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Beach Boys Hang Ten in Hotel Lobby

Toby Mamis, Creem, October 1971

IT'S BEEN nine and a half years since the Beach Boys started out, singing 'Surfin' Safari' in Southern California, on New Year's Eve, 1961. At New York's Carnegie Hall, on February 24, 1971, they ended the second of two encores, after a two-hour performance, with... 'Surfin' Safari'.

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