The Beach Boys Medley/ God Only Knows

This well crafted medley of Beach Boys hits uses nothing but the original Mono recordings, yet manages to string together a seamless dance number from excerpts of "Good Vibrations," "Help Me Rhonda," "I Get Around," "Shut Down," "Surfin' Safari," "Barbara Ann," "Surfin' USA" and "Fun, Fun, Fun." To top off the medley, some wise soul at Capitol decided that Brian Wilson's gorgeous "God Only Knows" (B side of "Wouldn't It Be Nice") deserved another run on 7-inch vinyl, slipping it onto the B side of this 1981 single. In its first life in 1966, "God Only Knows" reached #39 on Bilozoard's Hot 100 Singles chart, while its more famous sibling reached #8. By the way, in Rolling Stone's list of their Top 500 songs, "God Only Knows" is the song at #25! Finally, it's worth noting that this was a non-album single... I'm not sure if it ever made its way to CD or LP. Note: This beautiful 45 grades Near Mint across the board (Labels, Vinyl, Audio). The audio has some light underlying noise in one channel early on if you listen carefully, so Near Mint for Audio. Possible a deep cleaning would resolve. (This scan is a representative image from our archives.)