The Beach Boys are an American rock band formed in Hawthorne, California in 1961. The group's original lineup consisted of brothers Brian, Dennis, and Carl Wilson, their cousin Mike Love, and their friend Al Jardine. They emerged at the vanguard of the "California Sound", performing original surf songs that gained international popularity for their distinct vocal harmonies and lyrics exploring a southern California youth culture of surfing, cars, and romance. Influenced by jazz-based vocal groups, 1950s rock and roll, and doo-wop, Brian led the band in devising novel approaches to music production, arranging his compositions for studio orchestras, and experimenting with several genres ranging from pop ballads to psychedelic and baroque.
The group began as a garage band managed by the Wilsons' father Murry, with Brian's creative ambitions and sophisticated songwriting abilities dominating the group's musical direction. After 1964, their albums took a different stylistic path that featured more personal lyrics, multi-layered sounds, and recording experiments. In 1966, the Pet Sounds album and "Good Vibrations" single vaunted the group to the top level of rock innovators and established the band as symbols of the nascent counterculture era. Following the dissolution of Smile, Brian gradually ceded control to the rest of the band, reducing his input because of mental health and substance abuse issues. Though the more democratic incarnation of the Beach Boys recorded a string of albums in various music styles that garnered international critical success, the group struggled to reclaim their commercial momentum in America. Since the 1980s, much-publicized legal wrangling over royalties, songwriting credits and use of the band's name transpired.
The Beach Boys is the self-titled 25th studio album by American rock band The Beach Boys, released on June 10, 1985. Produced by Steve Levine, the album is the band's first recording after the drowning death of founding member Dennis Wilson. It was also the first of the band's albums to be recorded digitally and released on CD. It's also the last album released by James William Guercio's Caribou Records.
For the album, the band hired Culture Club producer Steve Levine, who took them into the world of drum machines, synthesizers, sampling, and hi-tech recording technology. Brian Wilson, Carl Wilson, Mike Love, Bruce Johnston and Al Jardine all took an active role in the project, writing several new songs for it, with Stevie Wonder and Culture Club each donating a song. The album was recorded during summer 1984 at Red Bus studio in London, and Westlake Audio in Los Angeles during late 1984/early 1985. It features Motown artist Stevie Wonder on harmonica and keyboards on the song "I Do Love You", which he also wrote. Ringo Starr also appears on the track "California Calling" (Starr also appeared live with The Beach Boys in 1985 during the 4th of July concert in Washington D.C.). Noted guitarist Gary Moore features on all tracks playing both guitar and synthaxe.
The Beach Boys are an American rock group formed in California in 1961.
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California is a 1927 American Western silent film directed by W. S. Van Dyke and written by Marian Ainslee, Ruth Cummings and Frank Davis. The film stars Tim McCoy, Dorothy Sebastian, Marc McDermott, Frank Currier and Fred Warren. The film was released on May 7, 1927, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
341 California is an asteroid belonging to the Flora family in the Main Belt, that has an unusually high albedo.
It was discovered by Max Wolf on September 25, 1892 in Heidelberg.
California is a place name used by three North American states: in the United States by the state of California, and in Mexico by the states of Baja California and Baja California Sur. Collectively, these three areas constitute the region formerly referred to as Las Californias. The name California is shared by many other places in other parts of the world whose names derive from the original. The name "California" was applied to the territory now known as the state of California by one or more Spanish explorers in the 16th century and was probably a reference to a mythical land described in a popular novel of the time: Las Sergas de Esplandián. Several other origins have been suggested for the word "California", including Spanish, Latin, South Asian, and Aboriginal American origins. All of these are disputed.
California originally referred to the entire region composed of the Baja California peninsula now known as Mexican Baja California and Baja California Sur, and upper mainland now known as the U.S. states of California and parts of Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and Wyoming. After Mexico's independence from Spain, the upper territory became the Alta California province. In even earlier times, the boundaries of the Sea of Cortez and the Pacific Ocean coastlines were only partially explored and California was shown on early maps as an island. The Sea of Cortez is also known as the Gulf of California.
Comin' from the city where no pity is shown shown shown shown
In California 4X
Rollin' down Crenshaw Boulevard
Starin' at these suckas who claim to be hard
Daz Dillinger & the Gang
Who can blast & gangbang Ha haa
Verse 1
Who gives it up for every hooker rat & hood slut
all in the cut Dat Nigga Daz with the pimp strut
You slept game on those who act lame
see ain't a damn thang changed
you know I ride the neighborhood slow
floss on you & let the weed blow
True indeed I'm havin' a ball
pick up the phone & give my homiez a call
What's up with y'all? (What's up y'all?)
Livin' in the city where we born to ball
Rolled up a Philly we pack it tight
what a pity what a sight
& hella Chronic all damn night
Got the weed it got me kinda feelin' so high
Hennessy got a brother so feelin' so high
Pull outta state enjoy my day & I love to burn rubber
pump up the jam for the summer
gimme Eureka Snoop got the Hummer
Kinda make you wanna sit back & wonder
The home of the city of the Crips & the Bloods
and niggaz get shot oh who they thought you was
The home of the cities of the gangstaz & bud
or you can get bad oh who they thought you was
Verse 2
Ooh damn back by a popular demand
Daz Dillinger back in effect homey once again
The question is why y'all got a problem with me gettin' high
say the wrong thing get right
Prepare in effect homiez are prepared everywhere
causin' ruckus all bein' fair
Daz Dillinger finally alone in my zone
be by myself in a place that I call home
Check it out peep out the scenery
ya meanin' to me nuthin' to me ya keep frontin' to me
I hit you up Dogg Pound all come around
lay 'em all down homiez be frontin' for they town
Throw it up Eastside Westside bumpin'
California's the state where we be dumpin' what!!
The home of the city of the Crips & the Bloods
and you can get shot oh who they thought you was
The home of the cities of the gangstas & bud
Ha haa or you can get bad oh who they thought you was
it's a place where everybody wanna see.
Once that you visit see all the places
you may never wanna leave>
Verse 3
Here I am stompin' down choppin' down yo compound
knockin' all y'all out thirty seconds in the first round
Who come around get destroyed off contact
realize & understand homey you don't want that
Check it out let's engage in military actin'
women dope & drama keep me yackin'
Bump all that bullsh(it) you yappin'
them beats & that bullsh you yappin'
I'm about all busy boggin' & cappin'
pistol packin' you don't really want none of this action
Homey, you betta watch out 'cause nothin' can save ya
tattooein' y'all with razors
blazen that it didn't penetrate him but I grazed him
now they callin' Daz unusual playa hater
Back on the spot feelin' high
watchin' as the cops pass by
smokin' fire homey I ain't lyin'
Who the man from Long Beach, California to Japan
Rockin' like wonder MC homey without a band in hand
a why can't control the whole scene
watch it unfold get scold get blown away
any other rapper pay dearly severely y'all come & hear me
Damn you get bruised battered & slammed
niggaz try to see who I am Dat Nigga Daz
The home of the city of the Crips & the Bloods
where you can get shot oh who they thought you was
The home of the city of the Crips & the Bloods
where you can get shot oh who they thought you was
it's a place where everybody wanna see.
Once that you visit see all the places
you may never wanna leave>
The home of the city of the Crips & the Bloods
and you can get shot oh who they thought you was
The home of the city of the Crips & the Bloods
where you can get shot oh who they thought you was
The only ill scene to do somethin' for ya
it's a place where everybody wanna see.
Once that you visit see all the places
you may never wanna leave Mmm, mmm>