Please Let Me Wonder

"Please Let Me Wonder"
Single by The Beach Boys
from the album Today!
A-side "Do You Wanna Dance?"
Released February 15, 1965 [1]
Format Vinyl
Recorded January 7 & January 9, 1965
Genre Folk rock[2]
Length 2:45
Label Capitol
Writer(s) Brian Wilson, Mike Love
Producer Brian Wilson
The Beach Boys singles chronology
"The Man with All the Toys"
(1964)		 "Do You Wanna Dance?"
(1965)		 "Help Me, Rhonda"
(1965)
Today! track listing

"Please Let Me Wonder" is a song written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love for American rock band The Beach Boys.The song was the B-side of the single "Do You Wanna Dance?" which was released by The Beach Boys in 1965 through Capitol Records.

Information

It has been said that "Please Let Me Wonder" was the very first song that Brian Wilson wrote under the influence of marijuana. The song was first released on the band's 1965 album Today!. As a B-side, it peaked at a number 52 in Billboard and number 46 in Cash Box. The contemporary Gilbert Youth Survey conducted nationally in April 1965 placed this song at number 9 in its chart one week. Due to the lyrics, which are filled with a sense of longing and uncertainty, it is, in a sense, a contrasting piece to Wilson's "When I Grow Up (To Be a Man)".

Musicians

Cover versions

See also

References

  1. ^ Badman, Keith. The Beach Boys. The Definitive Diary of America's Greatest Band: On Stage and in the Studio Backbeat Books, San Francisco, California, 2004. ISBN 0-87930-818-4 p. 84
  2. ^ "Matthew Greenwald review". http://www.allmusic.com/song/please-let-me-wonder-t14595756. 
Today! track listing