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    Cotton Fields

    Written by: Huddie Ledbetter
    Produced by: Al Jardine
    Recording date: August 15, 1969
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    Time: 3:03
    Lead Vocal by: Al
    Originally appeared on: Summer Dreams
    Subsequently appeared on: Rarities; The Best of the Beach Boys; Good Vibrations

    Notes:
      This was the second version of Cotton Fields cut after the Beach Boys were unhappy with Brian's original production. It was recorded at Sunset Sound Records in LA with Red Rhodes on steel guitar.

      A flop in the USA, it went #1 in South Africa and the Netherlands and #5 in the UK.

    Single:

    Capitol 2765
    A-side with: The Nearest Faraway Place
    Released on: April 20, 1970
    Charted on:
    Reached: Did not chart
    Cotton Fields-Album version





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