Peak
20
Weeks
10
Score
1,373
Chart Year
1968
"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!
| Week | Chart Date | Position | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jul 27, 1968 | 88 | 38 |
| 2 | Aug 3, 1968 | 61 | 65 |
| 3 | Aug 10, 1968 | 50 | 76 |
| 4 | Aug 17, 1968 | 33 | 93 |
| 5 | Aug 24, 1968 | 31 | 95 |
| 6 | Aug 31, 1968 | 24 | 102 |
| 7 | Sep 7, 1968 | 22 | 104 |
| 8 | Sep 14, 1968 | 20 | 106 |
| 9 | Sep 21, 1968 | 20 | 106 |
| 10 | Sep 28, 1968 | 39 | 87 |