Barbara Ann

Yeah.

Um, and they had the, they had m- my wife and kids come out and dance on Barbara Ann, which was so funny because, uh, my wife was, like, mortified to get out on stage [laughs] and dance.

Sure.

Yeah.

I'm talking about the last probably 10 years.

When I was informed that this song is Barbara Ann.

Oh.

My whole life I just thought it was ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-Baran.

Like it was just like nonsense, like beat bop, like lyrics.

I had no idea they were saying the name Barbara Ann.

How old were you? I was probably like 30-something.

Okay, so I think I was probably in my mid to late 20s when I learned it too.

you're it feels like you're like a little you're in your own little story scape when you hear it and it's so good and what's different about it than the other like doo-wops is the other doo-wops always felt like so structured and so like on this one kind of gets a little uh kind of goes off the rails a little bit comes back on the

rails it's kind of like when you listen to barbara ann by the beach boys compared to the rest of their catalog right like You listen to that song and they're like laughing and like you can tell that it's just five dudes in a studio just having fun and like they're like fucking up in parts and that's like it feels loose like anybody could do it.

I think that this song always gives me great summer vibes which is why it makes sense that it peaked at number one on December 23rd.

Not 1961.

Totally, and y- I mean, you just called exactly where I'm going next because even into the 1960s and '70s, some of the biggest hits were predicated on really stunning vocal harmonies, and I think The Beach Boys is just, like, a crystalline example of that.

Take their 1965 track Barbara Ann, for example.

example.... [singing]

Throughout the '60s and '70s, right, from Motown to the Brill Building, uh, to Nashville, Dolly Parton, everyone is doing vocal harmonies, even into the '70s, right? We started this episode listening to Fleetwood Mac, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.

... we haven't played that, any Yellow songs, but she is really into music.

I think I did share with you and the broader team the other day, her f- absolute favorite song right now is Barbara Ann by The Beach Boys.

Oh, I, I love that song.

So, 'cause she's into a lot of the B words, so book, ball, block-

So whenever we're in the kitchen, she looks at it and she goes, "Ba, ba." And she's-

[laughs]

... specifically asking for us to play Barbara Ann.

So we listen-