The Beach Boys- Surfer Girl (1964)

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Andrew Hunt - 5 years ago

Brian makes me smile. :-)

nahnahnah nahnahnah - 5 years ago

Mike love is the bands soul.

Joey Merchant - 5 years ago

I'm so glad Brian decided to change up the arrangement and speed up the tempo on this track. The finished product is an absolute perfect 60s ballad beginning to end! Especially that ridiculously beautiful bridge!

MaTilda D'Hum xoxo - 5 years ago

where are the microphones!

Patrick Pieper - 5 years ago

Sorry, this is not live. It is a different version from the studio recording, but watch the end when the musicians stop before the music ends.

MaTilda D'Hum xoxo - 5 years ago

john stamos was their drummer for a long time

MaTilda D'Hum xoxo - 5 years ago

Dennis wilson was the only beach boys who surfed....even though he drowned

World Lee - 5 years ago

Brian !What a genius! I know Mike Love wrote lyrics but this music is special.
Brian's falsetto voice is next to none as this song wouldn't have succeeded without it!

hilman riza - 6 years ago

that beautiful jazzmaster...

10. comment for The Beach Boys- Surfer Girl (1964)

Judy Reyes - 6 years ago

Just LOVE that this is a live performance,not a lip sync. Girls scream for Brian's romantic singing. Great footage of Dennis, and he's not shaking his head around. oooooh oooooh

Martha Morgan-Silva - 6 years ago

Wow look at blonde haired Denny!

The LassKicker - 6 years ago

the best songwriters is Brain Wilson

Barry richman - 6 years ago

Slow danced to this song in 1965....I was in 9th grade...and she was my first girlfriend. We broke up a few weeks later. It nearly killed me.

adam harper - 6 years ago

this song is freaking timeless

Pine Forrest - 6 years ago

I used to listen to this when I was real little, riding my bike and having the cassette player on my bike handle, brings back so many beautiful memories. Thanks Beach Boys!

SC - 6 years ago

I would do anything to go back to these days, what an amazing time for music. And what amazing music it is.

Jr Bojorquez - 6 years ago

I like the way Brian played his bass

ซี บอส - 6 years ago

คนไทยครับ
I'm Thailand

Don Shepherd - 6 years ago

Was that Walter Cronkite at 2:50?

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Janet Caterina - 6 years ago

And Mike Love is once more redundant

Janet Caterina - 6 years ago

Brian was a hunk, look at those legs

MagicalMystery - 6 years ago

All 6'3" of him are gorgeous. I fell in love with him when I heard this song. And was happily surprised when I saw his pic. I thought he was the perfect man for me. I was about 8 at the time. But I am still in love with this man.

bdcowboy22 - 6 years ago

Watch Brian’s mouth. See how how he uses it to manipulate his voice. He’s bouncing back and forth from falsetto. Pretty amazing.

Mike B - 6 years ago

Brian wilson is underrated as a bass player and my god can the man come up with some beautiful music

Allen Saunders - 6 years ago

Songs like this, don't worry baby and in my room show the change in direction to deeper introspective songs like on pet sounds

MagicalMystery - 6 years ago

Brian had a great voice. And I was pleasantly surprised to find him at #33 of the 100 best vocalists in rock and roll. I am glad they acknowledged this. He really was spectacular. Carl wasn't on the list and that surprised me. He really should have been

Ayanna English - 6 years ago

*Ticket seller flips over: Beatles sold out sign*
Me: Dang
Ticket Seller: We still have the Beach Boys tickets for sell
Me: Fuck it, Ticket for One please

The Fabulous Master Bats - 6 years ago

Sub my channel if you want to hear our version of this. It's released by the end of this week!

ken elkins - 6 years ago

Gorgeous song.

BrickUnit - 6 years ago

you can hear mike love trying not to let his talentless voice get in the way of the wilsons and jardines haha

thedocak 7 - 6 years ago

what is the purpose of mike love

Johngonefishin - 6 years ago

he's doing his Art Garfunkel imitation.

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6 String Fan - 6 years ago

Loved those Fender TUBE amps!

scott d - 6 years ago

6 String Fan I

JH Goodrich - 6 years ago

Lennon always said he was envious of the Beach Boys vocalizing skills. No one did it better than them!

MagicalMystery - 6 years ago

+kurt kieswetter then you are not listening.

Priscilla Wilson - 6 years ago

+kurt kieswetter They ARE surf music, their own genre basically. They always had a sound and style unlike any of those people you mentioned.

kurt kieswetter - 6 years ago

give me a break...I love the beach boys but so many others did it better....so many Motown singers …..the everly bros,csny ,simon and Garfunkel etc were just as good...besides brian I really don't hear anything great here

Roger Bowen - 6 years ago

KOOL ASS SONG !!!!

Ronnie Bishop - 6 years ago

Girls loved to dance close to this one !

Brenda Pattemore - 6 years ago

sublime, superb

Bike Cycle - 6 years ago

Rare to see live on these old shows, very nice. Beautiful song.

Ricardo Castro - 7 years ago

Só sabe o que é uma surfer girl quem já teve uma. #desejo+amor

Hello Hello - 7 years ago

Carl was a legend.

with all intents and purposes - 7 years ago

All fine till 'SQUEEEEEEEEE'

recy kypri - 7 years ago

Brilliant

A D V A I T - 7 years ago

♥️

Alex B - 7 years ago

I recently recorded an acapella version of this classic Beach Boys tune, it would be great if anyone has the time to check it out and let me know what you think! https://youtu.be/BFNZ9NOtUq8

Tyler Frey - 7 years ago

Mike Love is as pointless as the other guy in Wham.

MagicalMystery - 6 years ago

+Black Mamba wrong. CARL held the band together. Mike did nothing but bitch, but knew he would NEVER make it on his own. And he never has.

Donald Thompson - 6 years ago

He sang lead and bass haromonies.

Dennis DeMark - 6 years ago

Tyler Frey
Not true Tyler!

HarryWebb46 - 6 years ago

Sex God Mike! lol..

MrSpencerMcIntosh - 6 years ago

fair enough... he's still a douche though.

Charlie Mckinney - 6 years ago

Tyler Frey yes

Black Mamba - 6 years ago

Tyler Frey just remember that Mike Love held that group together when Brian was losing his marbles and Dennis was wacked out on drugs.

E Leo - 7 years ago

Brian should've stuck in a sax solo in this song just to give Mike Love something to do. Mike sure looked pissed over there in the corner.

MagicalMystery - 6 years ago

He looks the same way during God Only Knows

Nickie IDRUS - 7 years ago

Love the beach boys. Way better than the Beatles

frank brennan - 5 years ago

I wouldn't go that far. But I will say that the Beach Boys are vastly underrated in comparison

MagicalMystery - 6 years ago

All the Beatles fans got TERRIBLY butt hurt with this comment...LOL

kurt kieswetter - 6 years ago

I know...the guy who said that was a complete fucking moron...lol..pop music?the beatles did more in 7 years than any band,including 1000 years of the rolling stones ever did....they molded most of the music we know....I love the beach boys but good lord.....nobody ever were or ever will be the beatles…..paul and john stand right there with Beethoven,bach,mozart etc....ask any real musician since and 99.9 will tell you the at least have some influence from the beatles...and for the record,mike love IS a fucking bird....I hate the songs he sings in....dude makes them sound so corny

Filipe Pereira - 6 years ago

What a complete joke
Rubber Soul, Revolver, White Album, Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, Magical Mystery Tour, Abbey Road, Let It Be... all released within 5 years. You call these meaningless pop albums?
Just get a fcking grip on reality, because you must be trippin' balls, really.

TheOfficialPhoenixTV - 6 years ago

Not.Even.Close!!!! LMFAO

TheOfficialPhoenixTV - 6 years ago

April fools is over sir lol

HarryWebb46 - 6 years ago

Oh YeaH! They certainly progressesd down the Rock n Roll Route, while The Beatles produced meaningless pop...

Gabriel Landry - 6 years ago

HAHAHAHHA that's a great joke

kurt kieswetter - 6 years ago

I both LOVE the beach boys AND respect your opinion.....but not a fucking chance in a hell are they better than the god damn beatles ..lol....its not even close........I mean come on.....have you seen how many tunes the beatles can stack up?even brian Wilson would call you a moron for spewing such nonsense...there will never be a comparison to the beatles

Ackyman - 6 years ago

don't be silly

Pat abrams Abrams - 7 years ago

rest in peace CArl and Dennis Wilson

Pat abrams Abrams - 7 years ago

He had such a cute chubby baby faced love you Brian Wilson

fanfanackapan - 7 years ago

Love Brian x

Honeystain - 7 years ago

The downside of writing something pretentious and harmonically complex is that you will struggle to perform it live. Great job, hiring Mike Love for the bass vocal (the underlying harmonic accompaniment which threads everything together), great job on hiring the world's second worst pop vocalist. The Beatles followed the same road with Paperback Writer and Nowhere Man; even George Harrison said himself, that the live performances of those songs were so bad they had to do "the Elvis Legs" and waving at the crowd mid-performance to get the audience to scream, which would mask the sound of their terrible performance. Look it up: Paperback Writer Live Japan 1966.

mrjutha - 6 years ago

I stopped reading after "pretentious".

DANCING CHEESE Productions - 7 years ago

Second worst? Who's the worst?

Southern Doomsday - 7 years ago

Honeystain Nothing pretentious with writing good music

Texas Patriots Militia - 7 years ago

The Beach Boys! America's band!

Terri Geer - 7 years ago

GD Murry Wilson

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glenn clark - 7 years ago

I am so sorry that ive missed these guys in concert, I am lost for words guys , god bless ,see you in the the next world.

Pirate Labs - 7 years ago

This was perfect...EXCEPT the douchbag Mike Love was singing waaay off key. He recently came to my town calling himself "The Beach Boys" and Not only did I not go, hardly anyone in town went to see him. Touring around calling yourself the Beachboys without Brian because you sued Brian, is not the way to generate fans. Once a douchbag, always a douchbag.

MagicalMystery - 6 years ago

The T.A.M.I live performance has much better backing vocals. Mike isn't off on that one.

MagicalMystery - 6 years ago

+bighands69 when they lost 2 Wilson brothers, they were no longer the Beach Boys. Mike's 'band' is a nostalgia band, nothing more. Brian was the brains and soul behind them and Carl and Dennis were the heart. Once the lost Dennis and Brian, it was no longer the Beach Boys. Sorry to all those Mike Love fans out there, but that is the cold reality.

SeaMonster111 - 6 years ago

Oh Shut up already. Leave the man alone. He is and always was a Beach Boy.

bighands69 - 7 years ago

He is as much a beach boy as anybody else.

Brian C - 7 years ago

Mike Love.....sorry tears were in my eyes

Brian C - 7 years ago

Ron Love looks like my Uncle Ron, and Brian...we share a birthdate some years apart......I would've loved to been there!

jamie einkauf - 7 years ago

The greatest group ever. As Dennis Wilson said Brian Wilson is The Beach Boys, we are his messengers.

Sunshine Peterman - 7 years ago

About '84

Sunshine Peterman - 7 years ago

My 1st concert I was 10:) my aunt passed a note on stage it was my birthday...and they wished me a happy one Marie. Really want to find a recording

Iroh'sApprentice - 7 years ago

THATS AMAZING!!!!
they're having a concert near me next weekend and dear god im praying that my family and i go <3. 50 years later and their sound is still amazing.