Do You Wanna Dance? - The Beach Boys Version

The Beach Boys Version

"Do You Wanna Dance?"
Single by The Beach Boys
from the album Today!
B-side "Please Let Me Wonder"
Released February 15, 1965
Format Vinyl
Recorded January 11, 1965
Genre Rock
Length 2:21 (mono)
2:39 (stereo)
Label Capitol
Producer Brian Wilson
The Beach Boys singles chronology
"The Man with All the Toys"
(1964)
"Do You Wanna Dance?"
(1965)
"Help Me, Rhonda"
(1965)
Today! track listing
12 tracks
Side one
  1. "Do You Wanna Dance?"
  2. "Good to My Baby"
  3. "Don't Hurt My Little Sister"
  4. "When I Grow Up (to Be a Man)"
  5. "Help Me, Ronda"
  6. "Dance, Dance, Dance"
Side two
  1. "Please Let Me Wonder"
  2. "I'm So Young"
  3. "Kiss Me, Baby"
  4. "She Knows Me Too Well"
  5. "In the Back of My Mind"
  6. "Bull Session with the 'Big Daddy'"

The Beach Boys' version of "Do You Wanna Dance?" was a single released through Capitol Records on February 15, 1965. It peaked at No. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was the highest charting Beach Boys song to feature Dennis Wilson on lead vocals. According to the contemporary Gilbert Youth Survey conducted nationwide in April 1965, it spent one week on its chart at No. 5. The B-side was "Please Let Me Wonder". The song was also released on the band's 1965 album Today!.

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