Beach Boys

And on the 46th anniversary of the release of Pet Sounds, the Beach Boys played QVC. The reunited Beach Boys, that is, who are in the early stages of a 50th-anniversary reunion tour that was to have played a sold-out show at the Borgata on Saturday before returning to the Philadelphia area for a show at the Susquehanna Bank Center on June 16. They came to the sprawling 84-acre West Chester campus of the home shopping channel to hawk That's Why...

Bruce Springsteen has been added to this year's New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival lineup. Springsteen and the Clarence Clemons -less E Street Band will perform on April 29. It'll be Springsteen's first Jazz Fest appearance since 2006, when he took the stage with his Seeger Sessions project less than a year after Hurricane Katrina. Eddie Vedder and rapper Mystikal also have been added. They join a previously announced roster that includes the Eagles , a reunion of the Beach Boys , Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers , Foo Fighters , Zac Brown Band and John Mayer , the Neville Brothers , Al Green and My Morning Jacket . Hundreds of acts will perform on roughly a dozen stages over two weekends from April 27 to May 6. * If you can't make it to the Big Easy, the Boss and his band will perform two shows at the Wells Fargo Center on March 28 and 29, as part of the first U.S. leg of the 2012 "Wrecking Ball" World Tour.

April Keefer raises a hand to welcome the Beach Boys to Wildwood. About 15,000 people turned out yesterday for the band's first East Coast beach concert since 1983, when then-Interior Secretary James Watt kept the group from July Fourth festivities in D.C.

On the one hand, we have the Beach Boys with their chug-a-chug-a rhythms and high harmonies, feeling those "Good Vibrations," singing the praises of golden-skinned "California Girls" and knowing that "Surfin' " is more a state of mind than actually riding the Big Wave. And then there is Julio Iglesias, the smooth, tuxedoed romantic, singing his love songs in an assortment of languages, including, of course, that of his native Spain. Surely, there are good vibrations here, too, but mostly they are evident only in the eyes of adoring fans.

It's almost like those good old days that classic rock radio is trying so hard to make sure we remember: This week, Chicago and the Beach Boys perform at the Spectrum. Try to contain that enthusiastic outburst, and forget about the nostalgia angle: While both bands will dig deep into their reserves of old hits, both are experiencing success right now - the Beach Boys with "Kokomo" from the Cocktail soundtrack, and Chicago with the power ballad "Look Away. " How the mighty have fallen.

Help them, Rhonda. The Beach Boys have been rocked by bad vibrations since hearing that ABC began production last month on a TV movie about the '60s singing group. "It's not authorized, and we're not being paid," said the group's manager, Tom Hulett. "We don't want to help them get any publicity, and we are refusing to license (to them) any of the music we can control. " Executive producer Len Hill is in charge of adapting Steven Gains' 1984 nonfiction book, Heroes & Villains: The True Story of the Beach Boys.

What musical group is in the same class as Bing Crosby, Berry Gordy, Irving Berlin, Johnny Cash, Ella Fitzgerald, Perry Como, Benny Goodman, Chuck Berry, Stevie Wonder, Kenny Rogers, Michael Jackson, Loretta Lynn, Paul McCartney and Elvis Presley? It's the Beach Boys, picked yesterday as the first group to win the American Music Awards' Award of Merit in the 15-year history of the prize. Singer David Lee Roth will present the honorary award during a live telecast of the American Music Awards from Los Angeles Jan. 25. ARRESTS AT CONCERT Police in Buenos Aires announced yesterday that they had arrested 130 people at a Sunday night Tina Turner concert, most for intoxication or for trying to steal stereo equipment from cars parked around the soccer stadium where Turner performed.

Jim Noir writes bouncy ditties about the random stuff of everyday life: broken computers, childhood tree-climbing, the key of C. But this 24-year-old from Manchester, England, turns them into low-key celebrations when he layers them with vocal harmonies. They become compact homages to the Beach Boys. "I grew up with the Beatles, mainly. I never really got into the Beach Boys until quite late on," Noir says on the phone from Vancouver. "All I'd ever heard was the old, early surf stuff, and I wasn't really too into all that.

Next summer, the needy, abused and neglected children Sister Kathleen Reilly helps care for at St. Vincent's home will be going to the beach, thanks to the Beach Boys. Next weekend, David Heaton will have a whole new crew of volunteers at 18th Street Development Corp. to help him repair run-down homes in South Philadelphia. As soon as they can be instructed and organized, Philabundance's Pamela Rainey Lawler will have more than three dozen new recruits to help her pick up surplus food and deliver it to the hungry.

The last time the Beach Boys surfed this city, they left a $267,000 debt in their wake. That wasn't enough, though, to keep the Sunoco Welcome America! folks from welcoming the aging boys back to town with open arms. But it is enough to raise the question of whose bright idea it was to bring the group here for the city's July 4th festivities. One individual involved in the coup of getting the Beach Boys cheerfully volunteered that it was Mayor Rendell's doing. "The involvement of the Beach Boys?

And on the 46th anniversary of the release of Pet Sounds, the Beach Boys played QVC. The reunited Beach Boys, that is, who are in the early stages of a 50th-anniversary reunion tour that was to have played a sold-out show at the Borgata on Saturday before returning to the Philadelphia area for a show at the Susquehanna Bank Center on June 16. They came to the sprawling 84-acre West Chester campus of the home shopping channel to hawk That's Why...

Bill Hixon was a legend in the rarefied world of Florida surfing, where intrepid young people relish tropical storms and other coastal upheavals that send normal people fleeing, to test their skill and courage against the wild waves. He opened one of the East Coast's first surf shops in Neptune Beach in 1964. He went on to open two more surf shops, and organized surfing teams that competed on both coasts. And he created his own boards. He was, in short, a surfing legend at a time when the Beach Boys were singing about catching a wave and capturing the imaginations of young would-be beach bums, who would then join the "cool" guys at Hixon's Surf Shop and soak up the ambience.

THE ONLY TIME CNN political analyst Roland Martin was mentioned in Tattle, we got a none-too-pleased email from him. Today Martin may be sending out a lot of emails. CNN suspended him yesterday for "offensive" tweets during the Super Bowl that some critics said were anti-gay. As reported by the Associated Press, Martin tweeted about a commercial during the Super Bowl that showed soccer star David Beckham in underwear: "If a dude at your Super Bowl party is hyped about David Beckham's H&M underwear ad, smack the ish out of him. " The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation said that the remark advocated violence against gays.

Bruce Springsteen has been added to this year's New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival lineup. Springsteen and the Clarence Clemons -less E Street Band will perform on April 29. It'll be Springsteen's first Jazz Fest appearance since 2006, when he took the stage with his Seeger Sessions project less than a year after Hurricane Katrina. Eddie Vedder and rapper Mystikal also have been added. They join a previously announced roster that includes the Eagles , a reunion of the Beach Boys , Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers , Foo Fighters , Zac Brown Band and John Mayer , the Neville Brothers , Al Green and My Morning Jacket . Hundreds of acts will perform on roughly a dozen stages over two weekends from April 27 to May 6. * If you can't make it to the Big Easy, the Boss and his band will perform two shows at the Wells Fargo Center on March 28 and 29, as part of the first U.S. leg of the 2012 "Wrecking Ball" World Tour.

'Ladies and gentlemen," says the dapper drumming singer of Gary Lewis and the Playboys (and son of Jerry Lewis), "the Lake Arrowhead Pavilion is proud to present to you a group known worldwide for their surfing and hot-rod records - Columbia's recording artists, the Rip Chords!"

Never judge a band by its name. By calling themselves Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr., Detroit natives Daniel Zott and Joshua Epstein might seem to be going for something tongue-in-cheek as their calling card. Why else would the band (multi-instrumentalists/singers Zott and Epstein with various touring drummers) adopt a famous stock-car racing name and play gigs dressed in NASCAR gear unless they were having a laugh? But the musical duo have assured the race-car driving Junior that they're not making fun of his family, according to ESPN the Magazine, and have actually started writing about sports for ESPN's blog as of late.

ALTHOUGH HE'S PUT HIS Old City condo on the market, Danny Bonaduce says he isn't leaving town. At least he hopes not. Bonaduce was among hosts ousted when 94 WYSP became 94 WIP last month. The Broomall-born former "Partridge Family" actor says that he is still under contract with CBS Radio and that he and wife, Amy , would move to Bala Cynwyd if he ends up working at 98.1 WOGL, Talk Radio 1210 AM or 94 WIP, both of which are headquartered on City Avenue. He said that he lived in Old City because it was close to the former home of 94 WYSP, at 4th & Market.

Former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell writes a weekly sports column for the Daily News from a fan's perspective. His column appears Wednesdays.   SINCE MY COLLEGE days, one of my favorite singing groups has been the Beach Boys. I love the fun, upbeat music and lyrics - sometimes campy, sometimes very poignant. I have many favorite Beach Boys songs and among them is "When I Grow Up to be a Man" in which they wonder, "What will I be when I grow up to be a man?" If you are a sports fan (and you wouldn't be reading this if you weren't)

HARRISBURG - Gov. Rendell invites you - all several thousand of you who supported, volunteered in, or donated to his campaigns - to a free concert showcasing his favorite band Jan. 2. The band? The Beach Boys. (Yes, they still perform, although with only two original members.) The venue: the Electric Factory in Philadelphia. The guest list: "several thousands," according to the governor's campaign committee, which will pick up the tab. It's Rendell's parting gift to the masses, according to his campaign committee, and the only big party he's going to host before his second and last term ends Jan. 18. "This is a heartfelt thank-you from Ed Rendell to his supporters," said Michelle Singer, Rendell's campaign finance director.

It is called The T.A.M.I Show, with T.A.M.I. standing for the unwieldy Teenage Awards Music International. Filmed in October 1964 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, it brought together a spectacular lineup of rock and soul talent - James Brown, the Rolling Stones, the Supremes, Chuck Berry, the Miracles, the Beach Boys, Marvin Gaye, and more. Now The T.A.M.I. Show (Shout! Factory, $19.93) has not only been released on DVD for the first time, but the complete show also is being made available for the first time since the film was shown in theaters in the months after the performance.