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Background

..........The Beach Boys story began in Hawthorne, California in 1961, when Brian, Dennis and Carl Wilson formed a band with their cousin Mike Love and friend Al Jardine. The group began as Kenny and the Cadets, Carl and the Passions, and finally the Pendletones. Brian who is a fan of the Four Freshman , began teaching the others intricate Freshman styled of harmonies. Murray Wilson, the father of the brothers and a sometime songwriter, suggested that the boys approach his publisher, Hite Morgan who owned a small recording and publishing company called Guild Music. The group intended to audition with some old favourites, but Morgan told them that they needed some original material to get recorded.

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..........In December 1961 ** The Surfin ** was issued on X Records as a promote for them . They can have selling over 50,000 cpoies . Beach Boys began to performed at long beach Municipal Stadium in a memorial concert for Ritchie Valens . They were paid three hundred dollars.

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..........In early 1963, Murray Wilson put the band on the road for a relentless string of concerts across America, but Brian became more and more resentful of the time away from home.

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..........In 1965 the Beach Boys did a remake of Bobby Freeman's hit "Do You Wanna Dance" with Dennis Wilson on lead vocal.

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..........In 1972 saw changes in the Beach Boys' on stage line-up when Dennis was sidelined after he injured his hand in a windowpane mishap. Bruce Johnson had a falling out with Jack Rieley, one of the group's management team and left for a solo career. They were replaced by Rick Faar and Blondie Chaplin of the South African group" Flame" .

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..........In 1988, John Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas wrote "Kokomo" for the Beach Boys to sing on the sound track to the movie, "Cocktail."

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..........By 2002, the remaining Beach Boys touring group had fragmented even further, with Mike Love and Bruce Johnston touring together, banishing Al Jardine from the band. Lawsuits and counter lawsuits flew back and forth over the rights to use the Beach Boys name, the results of which prevented Jardine from touring as Beach Boys Family and Friends.

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...........By mid-June, 2006, the surviving members of The Beach Boys had apparently put aside all the lawsuits and nastiness to celebrate the 40th anniversary of their landmark "Pet Sounds" album and the double-platinum certification of "Sounds of Summer.

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...........They have variety songs such as when I grow up <> This song is about what he want to do or will be in the future . The second example is California Girls is about he narrates the girls whom he meet in California . I think Mike is a person who the most success during his career .

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..........The Beach Boys were inducted into the Rock ans Roll hall of Fame in 1988 . They are the real innovator of America Rock and Roll . Catch their concerts and tune into their genius .They are a classic act .

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Backround

..........The original members were Al Alberts (originally Albertini), Dave Mahoney, Lou Silvestri, and Rosario "Sod" Vaccaro. They all came from Chester, Pennsylvania . Alberts went to South Philadelphia High School, Temple University, and the United States Navy, where he met Mahoney . Alberts sang with Mahoney playing behind him, and later they added Vaccaro on trumpet and Silvestri on drums . They played locally in the Philadelphia area, and Alberts started his own record label, Victoria Records, when they could not find a distributor to release their first record, "(It's No) Sin." It sold a million copies, and Decca Records soon signed the group, billing them as The Four Aces featuring Al Alberts .

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..........Alberts, however, left the group in 1956 to try to make it as a soloist, but never made the charts. He was replaced as lead singer by Fred Diodati, who had attended South Philadelphia High School a few years after Alberts . the group broke up, but Diodati still has a group which he calls the Four Aces, though it contains none of the original members. In 1975 a court awarded Diodati the right to the name in a court suit in which the original members tried to establish their right.The Four Aces were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2001.

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..........I think Fred Diodati is artist had the most success during his careers because he is one of the best lead singers/spokeman in the business today. The first example is **It's A Women's World ** is about this world most of all are women . They live in the world . They 're very beautiful . The second is ** Heart and Soul ** is about they fall in love with someone . Their heart difficult to control .

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..........A change of backing orchestra from Owen Bradley to Jack Pleis then brought further successes with 'Heart of My Heart,' their first American No.1, the million selling 'Three Coins in the Fountain,' and their top 10 version of 'Mister Sandman.' Al Alberts left the group in 1958 to pursue a solo career and was replaced by Freddie Diodatti, who fronted the foursome on their 1959 chart success 'The World Outside.' Dave and Sod left the group in the Sixties. The final member, Lou, left in 1976 to join the other members in a group, which was named The Original Four Aces, who continued to perform until 1957 .

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I think I like Beach boys better than Four Aces . It 's include of many reason such as style of music , artists , the meaning of songs . The package of CD and the color of album .