Artist: Bruce Johnston
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Bruce Johnston - Going Public
Year: 1977
Tracks: 9
While never a household name, Bruce Johnston enjoyed one of the longest and most challenging careers in pop music, most notably as a member of the Beach Boys. Born June 27, 1942, in Peoria, IL, he was raised in Beverly Hills, CA, attending school with young man aspirant musicians Kim Fowley and Sandy Nelson and now and then playing with them in the chemical group the Sleepwalkers. Though still in high school, Johnston became a well-regarded performing artist on the West Coast circuit and played on a numeral of studio apartment dates. Best known as a guitarist and keyboard musician, he likewise handled bass duties on the Teddy Bears' chart-topping 1958 come to "To Know Him Is to Love Him" and drummed for Ritchie Valens' unrecorded band. While attending UCLA, Johnston formed a band called Surf Stompers, in 1963 recording Surfin' Around the World as good as the hot LP Surfers' Pajama Party, cut at a Sigmi Pi sodality bash; at the Del-Fi label, he was too a producer for acts of the Apostles including Ron Holden, and lED the Rip Chords and the Hot Doggers with Terry Melcher. In late 1964, Johnston was tapped to join the Beach Boys' touring circle after Brian Wilson proclaimed his retirement from live performances; in 1965, he played piano on the group's impinge on "CA Girls" and later on remained an on-again, off-again member of their ranks for decades to amount, most notably appearance on the 1966 masterpiece Pet Sounds. Johnston left the band during the mid-'70s, recording a solo LP, 1977's Exit Public, and becoming the impinge on songster behind smashes like Barry Manilow's "I Write the Songs." By the end of the decennium, however, he was over again producing the Beach Boys and continued to tour with them well into the 1990s.
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