The Beach Boys started the fire: they fused the four-part harmonies of vocals groups like the Four Freshmen with Chuck Berry's rock and roll rhythm and a new genre was born. The Beatles, the Byrds and countless others copied the idea and the history of popular music would never be the same again.
I mean, I love the Beach Boys, but were they really the first group to do so?
>>74900397
Mike Love was the first one, ther est of the group followed in his footsteps
>>74900397
Pretty much, the beatles harmonic songs were vocally so weak comparatively though. Brian taught his brothers to sing like the penguins and the four freshmen when they were kids then they borrowed heavily from early rock