Album and Alternate Releases
The song was first released on an album in the United States in March 1964 on the band's Shut Down Volume 2 album. In the United Kingdom the album was released in July 1964, and it was only the band's second album to be issued in the UK (as opposed to the fifth album in the U.S.) The song was also released in Britain on the Fun, Fun, Fun EP which included both "Fun, Fun, Fun" & "In My Room" on the A-side and "Little Deuce Coupe" and "Why Do Fools Fall In Love" on the B-side. The EP charted at the number 19 position.
The song was covered in 1996 by the then-current lineups of The Beach Boys and Status Quo (see Don't Stop), with a new verse written for the song. The Beach Boys sang mainly backing vocals, with Status Quo's Francis Rossi performing the lead vocal for the entire song, except the new verse, which was sung by Mike Love. The instrumental track was released on the 2001 album Hawthorne, CA.
The song is also regularly released on many of the band's greatest hits albums, including the 1974 chart topping compilation Endless Summer; the 1986 compilation Made in U.S.A.; the 1993 box set Good Vibrations: Thirty Years of The Beach Boys; the 1999 compilation The Greatest Hits - Volume 1: 20 Good Vibrations; and the 2003 compilation Sounds of Summer: The Very Best of The Beach Boys.
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