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| death_date = {{death date and age|1973|6|4|1917|7|2|mf=y}}
| death_place = [[Whittier, California]], U.S.
| burial_place = [[Inglewood Park Cemetery]]
| occupation = {{hlist|Publisher|talent manager|songwriter|record producer|machinist}}
| spouse = {{marriage|Audree Neva Korthof|1938|1966|reason=divorce}}
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[[File:The Beach Boys (1965).png|thumb|left|The Beach Boys, 1964]]
Murry accompanied the group on their first Australasian tour in January 1964, and requested that the band not fraternize with women, use profanity, or drink alcoholic beverages. During his early years, Wilson charged the group $100 for violating these requests, but for this tour, he
Upon the tour's completion, the band members held a vote in which they unanimously agreed to relieve Murry from his managerial duties. According to Love, "Brian and I drove to his parents' house, and Brian told him straight out: 'Look, we can't deal with you anymore. We've got to get a new manager.'"{{sfn|Love|2016|p=92}} In Carl's recollection, "I remember having a conversation with my dad in his bedroom at home. I said, 'They really don't want you to manage the group anymore.' When I think about it, that must have really crushed him. After all, he gave up his home and business for us. He was kind of crackers over us."{{sfn|Badman|2004|p=54}} Audree said that the dismissal "destroyed" her husband and that he refused to leave his bed for weeks.{{sfn|Love|2016|p=92}}
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Even after Murry's formal business relationship with the Beach Boys ended, he remained in close contact with the group, letting Brian know his thoughts about the band's decisions.{{sfn|Gaines|1986|pp=112–113}} Brian also periodically sought advice from his father.{{sfn|Badman|2004|p=54}} In 1964, Murry sold off his machinery business and separated from Audree.{{sfn|Badman|2004|p=57}}{{refn|group=nb|On August 7, 1964, Wilson wrote a last will and testament that stated, in part, "[Audree] told me on this date ... that she did not enjoy intercourse with me anymore ... I am a very unhappy and broken-heated {{sic}} man about my family."{{sfn|Dillon|2012|pp=54–55}}}} According to music historian Mark Dillon, it has been alleged that Wilson had one or more extramarital affairs, "but whether this was in the aftermath of his separation from Audree or was ultimately the cause is not known."{{sfn|Dillon|2012|p=56}} Biographer [[Peter Ames Carlin]] suggested that Brian's song "[[Let Him Run Wild]]" (1965) was inspired by Murry's affairs.{{sfn|Dillon|2012|p=56}}
In June 1964, Murry produced three tracks for [[David Marks]]' group the Marksmen: "Car Party", "Casanova", and "Leaves".{{sfn|Badman|2004|p=57}} During the mid-1960s, Murry produced and managed [[the Sunrays]],{{sfn|Badman|2004|p=257}} a group comprising five students who attended Hollywood Professional High School led by [[Rick Henn]], a friend of Carl Wilson. The Sunrays earned some media attention and a bit of airplay for their initial singles, but never broke into the national Top 40. Their two best-known singles, "[[I Live for the Sun]]" and "Andrea", were regional hits in California.{{citation needed|date=July 2015}} Session drummer [[Hal Blaine]] remembered of the Sunrays sessions, "You could smell the liquor something terrible when he [Wilson] came near you. Everybody got a two-dollar bill as a tip before we started, and then he'd get down on one knee and say a prayer. It was very weird."{{sfn|Dillon|2012|p=26}}
In February 1965, Wilson visited a Beach Boys recording session for "[[Help Me, Rhonda]]" and, to the group's annoyance, attempted to resume his role as the band's producer. A tape of the session later circulated widely among bootleggers.{{sfn|Dillon|2012|pp=49–50}} On May 8, Murry drafted an eight-page letter to Brian in which he correlated the Beach Boys' rise to fame with the disintegration of his family. He wrote that he felt he was "almost [in] a living hell" and "wanted to give up completely on two separate occasions."{{sfn|Dillon|2012|p=56}} Dillon wrote that the letter "provides a wealth of insight into his conflicted personality, and it made headlines in 2009 after being posted online."{{sfn|Dillon|2012|p=57}}
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==''The Many Moods of Murry Wilson'' and Sea of Tunes sale==
In October 1967, Capitol released Murry's ''[[The Many Moods of Murry Wilson]]'',{{sfn|Badman|2004|p=202}} an [[easy listening]] LP that included a rendition of "[[The Warmth of the Sun]]".{{sfn|Dillon|2012|p=60}} While promoting the album in Britain, he told ''[[Disc & Music Echo]]'' that "after '[[Good Vibrations]]' Brian lost a lot of confidence. He didn't think he could ever write anything as good as that again ... With [my] LP I'm going to nudge my boys' competitive spirit."{{sfn|Gaines|1986|p=195}} " Leaves" was released in the United States as the album's (and Wilson's) only [[single (music)|single]] in December 1967 with British demonstration records of "The Plumber's Tune" being produced by [[EMI]] for Capitol at the same time.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Murry Wilson Discography |url=https://www.discogs.com/artist/363017-Murry-Wilson |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221218103452/https://www.discogs.com/artist/363017-Murry-Wilson |archive-date=December 18, 2022 |access-date=July 29, 2024 |website=Discogs}}</ref>
In 1968, Wilson appeared on the Beach Boys' ''[[Friends (Beach Boys album)|Friends]]'' album, singing the brief bass vocal harmony in the chorus of "Be Here in the Mornin{{'}}".{{sfn|Wilson|Greenman|2016|p=153}} In early 1969, he co-wrote the Beach Boys' song "[[Break Away (The Beach Boys song)|Break Away]]" with Brian, and was credited under the pseudonym "Reggie Dunbar" on the record, which was released without much commercial success.{{sfn|Gaines|1986|p=192}} In October, he returned to the studio to work on various productions, including a song titled "Gonna Be Alright".{{sfn|Badman|2004|p=256}}
In late 1969, Wilson sold Sea of Tunes, over the band's objections, for the undervalued amount of $700,000 (equivalent to ${{Format price|{{Inflation|US|700000|1969|end_year={{Inflation-year|US}}}}}} in {{Inflation-year|US}}).{{sfn|Carlin|2006|p=145}}{{sfn|Badman|2004|p=258}} Brian later suggested that his signature was forged by his father on several related business documents, making the sale illegal.<ref name="briansuit">{{cite news|title=Brian Wilson Sues Music Publisher|url=
==Illness and death==
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James Murphy, author of ''Becoming the Beach Boys'', commented that "material possessions do not make a childhood happy, but Murry did his best [on a modest salary] to provide his boys with things they enjoyed. And no one fought harder for the fledgling Beach Boys than Murry."<ref name="Prince"/> Conversely, in his 2016 memoir, Mike Love wrote that Murry was "a driving force in the Beach Boys’ early success, but his greed and vindictiveness deny him any tribute. The most forgiving thing I can say about him is that he was simply an inheritor of his own father’s cruelty."{{sfn|Love|2016|p=227}} He added, "what is often missed in the Wilson family history is that my aunt Audree was the true musical talent in that marriage."{{sfn|Love|2016|p=26}} Brian himself stated in a 2005 interview that Murry "was a bad musician. I learned nothing from him."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Bartlett |first1=Thomas |title="I try to write songs and stuff" |url=https://www.salon.com/2005/06/22/wilson_15/ |website=Salon |date=June 22, 2005}}</ref>
===Posthumous releases and tributes===
The Sunrays' 1996 retrospective [[compilation album]] ''For Collectors Only'' marked the first time Wilson's music had been officially released since his death over 20 years earlier, including a 1972 demo of "The Colonel's Song" which was envisioned as a commercial [[jingle]] for [[Kentucky Fried Chicken]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Sunrays – ''For Collectors Only - Vintage Rays'' |url=https://www.discogs.com/release/10988323-The-Sunrays-For-Collectors-Only-Vintage-Rays |access-date=July 29, 2024 |website=Discogs}}</ref> In 2019, an [[extended play]] of songs recorded by Wilson and unknown Midwestern vocal group Snow (supposedly introduced to Wilson by Rick Henn) in 1969 including "Break Away" was released via download by [[Omnivore Recordings]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-12-16 |title=EXCLUSIVE FIRST LISTEN: Murry Wilson & Snow, "Break Away" |url=https://therecoup.com/2019/12/16/exclusive-first-listen-murry-wilson-snow-break-away/ |access-date=2024-07-24 |website=The Recoup |language=en}}</ref> In 2020, musician George Faulkner released a tribute album, ''George Faulkner Sings Murry Wilson'', containing 11 Wilson songs. It was the first vinyl LP collection of vocal songs composed by Wilson ever released. This included "For You and Me", a 1953 composition that was discovered in demo form on a set of [[acetate discs]] found at a Los Angeles-area thrift store. David Marks contributed liner notes to the album.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Milano |first1=Brett |title=Beach Boys fan tracks down elusive songs by Wilson dad |url=https://www.bostonherald.com/2020/11/22/beach-boys-fan-tracks-down-elusive-songs-by-wilson-dad/ |work=[[Boston Herald]] |date=November 22, 2020}}</ref>
===Fictional portrayals===
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==Works==
'''Solo
*''[[The Many Moods of Murry Wilson]]'' (1967)
*"Leaves" / "The Plumber's Tune" (single from ''Many Moods'', 1967)
*''The Break Away EP'' (with Snow, posthumous release, 2019)
'''Compositions'''
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* "Two-Step, Side-Step"
* "For You and Me"
* "Tabor-Inn" / "Tabarin"
* "[[Break Away (Beach Boys song)|Break Away]]" (with Brian Wilson)
* "I'll Hide My Tears"
* "Heartbreak Lane"
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* "Te-e-e-e-exas"
* "Love Won't Wait"
* "Betty's Waltz" (with Audree Wilson)
* "Won't You Tell Me"
* "Outta Gas"
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