Episode 142: “God Only Knows” by the Beach Boys
A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs
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Asher and Wilson's Songwriting Credits
Asher took a two weeks abaticle from his job at the advertising agency to work with wilson on eight songs. There has been some slight dispute about the way song writing credits were apportioned to the songs. Generally, the credits said that wilson wrote all the music, while asher and wilson wrote the lyrics together. So asher got 25 % of the song writing royalties and wilsons 75 %.
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