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Wild Honey (Beach Boys song)

"Wild Honey"
Beach Boys - Wild Honey (single).jpg
Single by The Beach Boys
from the album Wild Honey
B-side "Wind Chimes"
Released October 23, 1967 (1967-10-23)
Format Vinyl
Recorded September 26–27, 1967,
Brian Wilson's home studio, Los Angeles
Genre
Length 2:37
Label Capitol
Songwriter(s) Brian Wilson and Mike Love
Producer(s) The Beach Boys
The Beach Boys singles chronology
"Heroes and Villains"
(1967)
"Wild Honey"
(1967)
"Darlin'"
(1967)
"Heroes and Villains"
(1967)
"Wild Honey"
(1967)
"Darlin'"
(1967)
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"Wild Honey" is a song written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love for the American rock band The Beach Boys. It was released on their 1967 album Wild Honey. It was also released as a single, with the B-side of the single being "Wind Chimes". The single peaked at #31 in the U.S. and #29 in the U.K.

In a 1992 issue of Goldmine, Mike Love explained the idea for the lyrics of the song:

Brian was doing this track with a Theremin and we were doing the song. I went into the kitchen and we were in this health food thing and wild honey was all natural. So there's this can of wild honey and we're making some tea. So I said, I'll write the lyrics about this girl who was a wild little honey. And I wrote it from the perspective that that album was Brian's R&B-influenced album, in his mind. It may not sound like it to a Motown executive but that was where he was coming from on that record. In that particular instance I wrote it from the perspective of Stevie Wonder singing it.

Recording for the song began on September 26, 1967 at Brian Wilson's home studio in Bel Air, California with Jim Lockert engineering the session. The song would be almost completely recorded in one day. The band would initially record organ and electric bass guitar courtesy of Bruce Johnston, percussion, tambourine and piano and following that Carl Wilson's lead vocal was overdubbed onto the basic track. The band then recorded instrumental inserts including bongos, percussion and drums, in which Dennis Wilson's bass drum was purportedly recorded in a hallway. The session then concluded with the band doing further vocal overdubs and Bruce Johnston performing the organ solo.


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