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Sail On, Sailor
1973 single by the Beach Boys
Sail On, Sailor
"Sail On, Sailor" (sometimes titled "Sail On Sailor") is a song by American rock band the Beach Boys from their 1973 album Holland. It was written primarily by Van Dyke Parks and Brian Wilson with Ray Kennedy, Tandyn Almer, and Jack Rieley. The lead singer on the song is Blondie Chaplin, making this one of the band's few well-known songs not sung by Mike Love, Brian Wilson or Carl Wilson. The song was released as a single in 1973, backed with "Only with You", and peaked at No. 79 on the Billboard singles chart. A 1975 reissue (also backed with "Only with You") charted higher, at No. 49. Brian Wilson himself later stated, "It's the only song that we did that I absolutely do not like at all. I never liked 'Sail On, Sailor'." However, Wilson personally selected the song as one of 19 track selections for the compilation Classics Selected by Brian Wilson, saying, "I love how this song rocks." According to biographer Jon Stebbins, the song "is perhaps the only perennial Beach Boys favorite to...
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