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''Holland'' is the nineteenth studio album by the American rock group The Beach Boys, released in January 1973. It was recorded in Baambrugge, Netherlands over the summer of 1972 using a reconstructed studio sent from California, and with two Brian Wilson tracks rush-recorded in Los Angeles and added to the album at the last minute. The photograph on the album's front cover is an upside down image of the Kromme Waal, a canal that runs through the center of Amsterdam. ''Holland'' included a bonus EP, ''Mount Vernon and Fairway (A Fairy Tale)'', a musical fairy tale written by Brian Wilson about a magical transistor radio who appears to a young prince. Narration was provided by the group's manager: Jack Rieley. ==Background== Just as ''Carl and the Passions – "So Tough"'' was coming to print, the Beach Boys, at manager Jack Rieley's urging, decided to pack up and record their next album in the Netherlands. They felt the change of scenery would make for some inspirational sessions, and perhaps even snap former leader Brian Wilson out of his deep depression. By mid-1972, a combination of Wilson's focus waning from the Beach Boys to other creative outlets teamed with a growing addiction to cocaine led to Brian producing less music for the band than ever before and so the Beach Boys were hoping to jump-start his creative juices. Although he did make the trip (after three separate attempts to get on the plane), Wilson contributed little to the album, concentrating his musical efforts on "Mount Vernon and Fairway", a ten-minute long "musical fairy tale" which was later included with the album as a bonus EP. With Carl Wilson in charge, the rest of the band had to carry the album, and the resulting effort, named ''Holland'', was one of The Beach Boys' more respected 1970s releases. Due to homesickness, Al Jardine and Mike Love conspired to create a three-part song cycle as an ode to California. Mike Love donated the country-laced "Big Sur" (written three years earlier and here presented in 3/4 waltz time), while Love and Al Jardine delivered the partially spoken-word of Robinson Jeffers' poem "Beaks of Eagles" and the shuffle-arranged "California", which features Brian on its first two lines and departed member Bruce Johnston on backing vocals. A remix of "California" was issued as the second single from the album and retitled "California Saga (On My Way to Sunny Californ-i-a)". Dennis Wilson, who was not given a lead vocal on ''Holland'', offered up "Steamboat" and "Only with You". Carl included "The Trader": an anti-imperialist two-part epic that starts with a gleeful "Hi!" from his 3-year-old son, Jonah. Upon the band's return from the Netherlands in the fall, ''Holland'' was rejected by Reprise Records for not having a potential hit single. It was decided to add an old, unfinished song, "Sail On, Sailor," which Brian Wilson had co-written with Van Dyke Parks. After some lyric revisions were made by Ray Kennedy, Tandyn Almer and Jack Rieley , the group delivered what would become ''Holland''s most famous track. "Sail On, Sailor" was one of two songs recorded at home (the other was Ricky Fataar's and Blondie Chaplin's soulful and moog-tinged "Leaving This Town") and added at the last minute to a re-sequenced and re-submitted ''Holland''. One of the casualties of this tracklist reshuffling was another Fataar/Chaplin song, written with Mike Love, called "We Got Love", which resurfaced at a live concert in 1973. Early test pressings of Holland, made in the US and in the UK, feature the album in its original group-intended running order. Side one kicks off with "Steamboat", then the three-part Saga, followed by "We Got Love". The German distributor for Reprise records failed to implement the changed side-one line up correctly and mistakenly pressed 300-400 copies with the earlier running order. Early French and Canadian pressings of ''Holland'' still mention "We Got Love" on the sleeve, although the song is not on those albums. In 2015, iTunes remastered the ''Holland'' album and added "We Got Love" as a bonus track. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Holland (album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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