Endless Summer

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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 Spirit of America, which also sold well, while a third volume, Sunshine Dream, appeared in 1982. The album was included in Robert Christgau's "Basic Record Library" of 1950s and 1960s recordings, published in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981). It was voted number 972 in the third edition of Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums (2000).