Brian Wilson was “floored by the songs Phil Spector was making…he noticed how the young producer was beginning to use the recording studio as an instrument unto itself. It was the sound that did it for Brian (Peter Carlin, Catch a Wave, 2006). After hearing Phil Spector’s record of the Ronettes’ “Be My Baby,” Brian Wilson told his girlfriend, Marilyn, “I can’t do that. Not that great. Not ever.” She replied, “Don’t worry, baby. You will.” He “learned every note, every sound, the pulse of every groove” of the record, then collaborated with lyricist Roger Christian and “wrote a lush ballad whose title and chorus came directly from Marilyn’s comforting words, ‘Don’t Worry, Baby’” (Brian Wilson, Wouldn’t It Be Nice, 1991).
The Beach Boys “Don’t Worry Baby”
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