''Carl Wilson'' is the debut solo album of

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' band member,

Carl Wilson Carl Dean Wilson (December 21, 1946 – February 6, 1998) was an American musician, singer, and songwriter who co-founded the Beach Boys. He was their lead guitarist, the youngest sibling of bandmates Brian and Dennis, and the group's ''de ...

. The youngest of the three Wilson brothers in the band, Carl Wilson was reportedly at this time unhappy with the progress being made by The Beach Boys creatively. So Carl, just as his brother Dennis had a few years earlier, signed a solo contract with James William Guercio's CBS-distributed

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, which four years prior put out brother

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's album ''

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'', and was also the current label of The Beach Boys. The album was released on March 27, 1981 and peaked at number 185 on the ''Billboard'' 200. Of the eight tracks on the album, seven of them are written by Carl Wilson and

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, who was the wife of Carl's then manager

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, with the remaining track being co-written by Carl, Myrna and Michael Sun.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Carl Wilson and

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; except where indicated

Side one

# "Hold Me" – 4:03 # "Bright Lights" – 3:47 # "What You Gonna Do About Me?" – 4:25 # "The Right Lane" – 5:13

Side two

# "Hurry Love" – 4:44 # "Heaven" (Carl Wilson, Myrna Smith, Michael Sun) – 4:23 # "The Grammy" – 3:04 # "Seems So Long Ago" – 4:56

Personnel

*Carl Wilson – vocals, guitar, keyboards *

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– vocals *

James William Guercio James William Guercio (born July 18, 1945) is an American music producer, musician, songwriter, and director. He is well known for his work as the producer of Chicago's early albums as well as early recordings of The Buckinghams and Blood, Sweat ...

- producer, bass, guitar, percussion *John Daly – guitar * Gerald Johnson – bass guitar *

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– drums, percussion *Randy McCormick – keyboards *Joel Peskin – saxophone *Alan Krigger – drums, tambourine *Engineered by Wayne Tarnowski, assisted by David "Gino" Giorgini

References

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