Ten Little Indians (The Beach Boys song)

"Ten Little Indians"
Single by The Beach Boys
from the album Surfin' Safari
Released November 26, 1962.[1]
Format Vinyl
Recorded August 8, 1962
Genre Rock
Length 1:30
Label Capitol
Producer Nick Venet
The Beach Boys singles chronology
"409"/"Surfin' Safari"
(1962)		 "Ten Little Indians"/"County Fair"
(1962)		 "Surfin' USA"/"Shut Down"
(1963)

"Ten Little Indians" is a song written by Brian Wilson and Gary Usher for the American rock band, The Beach Boys. It was released on their 1962 album, Surfin' Safari. It was the second single from that album, and was The Beach Boys' lowest charting single (#49 U.S. Pop) until "Bluebirds over the Mountain" in 1968.

Released as a single by Capitol to keep their newest, youngest stars spotlighted, it featured at No. 6 on the Swedish national chart. It was ignored on the group's native West Coast as well as the Northeast (excepting No. 21 at Atlantic City-Philadelphia's WIBG) and South, but across the Midwest it made top thirty in Chicago, Dallas and Pittsburgh and went as high as No. 9 in Minneapolis (KDWB) in a New Year 1963 chart still dominated by "Surfin' Safari".

Musicians

Notes

  1. ^ Badman, Keith. The Beach Boys. The Definitive Diary of America's Greatest Band: On Stage and in the Studio Backbeat Books, San Francisco, California, 2004. p. 29

See also

Surfin' Safari track listing