Re: question about a Beach Boys tune

Roller Derby wrote:

> How come "The Little Girl I Once Knew" didn't become
> a number one record?
> 
> according to allmusic.com, it only reached #20 on billboard.
> 
> imho, this tune is right up there with "Help, Me Rhonda" and should've
been 
> a chart topper.
> 
> what prevented it from becoming one?

Um, the fact that not enough peope bought it?

I've never really like this song anyway. It's always struck me as being 
the last gasp of the 'old style' Beach Boys.

vdc