I Get Around
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| "I Get Around" | ||
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| Single by The Beach Boys | ||
| from the album All Summer Long & Still Cruisin' |
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| Released | May 11, 1964 | |
| Format | Vinyl | |
| Recorded | 1964 | |
| Genre | Pop | |
| Length | 2 min 12 sec | |
| Label | Capitol Records | |
| Producer(s) | Brian Wilson | |
| Chart positions | ||
| The Beach Boys singles chronology | ||
| "Fun, Fun, Fun"/"Why Do Fools Fall In Love" (1964) |
"I Get Around"/"Don’t Worry Baby" (1964) |
"When I Grow Up (to be a man)"/"She Knows Me Too Well" (1964) |
"I Get Around" is a song written by Brian Wilson and his cousin Mike Love. The song features Brian Wilson and Mike Love on lead vocals. It was a single which was released by The Beach Boys in 1964 through Capitol Records. The B-side of the single was "Don’t Worry Baby", which itself charted at number twenty-four in the United States. It was The Beach Boys first United States number-one hit song. The single also charted at number seven in the United Kingdom, which was the bands first United Kingdom top ten hit single. The song was first released on an album on the band's 1964 release All Summer Long with Brian Wilson as the producer.
The song was later re-recorded and released on the 1989 Beach Boys album Still Cruisin'. The song also frequently appears on many of the groups Greatest Hits compilations. The backing track of the song was released on the 1993 five disc boxed set Good Vibrations: Thirty Years of The Beach Boys, although it was a re-recorded backing track, which had to be cut for the bands 1964 live album Beach Boys Concert, and thus it is not the original backing track which was much more complex.
[edit] Live versions
After the song became the band's first United States number one hit song, it immediately became a regular in The Beach Boys live set. Several live renditions of the song have been officially released on various Beach Boys releases. It was first released on their first live album Beach Boys Concert in 1964. In 1980, a live rendition was recorded, though not released until 2002 on the Good Timin': Live at Knebworth England 1980 live album.
| Preceded by "A World Without Love" by Peter & Gordon |
Billboard Hot 100 number one single July 4, 1964 |
Succeeded by "Rag Doll" by The Four Seasons |
[edit] See also
| All Summer Long Track Listing |
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| I Get Around | All Summer Long | Hushabye | Little Honda | We'll Run Away Carl's Big Chance | Wendy | Do You Remember? | Girls On The Beach | Drive-In Our Favorite Recording Sessions | Don't Back Down |
