First Class, "Beach Baby"

I wanted to get this beautifully executed Beach Boys homage in before the summer's over. As genre imitations go, First Class's "Beach Baby", a Top 5 hit from the late summer of '74, was a spot-on surf harmonizer - with the assistance of a bright and blasting horn chart - and there's something about the way Tony Burrows sings "the suntanned crewcut all-American male" that to me is downright sexy in its evocations.

Ah, for a weekend in Rehoboth Beach. From July to the end of September, everyone deserves to take away at least one memory of a beautiful body lying on the sand.