In My Room

"In My Room"
Single by the Beach Boys
from the album Surfer Girl
A-side"Be True to Your School"
ReleasedOctober 28, 1963[1]
RecordedJuly 16, 1963
Genre
Length2:11
LabelCapitol
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Brian Wilson
The Beach Boys singles chronology
"Surfer Girl"
(1963)
"In My Room"
(1963)
"Little Saint Nick"
(1963)

"In My Room" is a song written by Brian Wilson and Gary Usher for the American rock band the Beach Boys. It was released on their 1963 album Surfer Girl. It was also released as the B-side of the "Be True to Your School" single. The single peaked at number 23 in the U.S. (the A-side peaked at number 6, for a two-sided top-40) and was eventually inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999. "In My Room" was ranked number 212 on Rolling Stone's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.[3]

  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. p. 42
  2. ^ "500 Greatest Songs of All Time". Rolling Stone. April 7, 2011.
  3. ^ "The RS 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 2017-08-09. Retrieved 2013-02-17.