sometimes things get lost ...

... on harddrives, on old email accounts or just because somebody was too lazy to write tags for old vinyl records. And sometimes they appear again and nobody knows exactly why ...

(sleeve by bradleyloos)

get the songs here ...

 (I don't know who ripped this album, maybe it was Bradley, maybe it was Jason or a complete different third person, but finally it is not my rip, and I sure have to say thank you ...)

"Description by Jason"
The Surfsiders "Sing The BBoys Songbook" (Design/ Pickwick, DLP-208, 1965)

Easily one of the most noteworthy attempts at ripping-kids-off-by-replicating-a-popular-group's-songs, the Surfsiders 1965 LP seems to have finally gained a kind of celebrity status over the last decade. Essentially a collection of hit BBoys singles as performed by atonal studio hacks with maybe a day to crank this damn record out, this baby manages to turn the (you know; heartbreaking, gorgeously sculpted and layered, etc etc -- you've heard it all before) original B. Wilson arrangements into simplified off-key bar band bleats loaded with dimestore barbershop quartet harmonies, all lovingly topped off by some frighteningly enthusiastic playing. Probably besting even the lamest Beatles ripoff records for both style and substance, this gem can go toe to toe with "Pet Sounds" any day of the week for me. The more you love (or hate) the originals the better this ought to get, and this rip is from the cleanest copy of the LP (of the, *koff koff*, four) that I've owned over the years. Fun, fun, fun!

The Longboards [Spain]

their myspace

With this, their 3rd album the band proves that there's enough originality to create something new and fresh, with each and everyone of the self penned tracks (14 out of 15), whilst drawing inspiration from the Surf Guitar greats.

available now!

at El Toro Records

you wanna purchase this album via download? : here's the scans of the album

[click & save]

well, you can of course wait until I'm gonna post this album with all songs ... I think mid of 2016 would be a good date

Gary Usher - Hot Rod USA [compiled around 1994]

It's supposed to be a bootleg from Sweden ...

with some music you already know - and some very rare singles by Gary Usher himself like "Jody", "It's A Lie" and "The Beetle". Altogether 30 songs, some of them the first time "online".

> > > >

In 2008 Sundazed (who else!) released a two cd compilation: "Barefoot Adventures - The Four Star Sessions" - a recommended buy! Available as cd, lp and download

[short] biography

Robert Mitchum - Calypso Is Like So ... [1957]

guru's artwork / photostream
[in some way I like more than the original]

original sleeve - 1957

Sandy Nelson and The Sin City Termites - (Two songs from) Nelsonized [2008]

Sandy Nelson (lead drums...some screams and random noises)
Eddie Angel (lead guitar)
Billy Favata (stand up bass)
Remi Gits (rhythm/lead guitar)

The short Story:
Members of Torturing Elvis (Remi Gits and Billy Favata) randomly hooked up with Sandy on a leg of a tour out West.
They made plans to come back and record some music with Sandy which they did 2 years later.

From playing in the Rockabilly scene in Torturing Elvis, Remi and Billy were acquaintances of Eddie Angel (guitar player currently for Los Straitjackets and The Neanderthals). When Eddie found out about the project, he was interested in playing on it too ...which he was finally able to do in late '06.
After a few of the usual delays (which could be expected with any project that has members spread out across the country in different bands) they were able to get the thing finished and put out there into the unknown limits of the world wide web!

Hopefully enough people like what they hear and The Sin City Termites can put together another record ...next time though ... it'll happen alot faster.

c&p from their myspace

full album released by Spinout Records

*two songs

(Senior Beat & Surf Tune)

Thunderbirds Are Go! [1966]

Thunderbirds Are Go! is a 1966 British science-fiction film based on Thunderbirds, a 1960s television series starring marionette puppets and featuring scale model effects in a filming process dubbed "Supermarionation". Written by Thunderbirds creators Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, directed by David Lane and produced by AP Films, Thunderbirds Are Go develops the franchise with a plot focusing on the futuristic spacecraft Zero-X and its manned mission to Mars. When Zero-X suffers a mechanical failure during re-entry, it is up to International Rescue, with the aid of the Thunderbird machines, to save the astronauts on board before the spacecraft is obliterated in a crash landing.
Filmed from March to June 1966 and premiering in December, Thunderbirds Are Go includes, in a first for an AP Films production, cameo appearances from puppets of real-life celebrities Cliff Richard and The Shadows, who also contributed four songs, released separately as "Thunderbirds are Go!" EP, to the musical score. It is also the first motion picture to have been filmed with an early form of video assist technology known as "Add-a-Vision", and incorporated landscape footage that was shot on location in Portugal.Special effects pieces, produced under the supervision of Derek Meddings and including rocket launch sequences, space shots and a miniature representation of the Martian surface, required six months to complete.
Despite positive initial reviews, which praised the film as a well-made cinematic transfer of the Thunderbirds television series, Thunderbirds Are Go soon proved to be a box office failure for the Andersons. The disappointment of this outcome was intensified by the knowledge that Series Two of Thunderbirds would be cut down to six episodes and that AP Films' upcoming television project would be a brand-new series, which would later be titled Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons and screened from 1967. To add to the lukewarm public response, negative critical reception of Thunderbirds Are Go has targeted, besides other aspects, the characterisation of the puppet cast, the running time dedicated to model and effects shots, and the fantasy dream sequence starring Cliff Richard and The Shadows, which has been described as a poor scriptwriting idea on the part of the Andersons.
Surprised by the underperformance of Thunderbirds Are Go, the United Artists distributors authorised the production of a sequel. However, Thunderbird 6 received a similarly unenthusiastic response on its release in 1968, and the Thunderbirds franchise was abandoned until the appearance of a reboot, starring live actors, in 2004. Meanwhile, the Zero-X astronauts featured in their own strip in the Anderson-related TV Century 21 comic until 1969. (wiki)

This pretty cool album sleeve was recycled for a "Best Of Album" entitled "Shadows Are Go" by Scamp Records in 1996 - 

and was reprinted a couple of times ... but who really needs a Cliff Richard & The Shadows "Best Of Album" ???

but the car (a Rolls Royce future version of 2065) - it's so *ƒ@∆⁄* great

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... and the rest of the score? It's a soundtrack with mostly classical orchestration!

if you can't refuse ... [well the album sleeve is also nice!]
it's really mono!

Papa Doo Run Run [California]

Formed in 1965, the now legendary California band, PAPA DOO RUN RUN, quickly discovered their forte - they sounded like the BBoys!  That sound led them to surf music icons, Jan & Dean, and from 1976-80 Papa toured North America with the duo. In the 80s Papa graduated from J&D to TheBBoys, and toured and recorded with members of that band throughout the next 2 decades.  The group also had an unprecedented 15-year run as the "Celebrity House Band" at Disneyland from 1975-90! 
Papa’s 1975 Top 40 hit “Be True To Your School” reached No. 1 in California.  Their ground breaking CD “California Project” (1985) exploded onto the Billboard Hot 100 Chart at no. 17 and earned the band their second Gold Record and a Grammy Nomination.  Additionally, Papa Doo Run Run appeared in, and recorded the soundtrack album for the CBS-TV movie “Deadman’s Curve”.  The band currently has 10 CD releases and a full length DVD.
Today, Papa Doo Run Run still averages about 100 dates a year, worldwide.  Their act encompasses all the great Classic Rock hits of the 60's and 70's, with a special emphasis on their award winning re-creation of the hits of TheBBoys. Their best kept secret... Papa Doo Run Run is who TheBBoys call when they need someone to fill in in their band.

from their homepage


Their album "California Project" is a sort of a remake of TheBBoys "Best of Album". Digital recorded 1985.

Try before buy!