These three songs are Mike Love's go-to tracks for when he's feeling down, and they might just bring you up as well.

The Beach Boys were, of course ... But they might also be easily dismissed as pop artists from the 1960s who made fun songs.

Mike Love: “I wrote the words, I came up with ‘I’m picking up good vibrations, she’s giving me the excitations’. I wrote the words on the way to the studio, I handed them to Brian, he ...

The title is up to No. 35, sleigh riding to the top 40 region after sitting ... standing out among the most popular holiday hits in the U.S. The Beach Boys’ bop rises to No. 29 on the Holiday ...

Brian Wilson got interested in the idea of The Beach Boys writing a Christmas song after he attended one of the sessions for ...

Curiously, only one of the original Beach Boys knew how to surf ... Influenced by Chuck Berry, Phil Spector and the Beatles, Wilson’s songs grew increasingly more complex, peaking with 1966 ...

and the brilliance of the rest of the Beach Boys members, of course, goes far deeper than just recruiting Stamos and ...

While singing about other topics, The Beach Boys always seemed to include cars as a central theme. Ronny and the Daytonas, The Hondells, and Jan & Dean all leaned into the car craze as well. "Low ...