Teens dreamed of the beach while listening to “Surfin’ USA” and “California Girls.” They flexed their best muscles blaring “409” and “Little Deuce Coupe.” Even in the cold of an ...

If everybody had an ocean across the USA. Then they’d be surfin’ like Cal-if-orn-i-a. But they don’t have an ocean, do they? And if they do, it didn’t make the song. On “Surfin’ USA ...

The Wilson family home on 119th Street, where the boys taped their first single Surfin' in 1961 ... better known as Surf City USA. Here the sand is soft, the surf is year-round, and the broad ...

The hit song “Surfin’ USA” by the Beach Boys spread the names of a handful of beaches around the world. One beach is in Northern California. One in Hawaii. And inexplicably, one is in Australia.