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The Beach Boys

Mitchell Cohen, Phonograph Record, July 1975

"THIS IS A SERIOUS surfing song," Mike Love announces from the stage of Madison Square Garden and the Beach Boys launch into a lively rendition of ‘Catch a Wave’.

Total word count of piece: 1983

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