Getcha Back
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| "Getcha Back" | ||||
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| Single by the Beach Boys | ||||
| from the album The Beach Boys | ||||
| B-side | "Male Ego" | |||
| Released | May 8, 1985 | |||
| Length | 2:59 | |||
| Label | Brother | |||
| Songwriters | ||||
| Producer | Steve Levine | |||
| The Beach Boys singles chronology | ||||
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"Getcha Back" is a song written by Mike Love and Terry Melcher for the American rock band the Beach Boys, on their 1985 album The Beach Boys. It was the band's first release since the drowning death of Dennis Wilson in 1983. The song peaked at No. 26 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 2 on the Adult Contemporary chart.[1]
Musically, the backing vocals resemble those from the 1959 hit "Hushabye" by the Mystics, which the Beach Boys had covered in 1964 for their All Summer Long album. Comparisons could also be made to Bruce Springsteen's 1980 hit "Hungry Heart", which Love later recorded a cover of for a tribute album.
Cash Box said the song "so wonderously recalls [the Beach Boys'] earlier times and earlier sounds."[2]
Allmusic's William Ruhlmann stated that "despite the production sheen provided by Steve Levine (of Culture Club fame), this is another competent but uninspired effort."[3]
Music video
The music video, directed by Dominic Orlando, was filmed on location in Malibu and Venice, California. It featured a then-unknown Katherine Kelly Lang, who went on to play Brooke Logan on the soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful.
Personnel
Credits sourced from Craig Slowinski, John Brode, Will Crerar and Joshilyn Hoisington.[4]
The Beach Boys
- Al Jardine - backing vocals
- Bruce Johnston - backing vocals
- Mike Love - lead and backing vocals
- Brian Wilson - co-lead and backing vocals
- Carl Wilson - backing vocals
Session musicians
- John Alder - electric and acoustic guitars
- Graham Broad - jingle stick, tambourine, castanets, maracas, bongos
- Steve Grainger - baritone saxophone
- Steve Levine - Fairlight CMI and LinnDrum programming, producer
- Julian Lindsay - Kurzweil K250, PPG Wave 2.3, Yamaha DX1, bass guitar
- Terry Melcher - backing vocals, Kurzweil K250
