"The Beach Boys Medley" reached number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100,[1] becoming the band's highest-charting hit in the United States in over five years.

A Beach Boys medley entitled "Surf's Up", produced by South Florida musicians and engineer Chuck Kirkpatrick, was created months before the Palladino-produced medley and was actually submitted to Rupert Perry, head of A & R at Capitol (Kirkpatrick had been a Capitol artist himself in the late 70's).

Perry's response was, "If we wanted to release a Beach Boys medley, we would simply use the original masters which we own".

Kirkpatrick's medley began receiving heavy airplay on a Miami FM station, "Love 94", and that led to local and national TV coverage by "PM Magazine".

The difference and uniqueness was that Kirkpatrick played every instrument and sang every vocal part himself, while Capitol's medley was simply tape edits of previous Beach Boys' studio masters.