Hi,
Actually “My Beautiful Car” does sound like “Sloop John B.” but if Teroson were to pay any credits, it should not be to the Beach Boys, but to a West Indies group who wrote the song in 1917! There were many artists who covered this song as it was an old folk tune. Even Dick Dale did a version for his 1962 LP, “Surfer’s Choice” on the Del-Tone label. I prefer Dick Dale’s version to the Beach Boys, BTW. Anyway, the song “Sloop John B.” like “My Bonnie” or “Wimoweh” from South Africans may be so old and in common use that we would refer to a song like this (in the USA at least) as being “in the public domain”.
Cheers and thanks for posting these,
Troy