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That Lucky Old Sun (album)
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<p><i>That Lucky Old Sun</i> is the seventh studio album by <a href="/facts/Brian_Wilson/lHqBFEUI">Brian Wilson</a>, released on September 2, 2008 by <a href="/facts/Capitol_Records/5parUIfs">Capitol Records</a>. It was written in collaboration with Wilson's bandmate Scott Bennett with <a href="/facts/Spoken_word/RKrKA1cq">spoken word</a> poetry commissioned from <a href="/facts/Van_Dyke_Parks/7EmVLuSa">Van Dyke Parks</a>. As a <a href="/facts/Concept_album/QAyolfv8">concept album</a>, the work largely derives from the 1949 song "<a href="/facts/That_Lucky_Old_Sun/a0jpoSvC">That Lucky Old Sun</a>", originally recorded by <a href="/facts/Frankie_Laine/NzJuxLBC">Frankie Laine</a>. </p>