Beach Baby

Album: The First Class/The First Class SST (1974)
Charted: 13 4
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  • Do you remember back in old L.A. (Wo-oh-oh)
    When everybody drove a Chevrolet (Wo-oh-oh)
    Whatever happened to the boy next door,
    Suntanned, crewcut, all-American Male?

    Remember dancing at the high school hop
    The dress I ruined with the soda pop?
    I barely recognized the girl next door
    With beatup sneakers and a pony tail

    CHORUS:
    Beach Baby, Beach Baby, give me your hand
    Give me something that I can remember
    Just like before, we can walk by the shore in the moonlight.

    Beach Baby, Beach Baby, there on the sand
    From July to the end of September
    Surfin' was fun, we'd be out in the sun every day.

    Oooh. I never thought that it would end
    Oooh. And I was everybody's friend
    Long hot days, Blue sea haze
    Juke box plays, but now it's fading away.

    We could'nt wait for graduation day
    We took my car and drove to San Jose
    That's where you told me that you'd wear my ring
    I guess you don't remember anything!

    CHORUS
    Vocal Harmonies and Stylings
    Beach Baby, Beach Baby, Beach Baby ETC.
    Writer/s: GILLIAN IRENE SHAKESPEARE, JOHN CARTER
    Publisher: Peermusic Publishing
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 7

  • Chris H from Las VegasPlease let us not forget CLIVE on the piano! YAH BRO CLIVE!
  • Anonymous from Leyland.lancsFantastic record just heard it on Jeremy vine,Took me back to happy days in 19 74.
  • Dave from UsTony Burrow also fronted The Pipkins in 1970, not long after Edison Lighthouse, White Plains, Brotherhood of Man.
  • Seventhmist from 7th HeavenThanks for the info! Never realized this was Edison Lighthouse's voice.
  • H2ofield from LethbridgeHas anyone figured out what is being said in the 'radio announcer voice' at the run-out of the song?
  • Dan from Nyc, NyListen carefully to the lyrics. It's not really a love song. His girlfriend has abandoned him and he's asking her if she remembers the promises she made to him.
  • Peter from Birmingham, United KingdomAmazingly, in February 1970, 'Beach Baby' lead singer, Tony Burrows, appeared as lead singer for 3 different bands on a single edition of BBC's weekly 'Top Of The Pops' TV show. The songs and bands were: 'Love Grows' by Edison Lighthouse (which was at number 1 that week); 'My Baby Loves Loving' by White Plains and 'United We Stand' by Brotherhood of Man'. A feat which has never been equalled.
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