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Funky Pretty

"Funky Pretty"
Single by The Beach Boys
from the album Holland
A-side "California Saga: California"
Released April 16, 1973 (1973-04-16)
Recorded 1972 (1972)
Genre R&B
Length 4:09
Label Brother
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) The Beach Boys
The Beach Boys singles chronology
"Sail On, Sailor"
(1973)
"Funky Pretty"
(1973)
"Child of Winter (Christmas Song)"
(1974)
"Sail On, Sailor"
(1973)
"California Saga: California"
(1973)
"Child of Winter (Christmas Song)"
(1974)

"Funky Pretty" is a song written by Brian Wilson, Mike Love, and Jack Rieley for American rock band the Beach Boys. It was released on their 1973 album Holland, then placed as the B-side to their single "California Saga: California". Based on astrological themes, Carl Wilson explained that the song was quickly recorded in a "spontaneous flurry". Brian was an active participant in its production, a rare occurrence at the time.

Rolling Stone wrote of the song in its review of Holland:

"Funky Pretty" is more on the guttural side of R&B. A cosmic love song to an astrological lovely, it mounts its grit in a swirl of harmonic complications, again underlining Blondie Chaplin's more straightforward vocal dexterity with a defiantly baroque choral signature: Vivaldi meets the Regents on a magic synthesizer. It makes for a beautiful track, built on economical and even monotonous musical premises that delight in their unreasonably complex development.



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