California Girls

July 5, 1965

California Girls is a song by the Beach Boys from the year 1965. It appeared on the studio album Summer Days ( And Summer Nights! ).

History

California Girls was written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love. Wilson had the song idea during an LSD trips. He managed to get to the piano, where he thought of the music of cowboy movies:

" I was thinking about the music from cowboy movies. And I sat down and started playing it, bum - buhdeeda, bum - buhdeeda. I did that for about an hour. I got thesis chords going. Then I got this melody, it came pretty nearly after that. And the rest was history, right? "

"I thought of the music in cowboy films. I sat down [ at the piano ] and began to play: bum - buhdeeda, bum - buhdeeda. I did that for about an hour. At first I had these chords. Then I remembered the melody and the other subsequently developed very quickly. The rest is now history, is not it? "

It was the first recording of the Beach Boys with additional vocals by Bruce Johnston, who joined the band to replace Wilson on tours. The song reached # 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 A later posted to a music video showed the band on a sort of scaffold full of dancing women playing.

Further use

David Lee Roth coverte the song in 1985 and also reached No. 3 on the charts in the U.S..

The song was quoted in Katy Perry's California Gurls - but the Beach Boys waived despite the initial measures introduced by the labels Rondor Music, which holds the rights to the song, to claims against Perry because of quote.