School's In Top Ten: Be True to Your School (#7)
By Four Walls
@FourWalls (61328)
United States
August 17, 2017 9:32pm CST
Kids are going back to school all over the country, and that means the parents are cheering and the teachers are mourning! It also means that I'm counting down my favorite songs that have a school setting. And what do you know, we finally have one with the word school in the title! Here's today's song.
#7: Be True to Your School - Beach Boys
Absolutely impossible to leave off the list.
This harkens back to a more innocent, Happy Days-type look at school. It mentions the "lettermen's sweater...I got for football and track" and a "decal in back" of the car, so everyone knows where they go to school. (Now, of course, it's the parents bragging about where they're sending the kids, especially if it's a private school. )
To show just how versatile the Beach Boys were, the B-side of this happy, upbeat song was the ballad "In My Room." That's why they're one of the great American music legends.
Rah rah, sis boom bah.
Be True to Your School
Written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love
Recorded by the Beach Boys
From Little Deuce Coupe, 1963
Let your colors fly:
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@TiarasOceanView (70040)
• United States
18 Aug 17
I always love these guys..I wish I was a Beach Boy girlfriend a long time ago lol
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@JohnRoberts (109865)
• Los Angeles, California
18 Aug 17
I should have seen this one coming!
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@teamfreak16 (43451)
• Denver, Colorado
19 Aug 17
And not about either surfing or hot rods!
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