“Little Deuce Coupe” by The Beach Boys

"Little Deuce Coupe" first rode out in 1963 on the flip side of the Beach Boys' "Surfer Girl" single, then turned up on the Surfer Girl album and again as the title track of Little Deuce Coupe, and no Beach Boys B-side ever climbed higher: number 15 on the Billboard Hot 100 that September.

Brian Wilson produced it and wrote it with Roger Christian, a local radio DJ, and Mike Love sings lead. The car in question is the 1932 Ford coupe, the deuce of the title named for the year, and under the chrome the tune is a plain twelve-bar blues. It's the Beach Boys car song in its purest form, the other half, with surfing, of the teenage California dream they were selling, and before the year was out they had spun it into a Christmas number, "Little Saint Nick".

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