Long Promised Road

"Long Promised Road"
"Long Promised Road"
Single by The Beach Boys
from the album Surf's Up
B-side	"Deirdre" (1st release); "'Til I Die" (2nd release);
Released	May 24, 1971; October 11, 1971
Recorded	April 3, 1971
Genre	Progressive pop; psychedelic pop;
Length	3:30
Label	Brother/Reprise
Songwriter(s)	Carl Wilson, Jack Rieley
Producer(s)	The Beach Boys
The Beach Boys singles chronology

"Long Promised Road" is a song written by Carl Wilson and Jack Rieley for the American rock band The Beach Boys. It was first released as a single in May 1971, and did not chart. It was then released on their 1971 album Surf's Up, and was re-released as a single, with a different b-side, "'Til I Die", in October of the same year. This time it made it to No. 89 on the Billboard Hot 100. Aside from a few guitar instrumentals written in the early days of the band and collective co-writing credits, the song is Carl Wilson's first solo composition ^{[citation needed]}, and he plays almost all the instruments himself.

Personnel

Partial credits from Craig Slowinski.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Al Jardine - backing vocals
Carl Wilson - lead vocals, electric lead guitar, acoustic rhythm guitar, electric piano, Moog synthesizer, piano, bass guitar, drums, percussion, backing vocals
Marilyn Wilson-Rutherford – backing vocals
Diane Rovell – backing vocals
Dennis Wilson - snare drum

References

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[1] ttp://smileysmile.net/board/index.php/topic,9870.25.html

[2] ttp://smileysmile.net/board/index.php/topic,7916.msg129659.html#msg129659

[3] ttp://smileysmile.net/board/index.php/topic,201.msg21782.html#msg21782

[4] ttp://smileysmile.net/board/index.php/topic,688.msg17233.html#msg17233

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