The Little Girl I Once Knew

The Little Girl I Once Knew

Infobox Single
Name = The Little Girl I Once Knew


Artist = The Beach Boys
from Album =
Released = November 8, 1965
Format = Vinyl
Recorded = Late Fall, 1965
Genre = Pop
Length = 2:35
Label = Capitol Records
Producer = Brian Wilson
Chart position = • #20 (US)
Reviews =
Last single = "California Girls"/"Let Him Run Wild"
(1965)
This single = "The Little Girl I Once Knew"/"There's No Other (Like My Baby)"
(1965)
Next single = "Barbara Ann"/"Girl Don't Tell Me"
(1965)|

"The Little Girl I Once Knew" is a song written by Brian Wilson for the American pop band The Beach Boys. It was released in November 1965 as a single 45 rpm, backed by "There's No Other (Like My Baby)", and reached #15 on the Cashbox chart, #20 on Billboard. The last new original song the group produced before the album "Pet Sounds", it was not included on any regular Beach Boys album, but has since been collected on several anthologies (its first LP appearance being Volume 3 of the group's "Best Of" series) and as a bonus track on reissues of "Summer Days (and Summer Nights!!).

The song is notable for innovative use of two dramatic periods of near-silence lasting several seconds each. Although one of the Beach Boys' most exuberant songs, it was poorly received by radio stations preferring to avoid dead air time, which may account for its relatively low chart rating among their other singles of the period, including "California Girls" and "Barbara Ann". It is still rarely heard on oldies radio.

Capitol Records' rushed release of Barbara Ann in December ruined any chance LGIOK had of continuing up the charts. Just after its release, John Lennon gave it a favorable review; another what-if for the Beach Boys.

Structurally, this song is one of Brian Wilson's greatest songwriting achievments for a 'pre-Pet Sounds' era composition. Although the lyrics may seem overly superficial, musically it shows the best of what the Beach Boys were able to do in a pop song single, incorporating incredible tags, dead stop timing breaks, repeating killer guitar hooks, lush choral arrangements, etc.


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