The Beach Boys Medley
| "The Beach Boys Medley" | ||||
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| Single by The Beach Boys | ||||
| B-side | "God Only Knows" | |||
| Released | 1981 | |||
| Format | Vinyl | |||
| Genre | Pop | |||
| Length | 4:05 | |||
| Label | Capitol | |||
| Writer(s) | Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Roger Christian, Fred Fassert, Chuck Berry | |||
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"The Beach Boys Medley" is a single containing a medley of popular Beach Boys' songs from the 1960s, edited by John Palladino. Released in mid-1981, it capitalized on a medley craze begun by the Stars on 45 medleys. "The Beach Boys Medley" reached number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the band's highest charting hit in the U.S. in over five years. "The Beach Boys Medley" was first released on an album a year later in 1982 on Sunshine Dream.
It should be noted that Capitol's release of this medley came on the heels of the rising notoriety of a Beach Boys medley created in early 1981 by South Florida recording engineer and musician, Chuck Kirkpatrick. Ironically it was Kirkpatrick, a former Capitol recording artist himself (known as "Chuck Crane") who took his finished master to head of A & R, Rupert Perry in hopes of selling the idea as a novelty and himself as"The One-Man Beach Boys". Perry's response was, "We own the masters. If we thought it would sell, we would release our own version". It wasn't until months later when Kirkpatrick's medley began to catch on and garner airplay that Capitol decided to make their move.
Songs in the medley
In order, the songs of the medley include:
- "Good Vibrations"
- "Help Me, Rhonda"
- "I Get Around"
- "Little Deuce Coupe"
- "Shut Down"
- "Surfin' Safari"
- "Barbara Ann"
- "Surfin' U.S.A."
- "Fun, Fun, Fun"
