Song 781: This week the playlist applauds Wouldn't It Be Nice by The Beach Boys, written by Brian Wilson, Tony Asher and Mike Love, and you can find a cool YouTube video of it by clicking on the title. I did not initially pay much attention to the L.A. shoreline quintet when they first started riding the airwaves, but by the time this attractive question mark rose into the TOP 40 in the summer after my freshman HS year, it felt good to sing along with their suggestions about pleasurable experience. However, I highly doubt I knew the line about how the couple could Hold each other close the whole night through, since the erotic implications there would have made it harder for me to justify my admiration for the devil's music that my folks commonly criticized. Of course now, almost six decades later, it sounds ironic to suggest that it would be nice to be older, but at the end of the day, we can all still say goodnight to each other and pass on a sleep tight thought.
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