# Like a Brother
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{{Infobox album
| name = Like a Brother
| type = [Album](/source/Album)
| artist = [Beckley](/source/Gerry_Beckley)-[Lamm](/source/Robert_Lamm)-[Wilson](/source/Carl_Wilson)
| cover = Likeabrother.jpg
| alt =
| released = 2000
| recorded = 1992[{{cite web |last1=Galdston |first1=Phil |title=Beach Boys Fan Club: Like a Brother Liner Notes |url=http://beachboysfanclub.org/liner-notes/lab.html |website=Beach Boys Fan Club |access-date=May 2, 2025}}]–1998[[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r487117|pure_url=yes}} AllMusic review]]
}}
'''''Like a Brother''''' is the only collaborative album by [America's](/source/America_(band)) [Gerry Beckley](/source/Gerry_Beckley), [Chicago's](/source/Chicago_(band)) [Robert Lamm](/source/Robert_Lamm), and [the Beach Boys](/source/the_Beach_Boys)' [Carl Wilson](/source/Carl_Wilson). It was also the final studio album by Wilson. It was released in 2000, two years after Wilson had died from [lung cancer](/source/lung_cancer), and it was the last album he recorded before his death.[{{cite web|url=http://www.accessbackstage.com/america/album/album81.htm|title=''Like A Brother'' album|accessdate=2008-04-03|publisher=www.accessbackstage.com}}] The trio first appeared together on a rendition of "Without Her" from the 1995 [Harry Nilsson](/source/Harry_Nilsson) tribute album ''[For the Love of Harry: Everybody Sings Nilsson](/source/For_the_Love_of_Harry%3A_Everybody_Sings_Nilsson)'', followed by "Watching The Time Go By" from Lamm's 1999 solo album ''In My Head''.
== Track listing ==
{{track listing
| extra_column = Lead vocals
| title1 = Today
| writer1 = John Waite, Phil Galdston
| extra1 = [Carl Wilson](/source/Carl_Wilson)
| length1 = 4:15
| title2 = Feel the Spirit
| writer2 = Phil Galdston, Robert Lamm, Peter Wolf
| extra2 = [Robert Lamm](/source/Robert_Lamm)
| length2 = 5:11
| title3 = I Wish for You
| writer3 = [Carl Wilson](/source/Carl_Wilson), Robert White Johnson, Galdston
| extra3 = Wilson
| length3 = 3:01
| title4 = Run Don't Walk
| writer4 = Wilson, Galdston
| extra4 = Wilson
| length4 = 3:55
| title5 = Watching the Time
| writer5 = Gerry Beckley
| extra5 = [Gerry Beckley](/source/Gerry_Beckley) with Lamm and Wilson
| length5 = 3:52
| title6 = Life in Motion
| writer6 = Lamm, [Gerard McMahon](/source/Gerard_McMahon)
| extra6 = Lamm
| length6 = 4:30
| title7 = Sheltering Sky
| writer7 = Beckley
| extra7 = Beckley with Lamm and Wilson
| length7 = 3:20
| title8 = They're Only Words
| writer8 = Wilson, Galdston
| extra8 = Wilson
| length8 = 4:40
| title9 = Without Her
| note9 = from the album ''[For the Love of Harry: Everybody Sings Nilsson](/source/For_the_Love_of_Harry%3A_Everybody_Sings_Nilsson)''
| writer9 = [Harry Nilsson](/source/Harry_Nilsson)
| extra9 = Beckley
| length9 = 4:29
| title10 = Like a Brother
| writer10 = Wilson, Galdston
| extra10 = Wilson
| length10 = 4:43
}}
{{Track listing
| headline = 2001 Japanese CD bonus tracks
| extra_column = Lead vocals
| title11 = Standing at Your Door
| writer11 = Lamm, John Van Eps
| extra11 = Lamm
| length11 = 4:25
| title12 = Blue After All
| writer12 = Lamm, Bruce Gaitsch
| extra12 = Lamm
| length12 = 4:22
| title13 = In the Dark
| writer13 = Beckley, Galdston
| extra13 = Beckley
| length13 = 5:27
}}
== Personnel ==
Credits from the original liner notes, as re-published on albumlinernotes.com.[{{cite web |title=Like a Brother: Liner Notes |url=http://www.albumlinernotes.com/Like_A_Brother.html |website=AlbumLinerNotes.com |access-date=May 2, 2025}}]
* Gerry Beckley – lead and backing vocals, acoustic guitars, [mandolin](/source/mandolin), producer
* Robert Lamm – lead and backing vocals, keyboards, producer
* Carl Wilson – lead and backing vocals, electric guitars, producer
* Paul Livant – electric guitars
* Steve Tarshis – electric guitars
* [Michael Thompson](/source/Michael_Thompson_(guitarist)) – guitars
* [Jason Scheff](/source/Jason_Scheff) – bass
* Phil Galdston – keyboards, programming, producer
* John Van Tongeren – keyboards
* Tom Hammer – keyboards
* Sammy Merendino – drums
* Jimmy Hunter – drums
* Michael Fisher – percussion
* [Timmy Cappello](/source/Tim_Cappello) – saxophone
* [Van Dyke Parks](/source/Van_Dyke_Parks) – [accordion](/source/accordion)
* [Steve Levine](/source/Steve_Levine) - producer ("Watching the Time", "Life in Motion", "Sheltering Sky")
== References ==
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