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Thought lost for thirty-five years, this rare concert brings you the Beach Boys at the peak of their performing talents. Early in 1964, promoters put together a mega-concert with the hottest stars of the day: the Beatles, Lesley Gore and the Beach Boys. The performances were taped live and aired on closed circuit. The Beach Boys' portion of the show was lost until 1998, but now it can be savored by their millions of fans on home video for the first time. Songs: Fun Fun Fun, Long Tall Texan, Little Deuce Coupe, Surfer Girl, Surfin' USA, Shut Down, In My Room, Papa Oom-Mow-Mow, Hawaii.Amazon.com
Clocking in at a mere 22 minutes, this long-lost concert video goes by much too quickly, but fans of the Beach Boys will be delighted with the quality of the digitally mastered picture and sound, making this a worthwhile addition to any Beach Boys collection. The boys were taped live on March 14, 1964 as part of a concert that also included the Beatles and Lesley Gore. After the performances were aired on closed-circuit TV to theaters packed with screaming fans, the Beach Boys segment remained virtually unseen until it was rediscovered in 1998.Cutaway shots provide a wonderful glimpse of what teen audiences were like during the heyday of the surfin' craze (plenty of Gidget hairdos, and a few parents in the crowd, marveling at the frenzy of it all), but it's the music that counts here, and clearly the boys were having a pretty good day. Most of the early hits are played here ("Fun, Fun, Fun," "Little Deuce Coupe," "In My Room"), and while lead vocalist Mike Love hams it up, it's fascinating to witness early indications that bandleader Brian Wilson was growing tired of live performance. He revs it up for a wacky cover of "Papa Oom Mow-Mow," though, and that makes this video a time-capsule treasure, showing the Beach Boys in their prime before Wilson retreated completely into the sanctuary of the studio. --Jeff Shannon
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Customer reviews
Quintessential Southern California of the 60s 
by .. Joseph Haschka (Glendale, CA USA)
THE BEACH BOYS - THE LOST CONCERT is a nostalgic reminder of the Southern California of the 1960s, where the Pacific-washed edge of the place was populated with sun-tanned surfers and their girls, and the Beach Boys could be heard on every car radio and beach blanket transistor.
The DVD, only 22 minutes in length, has the group singing 9 of their songs, including "Fun, Fun, Fun", "Little Deuce Coupe", "Surfer Girl", "Surfin' USA", and "Shut Down". The performance on March 14, 1964 - before a live audience - was filmed by promoters to air on closed-circuit TV in theaters. The DVD seems to be a faithful reproduction of the original B&W film, though one gets the impression that the promoters were working on a limited budget. The teenage audience, the makeshift stage, and the overworked sound system suggests that the venue was a commandeered high school gym. And, as the camera pans the fans, I was left wondering, "Did we really look that geeky?" (I myself was a high school frosh at the time.)
Regardless of the unsophistication of the production, this DVD is a must see for Beach Boy fans of that long ago era when US pop-music performers could still be well-groomed, clean-cut, and heart-breakingly All-American, and their lyrics celebrated fast cars, bikini-clad girls, and catching the next monster wave.
Though I grew up in Malibu, the center of the SoCal beach culture, I was never a surfer myself. I would have been disowned by my Mom at least, to whom "surfer" conjured up visions of long-haired, lazy bums (only to be replaced in the 70s by "long-haired, drug-ridden hippies"). But, in that carefree period of my life, the sun shone, the ocean breezes swayed the palms, the waves caressed the beach off Point Dume, and the Beach Boys provided the background music. I miss those days. Truly.
Beach Boys - The Lost Concert by .. Jolene Firgens (California)
I was the first fan club president for the Beach Boys and if you look in the audience you will see Marilyn Rovell Wilson and myself. This show was one of the first taped live of the Beach Boys along with the "Bob Hope Show". I was at both. It is truly amazing to see it again even with their obvious nervousness what attracted me to them so long ago. It's worth owning for any true Beach Boy fan! Jolene (Jodi) Gable Firgens
Beach Boy Classic by .. Peter J. Guagliardi (Brooklyn, NY)
The Beach Boys as a group were formed in 1961. Here are the boys just
3 years later. The harmonies are right on the money, with Carl's guitar leads and Brian's Falsetto sounding great. It is a rare glimpse of a group on the verge of making musical history. Harmony as a vocal sound for the past 70 years had always been pretty straight forward. Look at the 1930's, (the Mills Brothers, The Ink Spots), the 1940's (the Andrews Sisters, Southern Gospel harmony) the 1950's The Doo-Wop Sound, but nothing like what Brian Wilson was about to unleash on the Music Scene. Pet Sounds was only 2 years away. What growth. I recommend this dvd highly.
A great view of a great band by .. Hobart Arms (Louisville, KY)
The Beach Boys - Lost Concert is a great way to see the Beach Boys perform when Brian Wilson was still touring with the band. It's before drugs, internal tensions, competition with other bands, etc. have taken over; it truly showcases America's number one band in 1964. The video presentation is very good, offering a clear black & white picture. The audio is good as well. Both are far better than expected for a film thought "lost" which usually means a horribly degraded print that's being released for posterity. The only drag about this was that it was a short film, meant as a companion piece to other filmed concerts to be shown around the country in movie theaters when the bands weren't coming on their tours. It's my suspicion, after hearing several Beach Boys live albums with the same songs/arrangements that this is an edited portion of the concert. Nevertheless, this concert film ranks highly with me because it is the original five Beach Boys doing what they do best. The DVD is also a great companion piece to the Endless Summer Beach Boys doc and the already mentioned live albums. You won't be disappointed by what you see on the disc, only by the wish that it could go on longer.
"in memory of...." by .. ()
I viewed the video and I was very impressed with how much closer I'd felt to the "Beach Boys". I happen to own several albums, saved from early teen years, and as I watched I looked at names and relating the faces at the same time. It made me feel so much closer to the musicians I used to dance with in my room for hours! I felt shadowed with emotion for Brian Wilson, who had such a terrible battle with mental illness, he was as brilliant as Gerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley and any other of the so-called "Greats"; our early beginnings of fine rock, rockabilly and "surfing music".