Endless Summer (The Beach Boys album)

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Endless Summer is a compilation album by the American rock band the Beach Boys, released on June 24, 1974. A collection of hits from the band's 1962–65 period, Endless Summer was compiled by their old label, Capitol Records, following the success of the film American Graffiti, in which two of their songs were featured. It revitalized the band's popularity after years of lukewarm sales, but also inspired nostalgia for the Beach Boys' early surfing and hot rod-themed music, repositioning the group as an oldies act. Less than four months after its release, the album reached number 1 in the United States and Canada. It was the group's second chart-topping album in the US and returned them to a level of commercial success they had not experienced since the mid-1960s. The compilation has spent 156 weeks on the Billboard albums chart and has been certified 3× platinum by the RIAA for shipping over three million copies in the United States. Capitol released a second themed compilation in 1975 titled...

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