Shut Down Volume 2

The name of the record is based on the Shut Down hot rod compilation released by Capitol in July 1963. The multi-artist compilation, including the Beach Boys songs "Shut Down" and "409", peaked at number seven on the Billboard album charts, showing for 44 weeks.[1][2] Recorded just as "Beatlemania" was reaching American shores, Shut Down Volume 2 was marketed as a "hot rod" collection after its predecessor Little Deuce Coupe and Shut Down had performed successfully.

The album was the first not to include David Marks as a performing member, though he remained a legal member until September 27, 1967.[3] While bandmate Al Jardine had appeared on three of the previous four studio albums, this is the first to show him on a front sleeve photograph, taken by Capitol staff photographer George Jerman.

Shut Down Volume 2 peaked at 13 on the Billboard Top LPs chart in the US (number 11 Record World, number 12 Cash Box). Shut Down Volume 2 didn't enter the Billboard charts until six weeks after release and stayed a shorter time in the charts (nine months) than their previous albums.

In the early 1980s, as part of Capitol Records' repackage series of their Beach Boys albums, Shut Down Volume 2 was retitled Fun Fun Fun and had two tracks deleted: ""Cassius" Love vs. "Sonny" Wilson" and "In the Parkin' Lot".[4]

The album, paired with Surfer Girl, was reissued in the 1990s with bonus tracks: a mono single mix of "Fun, Fun, Fun", a German-language version of "In My Room", and the group's until-then unreleased "I Do" written by Brian Wilson.[5]

The multi-tracks for Shut Down Volume 2 went missing shortly after the album's release. In 2009, three reels of session outtakes were unexpectedly retrieved with the help of biographer Jon Stebbins, thanks to a fan who had found and kept the tapes untouched for years. New stereophonic mixes were created by producers Mark Linett and Alan Boyd for the compilation Summer Love Songs, which includes an alternate version of "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" featuring a never-before-heard unused intro section as well as a new stereo mix of "Don't Worry Baby". With these reels, new stereo mixes of "Fun, Fun, Fun", "The Warmth of the Sun" and "Pom Pom Play Girl" were also created in 2013; the first two of these three appearing along with the aforementioned remixed songs on the Made in California boxset, and all five remixes surfacing on the Keep an Eye on Summer - The Beach Boys Sessions 1964 boxset in 2014, which featured select session highlights from these reels.

Partial credits sourced from Craig Slowinski, includes all tracks except ""Cassius" Love vs. "Sonny" Wilson", "This Car of Mine", "Shut Down, Part II" and "Louie, Louie".[10] Instrumental credits for "This Car of Mine" taken from Jon Stebbins.[11] Track numbers in parenthesis.

The Beach Boys

• Al Jardine - backing vocals (1-3, 5, 7-9), bass guitar (1-3, 6, 8-9), rhythm electric guitar (5)
• Mike Love - lead vocals (1, 3, 8–9, 11), backing vocals (1–3, 5, 7–9), tenor saxophone (8)
• Brian Wilson – lead vocals (2, 5, 7, 9), backing vocals (1–3, 5, 7–9), piano (1–3, 5–9), Hammond B-3 organ (1)
• Carl Wilson – lead vocals (8, 11), backing vocals (1–3, 5, 7–9), electric guitar (1–3, 5–6, 8–9)
• Dennis Wilson – lead vocals (6), backing vocals (1–3, 5, 7–9), drums (1–3, 5–6, 8–9, 12), floor tom (8)

Additional musicians

• Ray Pohlman – 6-string bass guitar (1), bass guitar (5, 7)
• Hal Blaine – drums (1, 7), tambourine (1), bell-tree (5), percussion (5), timpani (7)
• Steve Douglas – tenor saxophone (1, 5, 7)
• Jay Migliori – baritone saxophone (1, 5, 7)
• Leon Russell – piano (7), tack piano (7)
• Bill Pitman – archtop acoustic guitar (7)
• Tommy Tedesco – electric guitar (7)
• Jimmy Bond – double bass (7)
• Frank Capp – glockenspiel (7), temple blocks (7), castanets (7)
• Al de Lory – piano (7)
• Plas Johnson – tenor saxophone (7)

• Shut Down Volume 2 at Discogs (list of releases)