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"God Only Knows" is a song by the American rock band the Beach Boys from their 1966 album Pet Sounds. Written by Brian Wilson and Tony Asher , it is a baroque -style love song distinguished for its harmonic innovation and complexity, unusual instrumentation, and subversion of typical popular music conventions, both lyrically and musically.
Anthony D. Asher (born May 2, 1939) is an American songwriter and advertising copywriter who is best known for his collaborations with Brian Wilson (of the Beach Boys) and Roger Nichols in the 1960s. Asher co-wrote eight songs on the Beach Boys' 1966 album Pet Sounds, including the singles "God Only Knows", "Wouldn't It Be Nice", and "Caroline ...
"Girls on the Beach" Brian Wilson 1964 All Summer Long: 1964 "God Only Knows" Brian Wilson Tony Asher 1966 Pet Sounds: 1966 "Goin' On" † Brian Wilson Mike Love 1979–1980 Keepin' the Summer Alive: 1980 "Goin' South" Carl Wilson Geoffrey Cushing-Murray 1978 L.A. (Light Album) 1979 "Goin' to the Beach" Mike Love 1979 Made in California ...
Bruce Arthur Johnston (born Benjamin Baldwin; June 27, 1942) is an American singer, musician, and songwriter who is a member of the Beach Boys.He also collaborated on many records with Terry Melcher (his bandmate in Bruce & Terry, the Rip Chords, and California Music) and composed the 1975 Barry Manilow hit, "I Write the Songs".
"Girls on the Beach" is a song by the American rock band the Beach Boys from their 1964 album All Summer Long. Written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love, the song is in the vein of the band's previous surf ballads and features Four Freshmen-inspired harmonies. The song also served as the title track to the movie The Girls on the Beach.
With only a few exceptions, the Beach Boys played every instrument heard on their first four albums and first five singles. [14] It is the belief of Richie Unterberger that "Before session musicians took over most of the parts, the Beach Boys could play respectably gutsy surf rock as a self-contained unit." [29]
"The Beach Boys Medley" reached number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100, [1] becoming the band's highest-charting hit in the United States in over five years. The single peaked at number 8 on the Cash Box sales chart. It also reached number 4 in New Zealand. [2] "The Beach Boys Medley" was first released on an album a year later in 1982 on Sunshine ...
The song was also recorded by the Hot Doggers (a studio-only group headed by future Beach Boy Bruce Johnston along with Terry Melcher) on their 1963 album Surfin' U.S.A., [12] by the Challengers on their 1963 album Surfbeat, and by the Lively Ones on their 1963 album The Great Surf Hits!.