The Beach Boys, originally the Beech Boys, a small team of four brothers from the south of Poland, emigrated to America in the early 1950's in search of "a fortune to be made in the Arizonian logging industry". When it soon became evident they had been the victims of a cruel, anti-semitic practical joke, and having "sold" their passports to a small but intimidating band of Mexican border-jumpers, they laid down their broad-toothed timberfelling saws in favour old banjos, mandolins and whatever other musical instruments lay about the barn of a good-humoured Irish fisherman who was kind enough to take them in in their misfortunes. As legend has it, what happened next became what then President Harry Truman would later describe as "the single most fascinating event in young America's brief musical history".

 During one of many whiskey drenched evenings in the barn, the good Irishman (whose name, to the astonishment of many and the suspicious disbelief of some, could be remembered by exactly none of the band members), had an idea. His somewhat hair-brained, Jack Daniels-inspired scheme basically involved a plot to 'record' the drunken melodies of these poorly misfits (using the latest technolgy - a reel to reel tape recorder) by stealth and send them to a former employer on the east coast - a Mr. Stephens Columbo, (aka "the singing fisherman", as he was semi-professionally known), a man with whom he was deeply and bitterly disgruntled for Irish religio-political reasons. On the rear of Mr columbo's postage parcel containing the tape of four Polish inebriated sods appeared the incoherent message; "this is what YOU sound like!!!!!!!!!!!!" However when the U.S. Mail inevitably mistook Mr Stephen Columbo's drunkenly scribbled name for 'Columbia Studios', fate finally intervened. Heavily criticized for their 'clean cut', 'goody two shoes' musical persuasions, then Columbia Records executive Mr Jozeppi A.W. Bloggs II saw this disgusting recording as an opportunity to "push creative imperfection to its outer limits" - the perfect response to the Troggs' "Wild Thing". The proverbial glitch in his plan came when four disheartened would-be Arizon loggers saw a chance at redemption and decided that the Good Lord had given these unlikely superstars a second swipe at life through music. Needless to say, what followed was an intensive head-first into everything from Al-Anon to vocal coaching, resulting in the American musical phenomenon that is ... "The Beach Boys"