Funky Pretty

"Funky Pretty"
Single by The Beach Boys
from the album Holland
A-side	"California Saga: California"
Released	April 16, 1973 (1973-04-16)
Recorded	1972 (1972)
Genre	R&B
Length	4:09
Label	Brother
Writer(s)	Brian Wilson Mike Love Jack Rieley
Producer(s)	The Beach Boys
The Beach Boys singles chronology
"Sail On, Sailor" (1973) "California Saga: California" (1973) "Child of Winter (Christmas Song)" (1974)

"Funky Pretty" is a song written by Brian Wilson, Mike Love, and Jack Rieley for American rock band the Beach Boys. It was released on their 1973 album Holland, then placed as the B-side to their single "California Saga: California". Based on astrological themes, Carl Wilson explained that the song was quickly recorded in a "spontaneous flurry". Brian was an active participant in its production, a rare occurrence at the time.

Composition

Rolling Stone wrote of the song in its review of Holland:

"Funky Pretty" is more on the guttural side of R&B. A cosmic love song to an astrological lovely, it mounts its grit in a swirl of harmonic complications, again underlining Blondie Chaplin's more straightforward vocal dexterity with a defiantly baroque choral signature: Vivaldi meets the Regents on a magic synthesizer. It makes for a beautiful track, built on economical and even monotonous musical premises that delight in their unreasonably complex development.

Personnel

The Beach Boys

• Carl Wilson – vocals
• Al Jardine – vocals
• Blondie Chaplin – vocals
• Mike Love – vocals
• Ricky Fataar – vocals

Cover versions

See also: List of cover versions of Beach Boys songs

• 2012 – Christopher Holland, Corner Green