Carl Wilson (album)

Carl Wilson is the debut solo album by American musician Carl Wilson. Wilson was reportedly at this time unhappy with the progress being made by The Beach Boys creatively, and like 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 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.