Pacific Ocean Blue to Be Re-Released!

[Dawn]

Thought this might be of interest...

From Billboard.com: www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003701480


Wilson's 'Ocean' Set For Expanded Reissue
Dennis Wilson

January 24, 2008, 10:25 AM ET

Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.
Late Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson's cult classic 1977 solo album, "Pacific Ocean Blue," will be released May 13 in an expanded edition by Caribou/Epic/Legacy. The project has been out of print for more than 15 years due to copyright disputes.

Billboard.com has learned that "Pacific Ocean Blue" will be available in a two-CD edition as well as a vinyl version via Sundazed. Disc one of the reissue will include the original 12-track album plus previously unreleased bonus songs which are still being sorted through by label archivists.

Hardcore fans will be delighted with the contents of the second disc, which will make available for the first time songs intended for "Bambu," Wilson's never-released follow-up to "Pacific Ocean Blue."

Liner notes for the album are being penned by Beach Boys scholars such as David Leaf, Jon Stebbins, Ben Edmonds and David Beard, and the package will feature photographs by Wilson's close friend, Jan & Dean's Dean Torrence.

"Pacific Ocean Blue" was the first solo album from a Beach Boys member, and featured Wilson in songwriting collaborations with his brother Carl as well as Beach Boys frontman Mike Love.


The unreleased tracks on the new edition were mixed by Wilson's original engineer, John Hanlon, with "Pacific Ocean Blue" co-writer/producer Gregg Jakobson and Caribou Records owner Jim Guercio.

Wilson drowned on Dec. 28, 1983, in Marina Del Rey, Calif., after struggling with drug addiction for several years.

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I am really looking forward to this reissue! I have a copy of Pacific Ocean Blue, and also a boot of Bamboo/u, but it will be great to have this expanded release, and I'm sure the bonus tracks will be outstanding. Dennis was a wonderful songwriter in his own right, and Pacific Ocean Blue has become one of my favorite albums of the '70s. Very highly recommended!

[Pete70s]

That's one reissue that you KNOW I'm going to be purchasing!

[Ken]

Thanks for the info Dawn!

I've always wanted to check this album out, I still have few music magazines from '77 (such as Hit Parader) that contain advertisements for the LP.

I'm going to pick up a copy when it's released in May.

[dave910]

Working in the field of music retail, I tend not to get too excited about reissues. However, this is one of those exceptions. I have become a fan of Beach Boys work, as a band and the solo work as well. I got a ripped CD copy of "Pacific Ocean Blue" and I am looking forward to having this as part of my collection. 8-)

[Dawn]

There's a new website, www.pacificoceanblue.net/ , that has clips of all the Pacific Ocean Blue tracks and a few of the bonus cuts. Click on the "Music" tab for the track listing.

[dave910]

I just wanted to update some more information about the upcoming release of "Pacific Ocean Blue" the long awaited CD reissue of from Dennis Wilson.

If you go to legacyrecordings.com/thesoundboard There is an article: the Return of Dennis Wilson's Pacific Ocean Blue, which will give updated information about the label and it's relaunch of this masterpiece.