| "Do It Again" | ||||
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| Single by Beach Boys | ||||
| B-side | "Wake the World" | |||
| Released | July 8, 1968 | |||
| Recorded | May 26 – June 1968 | |||
| Studio | Beach Boys Studio, Los Angeles | |||
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| Length | 2:19 | |||
| Label | Capitol | |||
| Songwriter(s) | ||||
| Producer(s) | The Beach Boys | |||
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"Do It Again" is a song by the American rock band the Beach Boys that was released as a standalone single on July 8, 1968.[2][3] It was written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love as a self-conscious callback to the group's earlier surf image, which they had not embraced since 1964. Love and Wilson also share the lead vocal on the song.
The song was issued only two weeks after the release of the band's album Friends, with the album track "Wake the World" as its B-side. It reached number 20 on the United States' Billboard Hot 100 and became their second number-one hit in the UK. A slightly edited version of the song, using an excerpt from the Smile outtake "Workshop", subsequently appeared as the opening track on the Beach Boys' 1969 album 20/20.
"Do It Again" has been rerecorded once by the band (in 2011), once by Wilson as a solo artist (in 1995), and twice by Love as a solo artist (in 1996 and 2017). The song was an influence on Neil Sedaka's "Love Will Keep Us Together" (1973), Eric Carmen's "She Did It" (1977), Gary Numan's "Metal" (1979), ABBA's "On and on and On" (1980), and Hall & Oates' "Did It in a Minute" (1982).
- ^ "Do It Again – the Beach Boys | Song Info | AllMusic". AllMusic.
- ^ Rice 1982, p. 119.
- ^ Badman 2004, p. 223.