Summer Girl Explained
| Summer Girl |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Smash Mouth |
| Cover: | Summergirl.gif |
| Released: | September 19, 2006 |
| Length: | 31:21 |
| Label: | Beautiful Bomb |
| Producer: | Jeffrey Saltzman |
| Prev Title: | The Gift of Rock |
| Prev Year: | 2005 |
| Next Title: | Magic |
| Next Year: | 2012 |
Summer Girl is the sixth studio album by American rock band Smash Mouth, released on September 19, 2006 through Beautiful Bomb Records. This is the last album featuring original guitarist and songwriter Greg Camp.
The album was released with the promo single "Story of My Life". The "Story of My Life" music video was filmed in an episode in Season 6 of the VH1 reality show The Surreal Life.
"So Insane" was featured as the opening theme to the 2006 film Zoom. An instrumental version of "So Insane" was also used in the opening of the infamous ABC series Cavemen, in its unaired pilot. "Everyday Superhero" was used on the soundtrack of The Pacifier and Zoom. It was used to advertise the CBS sitcom, The King of Queens, when the show entered its final season. It was also heard in an America's Funniest Home Videos blooper compilation.
Credits
Smash Mouth[1]
Additional musicians
- Michael Klooster – keyboards, additional melodica (7)
- RV (Hervé Salters) – additional keyboards (1, 5)
- Mark Cervantes – percussion (unspecified tracks), additional percussion (4)
- Leslie Lala Damage Stevens – additional backing vocals (5)
- Moushumi Motor Wilson – additional backing vocals (5)
Production
- Michael Urbano – producer (1, 2, 5, 8-11)
- Jeff Saltzman – producer (1, 5, 8-11)
- Matthew Gerrard – lead vocal producer (2, 6)
- Michael Perfitt – additional production (2)
- Greg Camp – producer (tracks 3, 4, 7)
- Eric Valentine – producer (3, 6, 7), drum producer (4), lead vocal producer (10)
- Paul De Lisle – producer (4)
- Karen Sundell – product manager
- Kelly Castro – art direction, photography, design
- Robert Hayes – management
Technical
- Chris Bellman – mastering at Bernie Grundman Mastering (Hollywood, California)
- Marco Martin – engineer (1, 5, 8-11)
- Michael Perfitt – mixing (1, 5, 8-11), engineer (2)
- Eric Valentine – mixing (2, 3, 6, 7), engineer (3, 6, 7)
- Greg Camp – engineer (4)
- Chris Roach – engineer (4), assistant engineer
- Chris Dugan – mixing (4)
- Steve Beacham – assistant engineer
- Mikael Johnston – assistant engineer
Notes and References
- BBR0000002 . . . . 2006 . liner notes.
