First Class - Beach Baby 1974 A song for the first official weekend to kick off the summer! “Beach Baby” is a song by the British band The First Class. Written by John Carter and his wife, Gillian (Jill) Shakespeare, the song became the band’s only substantial hit. The subject of the lyrics is not holiday love, but a broken love relationship between two high school students in Los Angeles in the 1950s. Carter and Shakespeare wrote “Beach Baby” in their home in East Sheen, South West London. Shor