Mike’s New PBS Special (and the debut of “Happy Endings” on CD)

Thought I might as well start a thread to discuss a new My Music PBS special that is being hosted by Mike entitled Summer, Surf and Beach Music We Love. This is a clip show featuring vintage videos by the Beach Boys, Jan & Dean, etc. Looks like an interesting watch.

But perhaps more interesting for us BB fanatics is the “Thank You” gifts offered by making a donation to a PBS station, including one of the most fascinating Beach Boys hits compilations I have ever seen: Summer Favorites. Its track listing, via WETA:

1. California Girls
2. I Get Around
3. Surfer Girl
4. Wouldn’t It Be Nice
5. Summer Means New Love
6. Goin’ To The Beach
7. Little Deuce Coupe
8. God Only Knows
9. Still Cruisin’
10. Surfin’ USA
11. Summer In Paradise
12. The Warmth Of The Sun
13. Barbara Ann
14. California Feelin’
15. Fun, Fun, Fun
16. Island Girl
17. Don’t Worry Baby
18. Somewhere Near Japan
19. Good Vibrations
20. Summer Of Love
21. Kokomo
22. Surf’s Up
23. Wipe Out – with The Fat Boys
24. Happy Endings – with Little Richard
25. All Summer Long (a cappella version)

This is unbelievable. Most of the ’80s tracks from Still Cruisin’. “California Feelin’.” “Summer of Love” sequenced merely two tracks before “Surf’s Up.” And what I believe to be the CD debut of “Happy Endings.” What a disc.