Switched on Summer: Getting Around with the Beach Boys

Switched on Pop

Vox Media Podcast Network

Music Interviews, Music History, Music, Music Commentary

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Our Switched on Summer throwback mini-series begins in the heart of the 1960s, with the Beach Boys' perennial school's-out jam "I Get Around." We explore how every aspect of Brian Wilson's two-minute-long masterpiece is perfectly calculated to literally "get around"—harmonically, melodically, and lyrically—creating that unbeatable feeling of cruising all over town with the top down on a hot summer's night. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Support for this episode comes from Remotely Curious, a podcast from Dropbox all about our
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0:39.4	Charlie Harding, do you read me?
0:41.2	I hear you coming in loud and clear, bright and beautiful.
0:44.7	Good, because I have a very important transmission for you.
0:49.3	What do you have?
0:51.1	I get around, get around, I get around, yeah, get around, yeah, get around, yeah,
0:56.2	I get around, I get around, I get around, I get around, that is not a hit from the Billboard
1:04.6	Hot 100.
1:05.6	Charlie, that is a blast from 1964.
1:12.0	It's The Beach Boys I Get Around.
1:17.1	And it signals a mini-series, if you will, from Switched On Pop, our Throwback Summer.
1:37.0	I am a musicologist, Nate Sloan, and I am your friend and songwriter, Charlie Harding.
1:43.4	And this is Throwback Summer, installment one.
1:48.6	And we are starting with a song that for me epitomizes summer, Charlie, and has since
1:54.2	I was a wee little boy, this is I Get Around by The Beach Boys.
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