Surfin' 'Round The World

was the name of his first own credited LP in 1963 - a lifetime slogan for Mr. Bruce Johnston who joined in April 1965 the Beach Boys and is since then touring with them round the world.

He celebrates today his 68th birthday!

T-Bones: Boss Drag & Boss Drag At The Beach [1963/64]

featuring:
Hal Blaine (drums)
Plas Johnson (sax)
Glen Campbell (guitar)
Tommy Tedesco (guitar)
Dave Pell (clarinet, oboe)
Ervan Coleman (guitar)
Frankie Capp (percussion)
Ray Pohlman (bass)
Perry Botkin (trombone)
Steve Douglas (sax)
& Leon Russell (keyboards) on
Boss Drag At The Beach

grab these Hot Rod rarities here

Ed "Big Daddy" Roth #01

bio, info & merchandise

do you think this is a serious Surf Compilation -

and it's worth is about 20 $ ???

believe it or not ... have a look!



you can load it here - as long as nobody is writing a serious complaint.


enjoy the SUMMER wherever you are!

(this means for this blog, that we will have a lower rate of postings the next months! - but don't panic!)








what's in the bag? - (click to enlarge!)

Pat Boone - Beach Girl & Little Honda [1964]

If surfing music was good to Dot, why not push it to the limit? In 1964, Pat Boone got Bruce Johnston and Terry Melcher to write, produce, and sing backgrounds for a song called "Beach Girl" (Dot 16658). It was a totally left-field sound for Boone, and many believe it to be one of his best records, but it was just too different for radio to program and fans to buy. It died at #72.

http://www.bsnpubs.com/dot/dotstoryc.html


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The Challengers - Surfbeat [1963]

Surprisingly this album was the best selling instrumental surf album ever, (if you want to believe what's written somewhere on the web). In fact this album was very particular, because with this album the new instrumental surf music was spread from California all over the world.
Only cover versions of other bands, except of Mr Moto, Vampire & Kami-Kaze, written by a band called the Bel-Airs, the band who became the Challengers after they disbanded. On the drums of both bands was Richard Delvecchio [who shortened his name to Richard Delvy, but attention: The label Del-Fi was founded by Bob Keane and took its name from Delphi, the Greek God of music and inspiration].
Many of the original versions are already posted on this blog ...

East Coast Tremors ... over at FCCL

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The Fantastic Baggys - Tell'em I'm SURFIN' [1964]

Although packaged and promoted as a bona fide group, the Fantastic Baggys were actually an L.A. studio project by the duo of P.F. Sloan and Steve Barri. Sloan and Barri wrote many first-rate (and second-rate) pop-rock and folk-rock tunes in the mid-1960s, but were at this point, as evidenced by the name of the group, doing surf and hot rod material. The similarity of the Fantastic Baggys material to Jan and Dean in particular should come as no surprise, since Sloan and Barri not only wrote some songs for Jan and Dean, but also did some vocals on Jan and Dean records of the era. The Fantastic Baggys did one album for Imperial in 1964, Tell 'Em I'm Surfin', as well as three singles in 1964 and 1965 (which included three non-LP songs); there were also a couple of Fantastic Baggys albums issued in South Africa. (Although there were four Fantastic Baggys pictured on the sleeve of Tell 'Em I'm Surfin', the two other guys were just friends who were not on the records.) The album, in both songwriting and performance, was a pretty close but ultimately derivative and inferior facsimile of circa 1964 Jan and Dean and (more distantly) Beach Boys records. The Fantastic Baggys stopped making records in 1965, when the surf faded and Sloan and Barri were more interested in writing and singing more serious and sophisticated material /R Unterberger.

Songs in order of the South African release with 11 songs.

Phil ‘PF’ Sloan (falsetto, alto and bass vocals, guitar)
Steve Barri (tenor harmony, percussion)

with Hal Blaine (drums)
Tommy Tedesco (guitar)
Glen Campbell (guitar)
Ray Pohlman (bass)
Leon Russell (keyboards)

review also at
http://www.pipeline.moonfruit.com

The Greatest Surf Songs Of All Time ...

It was, and it is always such as easy for the music industry to recycle some old singles and LPs, and distribute another surf related compilation, but is that really the stuff you want?

No! But there's a simple way: Make your own compilation!

[The original album with a different look, but the same picture was released by Capitol-Records,
with - of course - only Capitol artist like The BBoys, Dick Dale, John Severson and Jack Marshall]

If you wish to have your "own" backsleeve for your very own album, drop YOUR tracklist into the comment section.


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The Bobby Fuller 4

On December 3rd the BF4 played as planned at PJ's. A truck full with recording equipement was parked outside, and a sound technician ready to grab everything what happend inside.

"We just weren't happy with the sound overall, and we were going to re-record there again after the beginning of the new year (1966), but we just got busy with touring and everything" said Bob Keane.
So this album was never issued - until 1991 when another record company packed twelve (out of ???) songs on a compilation, together with other rarities. In 1998 this "album" was part of the BF4 triple CD "The Mustang Years". It's definitely unknown how many tracks were recorded "really" live, and how many songs were recorded in a studio and post-added with audience screams, applause and so on. Altogether 19 tracks plus an (interesting) article by Dan Epstein about the death of Bob Fuller.
Sorry only in english ...

Surfin' Lungs - three songs from: Full Petal Jacket [2010]

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«Since the early 80s, this British band is doing the best surf music this side of the ocean.»

>>> three songs

Thunder Road ... The Super Stocks [1964]

Eleven car related songs by Gary Usher's "Super Stocks" featuring some of the best studio musicians of that era ... their first of four albums, all recorded and published in 1964.


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