20 Biggest Songs of the Summer: The 1960s
Motown and moptops provide the enduring summer jams of a thrilling, turbulent decade
11. The Beach Boys, "I Get Around"
Pop's poet laureates of the summer, the Beach Boys appropriately topped the Hot 100 for the first time in July 1964 with this single from the album All Summer Long. From there on out, it was all sand and surfboards.