Mike Love Brian Wilson Celebration Beach Boys American Bandstand

Almost Summer Soundtrack by Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine of the Beach Boys. American Bandstand 1978.

[@blarneystone38]

*record scratch* *freeze frame* "Yep, that's me, Brian. You're probably wondering how I ended up here..."

[@MrShenanigans28]

Stone Coggins underrated fucking comment. Bravo, sir.

[@buckyfereke]

Lolol brilliant comment ! 😂

[@SteveHatchitt]

fuckin hilarious

[@fshoaps]

Stupid comment. Mike and Brian were the American John and Paul, them together makes sense, simple as that.

[@milwaukeeskosher]

@@fshoaps wait. so is Mike Love the American John Lennon? 😱

[@juliemckeever5328]

Mike always did want to be the leader , you know Brian is just going along...always the nice guy

[@vickielawson3114]

I have to admit it makes me laugh when Mike does that finger lick thing with the line “Linda wants to be a nurse.”

[@markusrose9667]

Charles Lloyd is top tier jazz saxophonist, a legend!

[@toastertwo1602]

Brian actually looks quite relaxed here. He always loved to try something new.

[@MIKELIN8]

Funny intro by Dick Clark. He calls Mike "one of the most talented" and there's no response. Then he says "The man standing next to him is Brian Wilson", and cheers erupt. Even kids who probably weren't into The Beach Boys knew who was real.

[@worschtee1]

You KNOW this is from the late 70's for the pure and simple fact that both songs have sax solos in them. Sorta reminds me of the old SNL shows.

[@Boaconstrictors]

Mike and Brian together is magic

[@Mozart1220]

Brian HATES and FEARS Mike Love. Love is an asshole who would be cleaning toilets today without Brian.

[@milwaukeeskosher]

4:22 The ever-happy Ron Altbach. Rest in peace

[@j7286]

In 1978, as a young adult, I would have hated this dreck. In hindsight, it's more fun than it appears. The Beach Boys ---- like lovable dysfunctional boys-next-door who never dress quite right, miss the punchline of jokes, and embarrass themselves unknowingly. Truly an American band. I love them...........in hindsight. Geniuses, sometimes in spite of themselves. Brian may be the symbol of what both ails us and enlightens us.

[@spacepatrolman]

Carl said Loves group is shit

[@NOWtheband]

@@spacepatrolman - I don't doubt that he said that because although he's always seems to have the claims of being peaceful and diplomatic by various people, I've always got an undercurrent of anger and negativity from Carl (which isn't a bad thing for a musician to have, of course!). Love's group is very close in sound to the group that Carl is in with Love, ha ha ha! Bless. ;-)

[@beachbumtrivia1838]

...and included several members of the touring Beach Boys band.

[@atombomb31458]

This band is just awful. Too bad because Altbach and Robinson have lots of talent

[@jacobgeneryck]

Mike is the most talented man he knows, but just mentions Brian without any praise??

[@joelmcnultymusic]

My immediate thought exactly. How could Dick Clark be that clueless?

[@GodOfExploding]

I imagine he got his wires crossed and mixed them up

[@gerrydooley951]

@@joelmcnultymusic he really has always been that way. His interviews are often kind of odd.

[@baz3338]

I think it was a joke

[@sheatiller2465]

@@gerrydooley951 what else has he done like that? I haven't watched much bandstand but I haven't noticed that.

[@senormedia]

"Mike Love is one of the most talented musicians that I know. Standing next to him is Brian Wilson." WTF Dick?

[@Azishome]

***** Please. Show us where Dick Clark was EVER convicted of bribing anyone with under-the-table payments, and show us where he ever did not cooperate with the Congressional investigations carried out.

[@Azishome]

***** Dick Clark responded to Mike Love's call that it was his, Mike's group. Dick Clark was always very cooperative with groups and played the interviews as the groups and their management wished.

[@marygreenfield9964]

+senormedia I assumed he was being subtly sarcastic.

[@senormedia]

+Mary Greenfield You may be correct. Still, MLIAD.

[@AmishArvee]

Yeah, no shit! Dick Clark was generally clueless. No exception here.

[@maxti6]

Man, Cool. This stuff is Hip! Mike Love's cool swagger and the Ultra talented Brian Wilson moving swiftly and doing his best Sly. The time was right for Celebration. Sad I never knew of this band until finding this Incredible bit of history right here. ;-)

[@teacher694]

I've got this album stashed away somewhere. I never thought it was the Beach Boys, really. Just seemed like Mike Love's own stuff. It's good. I can't complain. Nostalgia stuff.

[@petestaint8312]

Had the album too. Not bad.

[@beachbumtrivia1838]

But, at :32, Dick mentions that the album features the "music of Mike Love, Brian Wilson & Al Jardine". So where's Al?

[@Paul-dw2cl]

#wheresal

[@Mozart1220]

It's not "beach boys really",. Mike forced Brian out to make MONEY.

[@Haroldbeavis1969]

"I wrote about 50 songs, we all write a lot of songs, Brian writes a lot of songs...." ROTFLMAO!!! Brian writes a lot of songs? Ya think????

[@Mozart1220]

"I change a few words around and claim songwriting credit. Brian is the genius and I have him on a leash." --- Mike Love

[@midninteranger4315]

If it wasn't for Brian Wilson there would be no beach Boys and all the song he wrote Brian is all the talent

[@bgbstrm2352]

Peace and love! Yeah... Love the songs - wish the BB had recorded them...

[@gittahfiend]

why does everyone dump on Mike? this type of music is his contribution to the beach boys sound. personally, I dig both of these songs. they should have been Beach Boys singles

[@joelmcnultymusic]

If it needs to be explained to you, then you wouldn't get it.

[@sojourner4164]

Because Brian writes all of the MUSIC and Mike Love shuffles in a few lyrics then claims 50% ownership. He is like a trophy spouse

[@juliahammond8312]

I agree, and I like both songs too!!!

[@NOWtheband]

@ gittahfiend - I like him. All nine of The Boys are heroes! (no villains). :-)

[@loismccormack2485]

I like him

[@flighty2]

Great commercial teen pop-rock from the soundtrack LP of the Almost Summer film: these 2 songs plus 'It's Ok' on side 1 were like a breath of fresh air in the 70's disco / reggae / progressive era.

[@debussy10]

After Mike and Al tried to get Brian to vote with them and kick Carl and Dennis out of the BBs on an airport tarmac in 77, the group was never the same again. The next album after that fiasco was the 1978 MIU album, to which Dennis and Carl each phoned one lead vocal, but did not attend the sessions. Brian was removed as producer, and Al and Ron Altbach, the keyboard player here, produced the album, which was wretched. Then Brian and Mike did this crap for a cheap movie, and it's the kind of formula Mike had wanted to stick to since 66. The single "Almost Summer", was a minor hit, hence this appearance on American Bandstand. In 79 the group signed a $7 million deal with CBS, and when the president of CBS, Walter Yenkitof, heard the L.A. Album, he uttered the immortal words "I think I've been fucked". He had been assured that Brian was in charge, but Brian was AWOL on that album, contributing nothing: 2 old Brian tracks were revived and one old Brian song was given the disco treatment. Their next CBS album, "Keepin the Summer Alive", had, for the first time, Brian phoning in several new songs, not one of which was of high quality: Dennis didn't even attend the sessions. Finally, in 85, they went to England and were produced by a producer of the month Steve Levine who promptly sent Brian for singing lessons: the resulting album tanked. The Beach Boys did not record another album with Brian until 2012, and the "That's Why God Made Radio" album, produced and mostly written by Brian, went to #3 on Billboard: the BBs wanted to continue to tour with Mike, Brian, Al, Bruce and Dave Marks, but Mike "fired" them all except Bruce because he wanted more cash for himself. Since then, Al and Blondie Chaplin tour with Brian and his fantastic band, and Mike continues to tour with a bunch of anonymous backup musicians and Bruce, who years ago should have jumped ship to Brian's band- God knows why he hasn't. As Dennis said in 77 that day on the tarmac when Al and Mike tried to fire him and Carl, "Remember this day: this was the day the Beach Boys broke up."

[@lowenbad]

To it’s credit, “Pitter Patter” from MIU is a jam. The only one on the album tho.

[@monte4503]

When you shine a light onto negativity, that's all your going to see. It's best to look at things with a more balanced approach because life is complicated. Your thesis is that the Beach Boys broke up in '77 and they were a shell of their former selves every year after, and you're willfully ignoring history to make that thesis a reality. The truth is that the Beach Boys had been a band of little pockets for years. You had some members working on x tracks, and some members working on y tracks, and the whole band working on z tracks. Just because that also happened *after* 1977 doesn't mean that's unequivocal evidence that they were dead as a group. It's funny - when people generally talk about songs like, say, Sail On Sailor, they say they were comeback hits for the group, but when it comes to Almost Summer, it's always a "minor hit." People love to discount the success of songs they don't like. When The Beach Boys Love You charts at 53, it's an underrated gem. When The Beach Boys '85 charts at 52, it's a flop. Maybe history and people are more complex than just "before x year it was this and after x year it was that." I don't know where you got the story that Mike cut Brian out of the band after 2012 "because he wanted to make more money for himself," but if that's the case then he made a very grave error because 1. the size of shows they were doing in 2012 were much larger comparatively and 2. he still contractually has to pay Brian and Al major royalties for using the Beach Boys name. The 2012 tour was a major, major ordeal with a lot of cooks in the kitchen. You had two touring groups which had both been used to performing a certain way for years suddenly forced to change. A follow-up reunion tour was not an inevitability and no one ever made any mention of it. If Brian was indeed cut out as the story goes, why wasn't there any effort at securing a contract for said follow-up tour? These things have a lot of moving parts and take a lot to get off the ground. If the plan was to continue, then they would have attempted to make those plans. You don't wait until the last minute at the point where you can already start booking venues, because at that point it's too late! Those venues you want to book will already be filled up by the time you negotiate your contract. The narrative just doesn't make sense when you put it into context with reality. I really resist fans constantly pitting Brian and Mike against one another because it makes for a better story. They've said good and bad things about each other. Brian has said scathing things about Carl and Dennis too, but that surely doesn't mean he always hated them or still hates them. People change and evolve. 60 years is a long time. Life is complicated.

[@milwaukeeskosher]

Wow, thanks for your comment. Where did you get all this? Is there a book that talks about it? I'm still a freshman at this.

[@milwaukeeskosher]

@@monte4503 Your comment is also very good. I don't think Mike fired anyone either. From my understanding it's much more likely that Brian wanted to leave, right?

[@boydmiller6544]

.ike deserves a lot more credit than he often gets because he, more than anyone, has kept their music alive and true to their core, for decades. He has been a tireless champion of the Beach Boys.

[@donbrown1477]

as the beach boys go, these two songs aren't too bad. Better than most of what they put out in the 80's,, other than Kokomo.

[@Mozart1220]

Kokomo is not a beach boys song. It's a Terry Melcher/John Phillips song commissioned by Mike (who as usual changed a couple words around an took songwriting credit). NO BRIAN NO BEACH BOYS.

[@THECLARENCES]

SOOO awesome!!! xoxo The Clarences

[@GaryZenkerStoryteller]

So this is a great old style Beach Boys-type song, and compares favorably with "It's OK," another fun song from the same era. Mike does a really nice job introducing the band members. What's really embarrassing is being a Beach Boys fan and the negativity that comes from them. IF this were a Brian Wilson written song, everyone would have a different opinion. And all the negative comments about Mike have nothing to do with the music. Very sad.

[@beachboysswiftie]

Amen!

[@sojourner4164]

It is a Brian Wilson written song kzbin.info/www/bejne/mXbbgWB4nqmfotU

[@Blend42]

This IS a Brian Wilson Song haha

[@gerrydooley951]

This was supposed to be a Beach Boy release but couldn't be because of the record companies involved

[@Mozart1220]

Because for the most part Mike has nothing to do with the music, and yes, the way he exploited Brian IS sad.

[@freddickey5452]

Great Mike Kowalski spent over 30 years keeping the beat for The Beach Both

[@alltaken678]

I think the reason Dick Clark stumbled there at the beginning is because the group was Mike Love & Celebration and here Brian Wilson shows up with him. Maybe they should have had their little chat before the cameras started rolling? But what they explain is all true--the movie people wanted the Beach Boys, but the soundtrack was being released by a competing record company. It seems that many people think (and even want to think) these guys were at each others' throats all the time, but that's just not true. (People want to think the same of Lennon and McCartney, but that wasn't really true either.)

[@NOWtheband]

Two of the nine heroes! :-)

[@BlueEyes-gp8lg]

Former Pitt and NFL Coach Dave Wannstadt on guitar:)

[@calebsmith2362]

"Almost Summer" Best song ever? Probably.

[@1401minstrel]

Nothing but "harmony, positivity, love and peace" among Beach Boys in the late 1970s. Hah! What a load of crap. That's the best laugh I've had all day.

[@anth1225]

"Bad guys, good guys cruisn down Van Nuys" like it

[@misterocain]

Don't get me wrong, i'm not a Mike Love hater but if he is one of the most talented humans the presenter has know then where does that place the guy next him? Positively a god.

[@asr53]

I actually bought this album. Besides BB's Mike & Brian, long time touring BB's on drums Mike Kowalski, Ed Carter (guitar & bass) and Ron Altbach (keyboards). The title song had radio airplay & charted at #28 on Billboard 100. Love may be an a-hole, but he did write some lyrics to many BB great songs. That he had the balls to sue Brian over getting more writing credits was BS. He also sang lead on all of the early 60's uptempo songs. I Get Around, Little Deuce Coupe, Surfin Safari, Calif Girls, Be True to Your School, Catch a Wave, Fun Fun Fun, Little Honda, Surfin USA, etc.

[@petestaint8312]

Completely agree! Had this album too. Played the crap out of it. 👍

[@beachbumtrivia1838]

How about Gary Griffin?

[@Mozart1220]

MIke would be a Wal Mart greeter without Brian.

[@toomuchinformation]

​​@@Mozart1220A creepy one at that...........😅😅😅😅😅😅

[@danackroydsbutt]

Brian looks adorable here

[@mnlightshimmer9148]

A great, great song. Check out Kim Fowley's version. I've seen a lot of car crash Brian and Dennis clips, not sure why this is'nt up there with them.

[@beachbumtrivia1838]

Charles Lloyd! Ron Altbach! Ed Carter! Gary Griffin! Mike Kowalski!

[@robertov05]

I think Brian was smart to let Mike Love get top billing for this monstrosity! And Dick Clark is just as clueless as ever.

[@juliahammond8312]

Mike

[@marcofalzone6469]

Goin through a four year WHAT??? BINGE??😆

[@Azishome]

THAT'S the best lyric Mike Love has, rhyming books with looks? Love sees himself as a great writer. Yet, he is touring with a semi-talent group of guys who are supposed to be the Beach Boys, singing 50-year-old songs. Where is all Love's great newer stuff? (Hint: there isn't any.) Brian Wilson, on the other hand, has great new music rolling out monthly, and tours with a great group of musicians and singers--true artists. Love is pathetic. Love can make all the jokes about how everyone hates him he wants--he's the one who turns it into reality.

[@johnrunion5357]

i always liked this song. although it was released in 1978 sort of around the time of the miu album (m.i.a.?) it reminds me of 15 big ones era (1976). i have very mixed feelings about 15 big ones; it should have been all oldies or all newies. i like this song. it brings back a lot of fond memories. i used to make beach boys 8-track tapes (for free, of course) for my friends and often i would include this song and no one would know the difference.

[@gerrydooley951]

The BB's blew it badly with 15BO's, there was tremendous publicity leading up to the album and they put out ... that. Very similar to when they released Smiley Smile instead of Smile. The Boys have always been very good at sabotaging their own career.

[@johnrunion5357]

@@gerrydooley951 i love smiley smile, but 15 big ones is a lousy album.

[@beachbumtrivia1838]

@@gerrydooley951 Sad, but true.

[@jdd3786]

To think that 1 year earlier, Brian wrote an entire album called "Love You" which totally blows this away. Why on Earth did they play this instead? So many questions with the Beach Boys.

[@notoriousblt1038]

So many questions and so many answers that would take far too long to explain here

[@colindominy]

Two great songs here. But, Dick Clark once again shows himself up to be a bit of schmuck. How on earth can he describe Mike Love in that complimentary way .. especially when our nowadays Living Treasure, Brian Wilson, is standing up there on stage, right beside Love & his corny, quite silly, stupid stage antics. Senormedia - you are spot-on with your comment.

[@RubinoPride]

Mike was the funky cheese of the group

[@paultynan8705]

Flying Burrito wannabe

[@pekko68b]

Sorry, I´m a little outsider in this, but what is this thing between Mike Love and other Beach Boys? What happened and when?

[@sdne1959]

. Oh, _honey_ .......there's just SO much to learn, and SO little time to do it...... I'd recommend one of the THOUSANDS of books on the early history of The Beach Boys up through and until Dennis Wilson dies (1983), or thereabout, and that should give you SOME idea of just what a COMPLETE asshat Mike Love was, and continues to be to this day.... .

[@BazookaToe]

Looks like a rear on collision with the Village People. Yikes Free Brian Wilson!

[@1401minstrel]

Carl Wilson, when asked about Celebration on an interview for a 6/25/1978 New York Daily News article: "Love's project doesn't mean shit."

[@NOWtheband]

I don't doubt that he said that because although he's always seems to have the claims of being peaceful and diplomatic by various people, I've always got an undercurrent of anger and negativity from Carl (which isn't a bad thing for a musician to have, of course!) ;-)

[@1401minstrel]

@@NOWtheband It was an unguarded moment, to be sure. I kind of wish Carl had had more unguarded moments, though. Perhaps he would have lived longer.

[@jkfan2005]

Mainly it's one Beach Boy and one Village Person

[@senorxrey6429]

Acts on AB usually lip sync'ed their hit. See the Mike Douglas clip with "Almost Summer" and "Fun Fun Fun" performed live w/Cheryl Ladd's story as well: @

[@Sacha_Kudli]

Mike Love speaking voice is so different from his singing voice

[@Mozart1220]

That's because he doesn;t speak entirely through his nose.

[@spacepatrolman]

5:32 song #2

[@tomjones5650]

Kowalski Eddie Carter Gary Griffin 😎 Cool

[@WildBuster]

Maybe Carl, Bruce, Al and Dennis were on vacation... Cool song BTW.

[@spacepatrolman]

Carl said Loves group is shit

[@1401minstrel]

@spacepatrolman Yep. And he was right.

[@NOWtheband]

@@spacepatrolman - I don't doubt that he said that because although he's always seems to have the claims of being peaceful and diplomatic by various people, I've always got an undercurrent of anger and negativity from Carl (which isn't a bad thing for a musician to have, of course!) ;-)

[@sueadt8421]

Well, it’s different from the BB music!!???

[@spacepatrolman]

0:49 song #1

[@tvine1]

'78. Dennis was still alive, no?

[@The4999341]

Yes.

[@RJW14863]

Yes, and attempting to record the follow-up to POB

[@FabioSilva0312]

Good music. Not great, but fun. Hating Mike Love is one of the stupidest things that exist.

[@Azishome]

+fagner silva, no, it's not. Mike Love has earned his reputation and the hostility directed toward him. Love just kept digging and digging, taking legal and financial advantage of a man who was sick and vulnerable, and who did not have the constitution to fight Mike Love's duplicity and back-stabbling. And, in 2017, look who now owns the Beach Boy name and enterprise--it's certainly not Brian Wilson. We will probably never hear another new Beach Boy hit because of Mike Love.

[@NOWtheband]

@ Fabio silva - I agree, especially your opinion of hating Mike Love. :-)

[@leebondy5035]

@@NOWtheband everybody knocks mike loves prancing on stage but doesn't mick Jagger do the same thing. I see him doing all kinds of prancing around and nobody says anything but everyone loves to pick on mike. Get it a rest people.

[@NOWtheband]

@@leebondy5035 - Not "everybody"! Not me and I'm part of this "everybody" shituation! Anywait, regardless of my position in society, I agree with you. 🙂

[@BlueEyes-gp8lg]

I am not one of the internet Mike haters, but wow...he looks as campy here as Elton at the Central Park concert. Exactly what audience was he trying to attract?

[@paultynan8705]

Flying burritos

[@amyrose1763]

Don't remember this song at all.

[@adamfriend1040]

Hi there.. how are you doing? Hope you are fine and staying safe over there??

[@giorgioc8551]

Mike Love is....wwwhhhhhaaaatt???? hoouahuhuahuhauhauahuaah!

[@michaelo1156]

I wonder if Almost Summer would be treated better if it was a "Beach Boys" song? Made #26, maybe it hits top 10-15. These suck the same way BB albums from that era (MIU, LA, KTSA) suck. There are moments on those records, but MIU (5 months later) is the worst of the 3. Could have benefited from a hit song on there. Mike was also making a rejected pop AND country album at this time. What a weird period of BB history!!!

[@1markfox]

Check out this version: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hHeZdWRue6ijr7s

[@sojourner4164]

Another Brian Wilson written track that Mike has commandeered: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mXbbgWB4nqmfotU

[@twilafiltharp8033]

this was and is dismal. the low point for all concerned

[@robertlepper9673]

If you don't know why Mike Love is despised just watch him prancing around here

[@otisblueswelljr]

Everyone likes to bash Love but Brian looks like he doesn't even know how to play a bass. His voice was totally shot during those years and most of the songs he contributed late 70s early 80s were crap. But its all Mike's fault right?

[@hellomcflyy]

+otisblueswelljr hes not very good at miming/lip synching - as you can see in some of their mid 80s appearances

[@gigid9606]

Brian STARTED with a BASE GUITAR. Get the facts straight , its allover you tube And he started the band. And wrote 90 percent of the songs, ok, get all of the facts straight.

[@otisblueswelljr]

@@gigid9606 I'm well aware he started on "bass". Girl Don't Tell Me was probably one of the last tracks he played bass on in 65. Al actually played bass on more tracks in the studio while Brian played piano and organ. He stopped touring end of 64. All the complex stuff was done by studio session guys. Realistically, Brian played bass about 3 years. He probably played football longer than that.

[@sheatiller2465]

He could play bass fine in 1978. Listen to any Beach Boys show from the year, as he played almost all of the bass live for them during that period.

[@Pan3405]

sounds sooo childish.... it wasn't all that great!

[@jmua8450]

and this is what the lovester wanted to do to the beach boys. disgusting

[@maryr6237]

Ugh

[@atroticious]

the presenter is weird when he thinks that Mike Love is the most talented man

[@johncave3334]

I just hate Mike love! Brian has more talent in one hair follicle than Mike has in his entirety times three!!!

[@captainfantastic9158]

God f@cking damn, this retro, county fair garbage is NOT the legacy of the Beach Boys. And I wish Brian had been in a firmer state of mind to stand up to his mediocre-talent cousin and say "no" to this bullsh*t.

[@whiteandright1958]

Gag Me with a fucking spoon. This is why Brian did drugs. He was probably so embarrassed doing this.

[@davidr4523]

These were two terrible songs even for 1978. Who wrote this crap? What a step down from "Don't worry baby"

[@paultynan8705]

pathetic always seeking attention. Mike Love uhhhg

[@darrelltiencken2194]

Embarrassing, Mike is hum unwatchable!

[@darrelltiencken2413]

This song is absolutely horrible, the lyrics are silly, childlike and the nasal Mike Love vocals are beyond annoying!

[@marksmemorabilia3743]

I dont Like Mike Love, creep

[@dbaser687]

Brian is the MOST talented human being, not Mike