Music

The Beach Boys gift you a previously unheard song, "Little Saint Nick," for the holidays

by Nicole Villeneuve

This is nothing compared to all of the re-done material you’re going to hear from the Beach Boys’ 50th anniversary reunion; just in time for the holidays, Brian WIlson and co. have shared a previously unheard version of their song “Little Saint Nick.”

Some history on the track, from Wilson’s website:

“This version of “Little St. Nick” was recorded in October 1963, several months before the 1964 Christmas album sessions, and wasn’t used at the time. Brian later took this backing track and used it as the foundation for the song “Drive In” for the 1964 “All Summer Long” album. This version with the “Little St. Nick” lyrics remained unreleased until Mark Linett discovered it while preparing the first CD releases of the Capitol Beach Boys catalog, and it first saw the light of day as a bonus track on a now out of print CD edition of the 1964 Beach Boys Christmas Album.”

You can listen to the song below.