During a 2011 interview with Goldmine, Wilson discussed “Help Me, Rhonda.” “We did two versions of ‘Help Me Rhonda,'” he recalled. “We did one with the ukulele and we did one with guitars. We chose to ...
What a difference an “h” makes. When “Help Me, Ronda” was originally featured on The Beach Boys Today! in early 1965, the band didn’t think too much of the shuffling love song with the repetitive hook ...
62 years ago, the Beach Boys released “Surfin’ U.S.A.,” and it would become their first #1 hit in the United States. In the years that followed, the Hawthorne, California-born band—the late Brian ...