[Mark Yacavone]

This one might sound vaguely familiar to the old geezers here...





You wanna know the story behind this song? And how and why Brian wrote it? On their first tour, which was by car, through Northern California, around 1962 or 1963, one of their shows was in a small town in rural, California farm country. A young girl in the audience couldn't keep her eyes off David Marks up on stage playing rhythm guitar. After the show, she introduced herself and invited David back to her family's home on her dad's farm. The next day, while cramped in the car on their way to their next show, Brian thought about David and the farmer's daughter, and wrote a song about it entirely in his head. Normally, he preferred a piano or instrument to write songs, but cramped in the car, he could only whisper the lyrics and sing the tune in his head, hearing the bass line as the lead instrument – Brian put the whole song together with his bass that night at their motel. I got that from David Marks's book, 'The Lost Beach Boy.'