At 16, Brian Wilson share a room with his brothers Dennis and Carl, at their family home in Hawthorne. He saw his father, Murry Wilson, play piano and listened intently to the vocal harmonies of groups like The Four Freshmen. One night he taught his brothers a song called "ivory tower" and how to sing background harmonies. "We practiced night after night, singing softly, hoping we would not wake my father." For the 16th anniversary of his band of talented Brian reel to reel recorder. He learned how to overdub, using voice and Carl persons and their mothers. She plays the piano and later added Carl playing his Rickenbacker guitar for Christmas.
Soon Brian diligent listening to Johnny Otis KFOX radio show, a favorite station Carl. Inspired by the simple structure and singing rhythm and blues songs he heard, he changed his style of playing the piano and began writing songs. Studying the enthusiasm of the music boring at school. He could not complete piano sonatas of the twelfth year, submit the original composition, called "Surfin '."
Family reunions take Wilsons in contact with his cousin Mike Love. Brian tells friends younger sister Maureen Love and harmony. Then, Brian, Mike Love and his two friends run the Hawthorne High School, drew considerable interest in their version of doo-wop Olympics "Hully Gully". Brian also knew Al Jardine, a high school classmate, who played guitar in the folk group called The Islanders. One day, suddenly, they asked for some football players in the room training school to learn harmony, but was not successful singer bass dish.
Brian Jardine advised that they team up with his cousin, Carl. At this session, held in the hall of Brian, that "the Beach Boys sound" began to take shape. Brian said. "Everybody brings something we do Carl hip the last song, Al taught us a repertoire of folk songs, and Dennis, but he did not [to] what to play, adding flammable spark only by his presence. "Pushing Brian Love to write songs and to name youth group: The Pendleton, from the Pendleton woolen shirts popular then. At their initial appearance, the group was wearing a heavy wool shirt like a jacket, which is favored by Internet users in the South Bay. While surfing patterns are prominent in their early songs, Dennis was the only band member who surf. He suggested that his brother wrote some songs celebrate a hobby and style life that developed around him in Southern California.
Jardine and a friend of the singer, Gary Winfrey, went to Brian to see if they can help release the folk songs they want to record, "Sloop John B". In the absence of Brian, the two spoke by Murry, a successful veteran of the music industry is simple. In September 1961, Murray will meet with the editor of The Pendleton Hite and Dorinda Morgan Masters stereo in Hollywood. This group conducted a slow ballad, "their hearts full spring," but failed to impress the Morgans. After an awkward silence, Dennis said they have the original song, "Surfin '." Brian was surprised he has not finished writing the song, but Hite Morgan was interested and asked them to remember when the song was over.
With the help of Love, Brian finished the song and the group hired a guitar, drums, amplifiers and microphones. They practice for three days while parents Wilsons is a short stay. When they auditioned again a few days later, Hite Morgan said: "There was a huge success!" In October, The Pendleton record twelve takes of "Morgan's" Surfin 'cramped office. A small number of singles who are pressed. When the boy excited unpacking the box first single on Candix record label, they were shocked to see their group name was changed from "Beach Boys". Murry Wilson, now closely associated with the fate of this group, called Morgans. Apparently, a campaign worker youth, Russ Regan, to make changes to better link the group with surf bands from another era. A limited budget means that the label can not be reproduced.