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I Get Around

"I Get Around"
Beach Boys - I Get Around.jpg
Single by The Beach Boys
from the album All Summer Long
B-side "Don't Worry Baby"
Released May 11, 1964
Format 7" vinyl
Recorded April 2 / 10, 1964
United Western Recorders, Hollywood
Genre
Length 2:12
Label Capitol 5174
Writer(s) Brian Wilson, Mike Love
Producer(s) Brian Wilson
The Beach Boys singles chronology
"Fun, Fun, Fun"
(1964)
"I Get Around"
(1964)
"When I Grow Up (To Be a Man)"
(1964)
Endless Summer track listing
Music sample

"I Get Around" is a song written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love for American rock band the Beach Boys. It was released as a single in May 1964 with "Don’t Worry Baby" as its B-side and became the group's first number-one charting song in the United States. In the United Kingdom, it charted at number seven and was the band's first top ten single there. It was included as the opening track on their studio album All Summer Long in July 1964.

An autobiographical narrative, "I Get Around" begins with a multi-part a cappella introduction that quickly shifts into rock-style verses sung by Mike Love and a pop chorus sung in falsetto by Brian Wilson, who also produced and arranged the song. During its recording session, Wilson's father Murry was relieved of his duties as the group's manager.

In 2016, "I Get Around" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

The song was originally credited to Brian Wilson alone until Love v. Wilson, a 1994 lawsuit by Mike Love which amended the song's copyright to include him as a co-writer. In an interview with Goldmine, published September 18, 1992, Love insisted that he and not Wilson "came up with 'round round get around'".

The instrumental track for "I Get Around" was recorded on April 2, 1964 at United Western Recorders in Hollywood, along with "Little Honda." According to biographer Steven Gaines, manager Murry Wilson was in the control room "criticizing the song and Brian's production techniques ... rambl[ing] on about what a loser Brian was, how poor the music was, and how only Murry had the real talent in the family. At one point he insisted that Brian end the [recording] session because something was wrong with the bass line." The confrontation ended with a physical altercation, and Brian dismissed him as manager. Brian would later say, "We love the family thing – y'know: three brothers, a cousin and a friend is a really beautiful way to have a [rock] group – but the extra generation can become a hang-up." The vocals were recorded during a session eight days later on April 10.


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