| "California Girls" |
 | | Single by The Beach Boys | | from the album Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!) | | Released | July 12, 1965 | | Format | Vinyl | | Recorded | 1965 | | Genre | Pop | | Length | 4 min 58 sec for both songs | | Label | Capitol Records | | Producer(s) | Brian Wilson | | Chart positions | | • #3 (US) • #26 (UK) Image File history File links Beach_Boys_-_California_Girls. ...
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The Beach Boys are a pop music group formed in Hawthorne, California, in 1961 who are widely considered one of the most influential bands in rock and pop music history. ...
Summer Days (and Summer Nights!!) is the tenth album by The Beach Boys and their second overall in 1965. ...
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Brian Douglas Wilson (born June 20, 1942, in Hawthorne, California) is an American pop musician, best known as the lead songwriter, bassist, and sometimes lead-singer of the former American rock band The Beach Boys (of which he is also a founding member of and the main producer, composer, and...
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| | The Beach Boys singles chronology | "Help Me, Rhonda"/"Kiss Me, Baby"
(1965)
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"California Dreamin'"/"Lady Liberty"
(1986) | "California Girls"/"Let Him Run Wild"
(1965)
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"Happy Endings"/"California Girls"
(1987) | "The Little Girl I Once Knew"/"There's No Other (Like My Baby)"
(1965)
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"Kokomo"/"Tutti Frutti"
(1988) | "California Girls" is the title of a song written by Mike Love and Brian Wilson and recorded by The Beach Boys for their 1965 album Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!). It features contrasting verse-chorus form. The song was covered by former Van Halen lead singer David Lee Roth on his 1985 EP Crazy from the Heat (with background vocals contributed by Beach Boy Carl Wilson along with Christopher Cross), and reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100. The Beatles' "Back in the USSR" is considered an homage to the song. The Beach Boys are a pop music group formed in Hawthorne, California, in 1961 who are widely considered one of the most influential bands in rock and pop music history. ...
Help Me, Rhonda was a single which was released by The Beach Boys in 1965 through Capitol Records. ...
Kiss Me, Baby was the B-side of the #1 U.S. hit Help Me, Rhonda. It was released by The Beach Boys in 1965 through Capitol Records. ...
1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ...
California Dreamin is a song by The Mamas & the Papas, first released in the 1960s. ...
Lady Liberty is a song written by Al Jardine and Ron Altbach for the American pop band The Beach Boys. ...
1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Let Him Run Wild is a song written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love for the American pop band The Beach Boys. ...
1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ...
1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Little Girl I Once Knew is a song written by Brian Wilson for the American pop band The Beach Boys. ...
Theres No Other (Like My Baby) is a song written by Phil Spector and Leroy Bates. ...
1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ...
Kokomo was a song penned by Mike Love, Scott McKenzie, Terry Melcher, and John Phillips and recorded by The Beach Boys in 1988. ...
Tutti Frutti is an early rock and roll song by Little Richard. ...
1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
A song is a relatively short musical composition for the human voice (possibly accompanied by other musical instruments), which features words (lyrics). ...
Mike Love Michael Edward Love (born March 15, 1941 in Los Angeles, California) is an American singer and songwriter who was one of the lead singers and lyric writers of The Beach Boys. ...
Brian Douglas Wilson (born June 20, 1942, in Hawthorne, California) is an American pop musician, best known as the lead songwriter, bassist, and sometimes lead-singer of the former American rock band The Beach Boys (of which he is also a founding member of and the main producer, composer, and...
The Beach Boys are a pop music group formed in Hawthorne, California, in 1961 who are widely considered one of the most influential bands in rock and pop music history. ...
1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ...
Summer Days (and Summer Nights!!) is the tenth album by The Beach Boys and their second overall in 1965. ...
Verse-chorus form is a musical form common in popular music and predominate in rock since the 1960s. ...
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David Lee Roth David Lee Roth (sometimes referred to as Diamond Dave) (born October 10 1954[1] in Bloomington, Indiana) is an American rock vocalist, songwriter, actor, author, and former radio personality, best known for his work with the band Van Halen and his fast-talking, oversized personality. ...
An extended play (or EP), is typically the name given to vinyl records or CDs which are too long to be called singles but too short to qualify as albums. ...
Crazy from the Heat is the debut EP by David Lee Roth, released in 1985. ...
Carl Dean Wilson (December 21, 1946 – February 6, 1998) was the youngest of the three brothers who made up the core of The Beach Boys. ...
Christopher Cross (born Christopher Geppert on May 3, 1951 in San Antonio, Texas) is an American singer and songwriter. ...
The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. ...
Back in the U.S.S.R. is a song by The Beatles written by Paul McCartney (John Lennon shares songwriting credits), and which opens the double-disc album The Beatles (a. ...
The music for the song came from Brian Wilson's first LSD experience. According to Brian Wilson himself, shortly after taking LSD, he ran up to a bedroom and hid under a pillow, shouting "I'm afraid of my mom, I'm afraid of my dad." Randomly, he got up, said "That's enough of that" and went to a piano. He started playing in the bass the B-F#-G# pattern over 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 (who had hitherto allegedly not consumed illicit substances) supposedly finished off the remainder of the song; interestingly, take 8 announces the song as "You're Grass and I'm a Lawn Mower." Unfortunately, Brian Wilson claims that not only did this particular LSD trip produce one of his greatest compositions—"California Girls"—it also left him with a threatening voice in his head, permanently, paving the way for the mental illness which would strike him later in life. For other uses, see LSD (disambiguation). ...
The song "California Girls" is part of the The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll list.[1] The Rock and Roll Hall of Fames 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll is based on the permanent exhibit of the same name. ...
On her 2005 album, "All Jacked Up", Gretchen Wilson performs a song called 'California Girls', that she wrote with John Rich and its the reversal of the Beach Boy's song with the chorus line "Ain't you glad we ain't all California girls?". All Jacked Up is the second album by American country musician, Gretchen Wilson, released in 2005 (see 2005 in music). ...
Gretchen Renée Wilson (born June 26, 1973 in Pocahontas, Illinois) is a Grammy Award-winning American country music singer. ...
John Rich (born in Amarillo, Texas on January 7, 1974) is a member of the country music duo Big & Rich. ...
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Brian Douglas Wilson (born June 20, 1942, in Hawthorne, California) is an American pop musician, best known as the lead songwriter, bassist, and sometimes lead-singer of the former American rock band The Beach Boys (of which he is also a founding member of and the main producer, composer, and...
Mike Love Michael Edward Love (born March 15, 1941 in Los Angeles, California) is an American singer and songwriter who was one of the lead singers and lyric writers of The Beach Boys. ...
Summer Days (and Summer Nights!!) is the tenth album by The Beach Boys and their second overall in 1965. ...
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Brian Douglas Wilson (born June 20, 1942, in Hawthorne, California) is an American pop musician, best known as the lead songwriter, bassist, and sometimes lead-singer of the former American rock band The Beach Boys (of which he is also a founding member of and the main producer, composer, and...
Performers Mike Love Michael Edward Love (born March 15, 1941 in Los Angeles, California) is an American singer and songwriter who was one of the lead singers and lyric writers of The Beach Boys. ...
Brian Douglas Wilson (born June 20, 1942, in Hawthorne, California) is an American pop musician, best known as the lead songwriter, bassist, and sometimes lead-singer of the former American rock band The Beach Boys (of which he is also a founding member of and the main producer, composer, and...
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Carl Dean Wilson (December 21, 1946 – February 6, 1998) was the youngest of the three brothers who made up the core of The Beach Boys. ...
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This list is an attempt to document every song recorded by The Beach Boys. ...
External links - "California Girls" lyrics
- "California Girls" Video
- Songfacts "California Girls" entry
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