The Little Girl I Once Knew
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| "The Little Girl I Once Knew" | ||
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| Single by The Beach Boys | ||
| Released | November 8, 1965 | |
| Format | Vinyl | |
| Recorded | Unknown | |
| Genre | Pop | |
| Length | Unknown | |
| Label | Capitol Records | |
| Producer(s) | Brian Wilson | |
| Chart positions | ||
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• #20 (US) |
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| The Beach Boys singles chronology | ||
| "California Girls"/"Let Him Run Wild" (1965) |
"The Little Girl I Once Knew"/"There's No Other (Like My Baby)" (1965) |
"Barbara Ann"/"Girl Don't Tell Me" (1965) |
The Little Girl I Once Knew is a song written by Brian Wilson for the American pop band The Beach Boys. It was released in November 1965 as a single 45 rpm, backed by There's No Other (Like My Baby), and reached #15 on the Cashbox chart, #20 on Billboard. The last new original song the group produced before the album Pet Sounds, it was not included on any regular Beach Boys album, but has since been collected on several anthologies and as a bonus track on reissues of Summer Days (and Summer Nights!!).
The song is notable for innovative use of two dramatic periods of silence lasting several seconds each. Although one of the Beach Boys' most exuberant songs, it was poorly received by radio stations preferring to avoid dead air time, which may account for its relatively low chart rating among their other singles of the period, including California Girls and Barbara Ann. It is still rarely heard on oldies radio.
