Help Me, Rhonda

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"Help Me, Rhonda"

Single by The Beach Boys
from the album Summer Days And Summer Nights
Released	April 5, 1965
Format	Vinyl
Recorded	Unknown
Genre	Pop
Length	5 min 21 sec for both songs
Label	Capitol Records
Producer(s)	Brian Wilson
Chart positions
• #1 (US) • #27 (UK)
The Beach Boys singles chronology
"Do You Wanna Dance?"/"Please Let Me Wonder" (1965)	"Help Me, Rhonda"/"Kiss Me, Baby" (1965)	"California Girls"/"Let Him Run Wild" (1965)

"Help Me, Rhonda" was a single which was released by The Beach Boys in 1965 through Capitol Records. The B-side of this single was Kiss Me, Baby. There are two versions of this song. There is the version that appears on the album The Beach Boys Today! entitled "Help Me, Ronda", which runs over three minutes and has the volume fading in and out towards the end. The studio session in which this song was recorded was interrupted by Murry Wilson, arriving in the studio drunk. He sat in on the session for over 30 minutes, berating the band and making odd demands.^[1] The single version, which appears on Summer Days (and Summer Nights!!), was re-recorded a few weeks later. It has a different arrangement, one word changed in the lyrics, a piano part, loses the volume changes, and adds in a "Bow-wow-wow" part. It was The Beach Boys' second United States number one hit song.

The song was only ever considered to be an album cut, however, radio stations began to play the track and a single version was recorded soon after. It was such a big hit it was included on the next album too.