Made In California: A Beach Boys Podcast

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**Made in California: A Beach Boys Podcast** Harry Williams and Andy Wrintmore take a chronological journey through the incredible, bonkers, heartbreaking and wonderfully bizarre story of The Beach Boys. Drawing from the books, documentaries, interviews and recordings that tell their story, we explore the songs, albums, sessions and personalities, with track-by-track reviews, multitrack breakdowns, rare recordings and six decades of physical media. Come for the harmonies. Stay for the increasingly inexplicable decisions.

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  1. 6h ago

    #2 The Birth of The Beach Boys

    How exactly did The Beach Boys become The Beach Boys? In this episode, we dig into the band’s origin story — the early rehearsals, first songs, first recordings and the various people who helped get things moving. The trouble is, the story gets surprisingly murky surprisingly quickly. How much of the familiar “official” version is actually true? Do the band members themselves even remember it the same way? And was it The Pendletons, The Pendletones, or something else entirely? Along the way: conflicting memories, questionable Murray Wilson impressions, and the strange process by which a family group from Hawthorne somehow turned into The Beach Boys. **** Made In California: A Beach Boys Podcast A chronological journey through the music, history and strange little corners of The Beach Boys story. Follow / subscribe:Find all our podcast and social links via the link in our bio. Watch more:Clips, video episodes and Collectors Corner are available on our YouTube channel. Get in touch:Questions, corrections, comments, obscure Beach Boys trivia, or just want to say hello?📧 [madeincaliforniapodcast@gmail.com] Follow us:Instagram: @madeincaliforniapodTikTok: @madeincalipodYouTube: Made In California: A Beach Boys Podcast

  2. 6h ago

    #1 Early Influences

    Before The Beach Boys had their own sound, they were absorbing everything around them. In this episode, we look at the music Brian, Dennis, Carl, Mike, David and Al grew up with, and how those different influences started to come together. Using audio examples along the way, we explore some of the individual ingredients that would eventually come together to create the unmistakable sound of The Beach Boys. We’ve also put together an Early Influences playlist, featuring the music discussed in the episode alongside additional songs and artists we didn’t have time to cover. **** Made In California: A Beach Boys Podcast A chronological journey through the music, history and strange little corners of The Beach Boys story. Follow / subscribe:Find all our podcast and social links via the link in our bio. Watch more:Clips, video episodes and Collectors Corner are available on our YouTube channel. Get in touch:Questions, corrections, comments, obscure Beach Boys trivia, or just want to say hello?📧 [madeincaliforniapodcast@gmail.com] Follow us:Instagram: @madeincaliforniapodTikTok: @madeincalipodYouTube: Made In California: A Beach Boys Podcast

  3. Aug 25

    Welcome To Made In California

    Made in California: A Beach Boys Podcast. The Beach Boys made some of the greatest pop music ever recorded. They also have one of the strangest, funniest and most chaotic stories in popular music. Made in California is a journey through all of it. Starting at the very beginning and working chronologically through more than six decades of music, we explore the songs, albums, sessions, personalities and events that made The Beach Boys one of the most fascinating bands of all time — celebrating the extraordinary music while embracing the sheer absurdity of the story surrounding it. And we're going deeper than the greatest hits. Alongside the main story, we'll pull apart the recordings themselves, diving into individual instruments, vocal parts, arrangements and production techniques to discover how that unmistakable sound was actually made. We'll dig through alternate mixes, obscure releases and the physical records themselves, uncovering the details, oddities and forgotten corners of an enormous catalogue. But Made in California isn't just for people who already know the difference between SMiLE and Smiley Smile. This is a podcast for anyone who wants to discover why a band so often reduced to surfing, cars and striped shirts deserves to be considered among the most remarkable stories — and greatest bodies of work — in popular music. Come for the harmonies. Stay for the increasingly inexplicable decisions.

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**Made in California: A Beach Boys Podcast** Harry Williams and Andy Wrintmore take a chronological journey through the incredible, bonkers, heartbreaking and wonderfully bizarre story of The Beach Boys. Drawing from the books, documentaries, interviews and recordings that tell their story, we explore the songs, albums, sessions and personalities, with track-by-track reviews, multitrack breakdowns, rare recordings and six decades of physical media. Come for the harmonies. Stay for the increasingly inexplicable decisions.

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