  alto saxophone [19]
• John J. Kelson, Jr.
  clarinet [16], saxophone [16]
• Keith Wechsler
  engineer [19], mix [19]
• Larry Knechtel
  harpsichord [5], piano [2]
• Larry Levine
  engineer [2], recording [6]
• Leon Russell
  organ [19], piano [16]
• Leonard Hartman
  bass clarinet [5], clarinet [5]
• Leonard Malarsky
  violin [5]
• Lyle Ritz
  bass guitar [2], double bass [1.16, 2.1, 2.5]
• Marilyn Wilson
  background vocals [16]
• Mark Linett
  mix [7], producer [7]
• Mike Altschol
  clarinet [16], saxophone [16]
• Mike Love
  background vocals [16, 19], bass vocals [11], lead vocals [2.1-2, 2.6, 2.11, 2.16, 2.19, 1.3, 1.6, 1.8-9, 1.11, 1.16], vocal [1.19, 2.6]
• Nick Venet
  producer [3, 6]
• Plas Johnson
  tenor saxophone [2]
• Ralph Valentin
  engineer [2, 5]
• Ray Pohlman
  electric bass guitar [1.11, 2.2, 2.5]
• René Hall
  guitar [19]
• Rodney Clark
  bass [19]
• Ron Swallow
  tambourine [19]
• Roy Caton
  trumpet [1.16, 2.2]
• Ry Cooder
  slide guitar [19]
• Sid Sharp
  violin [5]
• Stephen Moffitt
  engineer [16]
• Stephen W. Desper
  engineer [12]
• Steve Douglas
  saxophone [16], temple blocks [1], tenor saxophone [1.16, 2.2]
• Terry Melcher
  producer [18-19], tambourine [5]
• The Beach Boys
  performer [19], producer [6-7]
• Van Dyke Parks
  accordion [19]
• William Green
  flute [5]
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Issues

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  The Best of

  CD
  20 June 1997
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  The Best of the Beach Boys

  2x CD
  20 June 1997