The Beach Boys - Marcella b/w Hold On Dear (1972)

"Marcella" is a song written by Brian Wilson, Tandyn Almer and Jack Rieley for the American rock band The Beach Boys about a massage therapist. It was released on their 1972 album “Carl and the Passions” - "So Tough". It is the last song to feature Bruce Johnston during his original tenure in the band.
The song branched from an earlier track entitled "I Just Got My Pay" recorded during sessions for “Sunflower”. This early version appears on the box set “Good Vibrations: Thirty Years of The Beach Boys”.
Brian Wilson has said of "Marcella": "It represents one of the first times we tried to emulate The Rolling Stones. In my mind, it was dedicated to the Stones, but I never told them that. It's one of the rockingest songs I ever wrote." According to Jack Rieley, the tune was named for a woman who was working as Brian's masseuse at the time.

A - Marcella  (3:52)
Written-By – Wilson, Rieley
B - Hold On Dear Brother  (4:21)
Written-By – Chaplin, Fataar

Notes
Producer – The Beach Boys
Taken from the album 'So Tough'
Label - Reprise Records

℗ 1972