"Your Imagination" is a song written by Brian Wilson

Brian Wilson

Brian Douglas Wilson is an American musician, best known as the leader and chief songwriter of the group The Beach Boys. Within the band, Wilson played bass and keyboards, also providing part-time lead vocals and, more often, backing vocals, harmonizing in falsetto with the group...

, Joe Thomas

Joe Thomas (producer/director)

Joe Thomas is an American producer and director with over 25 years of experience in the entertainment field.-Career:With 25 years of experience in the entertainment field, Joe Thomas career spans the music and television industries from his beginnings serving as a writer, engineer and producer in...

 and Steve Dahl

Steve Dahl

Steven Robert Dahl has been an American radio personality and humorist for more than thirty years. He is currently podcasting, and releases the podcasts for download daily from his own website as well as the iTunes store...

 for Brian Wilson's 1998 solo album Imagination

Imagination (Brian Wilson album)

Imagination is Brian Wilson's fourth solo album, and his second release of new original studio material. It was issued in 1998 on Giant Records and distributed by Warner Music....

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An alternate version of "Your Imagination" with slightly different lyrics and Steve Dahl

Steve Dahl

Steven Robert Dahl has been an American radio personality and humorist for more than thirty years. He is currently podcasting, and releases the podcasts for download daily from his own website as well as the iTunes store...

 singing lead was occasionally played in the late 1990s on Dahl's Chicago-based radio shows on WLUP-FM and WCKG.

Brian Wilson

Brian Wilson

Brian Douglas Wilson is an American musician, best known as the leader and chief songwriter of the group The Beach Boys. Within the band, Wilson played bass and keyboards, also providing part-time lead vocals and, more often, backing vocals, harmonizing in falsetto with the group...

 supplied the vocals on both lead and harmony through overdubbing

Overdubbing

Overdubbing is a technique used by recording studios to add a supplementary recorded sound to a previously recorded performance....

. The lyrics refer obliquely to nostalgia for The Beach Boys ("another car on the beach," "I took a trip to the past"), while the arrangement references The Beatles

The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr...

' "Sgt. Pepper" with the piccolo trumpet

Piccolo trumpet

The smallest of the trumpet family is the piccolo trumpet, pitched one octave higher than the standard B trumpet. Most piccolo trumpets are built to play in either B or A, using a separate leadpipe for each key. The tubing in the B piccolo trumpet is one-half the length of that in a standard B...

 in the chorus.

The Giant Records CD single release, on Giant 9280, included an a cappella

A cappella

A cappella music is specifically solo or group singing without instrumental sound, or a piece intended to be performed in this way. It is the opposite of cantata, which is accompanied singing. A cappella was originally intended to differentiate between Renaissance polyphony and Baroque concertato...

version of the "Your Imagination" along with the album track "Happy Days."

Your Imagination featured in the live setlist for Brian Wilson's European tour in 2011