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The Beach Boys recorded “When I Grow Up (To Be a Man)” at United Western Studios in Hollywood. The song later reached No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100, No. 7 on the Cashbox chart and No. 1 on the Canadian singles chart.
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- The Beach Boys recorded "Dance Dance Dance" at RCA Victor Studios in Los Angeles, with Glen Campbell playing guitar, including the lead guitar intro. The song became their twelfth US Top 40 hit, reaching No. 8; Campbell later toured with the band from December 1964 into early March 1965.
- The Beach Boys reached another U.S. Top 10 position with “When I Grow Up (To Be a Man).”
- The Beach Boys released “Surfer Girl,” written and produced by Brian Wilson, who regarded it as his first original composition.
- The Beach Boys released the single “Surfer Girl”, which later reached No. 7 in the US. It was the first song written by Brian Wilson and the first recording he produced himself. The B-side, “Little Deuce Coupe”, reached No. 15 in the US.
- Billboard reported on the growing trend of hot-rod songs replacing surf songs. “Little Deuce Coupe” by The Beach Boys was at number 15 on the Billboard chart. Capitol Records supplied disc jockeys and retailers with a special glossary of terms used in hot-rod culture because of regional differences in automotive slang.
- The Beach Boys released their fourth album Little Deuce Coupe on Capitol Records. The album reached No. 4 on the Billboard chart and spent 46 weeks on the chart, later receiving RIAA platinum certification. It was among the first rock concept albums devoted entirely to automobiles. The cover featured a 1932 Ford Coupe, photographed for the album by Hot Rod magazine.
- The Beach Boys’ album “Today!” was released in the United Kingdom.
- “California Girls” reached No. 3 on the US singles chart and later reached No. 26 in the UK. The music for the song was written during Brian Wilson’s first experience with LSD. Wilson recorded the vocals using Columbia’s new eight-track recorder, which allowed Mike Love’s lead vocal to be triple-tracked. “California Girls” was also the first Beach Boys recording to feature Bruce Johnston’s vocals.
- The Beach Boys released the album Surfin' Safari in the US around this time.
- The Beach Boys released their debut album, “Surfin’ Safari”, on Capitol Records. The album also included their first single, “Surfin’”, and reached No. 32 on the US chart.
- “God Only Knows” by The Beach Boys reached No. 2 on the UK singles chart. The song was among the first commercial recordings to feature the word “God” in the title and was groundbreaking in many ways. Capitol Records feared a reaction from US radio programmers, so in the USA it placed the song on the B-side of the single “Wouldn't It Be Nice”, while in the UK it was accepted as the A-side. Brian Wilson used a range of unusual instruments during the recording, including French horns.
- The Beach Boys released "Good Vibrations," described by the source as the most expensive 45 ever produced.