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"Dance, Dance, Dance" is a song written by Brian Wilson, Carl Wilson and Mike Love for the American singing group, The Beach Boys. It was released on their 1965 album The Beach Boys Today!. It was also released as a single in 1964, with the B-side of the single being "The Warmth of the Sun." The single peaked at #8 in the U.S. and #24 in the U.K. The song was released in mono, but a recently unearthed stereo version was released on their Hawthorne compilation. Wilson Phillips recorded a cover version for their California album. Also, a version with different lyrics appears on the Today CD as a bonus track.
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In November 1969, the Wilson's father Murry Wilson sold the copyrights to the band's songs to Irving Almo for approximately $700,000.[1] In April 1992, just after Brian Wilson had won a lawsuit which recovered many of the copyrights to his songs, Mike Love filed a lawsuit against Brian Wilson claiming that he had not been given credit, and therefore hadn't received royalties, on over thirty of the band's songs, many of them hit singles.[2] The list of songs included "Dance, Dance, Dance", which was one of many songs around this time that Mike claimed he had not been given credit for. The song was originally credited to Brian and Carl Wilson but Mike Love claimed that he had a hand in writing the lyrics. Mike Love won the lawsuit and the song-writing credit was amended, therefore ensuring future royalties on all of the songs that he had claimed he had a hand in writing.
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