The Beach Boys

Songwriter: Mike Love Terry Melcher

Producer: Terry Melcher

Gotta get a ticket cause I really gotta go
There's a party goin' down at the rock 'n' roll show
Baby get ready if you really wanna go
Now everybody's goin' to the rock 'n' roll show

I saw some surfer girls in west L.A
And right away it got me thinkin' 'bout my high school days
Well I was always kinda shy you know I never learned to dance
And I remember bein' nervous I was scared to take a chance
And it happened it was lookin' through my mamma's things
I found some rock and roll records and I learned to sing!

Rock 'n' roll to the rescue
Rock 'n' roll to the rescue
Rock to the rescue
I said it rescued me
And it'll rescue you

Now believe it when I tell ya that I never felt alive
Not 'til the night I started rockin' to my mamma's 45's
Well it was one for the money now and two for the show
Baby you better get a'ready now and go cat go!
Yeah the long tall Sally got me boppin' 'round the room
She sing be bop wadda loo bop a-whop bam boom

Rock 'n' roll to the rescue
Rock 'n' roll to the rescue
Rock to the rescue
I said it rescued me
And it'll rescue you

So we got a band together now we're really quite the rage
Oh how I lose my inhibitions when I move across the stage
We're the hottest ticket goin' what a fantasy flight
They tell me fifty thousand people come to see us every night

Rock 'n' roll to the rescue
Rock 'n' roll to the rescue
Rock to the rescue
I said it rescued me
And it'll rescue you

Gotta get a ticket cause I really gotta go
There's a party goin' down at the rock 'n' roll show
Baby get ready if you really wanna go
Now everybody's goin' to the rock 'n' roll show

The Beach Boys are one of the world’s best-selling bands of all time and the first American pop band to reach the 50-year milestone. Their vocal harmonies are among the most unmistakable and enduring of the rock and roll era.

Formed in 1961 in Hawthorne, California, by Brian Wilson, his two brothers Carl and Dennis, their cousin Mike Love, and classmate Al Jardine, the group’s first single “Surfin'” got them signed to Capitol Records and they quickly became one of the most popular and successful artists of the surf music craze of the 1960s. From 1962 to 1966, The Beach Boys scored over twenty top 40 hits in the US including the chart-toppers “I Get Around”, “Help Me Rhonda” & “Good Vibrations” along with the top 5’s “Surfin USA”, “Fun, Fun, Fun”, “California Girls”, “Barbara Ann” & “Sloop John B”. Several of the band’s singles also found top 40 success in Canada, Australia, Sweden and the UK. In 1965, de facto leader Brian Wilson suffered a mental breakdown due to the stress of writing, producing & touring combined with substance abuse issues, causing him to step down and stop traveling with the band on tour.

Inspired by producer Phil Spector and The Beatles' Rubber Soul, Brian focused on studio work, determined to keep the group relevant as the surf music scene was fading with their 1966 album Pet Sounds. Despite tension between members in the studio about this new direction, lack of faith from the record label, mixed reviews, and comparatively lukewarm reception initially in the US, the album still found massive success in the UK and earned accolades from fellow artists including The Beatles, who acknowledged that the album was their inspiration to further push the boundaries of pop music with their landmark album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Eventually Pet Sounds would be acknowledged as one of the greatest albums ever recorded by several media outlets like The Times, Mojo Magazine, The Guardian, VH1, BBC and Rolling Stone.

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