beach boys - little deuce coupe

Listened to the Little Deuce Coupe LP (dusty used copy I've had around here for a couple years after getting it free from my next-door neighbor) this morning; pretty awesome -- all car songs. "Shut Down" (covered by the Queers a few years ago I think) probably rocks hardest. Had never occurred to me before that the Beach Boys would have been influenced by Dion & the Belmonts (along with, like, Chuck Berry and barbershop quartets or whoever), but it makes perfect sense that they would be (totally proto-frat-rock, both groups), and "Car Crazy Cutie" pretty much confirms it. Really, Brian Wilson has a very east-coast doo-wop falsetto in a bunch of these songs. Chorus that cracked me up most was in "Our Car Club": "We'll set up a meeting, get a sponsor, and collect some dues." If there is a less rebellious, more Republican lyric in all of early rock'n'roll, I can't imagine what it would be.