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Beach Boys New LP a Record Breaker (Bad Pun Intended)
June 15, 2012 Back in the summer of 1963, a band from Hawthorne, California consisting of three brothers, a cousin and a neighbor burst upon the scene with a new sound. Of course, that group became known all over the world as The Pendletones! Okay, not so much. Once they changed their name, they became known all over the world as The Beach Boys!
They sold a zillion records and some of the members became millionaires before they graduated high school!
Flash forward 49 years and a week. The Beach Boys new album "That's Why God Made The Radio" debuts at #3 on the Billboard Album charts! By doing so, they set a record that beats another set by a group that was popular around the same time. It seems there were these four guys from England...