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Help Me, Rhonda - Single Version/Remastered 2001

1965Released
2:48

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This song is about a guy who is devastated when the girl he was hoping to marry takes up with another guy. He's now pleading to Rhonda to relieve his pain because she looks good to him. Despite the desperation in the lyrics, it's a very light and uptempo song. Is there a real Rhonda? Mike Love tells us there isn't, adding, "There are a lot of people, a lot of girls named Rhonda out there who have gotten remarks related to that song all their lives."

This was the first Beach Boys single where their guitarist Al Jardine sang lead. The song was written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love. Wilson explained to Goldmine in 2011: "We did two versions of 'Help Me Rhonda.' We did one with the ukulele and we did one with guitars. We chose to use the guitar version. I heard myself singing lead on it originally and then I turned it over to Al. I produced the Beach Boys so I decided who would sing lead. I just had a sixth sense about who should sing what songs. Some of the songs I wrote specifically for Mike, Al and Carl to sing."

For the entire song, the words "get her out of my heart" appear five times; "help me, Rhonda, help, help me, Rhonda" appears 18 times; the song's title appears 41 times; the words "help me" appear 43 times; the name Rhonda appears 45 times, and the word "help" appears 61 times.

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Song Analysis

Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of Help Me, Rhonda - Single Version/Remastered 2001.
C♯Key
MajorMode
4/4Time Signature
140BPM

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Capitol Records
© 1965 Capitol Records, LLC
℗ 2012 Capitol Records, LLC

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