Long Promised Road

"Long Promised Road"
Single by The Beach Boys
from the album Surf's Up
B-side	"Deirdre" (1st release) "'Til I Die" (2nd release)
Released	May 24, 1971 October 11, 1971
Format	Vinyl
Recorded	April 3, 1971
Genre	Rock
Length	3:30
Label	Brother/Reprise
Writer(s)	Carl Wilson Jack Rieley
Producer(s)	The Beach Boys
The Beach Boys singles chronology
"Wouldn't It Be Nice (live)" (1971) "Long Promised Road" / "Deirdre" (1971) "Long Promised Road" / "'Til I Die" (1971)
"Long Promised Road" / "Deirdre" (1971) "Long Promised Road" / "'Til I Die" (1971) "Surf's Up" (1971) Surf's Up track listing 10 tracks Side one "Don't Go Near the Water" "Long Promised Road" "Take a Load Off Your Feet" "Disney Girls (1957)" "Student Demonstration Time" Side two "Feel Flows" "Lookin' at Tomorrow (A Welfare Song)" "A Day in the Life of a Tree" "'Til I Die" "Surf's Up"

"Long Promised Road" is a song written by Carl Wilson and Jack Rieley for the American rock band The Beach Boys. It was first released as a single in May 1971, and did not chart. It was then released on their 1971 album Surf's Up, and was rereleased as a single, with a different b-side, "'Til I Die", in October of the same year. This time it made it to #89 on the Billboard Hot 100. Aside from a few guitar parts written in the early days of the band, the song is Carl Wilson's first composition, he plays all of the instruments and handles the lead vocal on the track.

Personnel

• Carl Wilson – lead, harmony and backing vocals; electric guitar; moog, harpischord, organ; percussion, drums

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