As a teenager, Brian was a fan of Chuck Berry’s rock music, but the closed and melted harmonies of the jazz-influenced vocal group particularly attracted four freshmen. He led his brothers to carefully entertain their songs.
By 1961, three Wilson boys were playing rock music with their cousin Mr. Love and Al Jardine’s classmates. In the band’s most familiar early lineup, Brian plays bass, Dennis plays on the drums, Carl and Jardine play guitars, and they’re all singing.
Around that time, Dennis started surfing and was delighted with stylish, stylish terms and carefree lifestyle. One day, he told Brian and Mr. Love: “You should write a song about surfing.”
They did, and that was after the rehearsal, when Wilson’s parents were not in town, the band recorded the first song “Surfin”. After a class of flannel shirts popular among Surfers, the youngsters called themselves Pendron. When they received a finished record released by local small label Candix, they discovered that they had been renamed Beach Boys.
“Surfin'” is a rough blueprint as it will become the iconic sound of Beach Boys: a simple lead line (singed by Mr. Love), accompanied by sunny homophones, Doo-wop-style spreads and basic rock beats. By then, surfing music fashion mainly involved guitar instruments, but by adding sounds, the Beach Boys created Wave Rider’s creed:
Surfing is the only way to live, the only way for me
Come now, beautiful baby, surf with me
Although Mr. Wilson accepted the youthful freedom of surfing representatives, he never participated in the sport. He once said: “I tried it once and got stuck with the board.”
