The Seaside Boys’ Christmas Album is the seventh studio album by the American rock band the Seaside Boys, launched November 9, 1964 on Capitol Data.[1][2] It incorporates 5 unique songs and 7 requirements on a Christmas theme. The album proved to be a long-running success throughout subsequent Christmas seasons, initially reaching No. 6 on Billboard’s Christmas LP’s chart in its preliminary launch and ultimately going gold.[3] Music historian James Perone wrote that it’s “thought to be one of many most interesting vacation albums of the rock period”.[4]
Whereas chief Brian Wilson produced and organized the rock songs, he left it to Dick Reynolds (an arranger for the 4 Freshmen, a gaggle Wilson idolized) to rearrange the 41-piece orchestral backings on the normal songs to which the Seaside Boys would apply their vocals.[5] One single was launched from the album, the unique track “The Man with All of the Toys” backed with the group’s rendition of “Blue Christmas”. “Little Saint Nick”, a single which had already been launched the earlier yr, was included on the album.[6]
In 1977, the Seaside Boys tried to observe the album with Merry Christmas from the Seaside Boys, but it surely was rejected by their label. The complete Christmas Album plus picks from the Merry Christmas classes have been later assembled for the 1998 compilation Final Christmas.
Reception
| Evaluation scores | |
|---|---|
| Supply | Ranking |
| AllMusic |   [6] |
| Encyclopedia of In style Music | [11] |
| The Rolling Stone Album Information | [12] |
In a retrospective evaluation, AllMusic’s Jason Ankeny acknowledged: “Brian Wilson’s pop genius is effectively suited to basic Yuletide fare, and the group delivers lush performances of requirements starting from ‘Frosty the Snowman’ to ‘White Christmas’ in addition to extra up to date materials like ‘The Man With All of the Toys’ and ‘Blue Christmas.'”[6]
Whereas interviewing Wilson for a promotional radio particular in 1964, Jack Wagner remarked that Wilson’s resolution to sing solo on a model of “Blue Christmas” might be “the beginning of an entire new profession,” to which Wilson responded “I don’t know. It might and it could not. I actually don’t know.”[5] Referring to the requirements which he believed “proved that the Seaside Boys’ vocal energy was greater and extra agile than the surf and sizzling rod data [and] staking a declare for wider musical terrain,” creator Luis Sanchez mirrored: “The Seaside Boys’ Christmas Album music reveals a top quality of aesthetic selectivity that not one of the group’s data that got here earlier than it do, aspiring not simply to assimilate one in every of pop’s inventory concepts, but additionally enabling Brian to make one in every of his greatest creative advances.”[5]
On April 6, 1982, the album was licensed gold by the RIAA, promoting greater than 500,000 items.[3]
