California girls
| California girls | |
|---|---|
| The Beach Boys | |
| publication | July 5, 1965 |
| length | 2:38 |
| Genre (s) | Pop , rock |
| Author (s) | Brian Wilson , Mike Love |
| album | Summer Days (And Summer Nights !!) |
California Girls is a Beach Boys song from 1965. It appeared on the studio album Summer Days (And Summer Nights !!) .
history
California Girls was written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love . Wilson got the song idea during an LSD trip. He managed to get to the piano where he thought of the music from cowboy movies:
“I was thinking about the music from cowboy movies. And I sat down and started playing it, bum-buhdeeda, bum-buhdeeda. I did that for about an hour. I got these chords going. Then I got this melody, it came pretty fast after that. And the rest was history, right? "
“I thought of the music in cowboy films. I sat down [at the piano] and began to play: bum-buhdeeda, bum-buhdeeda. I did that for about an hour. First I had these chords. Then I remembered the melody, the other one developed very quickly afterwards. The rest is history now, isn't it? "
It was the Beach Boys' first recording with added vocals from Bruce Johnston , who joined the band to replace Wilson on the touring tour. The song reached number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 . A music video released later showed the band playing on a kind of scaffolding full of dancing women.
Further use
The band The Beatles used the chorus and background vocals from “California Girls” for their song “ Back in the USSR ”. Mike Love reportedly advised the band on the lyrics as well.
David Lee Roth covered the song in 1985 and also reached number 3 in the US charts.
The song was quoted in Katy Perry's California Gurls - but despite the measures initially taken by the Rondor Music label, which holds the rights to the song, the Beach Boys waived claims against Perry because of the quote.
Individual evidence
- ↑ latimes.com: 'California Girls', The Beach Boys, 1965 . Accessed September 6, 2012.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel: Top Pop Singles 1955-1993. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Ltd., 1994, p. 36
- ↑ www.nypost.com: Beach Boys take on Katy Perry's 'Gurls' . Accessed September 6, 2012.