Just Because Music — Beach Boys’ I Get Around
Bookworm on Oct 19 2010 at 3:39 pm | Filed under: Just Because Music
This must be the most awkward looking performance I’ve ever seen, but the music is . . . well, it’s pure Beach Boys magic:
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Back in the day, I had a very used ’57 Chevy Bel Air convertible, a rear plastic window that zipped down. This allowed two surfboards to stick through it, down under the back edge of the front seat. Need I say (1.) We. (2.) Were (3.) Cool? 770AM, WABC, NY and 990AM, WIBG, Philly played new Beach Boy tunes just about every other week. “I Get Around” was one of the good vocal surf tunes. And there were (and still are) great instrumental surf bands: ”Wipe Out” by the Ventures, “Underwater” by the Frogmen. So many other tunes. Surf in New Jersey? You betcha! Long Beach Island,NJ: Holgate at the south end and when conditions were right, there was the huge offshore break off of Barnegat Light. We played these tunes LOUD as we cruised the length of the island. Grand times they were!
I was 15 and growing up in Los Angeles when the Beach Boys came onto the scene. It felt so good to have a local band that really seemed to know what Southern California teen culture was all about—cruising around in cherry cars, having your heart stomped on by the love of your life, getting jacked up on school spirit and retreating to your room to sulk in teenage angst. (Not that that was really all that different from teen culture in Kokomo.)
The only thing I couldn’t relate to was surfing. I grew up 25 miles inland, and while some of my acquaintances were real surfers, I never partook. That doesn’t mean I didn’t get a kick from the surfer vibe, and when we all learned just how big the Boys were nationwide, we knew our little corner of the world had arrived.
When they first started showing up on local teen programs, then later on national TV, we weren’t embarrassed at all by their lack of slick. These guys could have been our classmates, and we felt proud that they were making such big waves. They were what Book says: pure magic.