Beach Baby

Album: The First Class/The First Class SST (1974)
Charted: 13 4
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  • Ah, ah, ah, ah,ah, ah, ah
    Ah, ah, ah, ah,ah, ah, ah

    Do you remember back in old LA?
    When everybody drove a Chevrolet?
    Whatever happened to the boy next door?
    The suntanned, crew cut, all American male?

    Remember dancin' at the high school hop?
    The dress I ruined with the soda pop?
    I didn't recognize the girl next door
    With beat up sneakers and a ponytail

    Beach baby, beach baby
    Give me your hand
    Give me somethin' that I can remember
    Just like before
    We could walk by the shore
    In the moonlight
    Beach baby, beach baby
    There on the sand
    From July to the end of September
    Surfin' is fun
    We'd be out in the sun everyday

    Umm
    I never thought that it would end
    Ooh
    And I was everybody's friend
    Long hot days
    Cool sea haze
    Jukebox plays
    But now it's fading away

    Ah
    Do, do, do, do, do, do, do
    Do, do, do
    Do, do, do
    Do, do, do

    Ah, ah, ah, ah,ah, ah, ah
    We couldn't wait for graduation day
    We took the 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

    Beach baby, beach baby
    Give me your hand
    Give me somethin' that I can remember
    Just like before
    We could walk by the shore
    In the moonlight
    Beach baby, beach baby
    There on the sand
    From July to the end of September
    Surfin' is fun
    We'd be out in the sun everyday 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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