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Today’s compilation:
Surfin' Hits
1989
Surf / Surf Rock / Surf Pop / Instrumental Rock / Vocal Surf / Pop-Rock
Continuing this little foray of mine into some classic surf music, with this great rundown of 60s songs—which are of both the vocal and instrumental variety—that was released in 1989 on Rhino Records. Rhino's a reissue label, so with the way that they're set up, they have a budget that allows them to pay the licensing fees in order to obtain the songs that they want to include on their compilations. So, none of the songs on this release were actually owned by them.
And that obviously means it costs more to create an album itself, but it also means that you can pretty much shape it however you'd like, so long as the songs that you want are actually available to be licensed and that you don't find yourself going over budget.
So, with that wide latitude, Rhino was able to license a bunch of songs from a whole bunch of different labels, and effectively provide a pretty ample snapshot here of the 60s surf movement in just 18 tracks. They got a couple tunes from the father of surf rock himself, Dick Dale, including his most popular song, the instrumental surf-rendition of the Eastern Mediterranean folk song, "Misirlou," which was featured in Pulp Fiction and sampled heavily by the Black Eyed Peas' for their 2006 single, "Pump It;" they got what's probably the most recognized surf instrumental of all time in The Surfaris' "Wipe Out," they got the perfectly inane confluence of surf, garage, proto-punk, and trash in "Surfin' Bird;" and they got a bunch of songs from the Capitol-EMI label too, including two songs each from The Beach Boys and Jan & Dean.
Speaking of Jan & Dean, I've got some fun facts about them. If you've ever heard one song by this popular 60s duo in your entire life, it's more than likely to have been "Surf City," which was the first surf song to ever reach #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart, back in 1963. But chances are, unless you know your surf hits, you might’ve assumed that "Surf City" was actually just one of many Beach Boys smashes, because, I mean, it really does sound *just* like The Beach Boys.
And that's because Brian Wilson gave it to them. See, the Beach Boys and Jan & Dean actually go back a ways, and both rubbed off on each other too. Jan & Dean weren't even actually always a surf duo; they started out in doo wop. And their debut hit, 1959's "Baby Talk," went top-ten on the Hot 100. But there's a certain part of that song, a vocal "bom-dip-di-dip" that The Beach Boys lifted from it to use in their very own debut single, "Surfin." And then, after being around The Beach Boys and being exposed to their own unique vocal surf sound, Jan & Dean decided to transform themselves into a vocal surf duo.
And I guess, even though they had been performing together already, you could see Brian Wilson's bequeathing of "Surf City" upon Jan & Dean as a sort-of returning of favor towards them for allowing them to use that bit from "Baby Talk." At first, Wilson played them "Surfin' U.S.A."—a surfed-up rewrite of Chuck Berry's "Sweet Little Sixteen"—on piano, and Jan & Dean wanted it. But Wilson refused, saying it was going to be a Beach Boys hit. However, he had another song in mind, one he couldn't figure out a way to finish, and that was "Surf City." So, Jan & Dean took it, Jan finished it, and Brian Wilson, as well as surf music as a whole, then managed to get their first national #1 hit.
Fun story, huh?
So, this is a pretty great compilation from Rhino for anyone who may consider themselves to be surf-uninitiated. It's got some of the biggest hits and acts the genre ever produced on it, from both the vocal and instrumental sides of things. The vocals provide those sweet and irresistible doo wop-derived harmonies and falsettos, and the instrumentals have a way of filling the warm, salty air with all that wet and twangy guitar mystique. Both aspects are captured rather well on here, considering the CD is only 43 minutes long.
Got one more of these surf comps left in the pipeline. Stay tuned!
Highlights:
The Beach Boys - "Surfin' Safari"
Jan & Dean - "Ride the Wild Surf"
The Surfaris - "Wipe Out"
Dick Dale & His Del-Tones - "Misirlou"
The Trashmen - "Surfin' Bird"
The Marketts - "Out of Limits"
The Lively Ones - "Surf Rider"
Jan & Dean - "Surf City"
The Beach Boys - "Surfin' U.S.A."
Dick Dale & His Del-Tones - "Let's Go Trippin'"
The Bel-Airs - "Mr. Moto"
Jack Nitzsche - "The Lonely Surfer"
The Tradewinds - "New York's a Lonely Town"
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#mike love#the beach boys#1960’s#60s#music#rock#pop#pop rock#surf pop#surf rock#psychedelic pop#baroque pop#progressive pop#classic rock#classic pop#oldies#my gifs
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Release: June 30, 2002
Lyrics:
Mira lo que se avecina a la vuelta de la esquina
Viene Diego rumbeando
Con la luna en las pupilas y su traje agua marina
Van restos de contrabando
Y donde más no cabe un alma allí mete a darse caña
Poseído por el ritmo ragatanga
Y el DJ que lo conoce toca el himno de las 12
Para Diego la canción más deseada
Y la baila y la goza y la canta
Y aserejé-ja-dejé
De jebe tu de jebere seibiunouva majavi an de bugui an de güididípi
Aserejé-ja-de jé
De jebe tu de jebere seibiunouva majavi an de bugui an de güididípi
Aserejé-ja-dejé
De jebe tu de jebere seibiunouva majavi an de bugui an de güididípi
No es cosa de brujería que lo encuentre to' los días
Por donde voy caminando
Diego tiene chulería y ese punto de alegría
Rastafari-afrogitano
Y donde más no cabe un alma allí mete a darse caña
Poseído por el ritmo ragatanga
Y el DJ que lo conoce toca el himno de las 12
Para Diego la canción más deseada
Y la baila y la goza y la canta
Y aserejé-ja-dejé
De jebe tu de jebere seibiunouva majavi an de bugui an de güididípi
Aserejé-ja-dejé
De jebe tu de jebere seibiunouva majavi an de bugui an de güididípi
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De jebe tu de jebere seibiunouva majavi an de bugui an de güididípi
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Aserejé-ja-dejé
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"THE RECORD THAT WE MADE – THE SOUND, THE AESTHETIC, EVERYTHING – WAS SONICALLY BASED OFF OF THE RESOURCES THAT WE HAD."
PIC(S) INFO: SXSW Music Festival -- Day 2: Spotlight on singer/guitarist/songwriter Bethany Cosentino of BEST COAST posing for a portrait backstage at Levi's Fader Fort as part of SXSW 2010 on March 18, 2010 in Austin, Texas, plus a shot of she and Bobb Bruno playing Fader Fort on the same date. 📸: Roger Kisby.
"The first BEST COAST record was recorded in two weeks. We worked with this producer Lewis Pesacov, who we knew in LA, and we recorded it in a studio space that was in a practice space in LA, which is now, I believe, being torn down to put high-rise apartments or some shit. But we literally made it in two weeks. We did not have a lot of money. We were not signed to a label. We just were like, “All right, we’re going to go in, we’re going to do this.”
Then we left for SXSW, and we were one of the big, hyped bands that year. The record that we made – the sound, the aesthetic, everything – was sonically based off of the resources that we had. Part of it was intentional because we were trying to replicate a sound that we liked, and we were huge fans of Phil Spector – Phil Spector’s music, not horrid Phil Spector [the person]. So when the record became as successful as it did, nobody expected that. None of us. I don’t even think our label expected that. I think Mexican Summer was, and they were such a good label, because they were boutique. It wasn’t like signing my life over to a major label that was going to do the thing that I worried about when I was 16."
-- STEREOGUM, "We’ve Got A File On You: Bethany Cosentino," by Rachel Brodsky, July 27, 2023
Sources: www.stereogum.com/2231105/bethany-cosentino-best-coast-solo-debut-album/interviews/weve-got-a-file-on-you, Flickr, & Rolling Stone.
#Bethany Cosentino#BEST COAST 2010#Indie rock#BEST COAST#California#Lo-fi/Indie rock#Surf rock#Surf pop#SXSW Music Festival 2010#Roger Kisby#SXSW Music Festival#Vocalist/Guitarist#Austin TX#Austin Texas#Lo-fi/Indie#Indie Sleaze#BEST COAST band#2010s#FaderFort#Indie#SXSW#Guitarist#Debut Album#Indie Style#Indie girls#SXSW 2010
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Jan & Dean / The Lively Ones / Ramones. “Surf City”
Jan and Dean fue un dúo de R&R y surf pop formado en 1958 entre dos amigos, Jan Berry y Dean Torrance, que se conocieron en un instituto de Los Ángeles (California -EE.UU.-) donde jugaban al fútbol americano y compartían su pasión por la música negra, en especial el doo-wop. Junto a otros compañeros, aún en edad escolar, crearon la banda The Barons y, posteriormente, comenzarían su carrera…
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Surf Pop/Rock? Indie rock, you be the judge?
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miss girl world by maya lucia
album artwork by eutalia de la paz
#indie music#indie artist#indie rock#new music#surf rock#surf pop#musician#music#artist#graphic#graphic design#fantasy#girl#world#heart#flowers#bubbles#eutalia de la paz#maya lucia#brooklyn artist#bk artist#bk music#minneapolis#minneapolis artist#mn#mn artist#minnesota#heartbreak
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Today's compilation:
Great Records of the Decade: 60's Hits, Vol. 1
1990
Pop / Pop-Rock / Orchestral Pop / Surf Pop / Country
Kinda weird that a pretty sizeable and very eclectic label like Curb Records would license every single track for this budget comp of theirs from Capitol Records and then try to sell it as their own. Like, you guys have a big catalogue yourselves, with a lot of very recognizable names on your roster too. Why put together a budget CD of 60s hits that amounts to nothing but a sampler for another label? I get maybe going outside of your own vaults for a few tracks, but the whole thing? I know you received their permission and all, but, at the end of the day, this kinda feels like Toyota trying to sell a Honda or something. Can't really say that I fully understand the thought process that went into putting a release like this together.
That said, though, this is still a pretty terrific assortment of 60s pop hits, with a bunch of well remembered classics, like The Beach Boys' "Help Me, Rhonda" and Manfred Mann's "Doo Wah Diddy Diddy," presented alongside some tunes that, I think, have proven to be far less popular as time has proceeded to continuously march on. One such example is Little Anthony & the Imperials' "Goin' Out of My Head," an excellent piece of soulful orchestral pop from 1964 that starts out soft and then transcendently soars at its climactic peak, with lead singer Anthony Gourdine's naturally high pitch aided by a combination of strings and bounding beats of a drum. An epic, unorthodoxly constructed, and theatrical tune that peaked at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
And another example is "Love Is a Hurtin' Thing," a classic soul joint by the great Lou Rawls, which marked both his first time atop the Billboard R&B chart and his first entry into the Hot 100's top 40 as well, making it all the way to #13. Rawls flexes his always full and butter-smooth voice on this one, never showing any rasp, despite getting movingly passionate in a couple different spots. And it's another one with superb accompanying instrumentation too.
Speaking of Rawls, did you know that there's another song on this album that at one point was actually intended to go to him as well? When Bobbie Gentry penned her gothic country chart-topping classic, "Ode to Billie Joe," she had him in mind to record it. Gentry wanted to sell the song to Capitol, who might then have given it to Rawls themselves, but rather than deciding to pay someone else to sing on a demo for it, she opted to sing on it herself instead. It was only supposed to be a B-side, but Capitol liked her raw, unpolished voice just fine, and then they decided to add some strings to it, and ultimately chose to release it as an A-side. "Billie Joe" would then end up serving as one of the biggest country songs of the entire decade, back when the genre wasn't so segregated from the rest of the pop charts in general, and it would be the biggest hit of Bobbie Gentry's own career, marking her very unexpected breakout with just her second single.
So, I don't really know why Curb Records decided to release this album in the first place—perhaps they thought there was a good chance at making a profit despite the licensing fees for each song—but they certainly did a good job anyway. A brief, but eclectic selection that mixes enormous hits with less remembered ones. It sort of feels like they wrote the name of each 60s Capitol hit on a small piece of paper, tossed all those pieces of paper into a hopper, gave that hopper a few tumbles, and then selected 13 songs at random from it and pressed them all to a CD 😅.
Good stuff, but no real consistent theme to any of it.
Highlights:
The Beach Boys - "Help Me, Rhonda"
Jackie DeShannon - "Put a Little Love in Your Heart"
Jan & Dean - "Surf City"
Manfred Mann - "Doo Wah Diddy Diddy"
Little Anthony & the Imperials - "Goin' Out of My Head"
Bobbie Gentry - "Ode to Billie Joe"
Lou Rawls - "Love Is a Hurtin' Thing"
Glen Campbell - "Galveston"
Wayne Newton - "Danke Schoen"
#pop#pop rock#rock#orchestral pop#surf pop#surf#surf music#country#country music#classic rock#classic pop#oldies#music#60s#60s music#60's#60's music
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Fork, Marry, Killbassa! by Talk Chalk
#talk chalk#boston music scene#surf pop#boston massachusetts#alternative rock#surf punk#rock#halloween rock#psychedelic surf#fork mary killbassa!
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DUTCH CRIMINAL RECORD- LIGHT UP
Smooth emotive surf-pop from Portsmouth trio Dutch Criminal Record (Joe Delaney-Stone, Sam Thrussell + Joe Frampton).
Light Up with a lush sonic sweep you off your feet guitar solo was inspired in part by Sam's brother leaving for uni.
Light Up was their first single issued after signing to the venerable label Alcopop! Records.
Listen above.
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Song Review: “Advil in California” by Maxine Edmonds
Maxine Edmond's "Advil in California" is a surf-pop breakup anthem that twists the breakup trope!
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Maxine Edmonds’s debut “Advil in California” is an absolute delight. Mustard has observed that humans use over-the-counter medicines such as Advil, Tylenol, or Ibuprofen to ease any pain they may be feeling. Rather than relying on tired tropes used within break up songs. The metaphor for the human being the painkiller is a…
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#advil#advil in california#break up#breakup song#maxine edmonds#music blog#music blogger#music review#music shelf with mustard#relationships#song review#surf pop
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#pop rock#vocal surf#sunshine pop#baroque pop#psychedelic pop#progressive pop#1960s#1970s#usa#poll#Spotify
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