Beach Boys Chuck Berry

Chuck berry was rock s greatest practitioner guitarist and the.

Beach boys chuck berry. It is a rewritten version of berry s sweet little sixteen set to new lyrics penned by wilson and an uncredited mike love. Surfin u s a is a song by the american rock band the beach boys credited to chuck berry and brian wilson. Wilson thought that s just what he d done when he wrote and the beach boys recorded one of its signature early hits surfin u s a which went to no. But 1958 s sweet little sixteen set beach boys composer brian wilson into.

The 1963 hit single listed beach boy brian wilson as the sole composer of the track but the melody was a complete replication of chuck berry s sweet little sixteen. The beach boys the beach boys hit song surfin u s a is set to the melody of chuck berry s sweet little sixteen but chuck berry had never given the beach boys permission to use his song. The song itself is written in the chuck berry style though it doesn t rip off any particular song otherwise. One surfin usa was so similar to berry s sweet little sixteen that berry.

3 on the billboard hot 100 singles chart in. It was then placed as the opening track on their album of the same name. The california boys often incorporated rock roll pioneer chuck berry s songs into their early concerts. Since chuck berry king of rock n roll died at age 90 on saturday tributes have poured in from the biggest names in music.

The song was released as a single on march 4 1963 backed with shut down. Not all of the beach boys early songs were so inspired by chuck berry but several of them were.