Funky Pretty

"Funky Pretty"
Single by The Beach Boys
from the album Holland
A-side "California Saga: California"
Released April 16, 1973 (1973-04-16)
Recorded 1972 (1972)
Genre R&B[1]
Length 4:09
Label Brother
Writer(s)
Producer(s) The Beach Boys
The Beach Boys singles chronology
"Sail On, Sailor"
(1973)
"California Saga: California"
(1973)
"Child of Winter (Christmas Song)"
(1974)

"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

Cover versions

References

  1. 1 2 Miller, Jim (March 1, 1973). "Holland". Rolling Stone.
  2. Planer, Lindsay. "Funky Pretty". Allmusic.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "The Beach Boys :: Funky Pretty (1973)". Aquarium Drunkard. November 29, 2007.
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