This was the first album by the group for which Brian Wilson was given sole production credit. I was nineteen years old. "Surfer Girl" is played in 12/8 time.The instrumental track as well as the vocals for the officially released version were recorded on June 12, 1963 at Western Recorders, located at 6000 Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood.The "Surfer Girl" single backed with "Little Deuce Coupe" was released under Capitol Records in the United States on July 22, 1963. "Surfer Girl" is a song written, produced and sung by Brian Wilson for American rock band the Beach Boys. I was actually driving to a hot dog stand, and I actually created a melody in my head without being able to hear it on a piano. And I put myself to the test in my car one day. Years later, in May 2003, the song was released on an EP under Capitol Records along with "In Australia the single peaked at number 8 on the charts in October 1963 and thus became the band's second top 10 hit in Australia. When I got home that day, I finished the song, wrote the bridge, put the harmonies together and called it ‘Surfer Girl’.” The B-side of the single was "Little Deuce Coupe". The single entered the In 1969 the World Pacific Studios sessions recording of the song was issued on Era Records as a single with another artist on the B-side, thus seeing the first official release of the early Surfer Girl recording. It was released as a single and it then appeared on the 1963 album of the same name, Surfer Girl. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. The single was the first Beach Boys record to have Wilson officially credited as the producer. In the UK, it was released in early 1967 and reached number 13. The band first recorded the song at World Pacific Studios on February 8, 1962 which was one of the band's first ever recording sessions. Surfer Girl The song was first released on an album in 1963 on the band's The early World Pacific Studios recordings of the song were eventually released on CD in 1991 on the archival release The first live version of the song to be released was on the band's 1973 live album The band performed a live version of the song at the NBC Television Studios in Brian Wilson released a live version of the song on his 2000 live album Covach, John (2005), "Form in Rock Music: A Primer", in Stein, Deborah, Surfer Girl Lyrics: Little surfer, little one / Made my heart come all undone / Do you love me, do you, surfer girl? Brian explained the genesis of the song: “Back in 1961, I’d never written a song in my life. / Surfer girl, my little surfer girl / I have watched you on the shore / Standing I sang it to myself; I didn’t even sing it out loud in the car. The single however failed to make any impact on the charts. Surfer Girl is the third album by the American rock band the Beach Boys, released September 16, 1963 on Capitol Records.The album reached number 7 in the US during a chart stay of 56 weeks. However, the recordings from that session, engineered by Hite Morgan, would ultimately remain unreleased until later archival releases.