Flashback: The Beach Boys Record ‘Problem Child’ Theme Song
Anyone wondering why the Beach Boys agreed to write a song for the 1990 movie Problem Child need look no further back in history than two years before when Tom Cruise’s Cocktail served up a little tune on its soundtrack called “Kokomo.” That ode to a nonexistent island off the Florida Keys gave them their first Number One since “Good Vibrations” 22 years years earlier, providing a huge boost to their sagging career. Mike Love was never one to mess with a winning formula, so within the next couple of years “Make It Big” and “Still Cruisin'” wound up in Troop Beverly Hills and Lethal Weapon 2, two excellent movies that only get better the 600th time you watch them on cable.
Problem Child, however, is not a great movie. (If you loved it when you were eight, try watching it again.) Perhaps the only thing worse than it is the song “Problem Child,” which…
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