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Fun, Fun, Fun

Composer Brian Wilson/Mike Love

Leadvocals Mike

Running Time 2:01

Recording Date 1.1.64

Single Release Date 3.2.64 (Capitol 5118)

Highest Charting Position and Date 15.2.64 #5

Working Title

Additional Infos Brian: The Beatles invasion shook me up an awfully lot... They eclipsed a lot of what we'd worked for...eclipsed the whole music world. Michael and I got together and had a meeting, and we talked it over. We were very threatened by the whole thing." The Beach Boys supremacy as the number one vocal group in America was being challenged. And the group's first response was one of the most electrifying records in rock history, "Fun, Fun, Fun", which hit the charts just a week after the Beatles touched down on American soil.
It was no accident that Beach Boys records have always sounded so good on the radio. Engineer Chuck Britz explains: Airplay was where the money was," so to find out in the studio how a record would sound on the radio, they would listen to a potential single "on a little cheap eight inch speaker I had. In fact, because I knew what it sounded like, we would dub down it a lot of times." To this day, the car radio test is used by record producers, although naturally, today's car radios sound a little bit better.

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Fun, Fun, Fun
Composer	Brian Wilson/Mike Love
Leadvocals	Mike
Running Time	2:01
Recording Date	1.1.64
Single Release Date	3.2.64 (Capitol 5118)
Highest Charting Position and Date	15.2.64 #5
Working Title
Additional Infos	Brian: The Beatles invasion shook me up an awfully lot... They eclipsed a lot of what we'd worked for...eclipsed the whole music world. Michael and I got together and had a meeting, and we talked it over. We were very threatened by the whole thing." The Beach Boys supremacy as the number one vocal group in America was being challenged. And the group's first response was one of the most electrifying records in rock history, "Fun, Fun, Fun", which hit the charts just a week after the Beatles touched down on American soil. It was no accident that Beach Boys records have always sounded so good on the radio. Engineer Chuck Britz explains: Airplay was where the money was," so to find out in the studio how a record would sound on the radio, they would listen to a potential single "on a little cheap eight inch speaker I had. In fact, because I knew what it sounded like, we would dub down it a lot of times." To this day, the car radio test is used by record producers, although naturally, today's car radios sound a little bit better.