Episode 142: “God Only Knows” by the Beach Boys
A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs
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'Tis the Season for Folk and Roll
The song that defined the album, which became a massive hit, didn't even have one of the beach boys singing lead. Dean torrence was by this point getting sick of working with barry and was also deeply unimpressed with the aldum they were making. He remembered an old dowop song that janan dene had recorded a cover version of, and suggested that the group had dean sing lead and ran through a sloppy version of it where none of them could remember the words properly.
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