Editing Summer in Paradise (section)

== Composition ==
The conceptual idea behind the album's title song, co-written by Mike Love, was environmental protection, but the album was designed, in Love's words, to create, "the quintessential soundtrack of [[summer]]." With the exception of a new version of their 1970 track "Forever" and the new composition "Strange Things Happen", each song on the album deals thematically with the summer season. Of the album's twelve tracks, two songs are covers ("[[Hot Fun in the Summertime]]", originally by [[Sly & the Family Stone]], and "[[Remember (Walking in the Sand)]]", originally by [[The Shangri-Las]]); two are new versions of older Beach Boys songs ("[[Surfin' (song)|Surfin']]" and "Forever", the latter with a vocal by [[John Stamos]]); one combines a classic song ("One Summer Night", originally by [[The Danleers]]) with a new Bruce Johnston song ("Slow Summer Dancin'"); and one takes an old song ("[[Under the Boardwalk]]," originally by [[The Drifters]]) and adds new lyrics. The rest are original songs, all containing both titular and lyrical references to summer and/or surfing, with the exception of the [[Transcendental Meditation]]-influenced "Strange Things Happen". The quasi-rap song "Summer of Love" was originally intended to be a duet with [[Bart Simpson]] for a planned ''[[The Simpsons Movie|Simpsons]]'' movie, but the Simpsons' producers turned down the offer.<ref name="dmind">{{cite web|last1=Jones|first1=Doug|title=Low Tide: The Beach Boys hit rock bottom in 1992 with 'Summer in Paradise'|url=http://dangerousminds.net/comments/low_tide_the_beach_boys_hit_rock_bottom_in_1992_with_summer_in_paradise|website=Dangerous Minds|access-date=September 10, 2016|date=August 30, 2016}}</ref> The song was instead used in an episode of ''[[Baywatch]]''. Stamos performed the song "Forever" on several episodes of his sitcom ''[[Full House]]''.