On this date in 1963 {Mar. 2nd} "Pipeline" entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; eventually it would peaked at #4 and spent 16 weeks in the Top 100...
Ranked 27th on Billboard's Year-End Hot 100 Singles of 1963 chart...
Was originally titled "Liberty's Whip,"
The Chantay's re-recorded the song in 1997 as a acoustic version and labeled it "Pipeline Unplugged"...
As for the classic instrumentals of the 60's. This was spooky. It didn't need words. Great noir feeling. I had an English teacher back in the 60's who would put a song like this on the record player in class & tell us to shut our eyes & listen. Then she would play it again -- only this time she would ask to write what we saw in our minds as it played. I loved that teacher so much. The entire class was engaged. No one refused. Even the bully was scribbling away.
@ranran19701: I have a horrible habit of 'typo-ing' in apostrophes where I don't want them. I'm not sure if it's an impulse to hit the 'enter' button or what causes that unconscious mistake. Please accept my apology on behalf of all inadvertant apostrophizers everywhere.
Bought their LP (on plum London label) all those years ago when it came out, on the strength of this single. Everything on it other than 'Pipeline' was truly awful!
@therehastobeme apostrophes only make something plural when it is an abbreviation like CD's and VCR's. Otherwise it makes it possessive. Chantay's would mean something belonging to Chantay, like the graphic designer assumed it was Chantay's Pipeline.
@highschoolmusical841 Really? Wow. I was thinking about buying a summer home in Paris someday. It'll be good to be musically appreciated there without all the trendy "pop" music of nowadays....
@highschoolmusical841 Interesting. My mother has friends that---on his grave. * humorously rolls eyes*. I already plan to got Paris someday and I'm gonna try to visit his grave. From what I've seen, it looks like a hippie shrine. And even though he drank and got high(who cares?), that wasn't the central cause of his goofiness. Jim was schizophrenic; hence why we always heard trippy voices and stuff in their music. A great poet no doubt though....It's sad that most folks don't know of this music.
@highschoolmusical841 ~ Ah, sure. 25K was an exaggeration but just by a few! The West Coast, and in particular, Southern California was littered with surf bands aplenty. The left-handed surf gutiar legend, Dick Dale, was really the beginning but there were many many bands (circa; late 1961 thru late 1963) that dotted the musical landscape of Los Angeles. I know because I was alive & well thru all of it and the music was enjoyable if not redundant. The Beatles, Stones and DC5 cleaned house.
@highschoolmusical841 Lol. I know. That's common sense, dude. Jimi never played there during the war of course. My friend saw him outside of being in 'Nam. In fact, he saw him play here in the United States as well as Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin; Jim he saw in Detroit right when The Doors were just getting popular.
I grew up in Socal (graduated H.S. in '65) and I'll bet that for a 2 year period between the end of 1961 and the end of 1963 (The British Invasion began in the Fall of '63) there were probably 25,000 surf bands in L.A. alone. I will also bet that by the summer of 1964 there were 3 left. If you wanna talk about a genre of music that absolutely disappeared, in a matter of months, it was surf band music and the wave that got 'em all was British in nature!
@ThePeaceableKingdom *rolls eyes*. Why is that on every video of surfer rock on YouTube that someone's hating on Jimi Hendrix? Sure, surf-rock is badass and I'm probably gonna use this song for the opening scene of my future exploitation film. However, there is no central guitarist nearly as inspirational or as original as Jimi Hendrix was. Dick Dale was an inspiration and a really good guitarist, but the things Jimi did with his Stratocaster folks are still trying to figure out to this day.
@Transformers2themax "there is no central guitarist nearly as inspirational or as original as Jimi Hendrix was"
Absolutely agree! But on one of his records, as the song fades out, you can hear him say "I'll never hear surf music again." I was riffing on that for comic effect... I was in no way hating on Hendrix. Love Hendrix. Hendrix rules! I am experienced. I have been experienced....
@ThePeaceableKingdom Sorry. I misunderstood. People on the internet are always hating on him, so I thought you were too. As for never hearing surf music again, I believe he was referring to the fact that there will never be any surf-rock again that is as original as this surf music. Sure, there are reincarnations, but there will never be any surfer rock out there that is as original as that of the '60s. Speaking of Hendrix, I have a Vietnam veteran friend that saw him play live.
I like how some geniuse's kept printing all those record label's with apostrophe's to make Chantay's plural. Some folk's just don't pay attention in English class's. The hair's on our neck's should be standing.
@ranran19701 apostrophes only make something plural when it is an abbreviation like CD's and VCR's. Otherwise it makes it possessive. Chantay's would mean something belonging to Chantay, like the graphic designer assumed it was Chantay's Pipeline.
@ranran19701 In Sweden we don't use apostrophes... at all really, so it can be confusing to know how to use 'em, I dunno about the guy who posted the video, but next time, remember that not everyone talks English as their native tongue.
@ranran19701 I like it how you pointed out an irregularity in the English language used, when in fact you're the one in the wrong. Or perhaps my sarcasm-o-meter is broken.
"labels" = more than one label as opposed "a label's colour", where the apostrophe is the possessive form. This is the general form in English, with few exceptions (most notably "its" and "it's").
But I agree that it's annoying when people confuse these... like yourself ;)
@tatsujinsverje i guess you didn't get it, he was putting apostrophes in the incorrect places as a joke to the apostrophes in the name of the band. You can always read things multiple times, the comments are here to stay, they aren't going anywhere, you have the time.
@EarthFMEnterprises Well, that why I mentioned my "sarcasm-o-meter". Whether he/she was joking or not really boils down to interpretation, no matter how long these comments exist.
Anyway, trying to veer back on topic, whether the apostrophe in "Chantay's" is correct or not is also a case of interpretation. Without knowing any facts (like, how they spelled it themselves), either could be correct, grammatically.
However, I was my mistake to point out a (possible) grammatical mistake in a comment posted on internet. I should know better.
More thn likely that you like these too: 1. Dick d Dale – Misirlou 2. Dick Dale – The Victor 3. The \ Ventures – Walk don’t f run 4. The v Ventures – Hawaii Five-O 5. The > Ventures – Surf ? Rider 6. The Chantays – Pipeline 7. The C Chantays – Banzai
The Chantays were a group of five guys from Santa Ana High who wrote "Pipeline" in 1962. Their recording reached #4 on the Hot 100 in May 1963. Many believe that Pipeline was originally recorded by the Ventures but The Chantays were the ones who made it the hit it was!
I went to high school with these guys(Santa Ana high school 1963) Warren Waters, the bass player was my neighbor and Bob Welch, the drummer lived the next block over. the actress Diane Keaton(real name Diane Hall) also graduated from there that same year
When I was a kid in Kansas, I thought this song was about oil pipelines my Dad had on our land. I found out latter, it was about surfing and the sea. Its is still a great song. AHH 7 year old minds
Brian Carman tuned my MusicMan Sting Ray as he worked for Leo Fender at MusicMan's , Fullerton CA. i learned this 1 hour before, & now I just have to learn how to play Pipeline! somebody should tell him the new....please!
Brian Carman tuned my MusicMan Sting Ray as he worked for Leo Fender at MusicMan's , Fullerton CA. i learned this 1 hour before, & now I just have to learn how to play Pipeline! somebody should tell him the new....please!
Here in California in the 60's surf groups, and others were playing live all over. It was amazing. I saw the Chantays play this I think it was at POP. You could see a band every week. Dick Dale, Chantays, Even the Righteous Brothers were live at the Hangar in OC. This version of Pipeline is my favorite.
Cascading bass, buoyant arpeggio, sparkling main theme: all adding up to the perfect aural evocation of the mythic blue pipeline of southern California circa 1965. Fantastic!
This was originally recorded at Wentzels Music Town. Pop Wentzel produced many hits out of his small studio on Lakewood Blvd. I recoded a demo there and he used his group, The Pastels, later of CInnamon Cinder fame as the back up. The white Downey label you see at :32 is his original. He would release his music on the Downey label and usually sell it to Dot. He was a huge influence on surf music in the early '60's and not enough people know about him. RIP 'Pop" Wentzel.
Is it just me, or is there a lot of flamenco guitar lurking under the corny surfing externals? And does Ray Manzark's playing on the Fender Rhodes owes something to this style?
And to think that the Doors and the Jefferson Airplane recorded their first albums within 3 years of this recording..
I know dude, he totally ripped this song off, its not even 'inspiration' more like total plagarism he didn't really even add his own touch apart from his annoying face.
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On this date in 1963 {Mar. 2nd} "Pipeline" entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; eventually it would peaked at #4 and spent 16 weeks in the Top 100...
Ranked 27th on Billboard's Year-End Hot 100 Singles of 1963 chart...
Was originally titled "Liberty's Whip,"
The Chantay's re-recorded the song in 1997 as a acoustic version and labeled it "Pipeline Unplugged"...
sauquoit13456 3 days ago
greaser gangs forever!
HarrisXranch 1 week ago
Oh shit! I was 100% sure that I'm listening electric de chocobo :'D
shamif 2 weeks ago
fuck commercials on youtube! especially commercials for mormonism!
okay, now that i got that off my chest....this is a great surf rock tune!
yay!!!!
wms72469 1 month ago
holy shit ! only no. 16 in the UK ?
mrmartin8899 1 month ago
As for the classic instrumentals of the 60's. This was spooky. It didn't need words. Great noir feeling. I had an English teacher back in the 60's who would put a song like this on the record player in class & tell us to shut our eyes & listen. Then she would play it again -- only this time she would ask to write what we saw in our minds as it played. I loved that teacher so much. The entire class was engaged. No one refused. Even the bully was scribbling away.
lastrada52 1 month ago 2
This is what inspired the chocobo theme in FF7.
Prove me wrong.
DJReiko 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
I heard this last year and now it's in my Top 100
ilyarse 1 month ago in playlist Top 100
This music is brilliant no matter how old
ilyarse 2 months ago
Great night music to play when driving along the coast on the PCH north of LA after midnight...
ronetteloverz 2 months ago
THESE FUCKING ADS ARE GOING TO DESTROY YOUTUBE.
smokiebird06 2 months ago in playlist Favorite videos 2
@ranran19701: I have a horrible habit of 'typo-ing' in apostrophes where I don't want them. I'm not sure if it's an impulse to hit the 'enter' button or what causes that unconscious mistake. Please accept my apology on behalf of all inadvertant apostrophizers everywhere.
gracefulfish 2 months ago
Bought their LP (on plum London label) all those years ago when it came out, on the strength of this single. Everything on it other than 'Pipeline' was truly awful!
peterlinie3 3 months ago
This classic says it all , SURF ...An Aussie .
ruandted 3 months ago
Lots of good versions on this one, but sometimes the original is just the best...
ronetteloverz 3 months ago
@therehastobeme apostrophes only make something plural when it is an abbreviation like CD's and VCR's. Otherwise it makes it possessive. Chantay's would mean something belonging to Chantay, like the graphic designer assumed it was Chantay's Pipeline.
TheDrelicious 4 months ago
@highschoolmusical841 Really? Wow. I was thinking about buying a summer home in Paris someday. It'll be good to be musically appreciated there without all the trendy "pop" music of nowadays....
Transformers2themax 4 months ago
@highschoolmusical841 Yeah, of the rest of the band, Ray was definitely the closest to Jim.
Transformers2themax 4 months ago
@highschoolmusical841 Interesting. My mother has friends that---on his grave. * humorously rolls eyes*. I already plan to got Paris someday and I'm gonna try to visit his grave. From what I've seen, it looks like a hippie shrine. And even though he drank and got high(who cares?), that wasn't the central cause of his goofiness. Jim was schizophrenic; hence why we always heard trippy voices and stuff in their music. A great poet no doubt though....It's sad that most folks don't know of this music.
Transformers2themax 4 months ago
@highschoolmusical841 ~ Ah, sure. 25K was an exaggeration but just by a few! The West Coast, and in particular, Southern California was littered with surf bands aplenty. The left-handed surf gutiar legend, Dick Dale, was really the beginning but there were many many bands (circa; late 1961 thru late 1963) that dotted the musical landscape of Los Angeles. I know because I was alive & well thru all of it and the music was enjoyable if not redundant. The Beatles, Stones and DC5 cleaned house.
MrRonnieG 4 months ago
@highschoolmusical841 Lol. I know. That's common sense, dude. Jimi never played there during the war of course. My friend saw him outside of being in 'Nam. In fact, he saw him play here in the United States as well as Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin; Jim he saw in Detroit right when The Doors were just getting popular.
Transformers2themax 4 months ago
a surf tune classic.5*****.
wfarrar69 4 months ago in playlist More videos from 45rpmSINGLES
@Hillbilly4994 ~ Never done it, sorry........
MrRonnieG 4 months ago
I grew up in Socal (graduated H.S. in '65) and I'll bet that for a 2 year period between the end of 1961 and the end of 1963 (The British Invasion began in the Fall of '63) there were probably 25,000 surf bands in L.A. alone. I will also bet that by the summer of 1964 there were 3 left. If you wanna talk about a genre of music that absolutely disappeared, in a matter of months, it was surf band music and the wave that got 'em all was British in nature!
MrRonnieG 5 months ago
@MrRonnieG How Do I Upload A Video On Youtube
Hillbilly4994 4 months ago
@Hillbilly4994 thanks for answering,hope you do someday
Hillbilly4994 4 months ago
A new version of Pipeline just showed up on CD Baby and iTunes by Surf Project on a CD called Surfin Summer Hits
Sidtrea 5 months ago
More than Dick Dean, more than the Ventures, this version rolls over you like a wave... and then it's gone.
Jimi Hendrix was wrong. I will hear surf music again.
ThePeaceableKingdom 5 months ago
@ThePeaceableKingdom *rolls eyes*. Why is that on every video of surfer rock on YouTube that someone's hating on Jimi Hendrix? Sure, surf-rock is badass and I'm probably gonna use this song for the opening scene of my future exploitation film. However, there is no central guitarist nearly as inspirational or as original as Jimi Hendrix was. Dick Dale was an inspiration and a really good guitarist, but the things Jimi did with his Stratocaster folks are still trying to figure out to this day.
Transformers2themax 4 months ago
@Transformers2themax "there is no central guitarist nearly as inspirational or as original as Jimi Hendrix was"
Absolutely agree! But on one of his records, as the song fades out, you can hear him say "I'll never hear surf music again." I was riffing on that for comic effect... I was in no way hating on Hendrix. Love Hendrix. Hendrix rules! I am experienced. I have been experienced....
ThePeaceableKingdom 4 months ago
@ThePeaceableKingdom Sorry. I misunderstood. People on the internet are always hating on him, so I thought you were too. As for never hearing surf music again, I believe he was referring to the fact that there will never be any surf-rock again that is as original as this surf music. Sure, there are reincarnations, but there will never be any surfer rock out there that is as original as that of the '60s. Speaking of Hendrix, I have a Vietnam veteran friend that saw him play live.
Transformers2themax 4 months ago
Imagine.. Slayer covering this...!
mista7foot 6 months ago
I like how some geniuse's kept printing all those record label's with apostrophe's to make Chantay's plural. Some folk's just don't pay attention in English class's. The hair's on our neck's should be standing.
ranran19701 6 months ago 16
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@ranran19701 apostrophes only make something plural when it is an abbreviation like CD's and VCR's. Otherwise it makes it possessive. Chantay's would mean something belonging to Chantay, like the graphic designer assumed it was Chantay's Pipeline.
TheDrelicious 4 months ago
@ranran19701 In Sweden we don't use apostrophes... at all really, so it can be confusing to know how to use 'em, I dunno about the guy who posted the video, but next time, remember that not everyone talks English as their native tongue.
BlueJeanBopper 4 months ago
@ranran19701 I like it how you pointed out an irregularity in the English language used, when in fact you're the one in the wrong. Or perhaps my sarcasm-o-meter is broken.
"labels" = more than one label as opposed "a label's colour", where the apostrophe is the possessive form. This is the general form in English, with few exceptions (most notably "its" and "it's").
But I agree that it's annoying when people confuse these... like yourself ;)
tatsujinsverje 1 month ago
@tatsujinsverje i guess you didn't get it, he was putting apostrophes in the incorrect places as a joke to the apostrophes in the name of the band. You can always read things multiple times, the comments are here to stay, they aren't going anywhere, you have the time.
EarthFMEnterprises 1 month ago
@EarthFMEnterprises Well, that why I mentioned my "sarcasm-o-meter". Whether he/she was joking or not really boils down to interpretation, no matter how long these comments exist.
tatsujinsverje 1 month ago
@tatsujinsverje so i guess you can't take a joke is what your saying
EarthFMEnterprises 1 month ago
@EarthFMEnterprises uhm, what is there for me to take?
Anyway, trying to veer back on topic, whether the apostrophe in "Chantay's" is correct or not is also a case of interpretation. Without knowing any facts (like, how they spelled it themselves), either could be correct, grammatically.
However, I was my mistake to point out a (possible) grammatical mistake in a comment posted on internet. I should know better.
tatsujinsverje 1 month ago
@tatsujinsverje Yeah, you really do need to read a comment before replying to it next time. It's fairly obvious he/she was kidding.
Transformers2themax 1 month ago
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ranran19701 6 months ago
This is so good
SoalaJohn54 6 months ago
The 1 dislike must be work for the DMV. They don't like anything.
ronetteloverz 6 months ago
WHAT DO I LIKE ABOUT THIS VIDEO???
3/5 ARE ROBERTS , ROBERT
Yes, Bob, Bob, some guy, Bob, some guy.
Bob's Rule
bobbycv64 7 months ago
@unpiberegio......Check out Guitarras Muchachas by Los Esquisitos. Cheers.
thelighthousekeeper 7 months ago
More thn likely that you like these too: 1. Dick d Dale – Misirlou 2. Dick Dale – The Victor 3. The \ Ventures – Walk don’t f run 4. The v Ventures – Hawaii Five-O 5. The > Ventures – Surf ? Rider 6. The Chantays – Pipeline 7. The C Chantays – Banzai
# The � Lively P ones – High � tide
# The X Lively u ones – Surf Y beat
# The � Marketts – Out � Of B Limits
# The D Marketts – Saturn
unpiberegio 7 months ago
@RedVader29 can you believe the negative votes on this?
Unbelievable, unthinkable and most of all UNAMERICAN.
bobbycv64 8 months ago
I like Anthrax's version of it!
domdom111111 8 months ago
Absolutely mesmerizing! Thanks for the memories
cozy3952 9 months ago
If I were to be a crime-fighting superhero, by God, THIS would be my official theme song. I've loved it since I was a little kid back in the 60s.
TheJorgSacul 9 months ago 18
A very deep grove.
lamkoid 10 months ago
This song is just BAD ASS! Kills the Ventures version. I getting into surf guitar, gonna buy me a Strat and a Vibro King.
KILLERDYNOCRUISERS 10 months ago
Whoooaaahhh!!!
dohertykaki 10 months ago
Anthrax's cover of this song is awesome! its metal! this is also awesome!
TropianTV 10 months ago
Assassin has the best cover of this song
styxinyourneck09 11 months ago
The Chantays were a group of five guys from Santa Ana High who wrote "Pipeline" in 1962. Their recording reached #4 on the Hot 100 in May 1963. Many believe that Pipeline was originally recorded by the Ventures but The Chantays were the ones who made it the hit it was!
terryi2o 1 year ago
@terryi2o I first heard this song at white sands, New Mexico in a small cafe, while in the Army, in '63.
youngmindedman 9 months ago
This was recorded in the back room of a music store in Gardena CA. They would record anyone.. Yeah imagine that.... BEST SURF SONG EVER
drno2150 1 year ago
@drno2150 We need more of those places that'll record anyone with ten dollars to scrape together nowadays.
sparkytrick 1 year ago
I went to high school with these guys(Santa Ana high school 1963) Warren Waters, the bass player was my neighbor and Bob Welch, the drummer lived the next block over. the actress Diane Keaton(real name Diane Hall) also graduated from there that same year
lajetmech 1 year ago
Baddest Surftune ever- I grew up in Huntungton Beach where this song was always no.1!!
Anchorboy46 1 year ago
Good, but can't beat the ventures
deengew 1 year ago
stereo?
MichaelHansenFUN 1 year ago
I think this is a better version than the Ventures
musicman5236 1 year ago
@musicman5236
Did the Chantays write this? I always thought it was a Ventures tune.
gorblimey61 1 year ago
@gorblimey61 Nope,was written by Bob Spickard and Brian carman of the Chantays
lajetmech 1 year ago
The best version ever.
qwondoflex 1 year ago
One of the best driving songs ever.
wolfeshadow1313 1 year ago
Only from California! no-where else!!
Diogenes1360 1 year ago
The Doors nicked this for Riders On The Storm.
whest 1 year ago
the best verison
689321546 1 year ago
When I was a kid in Kansas, I thought this song was about oil pipelines my Dad had on our land. I found out latter, it was about surfing and the sea. Its is still a great song. AHH 7 year old minds
dlinenberger 1 year ago 2
Immortal as the sea.
ottowes 1 year ago
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Brian Carman tuned my MusicMan Sting Ray as he worked for Leo Fender at MusicMan's , Fullerton CA. i learned this 1 hour before, & now I just have to learn how to play Pipeline! somebody should tell him the new....please!
2quundar 1 year ago
Brian Carman tuned my MusicMan Sting Ray as he worked for Leo Fender at MusicMan's , Fullerton CA. i learned this 1 hour before, & now I just have to learn how to play Pipeline! somebody should tell him the new....please!
2quundar 1 year ago
I believe this song was recorded in Morton Downey Jr's garage...
Derby14 1 year ago
Johnny Thunder make one cover from pipeline but the chantays are very nice
cassiopee70 1 year ago
Thx Father Thx Mother i am born for listen this song^^
Mon morceau preferer de pipeline....
cassiopee70 1 year ago
I lived many a great ride to this song....grew up in Hawaii surfing all through the 60's.......
wolfdogs16 1 year ago
better than the ventures
psychedelicbluesdiva 1 year ago 2
@psychedelicbluesdiva yes of course its better than the ventures because it was originally done by the chantays
rhod5566 1 year ago
@psychedelicbluesdiva yes but i like the ventures ^^
cassiopee70 1 year ago
Man i'd rather hear this while people surf instead of RobotRap with girls shaking their asses. i mean y choose that over surfing???
CubanoRicanTony360 1 year ago 2
i am going to play this in my 56 Chevy when i get it back on the road
bobthedistroyer 1 year ago
This sounds a lot like Secret Agent Man...
But's still a great instrumental!
GeekNoJutsu 1 year ago
@GeekNoJutsu nope but secret agent man was good too
cassiopee70 1 year ago
I remeber this from American Grafitti part 2, it is a great driving song. Th ebeat just hammers.
wolfeshadow1313 1 year ago
fantastic
doowopper64 1 year ago
Amazing song, relaxing and uplifting at the same time!
fakechiblast 1 year ago
Here in California in the 60's surf groups, and others were playing live all over. It was amazing. I saw the Chantays play this I think it was at POP. You could see a band every week. Dick Dale, Chantays, Even the Righteous Brothers were live at the Hangar in OC. This version of Pipeline is my favorite.
Surfer girl. : )
itstess1 1 year ago 3
This is great ! Chantays own this music. I've heard some other covers, and most just sound like noise. This one never gets old.
evensout 1 year ago
Great instrumental song.
Desiree50 1 year ago
brilliant
bluerok1 1 year ago
Finally the stereo version thanks so much.....
wrff1045 1 year ago
I like the picture of the Downey DJ copy. One of the greatest surf songs ever.
NcicHit 1 year ago
beautifull !! saludos desde Perú
egarxll 1 year ago 2
just fucking awesome!
000rotten000 1 year ago 2
Such a great classic. I wonder why the top hits of today are so devoid of pure instrumentals :/
Cissy2cute 1 year ago
"LEAVE THE KID ALONE"
matelot95 1 year ago
oo meeeeeeen so cool ive been looking for this song!! jajajajajaja ahhh
kikis85 1 year ago
Still got the Australian 45 rpm (HL-2078) released on London by EMI ...
Kevinulla 1 year ago
Surf's up - wax up your board - grab your sandals - all you hoodads and surf bunnies - grab a ride on that Ford woody and head to the beach.........
1863year 1 year ago
One Of The Greatest Surf Classics Ever Made
therehastobeme 1 year ago 63
@therehastobeme Wasnt this the first big surf rock song?
Marty0Mcfly 1 year ago
Great tune, but I prefer Johnny Thunders' and Elton Motello's versions.
ZLUGGO 2 years ago
Cascading bass, buoyant arpeggio, sparkling main theme: all adding up to the perfect aural evocation of the mythic blue pipeline of southern California circa 1965. Fantastic!
orthotox 2 years ago
The Johhny Thunders version on So Alone is equally boss.
dubrifle 2 years ago
Check out Dead Kennedy's 'Police Truck'. It sounds similar except punked up.
cartoonistkid001 2 years ago
This was originally recorded at Wentzels Music Town. Pop Wentzel produced many hits out of his small studio on Lakewood Blvd. I recoded a demo there and he used his group, The Pastels, later of CInnamon Cinder fame as the back up. The white Downey label you see at :32 is his original. He would release his music on the Downey label and usually sell it to Dot. He was a huge influence on surf music in the early '60's and not enough people know about him. RIP 'Pop" Wentzel.
anthonytorelli 2 years ago 3
Love it : )
jjjay69 2 years ago 4
Is it just me, or is there a lot of flamenco guitar lurking under the corny surfing externals? And does Ray Manzark's playing on the Fender Rhodes owes something to this style?
And to think that the Doors and the Jefferson Airplane recorded their first albums within 3 years of this recording..
alnot01 2 years ago
What a great song one of the best surf tunes to come out of the sixties.
bigguy4570 2 years ago 2
so this is where Chipmunk got his 'inspiration' from for Dimond Rings
mizz2good 2 years ago
I know dude, he totally ripped this song off, its not even 'inspiration' more like total plagarism he didn't really even add his own touch apart from his annoying face.
KianiKings 2 years ago
It's nice hearing the original version. There's lots of people who think this is a Ventures tune.
youvexme 2 years ago 2
I like the bass-guitar playing in this...
PCMusic75 3 years ago 38
@PCMusic75 The bass is two notes, going into a higher, or lower scale. If you were referring to the guitar in the beginning, that was a guitar.
DarkNatasX 1 year ago
Their only U.S. chart single as well.
blsfp 3 years ago
great Job
gmick49 3 years ago