Be True to Your School

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"Be True to Your School"
Beach Boys - Be True To Your School.jpg
Swedish picture sleeve
Single by the Beach Boys
from the album Little Deuce Coupe
B-side "In My Room"
ReleasedOctober 28, 1963
RecordedSeptember 1963
Genre Pop rock
Length2:10
Label Capitol
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Brian Wilson
The Beach Boys singles chronology
"Surfer Girl"
(1963)
"Be True to Your School"
(1963)
"Little Saint Nick"
(1963)

"Be True to Your School" is a song by the American rock band the Beach Boys from their 1963 album Little Deuce Coupe . Written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love, it was issued as a single on October 28, 1963. There are two versions of this song: the album version, and the single version, which added cheerleader yells by the girl group The Honeys in between verses. [1] The song features the melody of the University of Wisconsin's fight song, "On, Wisconsin!", although it is a tribute to Hawthorne High School, which the Wilson brothers and Al Jardine attended. Hawthorne High School's fight song uses the same melody as "On, Wisconsin!". [2]

Contents

The cover photo for this single (and for the associated album Little Deuce Coupe) included member David Marks but not Al Jardine, though Jardine had returned to create a six-member band for the recording sessions for this single and album. This single, with its B-side "In My Room", were the last two of eight charting Beach Boys songs to include Marks in the 1960s. [3]

Personnel

Single version

The Beach Boys

Additional musicians

unknown – guitar, bass, keyboards, drums, saxophones, percussion

Album version

Chart history

Weekly charts

Chart (1963–1964)Peak
position
Australia [6] 78
Canada (CHUM Chart) [7] 4
New Zealand (Lever Hit Parade) [8] 3
Sweden[ citation needed ]6
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 [9] 6
U.S. Cash Box Top 100 [10] 8

Year-end charts

Chart (1964)Rank
U.S. Cash Box [11] 69

Covers and later versions

References

  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. Jenny Price. "Fight on for Her Fame", On Wisconsin Magazine, Winter 2009.
  3. Stebbins, Jon; David Marks (2007). The Lost Beach Boy. London: Virgin Books. p. 104. ISBN   978-1-85227-391-0.
  4. http://smileysmile.net/board/index.php/topic,21772.0.html
  5. http://smileysmile.net/board/index.php?PHPSESSID=0a018874ead15d2c39b64529a6286378&topic=25935.msg638465#msg638465
  6. https://www.top100singles.net/2013/02/every-amr-top-100-single-in-1963.html#show
  7. "CHUM Tribute Charts, December 16, 1963". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. 1963-12-16. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
  8. "flavour of new zealand - search lever". Flavourofnz.co.nz. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
  9. Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955–1990 - ISBN   0-89820-089-X
  10. Downey, Pat; Albert, George; Hoffman, Frank (1994). Cash box pop singles charts, 1950-1993. Englewood, Colorado: Libraries Unlimited Inc. p. 19. ISBN   1563083167 . Retrieved March 5, 2023.
  11. "Cash Box Year-End Charts: Top 100 Pop Singles, December 26, 1964". Archived from the original on June 1, 2015. Retrieved December 29, 2018.