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Spring (American Spring album)

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"American Spring (album)" redirects here. For the 2015 album by Anti-Flag, see American Spring (Anti-Flag album).
Spring
Studio album by
Spring
ReleasedJuly 1972
Recorded
  • January 7, 1970 ("Good Time")
  • October 8, 1971 – May 1972
StudioBeach Boys, Los Angeles, CA
Length34:50
LabelUnited Artists
ProducerBrian Wilson
Singles from Spring
  1. "Now That Everything's Been Said"
    Released: October 20, 1971
  2. "Good Time"
    Released: May 1, 1972
American Spring reissue cover

Spring is the only album by American pop duo Spring, released in July 1972 on United Artists. It contains cover versions of popular songs as well as original material written or co-written by Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys. Although Brian is the album's only credited producer, most of the production was actually handled by his collaborator at the time, David Sandler, alongside engineer Stephen Desper.

The album sold poorly, and in later years, became a valuable collector's item.[1] The record was soon renamed American Spring, along with the band, to avoid confusion with the English band Spring. In 1977, the Beach Boys included their version of the album's second single, "Good Time", on their album The Beach Boys Love You. In 1998, Spring was reissued on CD with four bonus tracks.

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Background and recording

Brian Wilson, 1971

Thanks to a mutual connection with Bruce Johnston, Brian Wilson met David Sandler, a Minnesota-based songwriter/producer, at a session for "Good Time".[2] The song was intended for what became the Beach Boys' album Sunflower. It was left off the record, and the backing track (produced on January 7, 1970) was ultimately used for Spring.[3] Wilson and Sandler kept in touch, and a few months later, Wilson asked Sandler to co-produce what became the Spring album.[2]

Spring was largely tracked in Wilson's home studio in Bel Air, California from October 8, 1971 to May 1972.[4][5] The album was produced by Wilson, Sandler, and engineer Stephen Desper.[6] According to Sandler, Wilson's actual role in the project "ebbed and flowed". Wilson was occasionally absent during sessions, leaving Sandler and Desper to produce the record by themselves, sometimes with assistance from Sunrays member Rick Henn.[2]

Sessions coincided with the Beach Boys' recording of Carl and the Passions – "So Tough", an album that featured less involvement from Wilson than Spring.[6] According to Sandler, Wilson "was definitely trying to establish some independence from the group, and the Spring album was part of that. He still had a lot of music in him, but I think he was depressed. And maybe some of the people who were supposed to be helping him were hacking away but not helping him that much."[7]

One of the album's outtakes was a medley of the Four Tops' "Baby I Need Your Loving" and the Spencer Davis Group's "Gimme Some Lovin"; the track was abandoned after Wilson received a lukewarm reaction from his bandmates.[8] There were also plans for Sandler to co-produce the Beach Boys' next album. Explaining why it never happened, Sandler commented, "There were personality things, family things, going on."[9] In 2021, the Beach Boys' unfinished recording of Sandler's "It's Natural", produced by Wilson and Sandler, was released on the box set Feel Flows.[10]

Release and reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Christgau's Record GuideB+[11]

Spring was released in the US by United Artists in July 1972. Elsewhere, and on later reissues of the album, the record was renamed "American Spring" to avoid confusion with the English band of the same name.[6] The album was critically acclaimed but sold poorly.[6]

Reviewing in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981), Robert Christgau wrote of the album: "In which Brian Wilson produces his old female backup group—the Honeys, featuring his wife Marilyn—in what sounds like the best and is certainly the most charming Beach Boys album since Sunflower. The old combination of ingenuousness and sophistication works as well as ever, only this time the vocals rather than the lyrics are naive—direct, pretty, effortless, thoughtless. And Wilson's studio work is as precise and humorous as ever."[11]

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Tennessee Waltz"Pee Wee King, Redd Stewart2:03
2."Thinkin' Bout You Baby"Brian Wilson, Mike Love3:05
3."Mama Said"Willie Denson, Luther Dixon2:34
4."Superstar"Bonnie Bramlett, Leon Russell3:31
5."Awake"Floyd Tucker3:24
6."Sweet Mountain"B. Wilson, David Sandler4:13
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Everybody"Tommy Roe2:20
2."This Whole World"B. Wilson3:11
3."Forever"Dennis Wilson, Gregg Jakobson3:14
4."Good Time"Al Jardine, B. Wilson2:50
5."Now That Everything's Been Said"Carole King2:16
6."Down Home"Gerry Goffin, King2:44
Total length:34:50
1989 CD bonus tracks
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
13."Shyin' Away"Diane Rovell, Sandler, Marilyn Wilson2:10
14."Fallin' in Love"D. Wilson2:37
15."It's Like Heaven"Rovell, B. Wilson2:36
16."Had to Phone Ya"B. Wilson, Love, Rovell2:03

Personnel

American Spring

Production staff

References

  1. ^ a b Viglione, Joe. "Spring – Spring : Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved October 30, 2012.
  2. ^ a b c Carlin 2006, p. 176.
  3. ^ Badman 2004, pp. 223, 309.
  4. ^ Doe, Andrew G. (2012). "GIGS71". Retrieved October 26, 2012.
  5. ^ Doe, Andrew G. (2012). "GIGS72". Retrieved October 26, 2012.
  6. ^ a b c d Badman 2004, p. 321.
  7. ^ Carlin 2006, p. 179.
  8. ^ Carlin 2006, p. 178.
  9. ^ Carlin 2006, pp. 178–179.
  10. ^ Willman, Chris (August 31, 2021). "Beach Boys' Archivists on the 'Feel Flows' Boxed Set, and How the Group Was Peaking — Again — While the World Wasn't Looking". Variety.
  11. ^ a b Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: S". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved March 13, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.

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