The Euclid Beach Band-No Surf In Cleveland

[missars1]

I actually SAW someone surfing at Mentor Headlands yesterday! and YES the waves were high enough!!!

[resbuzz]

Still have the LP

[rjschindler]

At about 1:25 seconds, there is a picture of some kids dancing. One of the kids looks like my daughter's friend. I wonder if this picture was taken in euclid?

[garageband66]

@rjschindler The pictures are return hits from googling images from Euclid. could be her. Small world after all.

[steelersfan7238]

I am from Pittsburgh and I love this song!!!

Cleveland really is a great city!

Go Steelers and Go Browns!!

[wando03070]

Great tune! I really miss Cleveland. There was a kid in high school who actually drove around with a surf board on his car -- just in case a wave might appear in Lake Erie. This tune says it all.

Go Indians!

[Stevetheperformer]

Don't forget the Metroparks

[DANINVEGAS]

Oh man, what a great song. Great memories. When I went to George Washington Univ. in DC, the campus radio station used to play this every Saturday night at 10pm, dedicating it to me. People would meet me and break into 'There's no surf in Cleveland...'. It was hysterical. Thanks for putting this up!

[tekadan]

thats ricky bell on Sax i know because its my step brother

[yiayia10902]

@tekadan Small world!! I worked at Great Northern Mall with Ricky "The Rock Star" Bell in the late '70's. I worked at the record store and he got the band to autograph my copy of this album for me. I loved him for it!!!!

[crazyromanian1]

@tekadan And John Hart on the drums I think. He played in a lot of garage bands in the Greater Cleveland area prior the Euclid Beach Band. Good guy.

[TopazDupree]

A friend who still lives in Cleveland told me today that on this morning's 6:00am news (8/06/2010), there was a story about a woman who gives scuba lessons on the shores of Lake Erie in Cleveland. Someone was actually surfing in the lake (waves not as big as those on the West Coast). I would love to have seen that.

[ladymaryanne6]

I love this song, i was born and raised in cleveland and this song brings back such wonderful memories-makes me want to return to cleveland and take photographs of all the places that mean so much to me-thanks again

[pithair1]

Euclid Beach was an awesome amusment park

[tekadan]

it is Ricky Bell on Sax,(not Ron Bell), he went from this band to michael stanely band, i know this becuz hes my brother and i was there

[AllThisIsThat]

I love listening to this song....and then maybe a little "She Did It" followup for my "Eric surf fix"

[AllThisIsThat]

Man we can't impress the girls on the beach

The way they do out in LA........

That seemed like a serious problem in 1979....maybe it still is :)

[garageband66]

It is a problem very true.

[prettymom777]

@AllThisIsThat You never know. With this "Global Warming" things may change!

Lake Erie could have surf! Ontario, to!

[CWOSONIAN]

thanks man

[AllThisIsThat]

Such a great (and unknown to many) song....

[garageband66]

I am that, thou art that, and all this is that.

Great song, great monicker.

[dddaaayyy]

Thanks to whomever posted this. I have been trying to track down this song for years. It came out after I headed off to college and until now I'd never heard it. I've tried to find the record on many trips back, but not even the joints on Coventry that have everything else have it.

[cutlasjohn25]

who was your uncle ??

[cutlasjohn25]

Your uncle played in a band with Eric Carmen ?

[bigmac6340]

Long time ago before he got big

[jeffpolara]

Just no jobs in Cleveland USA......

[missxradio]

I know a guy who came up with the movie 'no surf in cleveland' so did this come out in 1979

[garageband66]

I am not aware of any affiliation with any movie. 1979 is the year most websites credit as a single release but they have been wrong before.

[prettymom777]

Memorized and sung in my home as much as I want, as long as the windows are closed ;) There's no surf in my city, either, but I can always listen to music about it, watch Gidget movies and dream!

[garageband66]

Gidget's not so bad.

[okie206]

I know this was the work of Rich Riesing and (the late) Jim Garrard - I believe EC was not invovled with EBB until after this was a hit - Jim and Richie worked at the Scene and donated the proceeds to charity -- The kicker is the copy on the label of the 45 "please remain seated until this record comes to a complete stop" - funny stuff from Richie, favorite on my jukebox as well as the flip Laugh In The Dark!

Jim once told me that when richie wrote the nosurf"hook" the lyrics came really easy.

[cutlasjohn25]

Any idea on how to get a hold of Rich. I collect autographs in my copy of "Rock n Roll & the Cleveland Connection" and I would love for him to sign my book.

[cutlasjohn25]

Your lead on how to find Rich worked out GREAT !! We met up with him last week and it was a real pleasure to finally meet him and get his autograph. Much Thanks... John

[slobomotion]

I also preferred "Laugh In The Dark." I bought the 45. LITD was to be the first half of the soundtrack for my movie, "Girl Pack," 1979, with Miriam Linna.

[ClevelandHost]

Jim Girard on the spelling

[colindominy]

Yep, I've still got the '45 vinyl of this fabulous song. No doubt about Carmen's ability to produce that ersatz surf sound !! Also - has anyone out there ever heard of another single in this same genre, called "Surfs Down" ? It was done by someone called Davis Astles, I think, or David Eccles, or something like that. I'm not sure of the artist's name .. a bit vague .. but I sure remember the song - it's fantastic, just like this piece of great memorabilia. Thanks for the posting, garageband66 !

[garageband66]

I think it's Eccles and I may have played it years ago on my show in 80. I borrowed it from a fellow student in the hallway that was heavy into the surf sound. He was a transplant from Hawthorne, a military brat as I recall. I see what I can find.

[ClevelandHost]

The Euclid Beach Band has 2-3 different line-ups.

The one of the 45 (that wasn't on Epic)

was a tad different from the line-up that did

the album and played out live.

& then on the "Headslands" 45 you had another almost completely different line-up than the other two releases.

[garageband66]

When you have members that have other committments in other bands (not mention real jobs), it's not uncommon to have various line-ups mere days apart when others cannot make appearances, appointments or recording obligations.

Perhaps it was a combination of these and many other cicumstances, who knows? All I am sure of is that this song could have gone national and much more successful than it was.

[ClevelandHost]

It was a combination of many things.

I was there for most, if not, all of it.

[CuyahogaMustang]

Great to hear this song , I have the LP and the 45 . Is there a video out there " Summer's almost over " and " Headlands "?

[garageband66]

Not sure but I am certain it will show up here eventually.

[shelly10538]

Laugh in the dark is the flipside of no surf in Cleveland and wasn't on the album. I have the 45 still but was hoping to find a better copy, it is the one my older brother bought in 1978.

[garageband66]

If it is on a 45 likely it is available somewhere; I'll see what comes up.

[shelly10538]

Where is "Laugh in the dark", their best song? Reminds me of when we were living in Cleveland in the late 70s.

[garageband66]

I do not have the album the only other cut I have heard was I Need You, sorry.

Thanks for the view.

[prettymom777]

I found "Laugh InThe Dark" somewhere on YouTube, but I can't post a linkbecause it won't show up.

Try typing Euclid Beach Band - Laugh In The Dark in the search bar and see what happens

I know I favourited to my computer,but I've been having disk operating problem and then my monitor had to go down, so I've been in computer withdrawal for a few days.

As far as I know, it isn't on my sharewear site, but I'm still trying.

[Rebeccarvg]

I SOOOOOO remember this song.....I started singing it as soon as I heard it.....

[garageband66]

You must be clairvoyant!

Thanks for the view and post!

[jimvanny]

Great song. Reminds me of going to the beach at Huntington Park.

[garageband66]

My son lifeguarded at that park two years ago.

[AnjelicaJonas]

haha i live in ohio. im gonna try to surf there instead of going to south carolinaa

[garageband66]

We here on the NC/SC coast already feel as we've been annexed into Ohio. We need to turn you guys onto East Coast Beach Music and teach you how to shag (the dance).

[dllewiszz]

This great song was played on the radio this morning by Jim Shea on Y103.9

[danieljames216]

My Dad wrote this song...

[garageband66]

Really? I think it's great! I imagine he does too!

[n8pzg]

So glad to find this song on You Tube thanks garageband 66. I sill miss Cleveland.

[garageband66]

Glad I could help.

[MichaelJordan060627]

Cleveland's a lonely town when you're the only surfer boy....

[hollies65]

I was gonna say that!

[MichaelJordan060627]

around.

[AnjelicaJonas]

well im joining you this summer! see you there.

[bigtanboy]

hilarious and awesome