“If everybody had an ocean / Across the U.S.A. / Then everybody’d be surfin’ / Like Californ-i-a.” That’s from “Surfin’ USA.” The genius behind it and other Beach Boys songs, Brian Wilson, died on ...

Huntington Beach resident Greg Carcerano said he grew up surfing in Huntington Beach in the 1960’s and considers the Beach Boys music an integral part of the surf scene.

The Beach Boys never won a Grammy (they received three nominations for “Good Vibrations” at the 1967 event and another for “Kokomo” in 1989), but Wilson did.

Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys’ lead songwriter and inventive producer, was finally finished with “Good Vibrations,” a song he had been perfecting, on-and-off, for months throughout 1966.

Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys' visionary and fragile leader whose genius for melody, arrangements and wide-eyed self-expression inspired "Good Vibrations," "California Girls" and other summertime ...

Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys’ visionary and fragile leader whose genius for melody, arrangements and wide-eyed self-expression inspired “Good Vibrations,” “California Girls” and other ...

Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys’ visionary and fragile leader whose genius for melody, arrangements and wide-eyed self-expression inspired “Good Vibrations,” “California Girls” and other ...

The album included classic songs such as “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” and “God Only Knows.” Other Beach Boys songs include “Good Vibrations” and “Kokomo.” ...

Pet Sounds, Good Vibrations, and the Edge of Genius. Released in 1966, the album was a departure from the surf tunes that made them famous. It was ambitious, layered, and emotionally raw.