Bill Deal Beach Music Weekend - billdealonline.com or billdeal.com

[pvtpstr]

I first saw your Pop's group in the Summer of 1967, when my oldest sister slipped me past the doorman at the Peppermint. 16 at that time, I was bassist for a crappy garage band. When the Rhondels started playing, I just went numb. Their power and professionalism simultaneously inspired and discouraged me. Through all the years since then, they were never less than a class act.

[XianSlader]

Rhondel supposed to be a rhyming song. May I, Swinging tight, Been Hurt, Nothing Succeeds Like Success!!! Some of the best and most cheerful music EVER!! East Coast version of Left Coast Beach Boys...in a class of their own.

WAAAY under-rated...RIP Bill Deal...If there's a rock 'n'roll heaven you know they got a hellova band!

[1947AUGIE]

love this post...love the group, Thanks and Thank and God Bless you Bill

[VitaminseaFL]

Great post, Bill Deal and Ammon Tharp are for sure made the greatest beach and fun music to ever come out of Virginia.

I always enjoyed seeing them whenever they played.

[nor888vast695]

What is a "Rhondel? I've heard all these beach tunes for decades. The only place where a charted R&B tune never dies.

[fiddleed]

I think it was 1972 I saw your Dad at the Rogue's Gallery. I was a young musician then and give credit to Bill Deal and that wonderful sound for making me a better one. I never forgot that moment. Thanks for these clips.

[neilfrobinson]

Thank you for posting these clips; they bring back great memories of college days (W&L '71) and carousing at Virgignia Beach thereafter.

Your dad was a true gentleman.

[EarleYetter]

God bless Bill Deal, and thanks for the music.