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Does it exist? Or is it just a hazardous byproduct of my imagination? Take, for example, the beginning of "Take A Load Off Your Feet". Coyly, Brian sings:

I do 'em when I'm down in the tub
With avocado cream, they'll take a rub
They wrinkle like raisins if I stay too long
I wouldn't want to do 'em wrong

Now, you can't help but notice how ambiguous that sounds when divorced from the rest of the song. And that's the first thing you hear!

There's the obvious bits in "All I Want To Do". Undeniable, there.

The Little Girl I Once Knew?

When a man needs a woman

Hey Little Tomboy

Farmer's Daughter
Honkin' Down the Highway
Boogie Woodie

and many, many more

Take it, one little inch at a time now.  >:D

Kokomo - "afternoon delights"...
Skatetown U.S.A. - "Those groovy little wheels are gonna get me some"...

Over and over the crow cries uncover the cornfield - Cornfields of course symbolise fertilty. A crow is a derogatory term for a black woman Uncovering the cornfield is an                                                                          obvious reference to a black woman removing her underwear.          

Columnated ruins domino   -                                  A reference to erectile dysfunction?          

A good half to three quarters of the Wild Honey album.

All Dressed Up For School
The Shift
Pom Pom Play Girl
In The Parkin' Lot

i don't care what anybody says, "Susie Cincinnati" is about a prostitute.

"If you say you watched the movie, you're a couple of liars
And remember, only you can prevent forest fires"

Are you suggesting that "a taste of wild honey" might be an innuendo?

"Eat, eat, eat it up, wild honey"?

Stud bees … "buzzing all around her hive"?

"There's nothing quite nice as a kiss of wild honey"?

Ah, you must have a depraved mind sir…

what about
"Gotta girl givin' me some lessons
And now she's gonna be my confession"…

"Met a fine chick that really got to me
Good Lord how she boogalooed to me
Oh my how she boogalooed it to me
Come on sock it sock it to me"

Blmey I do believe you're right…

Rollin' Up To Heaven

Those groovy little wheels are gonna get me some..! Oh my i forgot those lyrics.  Kudo"s to Mr. Love.

Good Vibrations is about a vibrator.

The Pom Pom Play Girl is a bitch with a capital "B".  She'll give you no time. 

Lots of references to 'woodies' in the surfing songs.

Or at the very least a slutty kinda girl!  Who isn't very hot.  But oh, she'll get you there.

Her looks aren't exactly a plus
But it doesn't matter to us
Because she knows where it's at
And she gets you there in seconds flat

My girl will be working on her pom-poms now
And she'll be yelling tonight

Never Learn Not To Love. Come in closer closer closer ahhhh..!

"Come on and do the Chicken."

Not so much innuendo really, but....

"Doing unto others is the Golden Rule
But doing it with you would be so
Very cool"

"Umph ah, umph ah, umph ah" on the tag of "All I Want To Do". 

From Hold On Dear Brother:

I want your love
You touch myyy...

Pat, Pat, Pat on her butt....

I Wanna Pick You Up...just a *little* bit creepy there

"Take it one little inch at a time, now"

Gents and ladies, puhleeze.

"Roller Skating Child"...

"It makes me love her when the sun goes down
We'll even do more when her momma's not around..."

 ::)

I think Brian was playing one organ with his right hand and an entirely different one with his left when he was writin' this one...!!

Love You is full of 'em... :o

It's actually "And we'll make sweet lovin' when the sun goes down, we'll even do more when her momma's not around" ........ which I can only take to imply he's made sweet love to her WHEN her momma was around and has something else planned for when she's gone!!!!

Just a tad bit creepy?  ;D

Good Time...

"Can get you feelin' warmer and you know what that can lead to..."

No creepier than Hey Little Tomboy, especially the alternate.

Marcella

Feel Flows

All I Want to Do

"Don't talk put you HEAD on my shoulder"

Diamond HEAD

HEADS You Win, Tails I lose

Gettin in Over My HEAD

Rockin' The Man In The Boat

I would love to see the expression on Van Dyke Parks's face if somebody ever presented this theory to him.

"When we rode that horse we got some thrills"

That one should get the nod for best sexual innuendo in a Beach Boys song.  Post of The Week goes to Alex!

"I only know it's time for body contact, I'll never be satisfied touching you with my eyes"

I'M GETTIN' HUNGRY
HUNGRY FOR MY KINDA WOMAN
I'M GETTIN' HUNGRY
SOON I GOTTA FIND ME A WOMAN
I'M GETTIN' HUNGRY
SEARCHIN' FOR A PRETTY GIRL

:rock:

careful not to sting your eye

"I'd love just once to see you in the nude."  It's pretty subtle, but he's saying that he wants to see her naked.

How has nobody mentioned that "Please Let Me Wonder" was originally written as "Please Let Me Wander".... ;)

Help Me Rhonda is clearly about rebound sex.  ;)

"Be Here in The Mornin" is obviously about sex addiction

The way he kept it up could make you cry

Sweet Sunday Kinda Love:
"You can do something for me,
And I'll do the same for you."

Really surprised nobody mentioned the anal lyric from Brian and Al's CRACK at Your Love:

"You make me feel so warm inside
A sense of humor you can't hide
Who taught you darlin' how to move that way?
And when you smile I know the world's okay
And when I see the twinkle in your eye
It sends my heart all the way to the sky
And ya' know I'd like to get a crack at your love"

We just got situated.

Cos I thought he wanted to see her when *he* was naked!  From outside her window or something....

When I step on the gas she goes wa aa aa ah!

I'll let you look but don't touch my custom machine.

Go cherry, cherry Coupe now
Go cherry, cherry Coupe now
Go cherry, cherry Coupe now
My cherry Coupe beats 'em coming off the line
Go cherry, cherry Coupe now
And she really gets sparks when she starts to whine.

So when you listen to Little Deuce Coupe, do you get a little crazy when they say "four on the floor"?  ;D

Isn't 'Don't Worry Baby' all about a (first) sexual encounter?

That's just part a small part of it. 

Add to that ...
"She's ported and relieved and she's stroked and bored.
She'll do a hundred and forty with the top end floored."

As well as ...
"There's one more thing, I got the pink slip daddy."

Plus ...
"And comin' off the line when the light turns green"

And finally...
"Well she blows em outta the water like you never seen
I get pushed out of shape and it's hard to steer
When I get rubber in all four gears."

This.... :afro and we can't forget about the "Ballad of ol' betsy" ,which could be about a car but also could be about a lady.. ;D

"Feels so good when you come on the line" = phone sex

"Betsy was a lady and that she will remain
Betsy took some beatings but she never once complained"

Quite sexy.

I feel so high and so far within yooooouuuuu

What do you think he's referring to there, in the plural? Maybe those things on the end of your feet called "toes" ?

"Well she blows em outta the water like you never seen
I get pushed out of shape and it's hard to steer
When I get rubber in all four gears."

The Japanese motor industry legacy: Too many people have only driven Toyota's all their lives.

I cant see any real sexual innuendo in Cherry, Betsy, etc...cmon you guys can do better than this!!

maybe the word "Beatings" should be changed to "Poundings"  :smokin

Wait, that's really how you interpret that line? Jesus. I mean it's clearly about literally ejaculating on telephone cable.

I always thought sexual innuendo was something that sneaked up on you. If its really well done you don't "get it" right away
it sort of dawns on you and you say...Ohhh Yeah.  ;D

For instance while listening to Slip on Through
... my love is growing like a big 'ol tree...

my wife said, oh that's nasty - and I said, huh??? 
Oh, you just have a dirty mind!

I didn't instantaneously get "I'd Love Just Once To See You"

When was the last time you baked me a pie?
You had a way of making it come alive
It's not too late for you to take a drive

Almost cute  ;D

Here's one that occurred to me recently:

"All the kids are splitting to their lockers but we're still making out in the car now
Just one long kiss and we'll be gone 'cause two minutes all there are now
Here comes the news, there's no time to lose
Ooooooh wooooh ooooh"

and also this, which I noticed when listening to the overdub session on MiC:

Since she's the head cheerleader, she dates the quarterback
And her best friend's going out with the full back
She might even run for an office this Spring
And that ought to really make her telephone ring

I'm not sure why exactly, but there's definitely some kind of salacious innuendo here. Like, this definitely isn't just a old-fashioned, bakelite dial telephone ringing on a desk that Mike is talking about, there...!





...or perhaps my mind just needs a run through the car wash, too.

This thread was pretty amusing.  And there are some double entendres. Maybe not as many as have been stretched here.  Very imaginative interpretations!  :lol

Nope. Back in the day, late 50s early 60s if you went to a drive in movie, you'd see a public service announcement from Smokey the Bear reminding us that "only you can prevent forest fires." It was always shown before the movies along with the other misc. ads and announcements. It has nothing to do with preventing pregnancy as some people think. It was an actual public service announcement put out by the Forest Service. You have to be old to remember this one.

Yeah, a lot of these lines have to be listened to with 60 yr old minds. It was a lot less risque time then. Do striped shirts ring a bell?

double meaning, pal.

"The way he's kept it up could make you cry" --Brian Wilson, stunned and amazed to behold Johnny Carson's ability to have an erection for extended periods of time

I remember and know what you're talking about…I'm 28, is that old?

I think the part that's raising eyebrows here is the first line "If you say you watched the movie, you're a couple of liars..."  In other words, if you're not watching the movie, what are you kids up to?  :o  Of course, in those relatively innocent days, the answer would've been "necking and stuff!" :)

There's some interesting "Four on the Floor" chatter from Mike on KAEOS...

Be With Me
All I Want To Do
Lady
Barbara
Forever

Do You Like Worms is a fairly clear reference to William Blake's poem The Sick Rose.

And she's cruisin' through the hamburger stand now

Mike Love was known to call his nether regions the "hamburger stand".

Can't wait for more detailed info on that in his upcoming book!

"A boy bumped into her wonderful" ?

"And I ate the wrapper" sounds phonetically like "And I ate the rapper", a.k.a. going down on a rap singer gal.  ;D

Dont Worry Baby "When she makes love to me"

Rollin' Up To Heaven.  ;D

I am not sure if anyone else hears the slight snicker in the delivery of these lyrics.

I, I only looked in her eyes
But I picked up something I just can't explain

about 12 seconds in...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C__qH2HsWM8

Clearly talking about an STD :o

I don't know exactly when it happened, but somewhere between the late 60's and early 70's the expression "making love" took on an entirely different meaning. As an Old Time Radio buff I'm always hearing characters on radio shows from the 40's talking about "making love" and when they say it they're referring to kissing/petting (later on the expression for kissing morphed into "making out" and then "making love" became something else). I think in the context of 1964, Roger Christian is using "making love" in the vernacular of the times, meaning kissing/petting. By the time we get to "Roller Skating Child" I believe the expression had become synonymous with sex.

In an unrelated note, I hope the old expression "pitching woo" comes back into the parlance. It sounds pretty graphic and yet isn't at all. God knows how it would be interpreted by kids in 2016.  ;D   

There are quite a few old songs from the 40's 50's 60's that speak of "making love", or "making romance" ("each time we make romance i'll be thankful for a second chance"). Similarly, in the 50's, there were songs like Little Richard's "Rip It Up" ("gonna shake it up, gonna rock it up, gonna ball it up") or "Good Golly Miss Molly" ("you sure like to ball"). Back then, ballin' meant dancing, but these days you don't know what you're gonna bounce home with!

The "Don't Worry Baby" lyrics are questionable; a quick bit of research shows that while the general etymology stated above is accurate as to the term's progression, there are examples going all the way back to the 1920s of a usage of "making love" that connotes actual sex rather than kissing, etc.

If Christian and Brian meant the lyric to connote the older, archaic meaning of the term, it was a pretty late example, especially for someone who was very young at that time, as it was apparently younger folk in the 50s and 60s that started using the term to connote sex.

It is often pointed out that Brian was a "child of the 50s" and in some ways socially was rather old fashioned; so a pretty late, arguably naïve usage of that term by Brian seems plausible.

Apparently, some radio stations banned "Under the Boardwalk" in the very same year, 1964, for one of its lines "We'll be making love", substituting an alternate version/edit without the line. So, on the one hand, it makes me think another contemporary usage ("Don't Worry Baby") was likely to have the same, later meaning. On the other hand, "Don't Worry Baby" didn't have any issues with being banned, so either there was possibly some weird double standard, or radio stations assumed the BBs meant the more innocent, archaic meaning.

what about doing it at the park all day?  ;) and of course "Fun Fun Fun" is one of the most obvious.. :lol

I wouldn't go so far as to call the expression "archaic" as early as 1964. Bobby Rydell put out "Let's Make Love Tonight" in 1963 and it wasn't about sex and the Marilyn Monroe film "Let's Make Love" came out in 1960. If the slang translation of that title (based on a song) had been "Let's F#@k" I doubt it would have been released in any capacity.
As you say, I don't think it was like a light switched on and suddenly it was considered a euphemism for sex. I don't think it was widely used in that way in 1964, and I doubt Roger Christian, as a radio man, would purposely write a lyric that would threaten his lyric getting airplay.
I'm wondering if just the very act of kissing/petting under the boardwalk out of the watchful eyes of adults was something that was more frowned upon at the time, hence the lyric change. Perhaps it was tied into juvenile delinquency in some way.

I'm of the mind that the "when she makes love to me" line in Don't Worry Baby is a reflection of the more innocent meaning of the term that was in still in common use at the time of the release of DWB. But today I'd say that just about anyone who wasn't around when the song was released, upon hearing that line in the song these days, would presume it was a reference to full fledged sex.

In the summer of 1959, when I was in elementary school, Floyd Robinson released the song "Makin' Love" and to me it referred to a mild to heavy duty kissing session, although most kids that I knew back then, and through my high school years, would use the term "making out," rather than "making love". And at some point the term "make love" became a reference to sex in just about everyone's mind.

Here's Floyd Robinson's "Makin' Love" from 1959, a cute song from a more innocent age. The song was less than five years old when Don't Worry Baby was written and was one that both Brian and Roger Christian would have been quite familiar with: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37iokPeIWWE.

Thank you for the context...I thought it referred to sex as well.

If Mike had been the co-writer on DWB - in 1992 - it definitely would have had some references to "doin' it"; I think the Beach Boys of 1964 - publicly, anyway - were a bit more innocent than that.