Best of The Beach Boys Vol. 3

Best of The Beach Boys Vol. 3 is the third in a series of hits compilations of music by The Beach Boys released by Capitol Records. It would prove to be the last official "best of" package by the band on their first record label. Released in August 1968, Best of The Beach Boys Vol. 3 was primarily put together to compensate for the disastrous U.S. sales of The Beach Boys' Friends album. Containing another helping of hits, the album had both its good points and bad. This album was the LP debut of the pre-Pet Sounds single "The Little Girl I Once Knew". Also featured are "She Knows Me Too Well" from Today!; their very first charted hit from 1962, "Surfin'"; and the passage of time that enabled the inclusions of "Good Vibrations", "Heroes...