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Surfin' Safari (song)

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The instrumental track as well as the vocals for the officially released version were recorded at Western Recorders on April 19, 1962. The session, produced by Brian, featured David Marks and Carl Wilson on guitar; Brian Wilson on bass guitar and Dennis Wilson on drums. The song features Mike Love on
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The "Surfin' Safari" single backed with "409" was the band's second single and the first single to be released on the band's new label Capitol Records in the United States in June 1962. Originally Capitol Records felt "409" should be the 'A' Side, and first promoted the car song (according to Beach
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as well as subsequent re-issues of that album which featured alternate album titles. A live concert performance of the tune "Surfin' Safari" is featured in the short documentary "One Man's Challenge", written and directed by Dale Smallin. Filmed July 28, 1962 (with the same lineup as the official
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Capitol A&R executive Nick (Nik) Venet, who signed the group and is listed as producer on their first two albums, is quoted in the Steven Gaines book as saying regarding the release that "The biggest order Capitol had from a single market all year was from New York City - where there was no
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In October 1962, the "Surfin' Safari" single was the first to be released by the band in the United Kingdom. However, given mediocre reviews at best, the single failed to make any impact on the charts. It did qualify as the Beach Boys' first international chart-topper, however. By the end of
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The Beach Boys first recorded the song at World Pacific Studios on February 8, 1962, in what was the band's second ever recording session. However, the recordings from that session, engineered by Hite Morgan, would ultimately remain unreleased until the late Sixties. The only difference
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In January 1970, the World Pacific Studios sessions recording of the song was issued on Trip Records as the B-side of a "Surfin'" single re-issue. The single however failed to make any impact on the charts.
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chart — only reaching the Billboard top 20 the following week — then in November spent three weeks at number one in Sweden (both charts cited by contemporary issues of
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The song was inspired by Chuck Berry's method of combining simple chord progressions with lyrical references to place names (for example, in "
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sales chart, and number 5 on UPI's national weekly survey used by newspapers. According to English pop music statistician Joseph Murrells in
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Hot 100 chart, with "409" also charting at number 76, making it the band's first double-sided hit single. It placed at number 10 on the
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Three takes of the early World Pacific Studios recordings of the song were eventually released on CD in 1991 on the archival release
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Boys biographers Badman, Gaines and Carlin) instead of "Surfin' Safari". However, as noted in the booklet to the 1993 CD box set
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The Beach Boys' recording of "Surfin' Safari" was featured in season 2 episode 11, "‘Twas the Nightmare Before Christmas", of
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lead vocals with backing vocals by Brian, Carl & Dennis Wilson and Mike Love. Also recorded during that session were "
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box set is sourced from the original demo tape master, lacking the fade-out added before its release as a single.
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chord pattern that I came up with one day while trying to play the piano the way Chuck Berry played his guitar."
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Capitol single) at the Azuza Teen Club, this particular visual version of the song is, according to author
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The song was first released on a single 45 RPM record and then later, it was released on the band's debut
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instrumentally on this early version as opposed to the officially released version was the presence of
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album, and on a number of later 'greatest hits' compilations. The song's appearance on the 1993
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The Nearest Faraway Place: Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys, and the Southern California Experience
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The Beach Boys' recording of "Surfin' Safari" was featured in the 1987 teen romantic comedy,
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surfing. It sold approximately nine hundred thousand records, but not enough for a gold."
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issue of July 14, 1962 cited Detroit as the major market of its national "break out".
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Wilson referred to "Surfin' Safari" as "a silly song with a simple-but-cool
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This song was sung in the 1995 Disney's Sing Along Songs home video,
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The Beach Boys' recording of "Surfin' Safari" was featured in the
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September it had peaked at number seven in Australia's
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Single
the Beach Boys
Surfin' Safari
B-side
409
Studio
Western Studios
Los Angeles
California
Genre
Surf rock
Label
Capitol
Songwriter(s)
Brian Wilson
Mike Love
Producer(s)
Murry Wilson

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