High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Surf`s Up" is the title of a song written by Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks. The song was intended as one of the centrepieces for the aborted Beach Boys` album Smile, which was begun in late 1966 but shelved in mid-1967. It was reworked and used as the title track for the twenty-second official album by The Beach Boys, Surf`s Up, released in 1971. It also appears as the tenth track in Brian Wilson`s re-recorded Smile, released in 2004.