20 tracks
Side one "Surfin' Safari" "Surfer Girl" "Catch a Wave" "The Warmth of the Sun" "Surfin' U.S.A." Side two "Be True to Your School" "Little Deuce Coupe" "In My Room" "Shut Down" "Fun, Fun, Fun" Side three "I Get Around" "Girls on the Beach" "Wendy" "Let Him Run Wild" "Don't Worry Baby" Side four "California Girls" "Girl Don't Tell Me" "Help Me, Rhonda" "You're So Good to Me" "All Summer Long"

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"Help Me, Ronda"

20 tracks
Side one "Surfin' Safari" "Surfer Girl" "Catch a Wave" "The Warmth of the Sun" "Surfin' U.S.A." Side two "Be True to Your School" "Little Deuce Coupe" "In My Room" "Shut Down" "Fun, Fun, Fun" Side three "I Get Around" "Girls on the Beach" "Wendy" "Let Him Run Wild" "Don't Worry Baby" Side four "California Girls" "Girl Don't Tell Me" "Help Me, Rhonda" "You're So Good to Me" "All Summer Long"

"Help Me, Rhonda"

Single by The Beach Boys

from the album Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)

B-side

"Kiss Me, Baby"

Released

April 5, 1965

Format

Vinyl

Recorded

February 24, 1965

Length

2:46

Label

Capitol

Writer(s)

Brian Wilson, Mike Love

Producer(s)

Brian Wilson

The Beach Boys singles chronology

"Do You Wanna Dance?"
(1965)

"Help Me, Rhonda"
(1965)

"California Girls"
(1965)

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"Help Me, Rhonda"

"Help Me, Rhonda" (originally published as "Help Me, Ronda") is a song written and composed by Brian Wilson with additional lyrics by Mike Love for American rock band the Beach Boys. It was first released as "Help Me, Ronda" in March 1965 on the album The Beach Boys Today!. A second recording, with a significantly different arrangement, was issued as a single under the revised title "Help Me, Rhonda". The single peaked at number one in the United States, making it the second Beach Boys single to reach that position after "I Get Around" in 1964. The single version was later released on the album Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!) in June 1965.

The lyrics of "Help Me, Rhonda" tell a story of a man who was attracted to a woman who then found another man, and so to aid the healing process, he begs a woman named Rhonda to help him. According to songwriter Brian Wilson, "Rhonda" was not based on a real person.

Wilson later said of the song, "I would've made a better rhythm - it wasn't in the pocket."

The original version was recorded over two dates at United Western Recorders in Hollywood on January 8 and 19, 1965, with Chuck Britz as the engineer and production by Brian Wilson. The instrumental track has Carl Wilson, and members of The Wrecking Crew:Bill Pitman, and Glen Campbell on guitar, Billy Strange on ukulele, Ray Pohlman on bass guitar, Leon Russell on piano, Hal Blaine on drums and timbales, Julius Wechter on claves, Billy Lee Riley on harmonica, Steve Douglas and Plas Johnson on tenor saxophone, and Jay Migliori on baritone saxophone. Al Jardine sang the lead vocal with backing vocals by Carl, Dennis and Brian Wilson, and Mike Love. The track runs over three minutes with no guitar solo, has a number of false, fade in/fade out endings, and, instead of the song starting with Jardine's vocal, there is a brief ukulele intro.

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