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The Surfaris

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The Surfaris were an American surf rock band formed in Glendora, California in 1962. [1]

39 relations: A-side and B-side, Bagpipes, Bass guitar, Bob Berryhill, Compact Cassette, Cover version, Decca Records, Dot Records, Drum kit, Drum solo, Glendora, California, GNP Crescendo Records, Hawaii, Instrumental rock, Jim Fuller (musician), Jim Pash, Ken Forssi, Lead guitar, Los Angeles, Louie Louie, Love (band), MGM Records, Monrovia, California, Morton Downey Jr., Music recording certification, Record chart, Recording studio, Rhythm guitar, Ron Wilson (drummer), Saxophone, Singing, Single (music), Song, Sound recording and reproduction, Surf music, The Chantays, The Surfaris, Wipe Out (album), Wipe Out (instrumental).

A-side and B-side

The terms A-side and B-side refer to the two sides of 78, 45, and 33 1/3 rpm phonograph records, or cassettes, whether singles, extended plays (EPs), or long-playing (LP) records.

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Bagpipes

Bagpipes are a woodwind instrument using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag.

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Bass guitar

The bass guitar (also known as electric bass, or bass) is a stringed instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

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Bob Berryhill

Bob Berryhill (born December 15, 1947) is a founding member of The Surfaris and co-writer, recording artist of "Wipe Out" and other Surfaris' hits.

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Compact Cassette

The Compact Audio Cassette (CAC) or Musicassette (MC), also commonly called the cassette tape or simply tape or cassette, is an analog magnetic tape recording format for audio recording and playback.

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Cover version

In popular music, a cover version, cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording by someone other than the original artist or composer of a previously recorded, commercially released song.

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Decca Records

Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis.

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Dot Records

Dot Records is an American record label founded by Randy Wood that was active between 1950 and 1979.

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Drum kit

A drum kit — also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums — is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments, typically cymbals, which are set up on stands to be played by a single player, with drumsticks held in both hands, and the feet operating pedals that control the hi-hat cymbal and the beater for the bass drum.

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Drum solo

A drum solo is an instrumental solo played on a drum kit.

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Glendora, California

Glendora is a city in the San Gabriel Valley in Los Angeles County, California, east of downtown Los Angeles.

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GNP Crescendo Records

GNP Crescendo Record Co. is an independent record label founded in 1954 by Gene Norman.

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Hawaii

Hawaii (Hawaii) is the 50th and most recent state to have joined the United States, having received statehood on August 21, 1959.

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Instrumental rock

Instrumental rock is rock music that emphasizes musical instruments and features very little or no singing.

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Jim Fuller (musician)

James Evans Fuller (June 27, 1947 – March 3, 2017) was the lead guitarist and co-songwriter of 1960s rock band The Surfaris.

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Jim Pash

Jim Pash (December 23, 1948 – April 29, 2005) was an American musician and recording artist.

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Ken Forssi

Kenneth Raymond Forssi (March 30, 1943 – January 5, 1998) was an American musician, best known for being the original bass player in the band Love.

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Lead guitar

Lead guitar is a musical part for a guitar in which the guitarist plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Louie Louie

"Louie Louie" is an American rhythm and blues song written by Richard Berry in 1955 and best known for the 1963 hit version by The Kingsmen.

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Love (band)

Love is an American rock group that was most prominent in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

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MGM Records

MGM Records was a record label started by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio in 1946 for the purpose of releasing soundtrack albums of their musical films.

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Monrovia, California

Monrovia is a city located in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains in the San Gabriel Valley of Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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Morton Downey Jr.

Sean Morton Downey (December 9, 1932 – March 12, 2001), better known by his stage name Morton Downey Jr., was an American television talk show host of the late-1980s who pioneered the "trash TV" format on his program The Morton Downey Jr. Show.

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Music recording certification

Music recording certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped, sold, or streamed a certain number of units.

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Record chart

A record chart, also called a music chart, is a ranking of recorded music according to certain criteria during a given period of time.

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Recording studio

A recording studio is a specialized facility for sound recording, mixing, and audio production of instrumental or vocal musical performances, spoken words, and other sounds.

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Rhythm guitar

In music performances, rhythm guitar is a technique and role that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with other instruments from the rhythm section (e.g., drumkit, bass guitar); and to provide all or part of the harmony, i.e. the chords from a song's chord progression, where a chord is a group of notes played together.

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Ron Wilson (drummer)

Ronald Lee "Ron" Wilson (June 26, 1944 – May 12, 1989) was an American musician and recording artist, best known as an original member and drummer of The Surfaris, an early surf music group of the 1960s.

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Saxophone

The saxophone (also referred to as the sax) is a family of woodwind instruments.

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Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.

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Single (music)

In music, a single, record single or music single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record.

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Song

A song, most broadly, is a single (and often standalone) work of music that is typically intended to be sung by the human voice with distinct and fixed pitches and patterns using sound and silence and a variety of forms that often include the repetition of sections.

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Sound recording and reproduction

Sound recording and reproduction is an electrical, mechanical, electronic, or digital inscription and re-creation of sound waves, such as spoken voice, singing, instrumental music, or sound effects.

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Surf music

Surf music is a subgenre of rock music associated with surf culture, particularly as found in Southern California.

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The Chantays

The Chantays are a surf rock band from Orange County, California, USA, known for the hit instrumental, "Pipeline" (1963).

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The Surfaris

The Surfaris were an American surf rock band formed in Glendora, California in 1962.

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Wipe Out (album)

Wipe Out is the debut album by The Surfaris, released in 1963.

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Wipe Out (instrumental)

"Wipe Out" is an instrumental composed by Bob Berryhill, Pat Connolly, Jim Fuller, and Ron Wilson.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Surfaris

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