Begun as a vocal harmony group, the Beach Boys famously became something more, as Brian experimented with studio technology, sonic textures, and drugs. It’s slightly more than 50 years now since the group recorded its debut single, “Surfin’,” written by Love and Brian Wilson for a small label called Candix Records. One voice short of the four necessary to fit the model, they enlisted their cousin Mike Love to join them, and beefed up the band with Brian’s schoolmate Al Jardine, who could play the guitar and the bass. Close quarters fed close harmony, and Brian, Carl, and Dennis Wilson taught themselves to emulate the sound of the pre-rock vocal groups-the Four Freshman and the Hi-Lo’s, in particular. A few years before the Beach Boys made their first record, the three brothers who formed the original core of the group sang together in the bedroom they shared in a tract home in suburban Southern California.
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