The Seashore Boys caught a wave and rode it into the US High 10 for the primary time in Could 1963, when “Surfin’ U.S.A.” reached No.3. After an earlier High 20 single with “Surfin’ Safari,” Brian Wilson’s adaptation of Chuck Berry’s melody actually established the group as nationwide names. However the selection of follow-up single was going to be essential.
By August, following some singles co-written with Mike Love, it was time for Brian to get his preliminary credit score as a solo author, and for the primary time the producer, on a Seashore Boys hit. It occurred with the primary track he’d ever give you. Written in 1961, when Wilson was simply 19, it displayed the tender facet of this outstanding younger man, now 21, and the entire group’s mastery of refined harmonies. It was the romantic “Surfer Girl,” and it made its American chart debut on August 3, 1963.
The track had been recorded by Brian and engineer Chuck Britz at Western Recorders Studio in June, some 16 months after the Seashore Boys’ first studio effort at it. “Surfer Girl” was impressed by the melodically related “When You Wish Upon A Star,” from the 1940 Walt Disney traditional Pinocchio.
Swiftly browsing into the High 10
Any fears about Wilson’s formative writing expertise have been quickly laid to relaxation. Backed by one other nice early Seashore Boys quantity, “Little Deuce Coupe” (penned by Brian with Roger Christian), “Surfer Girl” made a swift ascent of the Sizzling 100. It entered at No.85, within the week that Jan & Dean fell from the No.1 place with one other quintessential Californian anthem, “Surf City.” That was co-written by Brian with the duo’s Jan Berry.
“Surfer Girl” then took simply two weeks to make the High 40, rising to No.49 and No.28. This anthem to summer season love reached its zenith simply as college was again in, spending two weeks at No.7 in September. As with lots of the group’s Nineteen Sixties singles, the B-side was a success in its personal proper. “Little Deuce Coupe” was listed individually on the Sizzling 100 from two weeks after the debut of “Surfer Girl,” and superior to No.15.
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