The Beach Boys - Sandy (HQ)

Also known as "Sandy, She Needs Me". Written by Brian Wilson and Russ Titelman. Basic track was recorded on May 4th, 1965, with partial vocals added the following day. Unfortunately, no lead was ever recorded for "Sandy". On the back cover of the Summer Days LP, Brian mentions that Dennis had fallen asleep in his car the day he was supposed to record a lead vocal. Could it have been "Sandy"? The world will never know. Who knows what we could have gotten had Dennis followed a better sleeping pattern! Over a decade later, in the Fall of 1976, Brian would return to an earlier version of the song, entitled "Sherry, She Needs Me", and lay down a lead vocal attempt. This is the version released on Made in California in 2013, complete with the backing vocals from "Sandy" flown in on the coda. The basic track to "Sherry, She Needs Me" was recorded on March 29th, 1965. "Sandy" is featured here in the highest quality you'll find on YouTube, sourced from Unsurpassed Masters Vol. 9 and remixed to feature a wide stereo backing track alongside the stereo vocals. The track has also been speed-corrected, as most of the tracks on the Unsurpassed Masters series run about 1% too slow.