Carl Wilson : Carl Wilson

IT'S LIKE I'M SAILING ON THE OCEAN

EVERY TIME I SEE YOUR EYES

YOU COULD BE THE WIND 

THAT KEEPS ME FLOATING

 Carl Wilson

 is the debut 

solo album

 of 

The Beach Boys' 

band member,

 Carl Wilson 

The youngest 

of the three

 Wilson brothers 

in the band, 

Carl Wilson 

was reportedly at

 this time unhappy with

 the progress being made by

 The Beach Boys 

creatively. 

Just as his brother 

Dennis had

 a few years earlier, 

Carl signed a

 solo contract with

 James William

 Guercio's CBS-distributed 

Caribou Records, 

which four years prior 

put out brother

 Dennis's 

album

 Pacific Ocean Blue, 

and was also the 

current label of 

The Beach Boys. 

The album was released 

on March 27, 1981 

and peaked

 at number 185

 on the Billboard 200.

 Of the eight tracks 

on the album, 

seven of them are 

written by 

Carl Wilson 

and

 Myrna Smith,

 who was the wife

 of Carl's then manager 

Jerry Schilling,

 with the 

remaining track

 being co-written by 

Carl, Myrna 

and

 Michael Sun.

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