Dick Dale and his Del-Tones :: King of the Surf Guitar

[Soapking1965]

Backed up by the legendary Darlene Love and the Blossoms.

[Floskeknosk]

0 dislikes speaks for itself! Oh, oh. And the best part is 0:00-2:09

[84drob]

One of the most greatest songs ever written

[surfrider1962]

This is a song feat.The Blossoms on FEMALE vocals (feat. Darlene Love/Wright), Capitol April 1963.

Do you know this song of which the vocals are sung by MALE singers dating to June 1963 ? Who are they ? Thanks in advance...I just heard that male vocals a few minutes ago...

[zaphod52]

Nice to see this on here "King of the Surf Guitar" was literally the first album I ever bought way back when I was 11. Inspired me to nag my parents into buying me a guitar - I still can't play it!! Great memories

[MrBlueSkyMrNight]

One of the BEST guitars in a song - that I've ever heard.

I've been "listening" for years...

[AdmiralBarackbar]

I'm not a fan of this type of music specifically (don't hate, we all have different tastes), but man, his fills are amazing. the opening riff just puts me in the sixties driving an old dodge at 4:00 in the morning down a beach.

[MikeBruceSullivan]

I know at least one Dick Dale fan in San Bernadino, his good friend, fellow SoCal legend, Frankie Avalon, who owns a home there on the hills. :)

I think if I had to say one thing about this song is that: "it's so unique to hear 2 black female singers sing in unison about a white surf guitar virtuoso." Too bad it's such a short song.

I play this song very loudly in my Camaro T-Top in SoCal for a moonlight drive. More people should, too. Spread the joy!

[ResurrectedJimi]

@MikeBruceSullivan Damn, dude. I COULD NOT HAVE SAID IT BETTER ABOUT HIM & HIS MUSIC!

THE WORLD OF MUSIC HAS BEEN ENRICHED BY DICK DALE LEAVING BOSTON FOR SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA & LEARNING HOW TO PLAY THE GUITAR!

[zdragonforce]

Listen. :)

[Warholy]

this was the original soundtrack to disneyland's spacemountian

[SuperJMane]

listem to king of to surf guitar...escutem o rei da guitarra...

[1990Apolo]

Listen to the king of the surf guitar!!!!!!

[COMBATBOOOTS]

man I love this song.I used to blast this in my 66' mustang people would trip cause that was in 1999

[Godzilla949]

does anyone know of sumone whos covered this on youtube or anty live footage

if possible tabs but id love to learn this

if you can PM me a cover live version or like tabss

[geldhundt]

Best of all, Dick Dale actually knew how to surf. That photo of him on the album cover is the real thing & he was shown surfin in a couple movies.

[TheStrainers]

@shazzer52762 so perfectly said

[SandySummers]

Featuring Darlene Love on lead vocal.

[deltafranklin]

i was 16 working at Knotts Berry Farm when I was introduced to this song through the loud speakers

[58doggie]

OH Dick Dale yes so right from San Bernandino to Riverside..I was 4 when this came out my bros would play it on our Packard Bell new Hi Fi. I went on to see so many guitar players on the Sunset Strip to big concert halls. Dick Dale is still one of the best. Sat with SRV and talked about him. This riff is so damn tasty and moving. Play it on Dick..yeah

[rw5791]

stratocaster rules.

[MorrisAtGuitar]

"Yo I'm Dick Dale, I fucking own, check this riff it's fucking tasty"

I lol'd

[Brandon0937Crow]

Wow. This shit makes me want to migrate to California just to catch some waves while rocking out to this song, and I'm a proud Okie from Muskogee!

[TheStrainers]

@Brandon0937Crow good blood! My pops is a Okie but bread us in Southern Cal 50 years ago

[ninjasylph]

This song peaks to my soul!

[bottlebrusher]

God Bless Dick Dale!!!!

[MrRonnieG]

Jimi gets all the kudos for being the first big-time left-handed gutiar player but Dick Dale was blowing people away, from the left side of the strings, YEARS before Hendrix.

[rawker617]

@MrRonnieG Thanks for this bit of information. I love telling people they're wrong about something and this adds to my list. Have a good one!

[Monkey111092]

@MrRonnieG Don't forget to point out that Dick Dale also played the guitar without restringing it, unlike Jimi did.

[ssil08420]

@MrRonnieG But hendrix gave alot of publicized kudos to Dick Dale for changing how people heard the guitar...so its all relative...people give it up to a man who gave it up to THE man...

[TwangyBucket]

Yo, Im Dick Dale!!

Awesome

[chernand58]

All those kids come to hear Dick Dale play. Well those were my older bros. They would come home and tell me how DD played. I could'nt wait I was 4 yrs old. Later years I went to work in the music biz with major record compaines in LA. And of course meet Dick what a gent. One of the most underrated guitarist ever. I went to see him 80's and Leo Fender was in the audience and Dick said hello to him. He makes that guitar part of his body. Glad Tarentino used his song. Gave Dick more notice

[Garveergor]

Oh how he can WHAT those strings?

[1pollo1rabbit]

Oh how he can pluck thse strings.

[MikeBruceSullivan]

@Garveergor PLUCK those strings, He Hee :) You're right, Dick Dale did give an orgasm to his Fender guitar strings & still does--check out his new album this year. It has Native American influences to it.

[partrobot]

@Garveergor you Dick-Head

(it's a term of endearment for fans of the Dick)

[NCon41]

nice comment during the video!!

:-D

[colindominy]

One of Dick's all-time greats !! While he may out in the desert or somewhere, back beyond L.A. & The San Gabriels these days .. who knows (where are you, man !) .. I tend to think that all the old surfers down at Rincon are still playing this gem even today. They never stopped, I'm sure.

[pitzernaldo]

Caramba!!! Que tremendo solista...que timbre fantástico!!!

[woodjoewood]

Those comments on the vid cracked me up lol

[teenehmk]

I love this song

[Arbmanthesheep]

Navi approved.

[1995salvador]

what the fuck a pictur of 8=====D was taking to me D=

[KENZOWAL]

Wow, I haven't heard this great song in at least 30 years, but it was a very big hit back in '63 when I was a kid in San Bernardino (one of the cities mentioned in the song). Dick Dale was hot then, and is still hot today. There's something timeless about instrumentals like this, and he was a major, influential talent that almost single-handedly defined surf music in the 60s. Thanks for posting this.

[naganokumas]

Don't swear so much, and history will look more kindly on your appreciations, rather than noticing your laziness regarding adjectives.

[heavymetalguy21]

this shit fuckin rules

[naganokumas]

Fuck yeah. It fuckin' does.

Shit. Man. It kicks Ass.

'Vagina, Bellybutton, Anus, Hole, Earlobe.'

See. I can do it, too.

But I must confess that "Niggafaggot" is a word that made me giggle.

I met it recently on Youtube.

I'll try to find it again.

I'll get back to you in this.

[heavymetalguy21]

haha

[Zeetana]

I love this song

[beseeingyou6]

dick is the best

and so are the annotations

[yankeear]

yeah grew up in Huntington Beach, remember all them surf songs in the early 60's. I gotta tell you, that sounds like Darlene Love [Hes a Rebel] on the background. reckon everyone was on the beach back then..

[headinjuredkeeper]

oh wow you are right about Darlene! Never made the connection before!

[amp4609]

Darlene?check out Guitar Man and the really amazin' Boss Guitar with Duane Eddy and other RCA tracks they recorded together in 62.

Also Steve Douglas who wrote Banzai Washout was Duanes sax player on the original Peter Gun recording ion 59

[BOSS11219]

this is what i think of when im in the surf!dock weiler beach to Manhattan beach i love living here in cali. born and raised! NARL FUCKING MUSIQ

[richard2008michelle]

yeh wax my surf board,i cant surf or swim but what the hell let me drown in this great music.

[Karen56]

I love Dick Dale and his music!!! He is still playing and now his son is too!!

[nymets0044]

awesome song and lmao at the video

[colindominy]

Ooh, how I love this song !! The lyrics beautifully capture Dick's widespread raging popularity throughout the greater L.A. area in the early 60's .. while still giving Dick ample opportunity to go to town, in his usual fashion, on some powerful melody lines & awesome ripping guitar riffs - backed up by that landmark drum-backbeat which was so typical of early surf music. A Knockout, this belongs in EVERY D.D. fan's collection !! Nice little captions in the clip, too, DaedalusJr !!