The Ivy League, a Beach Boys-inspired band led by John Carter, recorded "My World Fell Down" in 1966, and scored a minor hit in the UK.
Undeterred, Usher recruited Los Angeles session musicians, along with longtime friends Glen Campbell and Bruce Johnston, and songwriter Curt Boettcher to record the song under the moniker Sagittarius.
[5] The quasi-classical pop keyboards and string arrangements draw comparisons from the group's albums Pet Sounds and Smile, particularly the song "Good Vibrations".
[8] When "My World Fell Down" was issued on the band's first album, Present Tense, the song lacked the same artistic statement that the musique concrète section delivered to the composition as it was removed from it altogether.
Due to the obvious influences taken from Wilson's work on Pet Sounds and Smile, "My World Fell Down" is regularly described as "the best single the Beach Boys never made", and one of Usher's most accomplished masterpieces.