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Dean Torrence (Jan And Dean] : I think Jan commissioned Them (Brian Wilson and Roger Christian) to write it. We knew that we wanted to do a skateboard song and we were trying to come up with something. I was kind of a skateboard enthusiast, so I knew the terminology and was working on the words. Jan was working on the tune. And we just couldn't find anything that was any good.
Brian's Catch A Wave had stuck in Jan's mind and it was never released as a single, so he called up Brian and said we were trying to write a skateboarding song. We asked if we could use the melody to Catch A Wave. Brian said, 'Sure,' so we handed the terminology o Brian and Roger to finish it.
The skateboard sound effect we used was a real good one because you can really hear the board hopping onto the pavement. We did it right outside Western Studios, a good enough sidewalk.
(Source : Steve Kolanjian's sleve notes to the 1990 CD compilation Surf City
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Brian's Catch A Wave had stuck in Jan's mind and it was never released as a single, so he called up Brian and said we were trying to write a skateboarding song. We asked if we could use the melody to Catch A Wave. Brian said, 'Sure,' so we handed the terminology o Brian and Roger to finish it.
The skateboard sound effect we used was a real good one because you can really hear the board hopping onto the pavement. We did it right outside Western Studios, a good enough sidewalk.
(Source : Steve Kolanjian's sleve notes to the 1990 CD compilation Surf City