"You're So Good to Me"

I listened to Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!) yester-day and noticed a small feature in "You're So Good to Me."  In the line "I know your eyes are not on the guys when we're apart," "apart" is sung with a melisma (B B A G A B).  Since the word is sung with this disjointed articulation, there's something of a sense of its meaning.

"Amusement Parks U.S.A."

I listened to The Very Best of the Coasters yester-day and re-discovered something that I think the Beach Boys borrowed for "Amusement Parks U.S.A."  Near the beginning of the Coasters' "Little Egypt," a carnival barker uses the phrase "just one thin dime, one tenth of a dollar."  In the middle of the Beach Boys' "Amusement Parks U.S.A." there's an almost identical phrase:  "It's only a dime, folks, one thin dime, just one tenth of a dollar."

The Beach Boys ran through the Coasters' "Riot in Cell Block No. 9" for the Beach Boys' Party! album (available on the Uncovered and Unplugged edition) and rewrote it as "Student Demonstration Time" for Surf's Up, so I'm assuming that they had some familiarity with other Coasters songs too.