12 Days of Christmas - Day Eight

In 1964, The Beach Boys released The Beach Boys' Christmas Album. Five of the album's 12 tracks were original Christmas songs written by the band, which was unusual at the time. Today we have the song Santa's Beard written by Brian Wilson & Mike Love. Brian Wilson often used studio musicians to record instrumental tracks for the band to sing over, but on this song The Beach Boys recorded their own backing tracks. Brian played piano, Dennis played drums, Carl is on rhythm & lead guitar, and Al Jardine played the bass.