Exploring comments made from legendary musician Brian Wilson, founding member of The Beach Boys, naming the favourite song he's ever written in his career.

“I was writing more in a soul/R&B bag,” he said. “The horns were conceived as a Phil Spector kind of a horn thing. ‘Darlin” was for Three Dog Night.” At the time, Three Dog Night was known as Redwood.

62 years ago, the Beach Boys released “Surfin’ U.S.A.,” and it would become their first #1 hit in the United States. In the years that followed, the Hawthorne, California-born band—the late Brian ...