Do It Again

Album

The Capitol Years

Label

Capitol Records

Genre

Rock

Composer(s)

Brian Wilson;Mike Love

Entered Chart

Jul 27, 1968

Peak Date

Sep 14, 1968

Released

uly 8, 1968

Recorded

May 26 – June 1968 Studio Beach Boys Studio, Los Angeles

Catalog #

Capitol 2239

B-Side

Wake The World

"Do It Again" is a song by the American rock band the Beach Boys that was released as single on July 8, 1968.[2][3] It was written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love as a self-conscious callback to the group's earlier surf image, which they had not embraced since 1964. Love and Wilson also share the lead vocal on the song. The song was issued only two weeks after the release of the band's album Friends, with the album track "Wake the World" as its B-side. It reached number 20 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and became their second number one hit in the UK. A slightly edited version of the song, using an excerpt from the Smile outtake "Workshop", subsequently appeared as the opening track on the Beach Boys' 1969 album 20/20. "Do It Again" has been rerecorded once by the band (in 2011), once by Wilson as a solo artist (in 1995), and twice by Love as a solo artist (in 1996 and 2017). The song was an influence on Neil Sedaka's "Love Will Keep Us Together" (1973), Eric Carmen's "She Did It" (1977), ABBA's "On and on and On" (1980), and Hall & Oates' "Did It in a Minute" (1982).

It's automatic when I 
Talk with old friends 
The conversation turns to 
Girls we knew when their 
Hair was soft and long and the 
Beach was the place to go 
Suntanned bodies and 
Waves of sunshine the 
California girls and a 
Beautiful coastline 
Warmed up weather 
Let's get together and 
Do it again 
With a girl the lonely sea looks good in moonlight 
Makes your nighttimes warm and out of sight 
Been so long 
(Hey now hey now hey now hey now hey now) 
(Hey now hey now hey now hey now hey now) 
Well I've been thinking 'bout 
All the places we've surfed and danced and 
All the faces we've missed so let's get 
Back together and do it again 
Ow!