History Music / AlJardine

* RearrangeTheSong: After writing the song "Lady Lynda" for his wife on the Beach Boys' ''Music/LALightAlbum'', the couple divorced. Later, on the statue of Liberty's bicentenary, he rerecorded the song with different lyrics and retitled it "Lady Liberty".

** However, in constrast to what his stature could make you believe, he was a jock and a fullback football player during his high-school years.

* 2001 - ''Live In Las Vegas'' (live album)

* 2010 - A Postcard From California

** He also has some difficulty hitting the high notes on "Crack At Your Love" from ''Music/BeachBoys1985''.

* SignatureSong: Even though he didn't write it, "Help Me Rhonda" is always expected to be heard at any concert involving Al.

Growing up in Hawthorne, California, Al had an interest in folk and country music. He formed two bands called The Tikis and Kenny & The Cadets (the latter including Music/BrianWilson who met Al during a football match). Thanks to his friendship with Brian, Al took part in the recording of "Surfin'" and thus he was a founding member of the band along with Wilson brothers [[Music/CarlWilson Carl]] and [[Music/DennisWilson Dennis]] as well as cousin Music/MikeLove. However he decided to leave the band in order to focus on dentistry studies (leaving David Marks take his place on rhythm guitar duties). He came back in 1963 after David was fired from the band and would remain a Beach Boy since.

* RealityWritesThePlot: His song "California Recall Blues" was written in responses to the rise of electricity bills in California.

Alan Charles Jardine (born September 3rd 1942) is an American singer/songwriter/guitarist who is mostly known as a founding member of The Beach Boys.

* MundaneMadeAwesome: Some of the songs he wrote deal with ordinary subjects such as foot care, having a pet cow or welfare.

** "Be veg, go green, save the planet" as he repeated on SupremeMasterTV.

* VirtuousVegetarianism: Al is known for his lead vocals on the Beach Boys song "Vegetables" which promotes a vegeterian lifestyle. He also promoted going green on SupremeMasterTV, a channel related to vietnamese spiritual leader Ching Hai.

Early in The Beach Boys' career, Al did rare contributions aside from playing rhythm guitar and singing (One of his first major lead vocals, "Help Me Rhonda", would turn out to be a number-one hit for the band). It's only during the early seventies that he would have more presence on albums such as ''Music/{{Sunflower}}'' and ''Music/SurfsUp'' (Mike Love would recall as a democratic era for the whole band). Al would actually team up with Mike in what was seen as a contrast between their creative output compared to the Wilson Brothers' work. It's in the late seventies that Mike and Al woud get more influence on the band's discography thanks to the ''Music/MIUAlbum'' which was co-produced by him. That collaboration would later fall down, especially in the early nineties where Al was temporiraly suspended from the band during the recording of ''Music/SummerInParadise''.

* VocalRangeExceeded: While Brian didn't want to join the Beach Boys on stage in order to focus on songwriting, Al would sing on falsetto parts which were originally sung by Brian (for example, "Don't Worry Baby" where he's straining on the higher notes.

* ChristmasSong: His first lead vocal as a Beach Boy was on "Christmas Day" from ''Music/TheBeachBoysChristmasAlbum''. He also released "Hurry Up, Hurry Up, Santa Claus" and "Sunshine To Snowflakes" in the 2010s.

Early in The Beach Boys' career, Al did rare contributions aside from playing rhythm guitar and singing (One of his first major lead vocals, "Help Me Rhonda", would turn out to be a number-one hit for the band). It's only during the early seventies that he would have more presence on albums such as {{''Music/Sunflower''}} and ''Music/SurfsUp'' (Mike Love would recall as a democratic era for the whole band). Al would actually team up with Mike in what was seen as a contrast between their creative output compared to the Wilson Brothers' work. It's in the late seventies that Mike and Al woud get more influence on the band's discography thanks to the ''Music/MIUAlbum'' which was co-produced by him. That collaboration would later fall down, especially in the early nineties where Al was temporiraly suspended from the band during the recording of ''Music/SummerInParadise''.