"Little Deuce Coupe" became The Beach Boys' highest charting B-side, peaking on September 28, 1963, at No.
The music was written by Brian Wilson with the lyric by local radio station DJ Roger Christian.
[5][6] Brian Wilson commented on the song in the liner notes of the 1990 CD re-release of the original Surfer Girl album: "We loved doing 'Little Deuce Coupe'.
"[full citation needed] According to author Jon Stebbins in his book The Lost Beach Boy, while the group was on tour in July 1963 Mike Love hit on the idea to use short instrumental segments of the song in the Beach Boys' live set as a way to introduce the bandmembers to the audience, starting with Dennis Wilson on drums, then adding David Marks (and later Al Jardine) on rhythm guitar, Carl Wilson on lead guitar, and finally Brian on the bass, before launching the song from the top.
[full citation needed] In July 1963 Cash Box described it as "a delightful shuffle rhythm rocker.
"[10] In the 2005 film War of the Worlds, directed by Steven Spielberg, Ray Ferrier (played by Tom Cruise) sings part of the song to his daughter (Dakota Fanning) as a lullaby when she is too afraid to sleep, because he doesn't know the lullabies she has heard from her mother (Miranda Otto).