Dori: The Beach Boys at 60, how procrastination led to one of the best songs of all time

Six decades after first launching as the “Pendletones” a few miles from the California coast, the iconic band — soon better known as The Beach Boys — is still at it with a Labor Day concert planned Monday at the Washington State Fair in Puyallup.

Deep into the band’s 60th-anniversary tour, singer and band co-founder Mike Love gave Dori Monson Show listeners a sneak peek into the history of one of their early – and perhaps still most successful – songs and how, at age 81, Love doesn’t intend to stop singing any time soon.

Love recalled skyrocketing onto the music scene in 1962 with “Surfin’ Safari” at a

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