Looking Back with Love
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{{Infobox album
| name = Looking Back with Love
| type = Album
| artist = Mike Love
| cover = Mike_Love_-_Looking_Back_With_Love_-_1981.jpg
| alt =
| released = October 8, 1981
| recorded = 1980–1981
| studio = Santa Barbara Sound and Mike Love's mobile studio, Santa Barbara, California
| genre = Pop rock
| length = 32:26
| label = Boardwalk
| producer = Curt Boettcher{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XSQEAAAAMBAJ&dq=mike+love+looking+back+with+love+1981+billboard&pg=PT101|title=Top Album Picks|work=Billboard|date=October 31, 1981|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|via=Google Books}}
| prev_title =
| prev_year =
| next_title = Unleash the Love
| next_year = 2017
}}
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r43629}}
| rev2 = MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide
|rev3 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide
|rev3score = {{rating|1|5}}{{cite book |title=The Rolling Stone Album Guide |date=1992 |publisher=Random House |pages=41–42}}
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Looking Back with Love is the debut album by American musician Mike Love of the Beach Boys, released in 1981 by Boardwalk Records.{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mike-love-mn0000492902/biography|title=Mike Love | Biography & History|website=AllMusic}} Produced by Curt Boettcher, the album includes a mix of covers and originals.
Songs
The lyrics to the title track were written by Love's manager, Dan Parker.{{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1981/07/03/beach-boys-surf-in-for-the-fourth/3130051c-bb7d-40d2-bfc3-e84c216d449e/|title=Beach Boys Surf In for The Fourth|first=Lloyd|last=Grove|date=July 3, 1981|via=www.washingtonpost.com}}
"On and On and On" is a cover of an ABBA song which was itself influenced by the 1968 Beach Boys song "Do It Again".{{citation needed|date=July 2021}}
Love's cover of "Be My Baby" originates from July 1980 sessions produced by (and featuring keyboards by) his Beach Boys bandmate and cousin Brian Wilson.{{Cite web|url=http://www.esquarterly.com/bellagio/gigs80.html|title=gigs80|website=www.esquarterly.com|access-date=2017-12-08}}{{cite web |display-authors=et al. |last1=Doe |first1=Andrew G. |title=Guest Appearances |url=http://bellagio10452.com/guesting.html |website=Bellagio10452.com |access-date=July 11, 2024}} However, the released track features additional overdubs and production completed without Wilson, and Curt Boettcher receives the sole production credit.{{citation needed|date=July 2021}}
Critical reception
The Rolling Stone Album Guide called the album "notable only for its title track: an egregious 'salute' to those crazy ol' '60s that would probably make a dandy Republican campaign jingle."
Track listing
{{track listing
|title1 = Looking Back with Love
|writer1 = Jim Studer, Craig Thomas, Dan Parker
|length1 = 3:38
|title2 = On and On and On
|writer2 = Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus
|length2 = 3:02
|title3 = Runnin' Around the World
|writer3 = James Haymer, Blair Aaronson
|length3 = 2:48
|title4 = Over and Over
|writer4 = Robert James Byrd
|length4 = 2:16
|title5 = Rockin' the Man in the Boat
|writer5 = Studer, Jim Arnold, Michael Brady
|length5 = 3:20
|title6 = Calendar Girl
|writer6 = Neil Sedaka, Howard Greenfield
|length6 = 3:16
|title7 = Be My Baby
|writer7 = Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Barry, Phil Spector
|length7 = 2:39
|title8 = One Good Reason
|writer8 = Studer, Brady
|length8 = 4:08
|title9 = Teach Me Tonight
|writer9 = Sammy Cahn, Gene De Paul
|length9 = 3:28
|title10 = Paradise Found
|writer10 = Mike Love, Studer
|length10 = 3:51
}}
References
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