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The Beach Boys - In My Room

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Album: Surfer Girl
Released: 1963

In My Room Lyrics

There's a world where I can go
And tell my secrets to
In My Room
In my room

In this world I lock out
All my worries and my fears
In my room
In my room

Do my dreaming and my scheming lie awake and pray
Do my crying and my sighing laugh at yesterday

Now it's dark and I'm alone
But I won't be afraid
In my room
In my room

Writer/s: THORPE, BILLY
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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In My Room

This is written from the perspective of a teenager who feels safe and comfortable in his bedroom. Brian Wilson suffered from severe agoraphobia, and refused to leave his bedroom for a significant amount of time. He wrote this song to give people and idea of how he felt.

Brian Wilson explained in 1990: "When Dennis, Carl and I lived in Hawthorne as kids, we all slept in the same room. One night I sang the song 'Ivory Tower' to them and they liked it. Then a couple of weeks later, I proceeded to teach them both how to sing the harmony parts to it. It took them a little while, but they finally learned it. We then sang this song night after night. It brought peace to us. When we recorded 'In My Room,' there was just Dennis, Carl and me on the first verse... and we sounded just like we did in our bedroom all those nights. This story has more meaning than ever since Dennis' death."

Charles Manson, who was convicted of orchestrating the murders of six people in 1969, made repeated claims that The Beach Boys stole this song from him. In Manson's view, he wrote a song called "In My Cell" which was about how he feels peace with himself in his jail cell. Manson did have a connection to The Beach Boys - he knew their drummer Dennis Wilson - and did write and record some songs. His claims have little basis in fact - something that is true of most of his proclamations.

Linda Ronstadt and Tammy Wynette both covered this song.

Bill Medley from The Righteous Brothers recorded this with Phil Everly and Brian Wilson for his album Damn Near Righteous, his first new album since the untimely 2003 death of his partner Bobby Hatfield. (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)

Interesting food for thought: Brian Wilson just might have inadvertently inspired one of the greatest Jazz fusion bands, Blood Sweat & Tears, albeit indirectly. Al Kooper relates in Backstage Passes and Backstabbing Bastards that he was sitting in Brian Wilson's living room while he showed off the Pet Sounds album. He was just leaving The Blues Project and wandering around California in an existential haze wondering what to do next, when while visiting with Brian Wilson, "Deep in the back of my mind was a band that could put dents in your shirt if you got within fifteen rows of the stage..." He explains his idea of having a band with a horn section in it, more than R&B bands but less than Count Basie's or Buddy Rich's. "Somewhere in the middle was a mixture of soul, jazz, and rock that was my little fantasy."

This was released as the B-side of "Be True To Your School."

The Beach Boys - Little Deuce Coupe

The Beach Boys - Little Deuce Coupe Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Surfer Girl
Released: 1963

Little Deuce Coupe Lyrics

Little Deuce Coupe
You don't know what I got
Little deuce Coupe
You don't know what I got

Well I'm not braggin' babe so don't put me down
But I've got the fastest set of wheels in town
When something comes up to me he don't even try
Cause if I had a set of wings man I know she could fly
She's my little deuce coupe
You don't know what I got
(My little deuce coupe)
(You don't know what I got)

Just a little deuce coupe with a flat head mill
But she'll walk a Thunderbird like (she's) it's standin' still
She's ported and relieved and she's stroked and bored.
She'll do a hundred and forty with the top end floored
She's my little deuce coupe
You don't know what I got
(My little deuce coupe)
(You don't know what I got)

She's got a competition clutch with the four on the floor
And she purrs like a kitten till the lake pipes roar
And if that ain't enough to make you flip your lid
There's one more thing, I got the pink slip daddy

And comin' off the line when the light turns green
Well she blows 'em outta the water like you never seen
I get pushed out of shape and it's hard to steer
When I get rubber in all four gears

She's my little deuce coupe
You don't know what I got
(My little deuce coupe)
(You don't know what I got)
She's my little deuce coupe
You don't know what I got
(My little deuce coupe)
(You don't know what I got)
She's my little deuce coupe
You don't know what I got

Writer/s: CHRISTIAN, ROGER VAL / WILSON, BRIAN DOUGLAS
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Little Deuce Coupe

This is one of the street drag-racing tales that were popular in mid 1960s in Southern California. The lyrics make more sense if you're into cars. The mechanical parts mentioned are all actual automotive parts or technology, including the "flat head mill" (engine) and the "lake pipes" (which are long chromed exhaust pipes that run along the rocker panel). One artistic stretch is the vision of an old Ford Model A reaching 140 mph - the shape has too much air drag to reach that speed, unless you tow it behind a DC-10 jet. (thanks, Chris - Thornhurst, PA)

A deuce is a car produced by Ford in 1932 (the "2" in 1932 is the "deuce"). Most of them had big V8 engines and were popular for drag racing. They weren't just coupes - they also came as roadsters and sedans. Here's a visual and more info on the Little Deuce Coupe .

This was the first song Brian Wilson wrote with Roger Christian, who was a California DJ with an affinity for cars. Wilson was a wizard in the studio and very good with composition, but when it came to writing lyrics that would appeal to the youth of America, he needed some help. Roger Christian, and also Wilson's early writing partner Gary Usher, gave him an insight into the California culture of surfing and cars that helped make the songs authentic. Roger Christian went on to write more car-inspired Beach Boys songs, including "Car Crazy Cutie" and "Cherry, Cherry Coupe," and he also helped write "Dead Man's Curve" for Jan & Dean.

Mike Love sang lead on this track.

The line at the end of the song, "There's one more thing, I got the pink slip daddy," means that the singer won a race with his Little Deuce Coupe, earning him his opponent's car. The "pink slip" is the vehicle's registration, so "racing for pink slips" means the winner gets the other car.

Session drummer Hal Blaine played on this. He played on many hit songs, including The Beach Boys' "Fun Fun Fun" and "Surfin' Safari." It was one of the first songs that Brian Wilson used session musicians on, replacing his brother Dennis on drums. (thanks, Neil - raleigh, NC)