The Beach Boys

Released: May 8, 1985

Songwriter: Terry Melcher Mike Love

Producer: Steve Levine

[Intro][x2]
Bow bow bow bow oop
Ahh ooo oohh waaa oooo

[Verse 1]
The other night they were playing our song
Hadn't heard it for oh so long
Took me back darling to that time in my car
When you cried all night cause we'd gone too far

[Chorus]
Can I ever get you back
Get you back baby
Going to get you back get you back
Get you back get you back baby
Going to get you back get you back
Can I ever get you back

[Verse 2]
I'm getting tired laying around here at night
Thinking about some other guy holding you tight
He may have money and a brand new car
May even treat you like a movie star
And no matter what he ever do for you
He can never love you like I can do
So if I leave her and you leave him

[Chorus]

[Bridge]
Bow bow bow oop[x2]
(Get you back) I'll leave her
(Get you back) and you leave him
(Get you back) can we baby
(Get you back) get it back again
[x2]

[Outro]
(Get you back) I'll leave her
(Get you back) and you leave him

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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The Beach Boys (1985)
Made In U.S.A. (1986)
Good Vibrations: Thirty Years of the Beach Boys (1993)
The Best of the Beach Boys: Sounds of Summer (2003)

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