Please Let Me Wonder

"Please Let Me Wonder"
Single by the Beach Boys
from the album The Beach Boys Today!
A-side"Do You Wanna Dance?"
ReleasedFebruary 15, 1965
RecordedJanuary 7–9, 1965
StudioWestern, Hollywood
GenrePop[1]
Length2:45
LabelCapitol
Songwriter(s)Brian Wilson, Mike Love
Producer(s)Brian Wilson
The Beach Boys singles chronology
"The Man with All the Toys"
(1964)
"Please Let Me Wonder"
(1965)
"Help Me, Rhonda"
(1965)

"Please Let Me Wonder" is a song by the American rock band the Beach Boys from their 1965 album The Beach Boys Today!. Written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love, it was the first song Wilson wrote under the influence of marijuana. The lyrics are about a man who does not know if a girl loves him and is afraid of learning the answer, and so he prefers to fantasize that she does. On February 15, the song was issued as the B-side to their "Do You Wanna Dance?" single before the album's release.

  1. ^ Fine, Jason (2004). "The Beach Boys". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. pp. 46–49. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.