I sometimes wish people still made music about cars and beaches. Listening to The Beach Boys' early songs feels so peaceful and like you're in a simpler, happier time. It paints a beautiful picture of what it means to be young.
Couldn't agree with you anymore than that right there. The old original rock music like the beach boys was by far the best. The old rock music will always be classic and the Original rock
Been listing to the Beach Boys since 5th grade. I'm now 65 and listen to them on you tube every morning while I'm drinking my coffee to get the day started right. They hit some "snags" during their career but who hasn't. As long as I can make it to my lap top, I'll never be without the best music ever recorded. Live on guys!
Jo Bryant amen! Been listening to these guys since I was in 5th grade too, but that was sometime in the 90's. I'm just now at 26 getting There Vinyl Anthology really cookin', for the longest time, Endless Summer was all I needed. But, the more I listen the More I enjoy them... Maybe It's cause I lived in Torrance, C.A., Which boarders Hawthorne, C.A. lol
I would have loved to have that race against the Beach Boys' Corvette back in 1966. My 413 had factory Ram Induction with dual quads and a heavy duty Torqueflite tranny. Not the prettiest car - 1962 Dodge Polara 500, but probably the fastest car on Cape Cod at the time. No Positraction - no problem I had a high school freshman sitting in the passenger seat for a counterweight. Could'nt afford exhaust headers so I made my own cutouts or"dumps". It was called the Mopar Missle. Yeah MOPAR!
Those were the car culture/surf culture days never to be repeated like a high school prom. Never ever gonna see that again....I was there and it was a big part of our lives.
This is probably the best car song, ever. These old Beach Boys car jams are unbeatable. I've got modern muscle in my garage (Paxton supercharged '05 Mustang good for mid-11s) and I love cruising to these jams.
having had a 63 split with the fuelie 327 & a Muncie rock crushed as well as a 63 dart with a 413 max wedge, that dodge driver must have been asleep as the stingray on its best day couldnt stay with that dart after 300 yards. it was wild.
Yeah I youtubed this song today because for some reason it popped into my head and I was trying to re-remember all the lyrics, and it was hearing that "gotta be cool now, power shift here we go" really hit me. I'm gonna use that!!! Thanks, BBs.
Listening to the Beach Boys with dad growing up in the 90's, I admittedly didn't know what 413 was referring to or why they were bragging about fuel injection, even as a budding car enthusiast. The song was about muscle cars racing and it sounded good, so that's all that mattered to me! I pictured my dad racing his '69 Firebird back in the 70's.
In 1963 I was 13 (so you know my age) I loved that album & still have my old vinyl in the original cover I received from Columbia House Records, back in the day. I heard this song playing in my brain every time I pulled up to a light with my Z28s, Trans Ams, Corvettes I owned over the years, now mind you it was the 1980s & 90s when I could afford these cars. In 1969 I bought a GTO new & owned before that a 1967 Mustang GT 2+2. (My folks had money I was broke as a teen) so all my adult life I raced Light to Light as we said, burning up the tires, smoked them literally off most of my cars. But all the while hearing Shut Down, playing in my brain, great song for racing fools like me. P.S. Never got a ticket, never had a wreck & never told my parents back in the day. BTW I did lose some but not many races. Unbeknownst to me once I raced a Florida Trooper who was in an unmarked 1992 Mustang GT. I had a 1995 Corvette I just bought new, 6 speed of course. The cop was so surprised I took off from a dead stop, smoking the tires he pulled me over & just looked at me, I said yeah I know. NO TICKET!
I can relate I had a 1970 couple Deville my first car my mom and dad gave me in 77 I learned how to burn rubber in it finally got my first new car in 84 z28 raced everybody it was a standard 5 speed borg Warner 373 rears and of course I had the beach boys greatest hit and when don't worry baby came on and shut u down man I imagined it was me pedal to the floor hear those dual quads drink
Unless...the fuelie was...like modified...an' bored, stroked, nitrous, supercharged, slicks, comp body one seat, plexi windows AND a B&M hydro with...oh, yeah...Shirley was drivin'...in her pink suit...smoke tha' 13 real good...no slips...jus' chirpin' rights
Yea but what’s cooler? A fuel injected Corvette Stingray or a beat up late 90s or early 00s truck with stacks out in the middle of the bed. I can definitely tell you what is worth more.
Born in May of "64" But when "Endless Summer" Came out I got into the Beach Boy's, in '76' I think it was my neighbor was into Car's so Working on them all summer guarantee'd tag along's, for me at 11 + 12 my friend's were 18-21 it was Awesome Cruising around and being treated much older than my year's!!!!!😁🇺🇸👍
And so started the Dodge/Plymouth dominance at the strip. Lasted until GM introduced the 396/425 HP big block Corvette in 1965. The automatic Mopars were really quick so they ended up in their own class, superstock automatic, SS/A.
I started listening to this when I was 4. I listened to it when me and my dad cruised in his nova. 13 about to be 14 and glad I got introduced to this type of music
God I love surf Cali music so much it hurts beach boys had the purist vocal harmonies too and I'm a Midwest dude and love the Cali surf music so much I @$!#:!$ love it !!! I love all of the west coast surf style bands for life!!
+WalterJacksonFreeman -- Oh yes of course! The music is the important thing, not the silly outfits...they were unique and I still listen to them in my car LOUD and sing every song and I am 66 years old! The car songs and the surf/summer songs are the best!
They are at the Kansas State Fair right now in Hutchinson, Ks..My dad's 81 and after 55 yrs, he's there for real...although there is just 2 left and they have 6 others to back them up...:).
+Mark Carbonaro Actually, you're wrong! Blaine and the wrecking crew didn't show up on Beach Boys records till the middle of 1964... They were not on this album at all...
These guys were fabulous to use a common description. Seen them live a couple of times back in the mid 60's. When I went to the California coast on Highway 1, I saw all these hot rods cruising up and down the beach and this record among others played in my head.
Uh, sorry, guy. But if you ever spent time at the tracks in the '60s (I did), you would know a Max Wedge in a B-body Mopar wouldn't merely beat a fuelie 'Vette (off the line and to the end), it would stomp the bejeesus out of the Chebby. Once saw a four-door DeSoto (full-size C-body) destroy a Vette in a drag. They may have been ugly, but those early '60s Mopars had no true rivals in GM or Ford.
drpreposterous1, got to disagree a little here. 413 beat a 327 vette, yep, but not a ford thunderbolt 427. In the old nhra rules the dart and the ford ran heads up. The ford thunderbolt STILL holds the A/SS record with an 8.55 147 mph.
Well, I "spent time at the tracks", too. Enough to know that the outcome wasn't decided at the starting line and that a song about a street race ought not be taken as some sort of a manhood issue. The Corvette was no match for the 413 MoPars most of the time and wasn't when Chrysler upped the ante with 426 CID. In a straight line.
This was the reverse side of the "Surfin USA" 45 RPM single. My brother owned the record back in the day, and I practically wore this song out when I was, like, 6 years old. I have a 62 Dodge Polara 500 (pretty much a glorified Dart) that I'm making a Max Wedge Clone out of. My desire to build this car came out of listening to that song. And yes, in numerous re-do's of the race in the song, the 413 Max Wedge Mopar kicked ass on the Vette. SUPER STOCK DODGE!!!!!!!
My friend and I had '63 Vette ragtops our senior year in college. Mine a 327/340 with a 3:70 rear end and his a 327/365 fuelie with 4:11 rear. Before taking a road trip we'd play this song about 5 times straight, then hit the road. For one long stretch of deserted road we'd run side by side at 110 in 3rd with the wind in our hair. I'm 80 years old now, but hearing this song makes it seem like yesterday.
This song is nirvana for gear heads like me and those who lived the car culture of the sixties. Moral of the story? Ram inducted 413 Dart will take you off the line,... but fuel injection will always catch and win out in the end even if the old racing maxim goes, Injection is nice, but I'd rather be blown.
This song sure brings back memories from back when I was in high school. Although I never had a vette except for a chevette I have done my share of racing in other cars that I've owned
Reminds me of my first car. '63 EH Holden. 179 HP, extractors, twin throat X2 carby, Yella Terra Head and a mild cam. 15 second quarter mile, with a three on the tree.
Love the whole vibe of the beach boys ! i'm 71 and been digging them since the early 60's . I've seen them several times in concert ,and once in the mid 70's with Jessie colin young ,Joni Mitchell and Crosby Stills Nash ! They stole the show even though Joni was incredible ,they were pure FUN FUN FUN !
I remember this follow up to the Beach Boys first hit in LA titled "Surfin'" which came out late 1961 but was very popular in LA where I lived. I was 11 years old and living in the Valley. So many phenomenal hits that summer. What is different in this track is that the Beach Boys start using the legendary "Wrecking Crew" as backup studio musicians. The Beach Boys presence is in the vocal tracks and the songwriting. But the collaboration of Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys and the "Wrecking Crew" led to a string of hits that has only been surpassed by the Beatles.
Well I just read the copyrighted version of the Beach Boys classic shut down. The last three lines are “ shut it off, shut it off, buddy now I’ve shut you down “ The debate is over. The 413 gets off to a good start, but eventually the Corvettes 142 mile an hour top and overtakes it and wins the race. Thanks for all the great conversations guys.
This hit from The Beach Boys went to #23 on the Top 40 charts. It went to #7 on the UPI charts and to #34 in the United Kingdom. It would finish at #86 for the year, 1963.
Mike Love - lead vocal, saxophone David Marks - rhythm guitar, lead guitar during fade-out Brian Wilson - harmony and backing vocals, bass guitar Carl Wilson - harmony and backing vocals, lead guitar Dennis Wilson - harmony and backing vocals, drums Brian Wilson, Roger Christian - songwriters Nik Venet - producer
@gtofan2005 I am 21 and I love the muscle cars from the 60s and 70s. I just bought myself a 73 Mustang Mach 1 with a 351c. Love it, nothing better and meaner sounding then a car like that.
@schumickthegreat Just saying....In my experience, from the late 1960's, I had a friend that his mom was my piano teacher, and they got a new car every two years. In 1966 they got a GTO.... 3 duces, 389Ci, a big honkin' muscle car. That thing would swalk the tires in 4th gear. I never felt anything to be that ominous for the rest of my life. So much power. The Beach Boys would be proud. In 1968 they got a new one....400ci.....4 barrel. Not a move upwards. Miss that 389.
I recall a magazine actually recreated this. The Stingray jumped it out of the hole but at the end of the quarter the cubes took over. Drove a fuel injected Stingray from that era, it had an incredible sound, Never drove a 413, but had a hemi, got 5 mpg
Myself, had an '1974-Custom Van. I Bought in '1974.. Good Times.. Use to go to "Van Happenings--From 1974-1977. The Beach Boys Rule.. No matter where You was at.. Either, Cruse-in the Gut in LA/Orange County or Any-Where. Many times come Very Close n-getting a Ticket.
Back in 1969 me and 2 friends drove from east coast to So. Cal. We could not believe it. California was like a different planet. Everyone drove either a Corvette Sting Ray, a Porsche, or a VW Beetle. Saw a lot that sold Subaru cars and we were like, “What the hell are those”. They had these tiny tires. Everywhere you turned your head you saw a beautiful girl. Hollywood was filled with nothing but weirdos and gay men we used to call “Queers”. Bummed that the beaches had cold water, not like Florida. We debated not going and go to Woodstock instead which was only a few hours drive away. We didn’t realize we were going to be driving thru the desert in August in a car without air conditioning.
Loved these guys when I was a girl. I'm 66 yrs old now and still enjoy listening to the Beach Boys.
I saw the Beach Boys street trying for concert back in the days
they were rad
short for radiation because we lived in fear...I din't I was too young to care
Amen
@@bobzani , in some regards, yes.
EARLY BEACH BOYS! I STILL LOVE IT! THANKS FOR SHARING. R.K.3/7/2023.😀😄
I sometimes wish people still made music about cars and beaches. Listening to The Beach Boys' early songs feels so peaceful and like you're in a simpler, happier time. It paints a beautiful picture of what it means to be young.
shame you wasn't around in the 60's. life was a dream.
Couldn't agree with you anymore than that right there. The old original rock music like the beach boys was by far the best. The old rock music will always be classic and the Original rock
TRUMP GONNA MAKE IT FEEL LIKE THE 50'S AGAIN!!! PROMISE!!
THERE IS RACIAL TENSION NOW , DEAL WITH IT AND LIVE YOUR LIFE. 1950'S IS COMING AGAIN!!
The music industry is under control by the wrong people now...
Been listing to the Beach Boys since 5th grade. I'm now 65 and listen to them on you tube every morning while I'm drinking my coffee to get the day started right. They hit some "snags" during their career but who hasn't. As long as I can make it to my lap top, I'll never be without the best music ever recorded. Live on guys!
Jo Bryant amen! Been listening to these guys since I was in 5th grade too, but that was sometime in the 90's. I'm just now at 26 getting There Vinyl Anthology really cookin', for the longest time, Endless Summer was all I needed. But, the more I listen the More I enjoy them... Maybe It's cause I lived in Torrance, C.A., Which boarders Hawthorne, C.A. lol
Yeah, thank God the music outlived those dogshit cars!
I'm 71 and still listening
I’m the same everyday after work I listen to The Beach Boys and weekends I start my mornings with coffee and The Beach Boys and I’m 40years old.
Buy a classic 60s car to even make it better!
The addition of the tenor sax was pure genius.
agree
I would have loved to have that race against the Beach Boys' Corvette back in 1966. My 413 had factory Ram Induction with dual quads and a heavy duty Torqueflite tranny. Not the prettiest car - 1962 Dodge Polara 500, but probably the fastest car on Cape Cod at the time. No Positraction - no problem I had a high school freshman sitting in the passenger seat for a counterweight. Could'nt afford exhaust headers so I made my own cutouts or"dumps". It was called the Mopar Missle. Yeah MOPAR!
YES! 🤩
Those were the car culture/surf culture days never to be repeated like a high school prom. Never ever gonna see that again....I was there and it was a big part of our lives.
+jeffsor47 Meanwhile I was born in 88 and am so jealous.
The good thing is you can't miss what you never had.
+jeffsor47 I miss them days to I loved the days of going to a drive-in restaurant and theatre in a 1962 olds!
+RosencrantzLives same age,,,,,,,,,, and opinion
jeffsor47
Gone forever, but we will always have our memories and tx to you tube, neither will music.
This is probably the best car song, ever. These old Beach Boys car jams are unbeatable. I've got modern muscle in my garage (Paxton supercharged '05 Mustang good for mid-11s) and I love cruising to these jams.
I hear ya brother but I own 2 stingrays 1966 , best music ever written
Buddy had a supercharged Roush that era, thing was a rocket 🚀 perfect addition to the 4.6L mill. 🙌
I had an old friend with a 68 Dart GTS. 426 Hemi W/ 6-71 blower.
Scary Awesome car.
having had a 63 split with the fuelie 327 & a Muncie rock crushed as well as a 63 dart with a 413 max wedge, that dodge driver must have been asleep as the stingray on its best day couldnt stay with that dart after 300 yards. it was wild.
I was 6 yrs old when my dad introed me to the Beachboys...I'm 53, they'll never die...:)
you are right
I was 3 when I first heard "I Get Around" in the movie "Flight Of the Navigator". I'm 37 now
79 years old and still have so many great memories..
Thnx 4 sharing
The Beach Boys frickin' RULE!!!
"gotta be cool now, power shift here we go..." what a great line
Yeah I youtubed this song today because for some reason it popped into my head and I was trying to re-remember all the lyrics, and it was hearing that "gotta be cool now, power shift here we go" really hit me. I'm gonna use that!!! Thanks, BBs.
Listening to the Beach Boys with dad growing up in the 90's, I admittedly didn't know what 413 was referring to or why they were bragging about fuel injection, even as a budding car enthusiast. The song was about muscle cars racing and it sounded good, so that's all that mattered to me! I pictured my dad racing his '69 Firebird back in the 70's.
The 413 was a Plymouth belvedere
I have a 63 plymouth, 413 is long gone, replaced by a 440..
In 1963 I was 13 (so you know my age) I loved that album & still have my old vinyl in the original cover I received from Columbia House Records, back in the day. I heard this song playing in my brain every time I pulled up to a light with my Z28s, Trans Ams, Corvettes I owned over the years, now mind you it was the 1980s & 90s when I could afford these cars. In 1969 I bought a GTO new & owned before that a 1967 Mustang GT 2+2. (My folks had money I was broke as a teen) so all my adult life I raced Light to Light as we said, burning up the tires, smoked them literally off most of my cars. But all the while hearing Shut Down, playing in my brain, great song for racing fools like me. P.S. Never got a ticket, never had a wreck & never told my parents back in the day. BTW I did lose some but not many races. Unbeknownst to me once I raced a Florida Trooper who was in an unmarked 1992 Mustang GT. I had a 1995 Corvette I just bought new, 6 speed of course. The cop was so surprised I took off from a dead stop, smoking the tires he pulled me over & just looked at me, I said yeah I know. NO TICKET!
I can relate I had a 1970 couple Deville my first car my mom and dad gave me in 77 I learned how to burn rubber in it finally got my first new car in 84 z28 raced everybody it was a standard 5 speed borg Warner 373 rears and of course I had the beach boys greatest hit and when don't worry baby came on and shut u down man I imagined it was me pedal to the floor hear those dual quads drink
My all-time fave Beach Boys tune, and there have been so many
Its a really brilliant song. The pace, harmonies, smoothness, flow of lyrics, its pure art
Dad Had a 64 Chrysler 300K with a 413 & dual quads. I drove it solo ONCE! What a beast.
Please, everyone knows a 413 Max Wedge is going to destroy a vette....But it's still a great song!!!!
Amen
Lol marketing
U bet mopars Rule
Unless...the fuelie was...like modified...an' bored, stroked, nitrous, supercharged, slicks, comp body one seat, plexi windows AND a B&M hydro with...oh, yeah...Shirley was drivin'...in her pink suit...smoke tha' 13 real good...no slips...jus' chirpin' rights
Mopars Rule, face it GM and Ford lose always
I love how I'm more than 40 years late but I still understand everything they talk about in the song =D
Really? Because I’m confused as hell. Why does he keep talking about a fuel injected engine aren’t literally all cars fuel injected?
This song paints such a beautiful picture
Classic music! Grew up with these guys!
Me too ✋️ Beach boys rock on still listening to this shut u down😊
Back in the days when a guys macho was determined by the car he drove.
Some guys feel the same way today about the size of their pickup.
Yea but what’s cooler? A fuel injected Corvette Stingray or a beat up late 90s or early 00s truck with stacks out in the middle of the bed.
I can definitely tell you what is worth more.
Does a Honda Pilot count?🥴
Born in May of "64" But when "Endless Summer" Came out I got into the Beach Boy's, in '76' I think it was my neighbor was into Car's so Working on them all summer guarantee'd tag along's, for me at 11 + 12 my friend's were 18-21 it was Awesome Cruising around and being treated much older than my year's!!!!!😁🇺🇸👍
I was 16 in the 60s and I wish to go back
The unmistakable voice of Mike Love. So cool. Takes me way way back to a better, simpler time.😂
Dude! 68yr.oldexusmc what's poppin' 💊@%
And so started the Dodge/Plymouth dominance at the strip. Lasted until GM introduced the 396/425 HP big block Corvette in 1965. The automatic Mopars were really quick so they ended up in their own class, superstock automatic, SS/A.
I started listening to this when I was 4. I listened to it when me and my dad cruised in his nova. 13 about to be 14 and glad I got introduced to this type of music
I first heard this song when I was 6 yrs old...1969...Still a classic!.
God, to see an 413 and fuelie Vet going head to head. Excellent song! Thanks for posting.
I always used to think they said "Two cool sharks standing side by side" when i was very young.
Me too sounds really close
What does it say then? Cause I only first heard this recently and I thought that’s what they were saying?
@@janehughart9290 2 cool shorts, as in short wheelbase cars as compared to boats on wheels ie impala buicks Lincoln town cars
@@janehughart9290 Two cool shorts standing side by side.
God I love surf Cali music so much it hurts beach boys had the purist vocal harmonies too and I'm a Midwest dude and love the Cali surf music so much I @$!#:!$ love it !!! I love all of the west coast surf style bands for life!!
Take meee back 😭 where the girls were beautiful, cars were gorgeous and fast 90s kid here by the way 😏
The Beach Boys were the first band I saw perform live. In around 1964 or 65. they wore those striped shirts and white pants. Awesome!
+WalterJacksonFreeman -- Oh yes of course! The music is the important thing, not the silly outfits...they were unique and I still listen to them in my car LOUD and sing every song and I am 66 years old! The car songs and the surf/summer songs are the best!
They are at the Kansas State Fair right now in Hutchinson, Ks..My dad's 81 and after 55 yrs, he's there for real...although there is just 2 left and they have 6 others to back them up...:).
Dennis Wilson...layin it down! RIP brother
+Mark Carbonaro Actually, you're wrong! Blaine and the wrecking crew didn't show up on Beach Boys records till the middle of 1964... They were not on this album at all...
These guys were fabulous to use a common description. Seen them live a couple of times back in the mid 60's. When I went to the California coast on Highway 1, I saw all these hot rods cruising up and down the beach and this record among others played in my head.
Uh, sorry, guy. But if you ever spent time at the tracks in the '60s (I did), you would know a Max Wedge in a B-body Mopar wouldn't merely beat a fuelie 'Vette (off the line and to the end), it would stomp the bejeesus out of the Chebby. Once saw a four-door DeSoto (full-size C-body) destroy a Vette in a drag. They may have been ugly, but those early '60s Mopars had no true rivals in GM or Ford.
drpreposterous1, got to disagree a little here. 413 beat a 327 vette, yep, but not a ford thunderbolt 427. In the old nhra rules the dart and the ford ran heads up. The ford thunderbolt STILL holds the A/SS record with an 8.55 147 mph.
Hell i got a late.50's chrysler hemi eating up a early 60's vette
Well, I "spent time at the tracks", too. Enough to know that the outcome wasn't decided at the starting line and that a song about a street race ought not be taken as some sort of a manhood issue.
The Corvette was no match for the 413 MoPars most of the time and wasn't when Chrysler upped the ante with 426 CID.
In a straight line.
Maybe he was fantasizing. That he WISHED he could beat the 413.
Obviously classic BBs.🎸
One of my favorite beach boys tunes (the others are 409 and all summer long and little deuce coupe)
A minute & fifty of the coolest rock 'n roll ever (!)
Going to the drags tomorrow in Bristol TN.. Need to play this
I STILL LOVE THIS EARLY AND GREAT TUNE FROM THE INCREDIBLE BEACH BOYS!! THANKS FOR SHARING! R.K.3/18/2021.
Listening is like watching. Fab!
This was the reverse side of the "Surfin USA" 45 RPM single. My brother owned the record back in the day, and I practically wore this song out when I was, like, 6 years old. I have a 62 Dodge Polara 500 (pretty much a glorified Dart) that I'm making a Max Wedge Clone out of. My desire to build this car came out of listening to that song. And yes, in numerous re-do's of the race in the song, the 413 Max Wedge Mopar kicked ass on the Vette. SUPER STOCK DODGE!!!!!!!
Huge Mopar Fan Myself Had a 72 Plymouth SateliteSebring Plus with a 383 double barrel SCREAMIN around Van BC
One of my many favs
413 was a Chrysler 413 cubic inch engine. One of the largest engines made at that time (1962).
My friend and I had '63 Vette ragtops our senior year in college. Mine a 327/340 with a 3:70 rear end and his a 327/365 fuelie with 4:11 rear. Before taking a road trip we'd play this song about 5 times straight, then hit the road. For one long stretch of deserted road we'd run side by side at 110 in 3rd with the wind in our hair. I'm 80 years old now, but hearing this song makes it seem like yesterday.
this is when cars and music had class
Yet another classic by America's greatest group, the only group that could out harmonize The Beatles 🎸 And that 413 would have smoked the Corvette !
This song is nirvana for gear heads like me and those who lived the car culture of the sixties. Moral of the story? Ram inducted 413 Dart will take you off the line,... but fuel injection will always catch and win out in the end even if the old racing maxim goes, Injection is nice, but I'd rather be blown.
Loved hearing them @ 18. Still love it @ 72
Those were the good ole days. Songs about cars and the Flintstones cartoons.
I play this every time I head to the dragstrip!
I'm getting goosebumps!
This is one of my favorites I really like great recording
Awesome my favorite song
love that rhythum guitar
classic good song
My fav song
He's riding the clutch of the Chevrolet 😮🏁
you never even see the car described in the song but it still feels real I like that
Classic!
This song sure brings back memories from back when I was in high school. Although I never had a vette except for a chevette I have done my share of racing in other cars that I've owned
Reminds me of my first car. '63 EH Holden. 179 HP, extractors, twin throat X2 carby, Yella Terra Head and a mild cam. 15 second quarter mile, with a three on the tree.
amazing song
Sunset Strip.... where the road is wide. Yep, a long, long time ago!
Hey a little Cobra sitting on the roadside watching these two shorts dook it out, then challenges the winner 😎
Great RACING SONG 🎵 BEACH BOYS 👦 ROCKS 🪨 🎸 😎 👌 🙌 👍 SHUT U DOWN
Man. i love these songs. even if i am more biased towards japanese cars from the 80's, these songs about big block american v8s just hit right.
Love the whole vibe of the beach boys ! i'm 71 and been digging them since the early 60's . I've seen them several times in concert ,and once in the mid 70's with Jessie colin young ,Joni Mitchell and Crosby Stills Nash ! They stole the show even though Joni was incredible ,they were pure FUN FUN FUN !
Great car song
Sick.
Fun to listen to this and watch Jay Leno's garage featuring the '63 Stingray. That car was fucking awesome.
I remember this follow up to the Beach Boys first hit in LA titled "Surfin'" which came out late 1961 but was very popular in LA where I lived. I was 11 years old and living in the Valley. So many phenomenal hits that summer. What is different in this track is that the Beach Boys start using the legendary "Wrecking Crew" as backup studio musicians. The Beach Boys presence is in the vocal tracks and the songwriting. But the collaboration of Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys and the "Wrecking Crew" led to a string of hits that has only been surpassed by the Beatles.
@PeteAndJakee That's amazing! I didn't those motors could fit!
Well I just read the copyrighted version of the Beach Boys classic shut down. The last three lines are “ shut it off, shut it off, buddy now I’ve shut you down “ The debate is over.
The 413 gets off to a good start, but eventually the Corvettes 142 mile an hour top and overtakes it and wins the race. Thanks for all the great conversations guys.
This hit from The Beach Boys went to #23 on the Top 40 charts. It went to #7 on the UPI charts and to #34 in the United Kingdom. It would finish at #86 for the year, 1963.
Couldn't said it better!
Me too Erin.
Mopar rules! Or used to. That FI Corvette woulda seen nothin' but Dodge tailights! hahaha
and the scary part of it is both would be seeing the tailights of a STI
still the best
Mike Love - lead vocal, saxophone
David Marks - rhythm guitar, lead guitar during fade-out
Brian Wilson - harmony and backing vocals, bass guitar
Carl Wilson - harmony and backing vocals, lead guitar
Dennis Wilson - harmony and backing vocals, drums
Brian Wilson, Roger Christian - songwriters
Nik Venet - producer
My fave BB song. Sax solo is classic - 2 notes.
My dad liked the Beach Boys, I got into them as a teenager now I'm 40 :) Love them so much!
@gtofan2005 I am 21 and I love the muscle cars from the 60s and 70s. I just bought myself a 73 Mustang Mach 1 with a 351c. Love it, nothing better and meaner sounding then a car like that.
I'm now 13 but when growing up me and my dad where obsessed with the beach boys. I think he still has all of their records.
Heather that never happened. Dad never liked the beach boys and u were the one who bought their albums.
Nothing beats those old cars, 454 2 stroke loop ported motor, using target master block for this
It’s impossible to cruise around to this music and not feel cool af 😎
thank god for slicks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It was a Dodge Polara. 413 with Ram induction It was the ride of my life when the dual quads kicked it WISH I COULD BUY ONE BEFORE I DIE
@schumickthegreat Just saying....In my experience, from the late 1960's, I had a friend that his mom was my piano teacher, and they got a new car every two years. In 1966 they got a GTO.... 3 duces, 389Ci, a big honkin' muscle car. That thing would swalk the tires in 4th gear. I never felt anything to be that ominous for the rest of my life. So much power. The Beach Boys would be proud. In 1968 they got a new one....400ci.....4 barrel. Not a move upwards. Miss that 389.
Great success for the shark republic war song!!
I recall a magazine actually recreated this. The Stingray jumped it out of the hole but at the end of the quarter the cubes took over. Drove a fuel injected Stingray from that era, it had an incredible sound, Never drove a 413, but had a hemi, got 5 mpg
Hail MOPAR
Myself, had an '1974-Custom Van. I Bought in '1974.. Good Times.. Use to go to "Van Happenings--From 1974-1977. The Beach Boys Rule.. No matter where You was at.. Either, Cruse-in the Gut in LA/Orange County or Any-Where. Many times come Very Close n-getting a Ticket.
YEA !!!!! BABY CAR WARS!!!!!!
When I was little, I thought they were singing "bunny gonna shut you down"
The Great BMX Race!
Back in 1969 me and 2 friends drove from east coast to So. Cal. We could not believe it. California was like a different planet. Everyone drove either a Corvette Sting Ray, a Porsche, or a VW Beetle. Saw a lot that sold Subaru cars and we were like, “What the hell are those”. They had these tiny tires. Everywhere you turned your head you saw a beautiful girl. Hollywood was filled with nothing but weirdos and gay men we used to call “Queers”. Bummed that the beaches had cold water, not like Florida. We debated not going and go to Woodstock instead which was only a few hours drive away. We didn’t realize we were going to be driving thru the desert in August in a car without air conditioning.