hi Mr. Nomiclas----nice little note----be cool have a beer and continue to rock out. now I must salute you because you are a Ventures fan. back when I was young none of my friends liked them. they thought, no lyrics, no good. tonight I might just freeze a beer or two and crank them up.---have a good 2012----
as I said, you 101st guys were the real fighters in Nam. I was just there for my last nine months of service before getting out. Hat,s off to all of you who did the shooting. I am praising you, not giving you all the jazz. give me a break, calm down and relax!---thanks for your "frontline" service.
you had it much worse than me being in the 101st airborne infantry and being there in 1968. you were more of a hero type of participant and I was just there. I was in a trans. unit in Chu-Lai and only left the place 3 times to go to Da Nang for beer, steaks and movies. i tip my beer mug to you Mr. Wilcarr, have a great 2012 and beyond.--as for the Ventures, try "caravan"!
I was in the 101st in I and III corp and hold your horses pal, the 101st was involved in the biggest and worst fighting in RVN, sure there were pogue slike you in the read-with-the-gear, but, don´t speak for everyone of the Screaming Birds...3/187, B comp and 2/502 C Comp 1967, 68, and 69
@galaxybeing101 you know,we all were there and some had it tougher than others.YOU WERE STILL THERE!don't worry about what you did,we're all nam bro's and sis's.i was 69-70 with 82nd 5months and then to the 1st Cav for 7 months.82nd was 9 to 5 with the HQ brigade supply.the 1st Cav was right into the jungle and even into Cambodia.i saw pretty much both sides of the deal and i loved being in the Cav.everyday was a challenge and it made the experience one i love to this minute!
I never considered these guys as a "surf" band, just damn good guitar players. Only a few of their songs are surf related. I did my last nine months of service in Nam after they shipped me out of Germany. Got shot at on the bunker line 2-3 nights, we shot into the woods, rangers checked things out in the morning to see if we hit any Vietcong. came home in 1971, now it,s 40 years later. navy war movies are more interesting, especially with submarines.
@galaxybeing101 // heck of a ride in 68 my friend Vietnam vet 101st Abn infantry Hue-Phu-Bai. When I came home nothing was the same again and was no longer a child. I still loved the Beach Boys and Ventures but they were different now after all the suffering and death.
@overbrookXXX ~ That's a good question. I grew up in SoCal (graduated H.S. in 1965) and surf music dominated the L.A. airwaves by the end of 1961 and kept right on trucking thru the end of 1963. Sadly, the wave that got 'em all began in the Fall of 1963 and it was BRITISH. I would imagine that surf band music in, say, Terre Haute, Indiana probably came, and went, within a matter of days ~ eh?
Wow--This was one of the first 45 rpm records i ever bought as a 50's teenager, and played it to death. Great to jive to. Just bought it on CD compil, Some how, the rawness has gone--along with my hair.
If you are interested in this song in a more refined version, look up the Four Aces version, or better yet (if you can find it) Mel Torme's version. I can't find Mel's and would love to have it if anyone can help.
i agree with you Tony.....i listened to surf music from its inception and from 58" on link wray was played with other tunes considered surf type........i have the beach boys "surfin' " on X label and i think it came out in 60 or 61.......us old surfer types had to listen to other songs besides ones that had the word SURF in it.........from huntington beach we were probably classified as low rider surfers, but we also played doo wop and rock a billy too surf music is a blend.....
@TonyLyndellWilliams I agree that Link Wray's music isn't Surf. While his music didn't identify with surf culture at the time (which had barely hit the mainstream at this time), his INFLUENCE on the upcoming surf music movement- with reverb and 600 SPM guitar playing- is not arguable. He was a trailblazer for reverb/surf. His daughter posts here on YT, maybe she'll come by and confirm. :) I saw Dick Dale live about a month ago and there were Link Wray shirts in the crowd. So cool. Carry on
My girl (Kathy) and I saw these guys, in June 1969, at the old Melodyland (an "in the round" venue) in Anaheim, California. Within a week I had left for Vietnam (drafted) and although we were engaged at that time ~ she sent me a letter in early August '69 telling me she just couldn't wait.
At the time, an instrumental band - especially wedded to the "Surfer Sound" - had to look for any catchy melody and try to fit it into their style. The Ventures were very gifted at this and established no boundaries as to where they might look. I wonder what they might have done with "A Theme to A Summer Place". Then again, I made myself laugh with the thought.
I really enjoyed this song and it was in my head when I was shipped to Vietnam. I would always think back to those days in San Fran when I was in the jungle. It kept me going. Don't enlist folks!
@SuperSweaterVest Glad you made it back to be living history like these boys music. I got sent to Northern Ireland and ended up hating myself not anybody else. Peace brother.
@wilcarr1 Well, if you want to get technical, I never got a scratch, I didn't die, lost no limbs or eyes. Nothing.
I was talking about SERVING in Viet Nam from my own personal experience, not the results of war.
You talk about 59,000 dead and many more wounded? During my first 'Nam tour there were more deaths on the highway during the holidays than we had all year in the zone.
@SuperSweaterVest 'Don't enlist Folks' yeah, but do they ever listen ? ALL war is about grabbing someone elses Gaff, and making VAST amounts of money from the millions of limbs and corpses left behind. Today---the same dunb ass kids who 'VOLUNTEER' to join the mincemeat party--do NOT have my sympathy. In fact, it seems to me, watching the gutted parents and young wives holding babies, (the dead man never got to see), telling the viewer how 'he always wanted to join'. WTF--just a selfish idiot !
@MrDaiseymay <---Bravo, -well stated my friend, --yet our jewZionist warmongering Rothschild/Rockefeller et'al Bank'ster-mafia masters know that as long as there are naively ignorant young men full of testosterone and eager to exercise it, --that the evil powers that be shall always be inane War, and those whom zealously urge us to fight for the glory of dying or becoming horribly maimed for their insatiable greed & usury; --after all it is necessary for the munitions industry.!!!
If The Ventures were wrong to do an instrumental cover of "Perfidia," then Dick Dale & The Del-Tones were wrong for their instrumental cover of "Miserlou?" What about Johnny & The Hurricanes' "Red River Rock?" I don't think any of the artists were simply grasping at straws, with their instrumental arrangements...there had to be something there for the song, already, or they probably would have picked another.
Still speaking about video: watch?v=-HOycOO4SGw - The orchestra strings start at 44 seconds. Pay no attention to the loud male voice. Listen to all the song, feel where the chords go and when you start listening to the female back vocals it's magical. At the end it gives off that Cinema or Epic Movie feeling. It's beautiful. I wish there were an instrumental only version, but I doubt it very much.
Unless you get it from the original studio who keeps the original recording.
Yeah, thanks for all the responses, sleep walk was a good one, I listened to this one and liked it: watch?v=T4tPGljkR_w&feature=related. And while at it, I found this one but with a loud singing (unfortunately). The orchestra is a little up-beat but the chords and the back vocals give this cinematic Epic movie feeling. So yeah, I prefer it orchestra style with an abundance of instruments if possible. I know it's very hard and rare, it's ok. Here's the video: watch?v=-HOycOO4SGw
@barrygioportmorien1 beach boys came after the instrumental stuff by dick dale, ventures, chantays, tornados and others. some will say the beach boys ruined the genre. i grew up listening to both, and like all of it.
@TonyLyndellWilliams How can you say that? Link Wray was a pioneer of instrumental rock n roll loaded with reverb and twangy guitar, which essentially was the early form of surf music. Your comparison is lacking any support and really makes no sense. Link was a pinnacle for surf music and you should know that if you grew up listening to the stuff. Dick Dale, The Lively Ones, and many other 60s surf bands all covered Link Wray songs and many still do today. Know your rock n roll history man.
@Blahblobify I got a Dad who was born in 54 and he claims that he didn't hear any surf until after the Beatles. Maybe it was a regional thing until the mid 60s?
@caveman735 Surf culture means nothing in Michigan. As the book on Rock and roll history points out, what could surf mean to people who didn't live near an ocean.
@DimensionsofChange I see your point. I live on the California coast and see people surfing everyday. Perfidia was not originally a 'surf' tune". It was a Latin tune that has been arainged and played by many different artist including Glenn Miller,Linda Ronstat, and to many more to mention. I suggest you listen to their version's of the tune, and you'll see. No one knowes who "invented" "surf music", it just happened. Dick Dale, The Ventures, The Beach Boy's, The Chantay's? Who knowes.
@caveman735 don't get me wrong. It sounds cool (Heck Zappa did surf songs), I've just been curious about the whole thing, having been born in the 90s and living in the mid west.
I believe the Cuban great Carmon Moran did the vocal of this first, then Glen miller on the instrumental...The Ventures keep this timeless tune in tact by playing it at each concert they do in Japan, U.S. & Canada.
Here's another example in Italian (I only like the first 1 minute and 9 seconds) after that the songs is invaded with too much sound and looses it's acoustic delight. See if you agree: here: watch?v=LrO6gqIx454
Forgot to mention, on the mellow example, to hear the solo right away you have to jump to 1 minute and thirty seconds. But the song is mellow with minor chords throughout most of the song. The only major ones are at the chorus featuring beautiful female back vocals. I like when the orchestra plays without the voice!!
This is what I mean, see if you don't get a chill down your spine. Imagine you are in your room thinking about the past, the lights are out, you are tired just before sleep, (lay your head on the pillow, close your eyes, relax and you listen to this), here's the video of an example mellow solo with minor chords I was talking about (unfortunately the guy has to sing after the solo, but has a soft romantic voice (if you know of an American one let me know, cause I never knew: watch?v=HA1y4cbHQHA
Wow, so many kind responses, thank you! I asked because I know one in particular but he is Brazilian and sings in portuguese: his name is "Agnaldo Timoteo" here's a happy one from him: watch?v=0YEfcWkZprw - listen to the instrumental and the solo later how it makes you wanna move to the beat. He has mellow ones, but he sings in them. But the instruments and back vocals are so beautiful. like the vocals in those old epic movies. I'll upload a mellow minus chord example too and let you know!
@Strawberry7Lynn The Ventures have written more than a hundred originals (probably many more than that), and had many chart toppers in Japan with original compositions, which remain standards in east Asia to this day. I like the Shads too.
This is amazing really! but does anyone know of any slow, sad tunes with minor chords to it? I'd like some tunes that I can turn on before bed to relax, rather than turn on this get up and dance kind of rock rhythm. Does anyone know of an instrumental band or instrumental songs 60s or 50s? it could be country style too, but no singing, thanks
@1200com Look up Perfidia by the band Cafe Tacuba. It's instrumental and a lot darker than this version. Also anything you can find from Cafe Tacuba's album Reves is very soothing
@1200com Glenn Miller Moonlight Serenade, Morris Stoloff Moonglow & Theme From Picnic, Earl Grant Ebb Tide, Glenn Miller Sunrise Serenade. There many more find one and it will lead to others.
These guys are one reason I got into a band and Mel Taylor is the big reason i became a drummer. The entire surf sound is awesome. I'm glad to see that the music has survived and is being kept alive by young, local bands all around the country.
To those who say this is an old Glenn Miller song.....he did record a version of it....but according to Wikipedia ""Perfidia" (Spanish for "perfidy", as in faithless, treacherous or false) is a popular song written by Alberto Domínguez [1] (19111975), a Mexican composer and arranger born in the state of Chiapas, about love and betrayal"
hi Mr. Nomiclas----nice little note----be cool have a beer and continue to rock out. now I must salute you because you are a Ventures fan. back when I was young none of my friends liked them. they thought, no lyrics, no good. tonight I might just freeze a beer or two and crank them up.---have a good 2012----
galaxybeing101 1 day ago
as I said, you 101st guys were the real fighters in Nam. I was just there for my last nine months of service before getting out. Hat,s off to all of you who did the shooting. I am praising you, not giving you all the jazz. give me a break, calm down and relax!---thanks for your "frontline" service.
galaxybeing101 2 weeks ago
WOW--SUCH BLATANT CENSORSHIP IN ---FREE ??? AMERICA--( MY ASS )
MrDaiseymay 3 weeks ago
you had it much worse than me being in the 101st airborne infantry and being there in 1968. you were more of a hero type of participant and I was just there. I was in a trans. unit in Chu-Lai and only left the place 3 times to go to Da Nang for beer, steaks and movies. i tip my beer mug to you Mr. Wilcarr, have a great 2012 and beyond.--as for the Ventures, try "caravan"!
galaxybeing101 3 weeks ago
@galaxybeing101
I was in the 101st in I and III corp and hold your horses pal, the 101st was involved in the biggest and worst fighting in RVN, sure there were pogue slike you in the read-with-the-gear, but, don´t speak for everyone of the Screaming Birds...3/187, B comp and 2/502 C Comp 1967, 68, and 69
russredner 2 weeks ago
@galaxybeing101 you know,we all were there and some had it tougher than others.YOU WERE STILL THERE!don't worry about what you did,we're all nam bro's and sis's.i was 69-70 with 82nd 5months and then to the 1st Cav for 7 months.82nd was 9 to 5 with the HQ brigade supply.the 1st Cav was right into the jungle and even into Cambodia.i saw pretty much both sides of the deal and i loved being in the Cav.everyday was a challenge and it made the experience one i love to this minute!
nomiclas 2 days ago
Dick dale is the king of surf not Link. Link is pure rock n roll!
zdragonforce 1 month ago
I never considered these guys as a "surf" band, just damn good guitar players. Only a few of their songs are surf related. I did my last nine months of service in Nam after they shipped me out of Germany. Got shot at on the bunker line 2-3 nights, we shot into the woods, rangers checked things out in the morning to see if we hit any Vietcong. came home in 1971, now it,s 40 years later. navy war movies are more interesting, especially with submarines.
galaxybeing101 1 month ago
@galaxybeing101 // heck of a ride in 68 my friend Vietnam vet 101st Abn infantry Hue-Phu-Bai. When I came home nothing was the same again and was no longer a child. I still loved the Beach Boys and Ventures but they were different now after all the suffering and death.
wilcarr1 3 weeks ago
now that could be my surf tune .Well im amused .
joebstarsurfer 1 month ago
makes me wanna get so blitzed right now.....
fonzieloco9035 2 months ago
Beach Boys were posers... never surfed a day in their combined lives. Link Wray, all the way.
rbdebaser 2 months ago
@overbrookXXX ~ That's a good question. I grew up in SoCal (graduated H.S. in 1965) and surf music dominated the L.A. airwaves by the end of 1961 and kept right on trucking thru the end of 1963. Sadly, the wave that got 'em all began in the Fall of 1963 and it was BRITISH. I would imagine that surf band music in, say, Terre Haute, Indiana probably came, and went, within a matter of days ~ eh?
MrRonnieG 4 months ago
No clue. too darn cold for me
DunnGoneOkie 4 months ago
Uhhh, surf guitar...Mr. DICK DALE is the progenetor! Link Wray is is grungy Cousin!
DogCatchersBand 4 months ago
Wow--This was one of the first 45 rpm records i ever bought as a 50's teenager, and played it to death. Great to jive to. Just bought it on CD compil, Some how, the rawness has gone--along with my hair.
MrDaiseymay 4 months ago 3
A horn or a piano or a guitar can play this lead. That's what makes it a great song.
swistone 5 months ago
Fast instrumental rock n roll became popular with surfers cuz the records where cheap, and I guess got em pumped to go surfing and shit.
Phalanx3800 5 months ago
If you are interested in this song in a more refined version, look up the Four Aces version, or better yet (if you can find it) Mel Torme's version. I can't find Mel's and would love to have it if anyone can help.
Also, Dick Dale is a big Good Dick in surf music.
TheJedgeworth 5 months ago
i always liked this song i didn't know what it was until now i won't forget it
pjsage921 5 months ago
The surf sound seems to have originated from some of the late '50s Rockabilly songs.
Vercingetorix2006 5 months ago
this was originally mexican song
BigBishop1 5 months ago
i agree with you Tony.....i listened to surf music from its inception and from 58" on link wray was played with other tunes considered surf type........i have the beach boys "surfin' " on X label and i think it came out in 60 or 61.......us old surfer types had to listen to other songs besides ones that had the word SURF in it.........from huntington beach we were probably classified as low rider surfers, but we also played doo wop and rock a billy too surf music is a blend.....
111sienna 6 months ago
Link Wray was a great guitarist and could be considered the father of heavy metal.
But not one of his singles had anything to do with surfing ... none.
Tony
TonyLyndellWilliams 6 months ago
@TonyLyndellWilliams I agree that Link Wray's music isn't Surf. While his music didn't identify with surf culture at the time (which had barely hit the mainstream at this time), his INFLUENCE on the upcoming surf music movement- with reverb and 600 SPM guitar playing- is not arguable. He was a trailblazer for reverb/surf. His daughter posts here on YT, maybe she'll come by and confirm. :) I saw Dick Dale live about a month ago and there were Link Wray shirts in the crowd. So cool. Carry on
AKittenGoesMeow 6 months ago
My kind of sounds.
thewaymakers 6 months ago
Cool piece of music!
glennsaiu 6 months ago
My girl (Kathy) and I saw these guys, in June 1969, at the old Melodyland (an "in the round" venue) in Anaheim, California. Within a week I had left for Vietnam (drafted) and although we were engaged at that time ~ she sent me a letter in early August '69 telling me she just couldn't wait.
MrRonnieG 6 months ago
@MrRonnieG //happened to a lot of guys my friends leaveing young wives and girlfriends behind. two years today sounds like nothing.
wilcarr1 3 weeks ago
This is one of my favorite ventures song
flaviolima91 6 months ago
the perfect song
securitycat11 7 months ago
Simply the best
EgyptianGraphite 7 months ago
never get tired of hearing these fella's . no other group can touch them .
ruandted 7 months ago
At the time, an instrumental band - especially wedded to the "Surfer Sound" - had to look for any catchy melody and try to fit it into their style. The Ventures were very gifted at this and established no boundaries as to where they might look. I wonder what they might have done with "A Theme to A Summer Place". Then again, I made myself laugh with the thought.
toetapper04 7 months ago
I really enjoyed this song and it was in my head when I was shipped to Vietnam. I would always think back to those days in San Fran when I was in the jungle. It kept me going. Don't enlist folks!
SuperSweaterVest 7 months ago 22
@SuperSweaterVest Glad you made it back to be living history like these boys music. I got sent to Northern Ireland and ended up hating myself not anybody else. Peace brother.
2001perseus 7 months ago
@SuperSweaterVest Yeah. Nam was nothing. If you couldn't take that you shouldn't enlist or even watch war movies.
blackturncoat 1 month ago in playlist Country
@blackturncoat //nothing 59,916 dead, thousands without legs, arms, eyes, nothing?
wilcarr1 3 weeks ago
@wilcarr1 Well, if you want to get technical, I never got a scratch, I didn't die, lost no limbs or eyes. Nothing.
I was talking about SERVING in Viet Nam from my own personal experience, not the results of war.
You talk about 59,000 dead and many more wounded? During my first 'Nam tour there were more deaths on the highway during the holidays than we had all year in the zone.
I never got nervous until I was on the way home.
blackturncoat 3 weeks ago
@SuperSweaterVest 'Don't enlist Folks' yeah, but do they ever listen ? ALL war is about grabbing someone elses Gaff, and making VAST amounts of money from the millions of limbs and corpses left behind. Today---the same dunb ass kids who 'VOLUNTEER' to join the mincemeat party--do NOT have my sympathy. In fact, it seems to me, watching the gutted parents and young wives holding babies, (the dead man never got to see), telling the viewer how 'he always wanted to join'. WTF--just a selfish idiot !
MrDaiseymay 3 weeks ago
@MrDaiseymay <---Bravo, -well stated my friend, --yet our jewZionist warmongering Rothschild/Rockefeller et'al Bank'ster-mafia masters know that as long as there are naively ignorant young men full of testosterone and eager to exercise it, --that the evil powers that be shall always be inane War, and those whom zealously urge us to fight for the glory of dying or becoming horribly maimed for their insatiable greed & usury; --after all it is necessary for the munitions industry.!!!
AryanKnight 3 weeks ago
@SuperSweaterVest Yeah don't be an idiot volunteer--your just cannon fodder for making millions of bucks for some desk bound assole.
MrDaiseymay 3 weeks ago
@SuperSweaterVest Great comment and some very good advice.
Aphidboy 2 weeks ago
If The Ventures were wrong to do an instrumental cover of "Perfidia," then Dick Dale & The Del-Tones were wrong for their instrumental cover of "Miserlou?" What about Johnny & The Hurricanes' "Red River Rock?" I don't think any of the artists were simply grasping at straws, with their instrumental arrangements...there had to be something there for the song, already, or they probably would have picked another.
IndianaSurfGuitar 7 months ago
Still speaking about video: watch?v=-HOycOO4SGw - The orchestra strings start at 44 seconds. Pay no attention to the loud male voice. Listen to all the song, feel where the chords go and when you start listening to the female back vocals it's magical. At the end it gives off that Cinema or Epic Movie feeling. It's beautiful. I wish there were an instrumental only version, but I doubt it very much.
Unless you get it from the original studio who keeps the original recording.
1200com 7 months ago
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Yeah, thanks for all the responses, sleep walk was a good one, I listened to this one and liked it: watch?v=T4tPGljkR_w&feature=related. And while at it, I found this one but with a loud singing (unfortunately). The orchestra is a little up-beat but the chords and the back vocals give this cinematic Epic movie feeling. So yeah, I prefer it orchestra style with an abundance of instruments if possible. I know it's very hard and rare, it's ok. Here's the video: watch?v=-HOycOO4SGw
1200com 7 months ago
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1200com 7 months ago
...of change:
Surf is the child of white city cats; rhythem and blues, rock and roll and no place to go.
ThePorkified 7 months ago
ahhh I love this. Thanks for posting
MichaelCasanovaMusic 8 months ago
Xm Radio's Escape channel plays these old songs but with different instruments I love it.
Rhondalove 8 months ago
Good Song to Dance To.
winyguy 8 months ago 2
Perfidia and Wheels are the meaning of life!!!
ericmackenzie123 9 months ago
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ericmackenzie123 9 months ago
to me ventures can do no wrong,this track is magic,lovin it
doowopper64 9 months ago
yea im playing this song in band too bad the guitars arent that active.
pistolierer 9 months ago
This doesn't make sense. How'd this whole surf fad start?
DimensionsofChange 10 months ago
@DimensionsofChange
I don't actually see any connection to surfing in this song, but I guess the Beach Boys were the main purveyor of surf music and it went from there.
barrygioportmorien1 9 months ago
@barrygioportmorien1 Beach boys. I thought these guys came first?
DimensionsofChange 9 months ago
@barrygioportmorien1 beach boys came after the instrumental stuff by dick dale, ventures, chantays, tornados and others. some will say the beach boys ruined the genre. i grew up listening to both, and like all of it.
renderbuoy 9 months ago
@barrygioportmorien1 NO! The Beaach Boys are bullshit compared to REAL surf music. Look up Link Wray man.
Elesaar27 9 months ago 15
@Elesaar27
you certainly have a way with words, who the hell cares.
barrygioportmorien1 9 months ago 7
@barrygioportmorien1 I'm sure a lot of people do.
enojon323 1 month ago
@barrygioportmorien1 I agree that the "beach boys are bullshit" ..and I care!!!!
degentrified 1 month ago
@Elesaar27
You don't know shit.
Bllasae 6 months ago
@Elesaar27 I agree, Beach Boys were the 50 Cent of surf. Link Ray is surf king!
enojon323 1 month ago
@barrygioportmorien1 Link Wray was as much surf as Led Zepellin was.
TonyLyndellWilliams 6 months ago
@TonyLyndellWilliams How can you say that? Link Wray was a pioneer of instrumental rock n roll loaded with reverb and twangy guitar, which essentially was the early form of surf music. Your comparison is lacking any support and really makes no sense. Link was a pinnacle for surf music and you should know that if you grew up listening to the stuff. Dick Dale, The Lively Ones, and many other 60s surf bands all covered Link Wray songs and many still do today. Know your rock n roll history man.
Elesaar27 6 months ago
@barrygioportmorien1 it was the sound of Southern California. Surfers played this music a lot, so it got the nickname "surf rock"
AToxicOrange 6 months ago
@DimensionsofChange
Dude........I grew up in Los Angeles near the beach, was born in 1952, so I can tell you how the surfer shit started.
It started when some assholes from Hawthorne with guitars got together in the late 50's.
Blahblobify 7 months ago
@Blahblobify I got a Dad who was born in 54 and he claims that he didn't hear any surf until after the Beatles. Maybe it was a regional thing until the mid 60s?
DimensionsofChange 7 months ago
@DimensionsofChange Pipeline and Wipeout were NATIONAL and INTERNATIONAL hits, so they werent regional.
overbrookXXX 4 months ago
@overbrookXXX That maybe true, but returning to my main pointless question, did this surf craze as a whole reach the heartland at all, prior to 1964?
DimensionsofChange 4 months ago
@DimensionsofChange Yes it certainly did. It made it all the way to Roswell, New Mexico.
DunnGoneOkie 4 months ago
@DunnGoneOkie Ok, what about Michigan?
DimensionsofChange 4 months ago
@Blahblobify Of course my family lives in Michigan.
DimensionsofChange 7 months ago
@DimensionsofChange Surfing is not a fad Dude. People have been surfing for over 100 years, and it is getting bigger everyday!
caveman735 5 months ago
@caveman735 Surf culture means nothing in Michigan. As the book on Rock and roll history points out, what could surf mean to people who didn't live near an ocean.
DimensionsofChange 5 months ago
@DimensionsofChange I see your point. I live on the California coast and see people surfing everyday. Perfidia was not originally a 'surf' tune". It was a Latin tune that has been arainged and played by many different artist including Glenn Miller,Linda Ronstat, and to many more to mention. I suggest you listen to their version's of the tune, and you'll see. No one knowes who "invented" "surf music", it just happened. Dick Dale, The Ventures, The Beach Boy's, The Chantay's? Who knowes.
caveman735 5 months ago
@caveman735 don't get me wrong. It sounds cool (Heck Zappa did surf songs), I've just been curious about the whole thing, having been born in the 90s and living in the mid west.
DimensionsofChange 5 months ago
@DimensionsofChange The Belairs,PJ and the Galaxies,Eddie and the Showmen, The Ventures, Link Wray, Dick Dale and the Del Tones, The Fireballs
lemonite1 5 months ago
@DimensionsofChange
Dick Dale cranked his reverb and started picking really fast sometime around 1961.
Verbeke7 4 months ago 2
@Verbeke7 This! ladies and Gentlemen is what we call an answer.
DimensionsofChange 4 months ago
@DimensionsofChange Dick Dale.
zdragonforce 1 month ago
a great album ,this has nothing to do with what u were talking about,but,Days of Future Past,The Moody Blues,is good bed time music
Syzygy60 10 months ago
yihaaaaaaaaaaaaa..
tomew87 10 months ago
hell yeah... a mexican song!!!
nakebos666 11 months ago
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to1200com try sleepwalk by santos & johnny
pauldrakestone 11 months ago
to1200com try sleepwalk by santos & johnny
pauldrakestone 11 months ago
Listen to Julie London Perfidia
bjornkathy 11 months ago
If you like The Ventures you will like "tajfuny"
2pass1word 1 year ago
I added this to my playlist and my favorites!
TheVenturesForever 1 year ago
LOVE IT!
5 *****
TheVenturesForever 1 year ago
I believe the Cuban great Carmon Moran did the vocal of this first, then Glen miller on the instrumental...The Ventures keep this timeless tune in tact by playing it at each concert they do in Japan, U.S. & Canada.
Thanks for the upload!
stupullen 1 year ago
EXCELLENT
lhr1967 1 year ago
This is a Glenn Miller song! This is the first version of Perfidia that I ever knew.
msjuniejane1 1 year ago
I remember wanting to learn to play this on guitar worse then walk dont run.
TheBabyboomkidof53 1 year ago
Here's another example in Italian (I only like the first 1 minute and 9 seconds) after that the songs is invaded with too much sound and looses it's acoustic delight. See if you agree: here: watch?v=LrO6gqIx454
1200com 1 year ago
Forgot to mention, on the mellow example, to hear the solo right away you have to jump to 1 minute and thirty seconds. But the song is mellow with minor chords throughout most of the song. The only major ones are at the chorus featuring beautiful female back vocals. I like when the orchestra plays without the voice!!
1200com 1 year ago
This is what I mean, see if you don't get a chill down your spine. Imagine you are in your room thinking about the past, the lights are out, you are tired just before sleep, (lay your head on the pillow, close your eyes, relax and you listen to this), here's the video of an example mellow solo with minor chords I was talking about (unfortunately the guy has to sing after the solo, but has a soft romantic voice (if you know of an American one let me know, cause I never knew: watch?v=HA1y4cbHQHA
1200com 1 year ago
Wow, so many kind responses, thank you! I asked because I know one in particular but he is Brazilian and sings in portuguese: his name is "Agnaldo Timoteo" here's a happy one from him: watch?v=0YEfcWkZprw - listen to the instrumental and the solo later how it makes you wanna move to the beat. He has mellow ones, but he sings in them. But the instruments and back vocals are so beautiful. like the vocals in those old epic movies. I'll upload a mellow minus chord example too and let you know!
1200com 1 year ago
This is a real old standard from the 30s and 40s. The Ventures gave it that "surf's up" sound!
kapacon 1 year ago
great music
sandhogy 1 year ago
u don't cover the Ventures
Syzygy60 1 year ago
cover my ass they were originals
Syzygy60 1 year ago
The Ventures were more quantity than quality and did mostly covers, including this one, which is a very good interpretation of the tune.
Unfortunately - partially due to this band - North America missed out on Brit band "the Shadows"
Strawberry7Lynn 1 year ago
@Strawberry7Lynn We did not in Mexico, we had both Shadows and Ventures and more that you guys in USA
harfuch1 1 year ago
@Strawberry7Lynn The Ventures have written more than a hundred originals (probably many more than that), and had many chart toppers in Japan with original compositions, which remain standards in east Asia to this day. I like the Shads too.
emerpus01 1 year ago
Mel Taylor was the right drummer for the the Ventures. He could blow some lids in his day.
penta15786 1 year ago
@penta15786 this was Howie Johnson on drums. Taylor came about 3-4 years after this.
overbrookXXX 1 year ago
ジャズマスター、フルテンにしてブライトスイッチオンしたらｍこのトーン
jazzbass0321 1 year ago
relaxxinngg.
ValerieTheCalorie 1 year ago
@1200com - try Henri Mancini -:).
Babillonia 1 year ago
Of course, this instrumental surf version is terrific, but my very favorite is Julie London's version (here on youtube).
50sVintage 1 year ago
This is amazing really! but does anyone know of any slow, sad tunes with minor chords to it? I'd like some tunes that I can turn on before bed to relax, rather than turn on this get up and dance kind of rock rhythm. Does anyone know of an instrumental band or instrumental songs 60s or 50s? it could be country style too, but no singing, thanks
1200com 1 year ago 9
@1200com
Floyd Cramer, Billy Vaughn.
barrygioportmorien1 1 year ago
@barrygioportmorien1 Try Santo & Johnny
ytjih1952 11 months ago
@1200com
Love is Blue - Paul Mauriat
Midnight Cowboy - John Barry
ileacok66 1 year ago
@1200com Definatly Floyd Cramer - "The Last Date" really great music - no singing!!!!
Earthlinked 1 year ago
@1200com
Check out the Friends Of Dean Martinez... spaghetti western and mariachi and dusty arizona gunslinger instrumentals.
zamacity61 1 year ago
@1200com - go for Santo & Johnny "Sleepwalk"- seems to fit the bill rather admirably
mkmkhi 1 year ago
@1200com Dean Martin has some excellent stuff too
kakiisheena 1 year ago
@1200com I'm afraid an answer may involve a commited relationship
Syzygy60 1 year ago
@1200com
Try Sleep Walk" from Santo and Johnny
690wape 1 year ago
@1200com
Try "Sleep Walk" from Santo and Johnny
690wape 1 year ago
@1200com Duane Eddy?
PrimalStones 1 year ago
@1200com You might want to look into Calexico.
booherz 1 year ago
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@1200com You might want to look into Calexico.
booherz 1 year ago
@1200com try "Sleepwalk" by Santo and Johnny.
SaucyHeaux 1 year ago
@1200com
shadowy men on a shadowy has some of that
try
"Misty"
and
"Summer Wind"
really great instrumental band.
DeepestCoconuts 1 year ago
@1200com Sleepwalk-The Shadows
TheInundation 1 year ago
@1200com
santo and johnny- sleepwalk
hank williams- i'm so lonesome i could cry
the lively ones- surfers lament
the lively ones- paradise cove
patsy cline- stranger in my arms
ricky nelson- lonesome town
gene vincent- unchained melody
oh wait some of those have singing in em, oh well
bertoast99 1 year ago
@1200com Lorraine Ellis and The Crows does a great rendition of Perfidia and its slow--Just really nice check it out!
dothejive 1 year ago
@1200com Luis Alberto del Parana & Los Paraguayos - perfidia very bad soud, but the first version i heard of this song. i love it!
afmona 1 year ago
@1200com
Listen to Martin Denny's jungle music--its like dreamscape music.
ratface111 1 year ago
@1200com Look up Perfidia by the band Cafe Tacuba. It's instrumental and a lot darker than this version. Also anything you can find from Cafe Tacuba's album Reves is very soothing
pyrogonegoth 11 months ago
@1200com Try Santo and Johnny
mason2042 11 months ago
@1200com the shadows?
spiritcrusher1988 11 months ago
@1200com check out some dub music, its relaxing
StudioTwoReggae 11 months ago
@1200com Glenn Miller Moonlight Serenade, Morris Stoloff Moonglow & Theme From Picnic, Earl Grant Ebb Tide, Glenn Miller Sunrise Serenade. There many more find one and it will lead to others.
Have fun searching!
BrickPa 11 months ago
@1200com Sleepwalk ... pretty dreamy and mellow.
mike32738 10 months ago
@1200com the nature mix
hellion741 10 months ago
@1200com the shadows
zjbeast 10 months ago
@1200com SLEEPWALK?
Satchmoeddie 10 months ago
@1200com when i was in the Navy I listened to Jeff Beck all music no singing
Syzygy60 10 months ago
@1200com Felix Mendelssohn wrote a bunch of minor keyed stuff early on.
Satchmoeddie 9 months ago
@1200com The Lively Ones - Surf Rider is absolutely best
1ochotnik 9 months ago
@1200com : Sleepwalk by Santo and Johnny, Albatross by Fleetwood Mac...
Enevan1968 8 months ago
@1200com Sad?? Hey listen to Autumn Leaves by Floyd Cramer, and Moonlight Serenade by Glenn Miller... THEN you go to sleep, and you will sleep better
skaha77 8 months ago
@1200com Santo & Johnny Sleepwalkin maybe?
Bowtie41 8 months ago
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It was done by Glenn Miller in the big band era.
scottinwv 1 year ago
It was done by Glenn Miller in the big band era.
scottinwv 1 year ago
Beyond a doubt the best sounding guitar I've ever heard!!!!
Neil152 1 year ago 13
@Neil152 after Duane Eddy
skaha77 8 months ago
There is a perfection in their music that moves my soul. this is just wonderful music.
JHallia 1 year ago 4
great love it!
MauroPavanelli 1 year ago
This is where it all started. Thanks Bob Bogle for that lovely performance. May his soul rests in peace.
Babillonia 1 year ago
The Ventures are GOD!
iwgpventures 1 year ago 2
This is the most hits I've ever seen for a song that didn't have a video or live footage.Must be a tribute to the greatness of this song!
jerryfisherne6 1 year ago
NIce genial !! lo Maximo !!
chalaco88ny 1 year ago
These guys are one reason I got into a band and Mel Taylor is the big reason i became a drummer. The entire surf sound is awesome. I'm glad to see that the music has survived and is being kept alive by young, local bands all around the country.
stuckinnebraska 1 year ago
Awesome!
colosalblack 1 year ago
This whole album was awsome. I don't know why we don't have instrumental groups these days. There were several in the early 60's.
jimkeith50 1 year ago
@jimkeith50 It takes real musical ability to from all concerned to form an instrumental group. That's pretty rare.
GoblinXXX 1 year ago
OUTSTANDING!!
THUMB'S UP!
(RIP Mr. Bob Bogle)
WDR2VENTURES 1 year ago
shadows 2
ivan89705 1 year ago
To those who say this is an old Glenn Miller song.....he did record a version of it....but according to Wikipedia ""Perfidia" (Spanish for "perfidy", as in faithless, treacherous or false) is a popular song written by Alberto Domínguez [1] (19111975), a Mexican composer and arranger born in the state of Chiapas, about love and betrayal"
So there....IT IS a Mexican tune.
JFinSD2 1 year ago 2
It's an old Glen Miller song!!!
Intruder242 1 year ago
comedy music but hard to play it:)) i like them
Razvanpinkfloyd 1 year ago
1963.............remembering the time when I was dancing with my "crush".....that year ( : D D
nancyfloressantos 1 year ago
I love this song, and all songs from the SIXTIES!!!!
SIXTIES ALL THE WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BleuCiel100 1 year ago
Where is Nokie Edwards?
lindamex46 1 year ago
Only the Ventures could take a classic song from the big band era, and turn it into an equally classic 60s pop instrumental. You gotta love it.
4everbobby 1 year ago 4
fantastica versione di perfidia
pariginotorino 1 year ago
The Ventures taught a whole generation how to play guitar!
jcrobso 1 year ago
Rythem guiter is what makes this so good. Drums are there too.
So nice!
ThePorkified 1 year ago
krupa had a small drum kit too....at first...like stewart copland.....ba da bing!
wjf1950 1 year ago
U gotta hand it to them. Picking two Big band tunes and adapting them to the twangy twin guitar style. Loved it then,
love it now.
aucksmix 1 year ago
Beautiful version!! what else can I say??
lisergicdreamer 2 years ago