The Beach Boys
You can’t write a lot about all of your favorite Beach Boys songs in one blog. I guess it could be some kind of challenge. But I have just enough to say about them to fill my page.
In the song “Little Surfer” there is a line: “In my woody I will take you everywhere I go…”
I had a boyfriend who was my first love when I was in 11th grade. How did I know this was a first love? All I can say is that you know when you first fall in love. Up until that time I had plenty of male attention but it was the kind of thing where I’d go out on dates with boys–usually to the movies and out to dinner. It was a kind of cut-and-dried pattern without a lot of intimacy, although there were two boys I really liked a lot, one of whom I actually came close to marrying later on.
But more about first love and taking me wherever he went…the pattern of only doing things together as formal dates kind of fell apart and my boyfriend and I did things together all the time. His mother asked us to do errands for her. It was assumed that we’d be together…so thank you, Brian Wilson, for putting that line into your song.
Paul McCartney has been quoted as saying that “God Only Knows” is the best rock and roll song ever written. I can’t remember where I read this, but in the article many seasoned musicians agree. It’s so pure and the voices are like gold and you just want to cry, even if you don’t have anything to cry about. “God only knows what I’d be without you…”
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