Song of the Day 8/31: The Beach Boys, “All Summer Long”
The title track to the Beach Boys’ 1964 LP was never released as a single in the U.S., so most people didn’t hear it much until George Lucas used it at the end credit music for his breakout hit “American Graffiti, which might be why most people never noticed the anachronism — the film is set in 1962, two years before the song was released. The single that was released from the album was “I Get Around,” the group’s first No. 1 hit.
The song is now credited to Brian Wilson and Mike Love after a lawsuit in the 1990s, but both claim to have written the then-innocent line, “Remember when you spilled Coke all over your blouse?” so who knows?
