Funky Pretty

"Funky Pretty"
Single by The Beach Boys
from the album Holland
A-side	"California Saga: California"
Released	April 16, 1973
Recorded	1972
Genre	R&B[1]
Length	4:09
Label	Brother
Songwriter(s)	Brian Wilson; Mike Love; Jack Rieley;
Producer(s)	The Beach Boys
The Beach Boys singles chronology

"Funky Pretty" is a song written by Brian Wilson, Mike Love, and Jack Rieley for American rock band the Beach Boys. It was released on their 1973 album Holland, then placed as the B-side to their single "California Saga: California". Based on astrological themes, Carl Wilson explained that the song was quickly recorded in a "spontaneous flurry". Brian was an active participant in its production, a rare occurrence at the time.[2]

Composition

Rolling Stone wrote of the song in its review of Holland:

"Funky Pretty" is more on the guttural side of R&B. A cosmic love song to an astrological lovely, it mounts its grit in a swirl of harmonic complications, again underlining Blondie Chaplin's more straightforward vocal dexterity with a defiantly baroque choral signature: Vivaldi meets the Regents on a magic synthesizer. It makes for a beautiful track, built on economical and even monotonous musical premises that delight in their unreasonably complex development.[1]

Personnel

The Beach Boys

Carl Wilson – vocals[3]
Al Jardine – vocals[3]
Blondie Chaplin – vocals[3]
Mike Love – vocals[3]
Ricky Fataar – backing vocals[3][4]
Brian Wilson – vocals, drums, percussion, synthesizer, piano[3]

Cover versions

2012 – Christopher Holland, Corner Green

gollark: I guess those are also WiFi devices now. But still.

gollark: Anyway, this is for WiFi devices, not phones.

gollark: And the signal strength is way easier to measure anyway.

gollark: The geographically nearest tower might not actually have the best signal.

gollark: IIRC it was originally just based on signal strength scanned by the phone.

References

Miller, Jim (March 1, 1973). "Holland". Rolling Stone.
Planer, Lindsay. "Funky Pretty". Allmusic.
"The Beach Boys :: Funky Pretty (1973)". Aquarium Drunkard. November 29, 2007.
http://smileysmile.net/board/index.php/topic,22995.msg546401.html#msg546401

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[RS-1] Miller, Jim (March 1, 1973). "Holland". Rolling Stone.

[Allmusic-2] Planer, Lindsay. "Funky Pretty". Allmusic.

[AD-3] "The Beach Boys :: Funky Pretty (1973)". Aquarium Drunkard. November 29, 2007.

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