Getcha Back

Infobox Single
Name = Getcha Back/Male Ego


Artist = The Beach Boys
from Album = The Beach Boys
Released = May 8, 1985
Format = Vinyl
Recorded = Unknown
Genre = Pop music
Length = 2 min 59 sec
Label = Brother Records
Producer = Steve Levine
Chart position = • #26 (US)
Reviews =
Last single = "Come Go with Me"/"Don't Go Near the Water"
(1981)
This single = "Getcha Back"/"Male Ego"
(1985)
Next single = "It's Gettin' Late"/"It's O.K."
(1985)|

"Getcha Back" is a song written by Mike Love and Terry Melcher for the American pop band The Beach Boys. It was released on their 1985 album "The Beach Boys". It was the band's first release since the tragic drowning death of Dennis Wilson in 1983. While the song only peaked at #26 nationally, "Getcha Back" managed to recapture the sound and feel of the Beach Boys' early hits.

The music video directed by Dominic Orlando, was filmed on location in Malibu and Venice, California. (1985). It featured a then unknown Katherine Kelly Lang, who now plays Brooke Logan on "The Bold and the Beautiful".

Mark McGrath, lead singer of the California rock band Sugar Ray, performed a cover of this song for the of "", a Walt Disney Pictures movie released in 2005. It appears at the beginning, during the flashback of Herbie's racing career.

Details

*"Written by:" Mike Love/Terry Melcher
*"Album:" The Beach Boys
*"Time:" 2 min 59 sec
*"Produced by:" Steve Levine

Performers

*John Alder - guitars
*Graham Broad - percussion
*Steve Grainger - baritone saxophone
*Al Jardine - vocals
*Bruce Johnston - vocals
*Steve Levine - synth, drum programming
*Julian Lindsay - keyboards
*Mike Love - lead vocal
*Terry Melcher - keyboards
*Brian Wilson - lead vocal
*Carl Wilson - vocals

See also

*The Beach Boys
*The Beach Boys (album)
*List of songs by The Beach Boys