Today in Beach Boys History (1962): The Beach Boys perform during intermissions of screenings of Bruce Brown's film Surf Crazy over two days at the Academy Fine Arts Theatre in San Diego. According to Al Jardine, it was at these shows when "Surfer Girl" made its debut. (Jardine participated in the shows despite having quit the band - he had already agreed to do these shows before he resigned.)
We swear, we did not intend to time the release of this episode so that it lands on Brian Wilson’s birthday; we recorded this in late May and just…got hung up in post production. But here we are …click to read more