Fun, Fun, Fun

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"Fun, Fun, Fun"

Single by The Beach Boys
from the album Shut Down Volume 2
Released	February 3, 1964
Format	Vinyl
Recorded	Unknown
Genre	Pop
Length	4 min 10 sec for both songs
Label	Capitol Records
Producer(s)	Brian Wilson
Chart positions
• #5 (US)
The Beach Boys singles chronology
"Little Saint Nick"/"The Lord's Prayer" (1963)	"Fun, Fun, Fun"/"Why Do Fools Fall In Love" (1964)	"I Get Around"/"Don't Worry Baby" (1964)

Fun, Fun, Fun was a hit song released in 1964 by the Beach Boys.

This was written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love about Shirley England, the daughter of the owner of radio station KNAK in Delta, Utah where she worked as a teenager. She borrowed her father's Ford Thunderbird to go study at the library. Instead of driving to the library, she ended up at a hamburger stand. When her father found out he took the car away. The next day she was at the radio station complaining about it to the staff while the Beach Boys were visiting and they were inspired to write this song.

The Wilsons' father, Murry, always the critical conservative, denounced the whole idea for the song as immoral, and tried to prevent the group from recording it. The song, backed by a single-only mix of a cover version of Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers' "Why Do Fools Fall In Love", became a top-five hit. This argument set the seed for further deterioration in the family. It finally led to Murry being sacked as Beach Boys manager a few months later when "I Get Around" was about to become the first number-one single for the Beach Boys.

The song was covered in 1996 by the then-current lineups of The Beach Boys and Status Quo (see Don't Stop), with a new verse written for the song. The Beach Boys sang mainly backing vocals, with Status Quo's Francis Rossi performing the lead vocal for the entire song, except the new verse, which was sung by Mike Love.

The opening electric guitar introduction of the song was lifted directly from Chuck Berry's Johnny B. Goode, released in 1958.