The Beach Boys: Endless Summer (Capitol)
Greg Shaw, Phonograph Record, 1 September 1974
NO SUMMER WOULD BE complete without a Beach Boys reissue. These last couple of years, with Warner Bros. working on the post-Pet Sounds material and Capitol continuing its search for new combinations of the early hits, have brought the greatest bumper crops yet.
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