"I just wasn't made for these times," sang Brian Wilson on a recent episode of Mad Men, soundtracking Roger Sterling's old-school LSD trip. And so remains the master songsmith on this single – the title track of a forthcoming reunion LP with surviving Beach Boys Mike Love and Al Jardine – which sounds beamed in from a parallel universe where the calendar stopped around 1965. "Tuning in the latest star/From the dashboard of my car/Cruising at seven/Push-button heaven," keen the vets over vintage mid-tempo West Coast surf-pop, voices remarkably intact, criss-crossing like skyrockets during the title-chanting harmony cascade at the end. Kinda cosmic, sorta corny, undeniably beautiful.

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“Tonight's the Night”

The lead cut and title track from this girl group's debut album, "Tonight's the Night" was written by 19-year-old bandmember Shirley Owens, who sings lead, and producer Luther Dixon. The band from Passaic, New Jersey met in high school, first calling themselves the Pequellos. The song's frank thoughts about sexual and emotional surrender was racy for the time, but that didn't stop the Chiffons from cutting a similar version immediately after the original came out. "We were the first female group to write some of our own material," band member Beverly Lee recalls. "We did have some say-so in our writing."