History Music / SurfinSafari

''Surfin' Safari'' was recorded after Capitol Records' executive producer Nik Venet saw potential in the band and considered it "teenage gold". While Nik was the album's producer (as well as Murry who produced ''409'' and ''Surfin' Safari''), biographers would recall that Brian (who co-wrote a majority of the songs along with Mike and Gary Usher) had a major involvement in the album's recording. Themes include surfing, [[CarSong hot-rod]], girls, and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers hands or tails]]. Brian wanted to write about novelty subjects on top of surfing.

* ProductPlacement: Chevrolet's "409" gets a nice promotion as a Beach Boys which would turn out to become a classic concert staple for the band.

* TwelveBarBlues: "409".

''Surfin' Safari'' was recorded after Capitol Records' executive producer Nik Venet saw potential in the band and considered it "teenage gold". While Nik was the album's producer (as well as Murry who produced ''409'' and ''Surfin' Safari''), biographers would recall that Brian (who co-wrote a majority of the songs along with Mike and Gary Usher) had a major involvement in the album's recording. Themes include surfing, [[CarSong hot-rod]], girls, and hands or tails. Brian wanted to write about novel subjects on top of surfing.

* Music/David
Marks - rhythm Guitar

* David Marks - rhythm Guitar

''Surfin Safari'' is the first album released by Music/TheBeachBoys back in 1962. This album came out after the californian band's first single ''Surfin' '' which was the first step in establishing the surfing music they would be known for (among other themes related to California and the US as a whole).

Following the release of ''Surfin' '', Murry Wilson (father of 3 members [[Music/BrianWilson Brian]], [[Music/DennisWilson Dennis]] and Carl, and uncle of lead singer Music/MikeLove) took on his role as the band's manager/producer/publisher. Founding member and family friend Al Jardine left the band in order to study dentistry, which left a seat available for another family friend, David Marks, to take rhythm guitar duties and become a Beach Boy. Touring across the US ensued.

* Al Jardine - double-bass
* Mike Love - lead vocals, saxophone

* Carl Wilson - lead vocals, guitar

Following the release of ''Surfin' '', Murry Wilson (father of 3 members [[Music/BrianWilson Brian]], [[Music/DennisWilson Dennis]] and Carl, and uncle of lead singer Mike Love) took on his role as the band's manager/producer/publisher. Founding member and family friend Al Jardine left the band in order to study dentistry, which left a seat available for another family friend, David Marks, to take rhythm guitar duties and become a Beach Boy. Touring across the US ensued.

* CarSong: ''409''.
* CoverVersion: ''Summertime Blues'' (by Eddie Cochran) and ''Little Girl (You're My Miss America)'' (by Dante & His Friends).
** While ''Ten Little Indians'' is written by Brian and his friend Gary Usher, it is based on the children's rhyme of the same name.
* CoversAlwaysLie: It is known among Beach Boys fans that Dennis was the only Beach Boy who actually practiced surfing (and was an inspiration for the song ''Surfin' ''). Seeing Brian and Mike holding the surfing board (especially Brian who had some sort of phobia about the ocean) is the biggest hypocrisy here.
* DemotedToExtra: Al Jardine only plays double-bass on ''Surfin' ''. Since he left the band after that song's recording, he is not featured on the rest of the album (and wouldn't come back until a year later on ''Shut Down Volume 2''.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: It's pretty much assumed that the whole band didn't have a professional sound yet. Aside from Brian who was a musically gifted prodigy, his brother Dennis was an average drummer who could pull out an effort if he felt like it. David was only 14 and did minimum guitar and Mike, whose only instrument was the saxophone, did little practice on it. ''Surfin' '' (which is also the very first track they recorded) is an obvious example of that.

* FixingTheGame: ''Heads You Win - Tails I Lose'':

* HollywoodNatives: ''Ten Little Indians'' didn't age well with its lyrics referencing typical native american stereotypes.
* [[{{Instrumentals}} Instrumental]]: ''Moon Dawg''.

* SpokenWordInMusic: ''County Fair'' has county fair barker and a girlfriend speaking during an interlude and through the outro.
* StepUpToTheMicrophone: Dennis sings lead on ''Little Girl'' while Carl (and what could possibly be Nik Venet) sing on ''Summertime Blues''.
* TwelveBarBlues: ''409''.

** While ''Ten Little Indians'' is written by Brian and his friend Gary Usher, it is based on the children's rhyme of the same name.

While ''Surfin' Safari'' remains historically important as the first LP in their career, deeper discussion about the album is rare. Aside from concert staples like ''409'', the band would not revisit other songs as often.

-->-- ''Opening lyric of Surfin' ''

Following the release of ''Surfin' '', Murry Wilson (father of 3 members [[Music/BrianWilson Brian]], [[Music/DennisWilson Dennis]] and Carl, and uncle of lead singer Mike Love) took on his role as the band's manager/producer. Founding member and family friend Al Jardine left the band in order to study dentistry, which left a seat available for another family friend, David Marks, to take rhythm guitar duties and become a Beach Boy. Touring across the US ensued.

Following the release of ''Surfin' '', Murry Wilson (father of 3 members [[Music/BrianWilson Brian]], [[Music/DennisWilson Dennis]] and Carl, and uncle of lead singer Mike Love) took on his role as the band's manager/producer/manager. Founding member and family friend Al Jardine left the band in order to study dentistry, which left a seat available for another family friend, David Marks, to take rhythm guitar duties and become a Beach Boy. Touring across the US ensued.

''Surfin' Safari'' was recorded after Capitol's executive producer Nik Venet saw potential in the band and considered it "teenage gold". While Nik was the album's producer (as well as Murry who produced ''409'' and ''Surfin' Safari''), biographers would recall that Brian (who co-wrote a majority of the songs along with Mike and Gary Usher) had a major involvement in the album's recording. Themes include surfing, [[CarSong hot-rod]], girls, and hands or tails. Brian wanted to write about novel subjects on top of surfing.

* [[spoiler: DownerEnding: ''County Fair is about a guy who wants to earn a prize for his girlfriend at a county fair. He doesn't win anything and her girlfriend goes away with a stronger guy.]]

''Surfin Safari'' is the first album released by Music/TheBeachBoys back in 1962. This album follows the californian band's first single ''Surfin' '' which was the first step in their establishement of the surfing music they would be known for (among other themes related to California and the US as a whole).

Following the release of ''Surfin' '', Murry Wilson (manager/father of 3 members [[Music/BrianWilson Brian]], [[Music/DennisWilson Dennis]] and Carl, and uncle of lead singer Mike Love) would go on to convince Capitol Records at securing a record deal with the band. Founding member and family friend Al Jardine left the band in order to study dentistry, which left a seat available for another family friend, David Marks, to take rhythm guitar duties and become a Beach Boy. Touring across the US ensued.

''Surfin' Safari'' was recorded after Capitol's executive producer Nik Venet saw potential in the band and considered it "teenage gold". While Nik was the album's producer (as well as Murry who produced ''409''), biographers would recall that Brian (who co-wrote a majority of the songs along with Mike and Gary Usher) had a major involvement in the album's recording. Themes include surfing, [[CarSong hot-rod]], girls, and hands or tails. Brian wanted to write about novel subjects on top of surfing.