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song infoCalifornia Girls by The Beach Boys is a surf song. Song Title: California GirlsArtist: the Beach Boys Album: Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!) Genre: pop rock, oldies, classic rock, surf Composer: Copyright © 1965 Brian Wilson, Mike Love Vocals: Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston, Mike Love, Brian Wilson, Carl Wilson, Dennis Wilson Guitar: Howard Roberts 12-String Guitar: Jerry Cole, Carl Wilson Piano: Leon Russell Organ: Al de Lory Vibraphone: Frank Capp Bass Guitar: Carol Kaye Upright Bass: Lyle Ritz Drums: Hal Blaine Tambourine: Billy Strange Tenor saxophone: Steve Douglas Baritone saxophone: Jay Migliori Bass saxophone: Jack Nimitz Trumpet: Roy Caton Producer: Brian Wilson Recorded: music tracks: 6 April 1965 at Western Studios vocals: 4 June 1965 at Columbia Records Studio Released: 12 July 1965 Label: Capitol Nashville This song won the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards for Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, and Best Editing and was nominated for Video of the Year, Best Pop Video, and Best Female Video. Number of listens: 18943Current rank: 706 (updated weekly) Highest rank: 701 (play the video all the way through to register a vote for this song) |
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Summary quotation from Wikipedia:
California Girls is a song by American rock band The Beach Boys, featured on their ninth studio album Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!) (1965). Written by band-members Brian Wilson (who conceived the song during an LSD trip) and Mike Love, the song features contrasting verse-chorus form. Upon its release as a single, California Girls reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100.
It is one of The Beach Boys most famous songs and has been included on countless greatest hits compilations. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame included the song in its of the 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked it 71st on its list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. David Lee Roth covered the song in 1985, also peaking at #3 on the Billboard charts.
Composition
The music for the song came from Brian Wilsons first LSD experience. In the Beautiful Dreamer documentary, Wilson said that shortly after taking LSD, he ran up to a bedroom and hid under a pillow, shouting Im afraid of my mom, Im afraid of my dad. Sometime later, he left the room and went to a piano. He started playing in the bass the B-F♯-G♯ patternover and over, and then added in the right hand after a few minutes a B chord, moving to an A chord. Within a half hour, he had come up with the well east-coast girls are hip, I really dig the styles they wear part of the song. The next day, he and Mike Love supposedly finished off the remainder of the song.
California Girls was the first Beach Boys recording to feature vocals from Bruce Johnston, who had joined the group to substitute for Brian Wilson on concert tours. Bruces vocals can be heard at the end of the song.
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