The Sandals — Theme from Endless Summer
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Everytime I watch the movie I think of Jan Michael Vincent in Big Wednesday
RazzCat wrote:
OK, I really like this, but it drives me nuts each time it's played and misattributed!
The group was named the Sandells, NOT the Sandals.
A first-time studio album by a buncha young guys ('bout my age back then): brothers Gaston and Walter Georis, John Blakeley, Danny Brawner and John Gibson. Gaston Georis and John Blakeley composed 'Endless Summer'.
I should know; I still have their LP that I bought when I was posted at Pendleton in '64. I heard them one night in a SoCal watering hole (you think an ex-Marine remembers where he had too many beers one night in '64? Everywhere!) and I really liked their sound. Bought the LP on the way out, and still enjoy it, though it has a lot more scratches and pops than it used to. :)
Here's the LP cover:
And the back:
Don't know whatever became of them. Sure hope they went on to happy lives.
Bill, PLEASE correct the group's name. They deserve that...
This is an awesome story, and so cool you have the LP! It's worth noting the group officially changed their name to The Sandals, so the song is not misattributed and there's nothing wrong with having the Sandals as the artist on RP at the same time, unless you'd like all the Beatles tracks to be labeled The Quarrymen too ;)
OK, I really like this, but it drives me nuts each time it's played and misattributed!
The group was named the Sandells, NOT the Sandals.
A first-time studio album by a buncha young guys ('bout my age back then): brothers Gaston and Walter Georis, John Blakeley, Danny Brawner and John Gibson. Gaston Georis and John Blakeley composed 'Endless Summer'.
I should know; I still have their LP that I bought when I was posted at Pendleton in '64. I heard them one night in a SoCal watering hole (you think an ex-Marine remembers where he had too many beers one night in '64? Everywhere!) and I really liked their sound. Bought the LP on the way out, and still enjoy it, though it has a lot more scratches and pops than it used to. :)
Here's the LP cover:
And the back:
Don't know whatever became of them. Sure hope they went on to happy lives.
Bill, PLEASE correct the group's name. They deserve that...
This is an awesome story, and so cool you have the LP! It's worth noting the group officially changed their name to The Sandals, so the song is not misattributed and there's nothing wrong with having the Sandals as the artist on RP at the same time, unless you'd like all the Beatles tracks to be labeled The Quarrymen too ;)
Dreamy. Love it.
SmackDaddy wrote:
Yes, Corky and Hobie Alter, et al.
Corky had some of the largest knobs on his knees from knee paddling. Mine were just as big and all these years later they are still somewhat visible. Some of my classmates in hs were on the Hobie surf team. And they also were in the San Onofre Surf Club which made me very jealous. I have been thrown off the base several times for sneaking in back when you were either in the club or the Marines which was the only way in, legally ... Trestles, uncrowded, sigh ...
nomnol wrote:
OMG YES! Where do you think they got it? I'll tell you - Corky Carroll. Look him up. And I hate him for it.
There was a "cowabunga!" before the Ninja Turtles?
OMG YES! Where do you think they got it? I'll tell you - Corky Carroll. Look him up. And I hate him for it.
Yes, Corky and Hobie Alter, et al.
Corky had some of the largest knobs on his knees from knee paddling. Mine were just as big and all these years later they are still somewhat visible. Some of my classmates in hs were on the Hobie surf team. And they also were in the San Onofre Surf Club which made me very jealous. I have been thrown off the base several times for sneaking in back when you were either in the club or the Marines which was the only way in, legally ... Trestles, uncrowded, sigh ...
The movie and this soundtrack capture the primal nature of surfing.
tinypriest wrote:
How can you type?
water proof phone
How can you type?
water proof phone
I’m not a surfer, although I’ll bet I’d have made a decent one, however my summers at the Jersey shore between 0 and 11 help me appreciate this song on a deeper level
tinypriest wrote:
How can you type?
Haha! Water proof cell phone!
How can you type?
Haha! Water proof cell phone!
nomnol wrote:
OMG YES! Where do you think they got it? I'll tell you - Corky Carroll. Look him up. And I hate him for it.
There was a "cowabunga!" before the Ninja Turtles?
OMG YES! Where do you think they got it? I'll tell you - Corky Carroll. Look him up. And I hate him for it.
I was 7 years old. I remember my Big Bro saying either your a surfer or a greaser.
This song convinced me I was and still am a surfer.
Thanks bro.
This song convinced me I was and still am a surfer.
Thanks bro.
ScottishWillie wrote:
I am a surfer, and this song makes me happy I am!
I'm not a surfer but this song makes me wish I was!
I am a surfer, and this song makes me happy I am!
And this summer is nearing its end!
Oh no!
Oh no!
There was a "cowabunga!" before the Ninja Turtles?
Five Summer Stories is another one from that time that should be all over this station.
melzabutch wrote:
RIP Greg Noll...
RIP Greg Noll...
housekeeping error
this is by The Sandells (not Sandals)
___dells, get it? 60s stuff
this is by The Sandells (not Sandals)
___dells, get it? 60s stuff
RIP Gaston
andrew2112 wrote:
How can you type?
Hynson is still shaping boards out of Oceanside CA. I’m riding one of his black knight quads as my main board now
How can you type?
A winter's day, in a deep and dark December...
Great piece of music. Hard to rate.
Love the Jaguar on the surfboard picture. I actually have that on a shirt. Fender offers the shirt on their site. I also own a Jaguar and love it.
Hynson is still shaping boards out of Oceanside CA. I’m riding one of his black knight quads as my main board now
The "Cowabunga" box set this appears on is worth every penny. A well curated journey through a very brief but brilliant era of music.
I'm not a surfer but this song makes me wish I was!
LPCity wrote:
I still have mine. A Bahne Mike Hynson model shaped by Mike. He is one of the two featured surfers in the movie, the other being Robert August.
I was more sad about selling my surfboard than I was about moving out of California.
I still have mine. A Bahne Mike Hynson model shaped by Mike. He is one of the two featured surfers in the movie, the other being Robert August.
surprising and dark surf story i read recently
Sublime and fits the movie perfectly.
Loved it. Perfect 4pm post-bong wind down tune.
Perfect! Just the mental reverie I need right now with the crappy cold outside!
Rest in peace, Bruce Brown.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/12/obituaries/bruce-brown-documentarian-of-surfing-is-dead-at-80.html?_r=0
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/12/obituaries/bruce-brown-documentarian-of-surfing-is-dead-at-80.html?_r=0
The Melodica is a nice touch 
melzabutch wrote:
" You should've been here yesterday"
Despite being musically very different because of it's associations in my mind it is making me think of Weezer singing "You take your car to work, I'll take my board, and when you're out of fuel, I'm still afloat."
So chill. So influential. So American.
Cueburned wrote:
Thats a cool factoid. Lucky you.
I was just thinking the other day that I hadn't heard this on RP and thought I might suggest it. I should have known. I did get to work on the audio for the sequel with Bruce Brown in Santa Barbara. Great guy.
Thats a cool factoid. Lucky you.
Gotta love surf twang !
This song is so cool and takes my mind to a wonderful place way back when.
GREAT movie! And the 90's sequel was pretty good, too.
EDIT- just realized i had made almost exact comments years ago. I'm my own sequel!
EDIT- just realized i had made almost exact comments years ago. I'm my own sequel!
It's not the Sandals ... it's the Sandells
I was more sad about selling my surfboard than I was about moving out of California.
this doesn't sound like that theme song at all
until i realized it's not from the 1959 movie 'A Summer Place'
.
different song dummy
until i realized it's not from the 1959 movie 'A Summer Place'
.
different song dummy
Need the warm beach on this cold January day, I am there in my dreams.
Just arrived back home in Detroit after a few days in St. John and U.S. Virgin Islands National Park...
Bill, I think you're trolling me!
Bill, I think you're trolling me!
I had this on an LP of Easy listening Hits (or rather My Mom did until she gifted it to me with my first record player as a kid in the 70's).. I played the BeJeebies outta that thing.... I actually heard this when I was asleep to you guys and was like WAIT! WHAT??.... Thanks Bill & Rebecca :)
Very pleasant sounding music, perfect for that elevator ride up to the fifth floor, or music to push your shopping cart by.
Ah, I can just feel the surf. Nice.....
akdavey wrote:
Sooooooon
The SanDELLS!
Sooooooon
-2 in Massachusetts today; well-timed on this song. Thanks, Bill.
Would be a treat to hear something from the Honk - Five Summer Stories soundtrack in a set with this.
Loved the movie. And the sequel.
I need a surf vacation....
kurtster wrote:
Ben Aipa and Donald Takayama, names I haven't heard in awhile. We went through the surfboard licenses in Newport Beach in the 60's. Bastids. Got to surf with Rolf Aurness (Marshall Dillon's kid) at Cotton's, the Western White House just above Trestles and world champ at the time and David Nuuhiwa at Huntington. Prolly the craziest thing I ever did was climb up and down the 200 foot cliffs at Black's with 35 lb 10 foot boards at Torrey Pines above La Jolla. Young and dumb and in pretty good shape back then.
The factory I worked at where I met Velzy (El Paipo) was pretty neat. He was working for Hobie then. Steve Bigler popped in alot. His dog's name was Hookah. George Greenough also had us work on his prototype big wave kneeboard. Awesome design. He had a 5 foot board shaped. We glassed the bottom with about 8 layers of 10 oz cloth. We then flipped it over and scooped out the center leaving foam for the rails on the nose and the sides, flush at the tail which was basically square with a slight ridge down the center from the nose about 2 feet long on the deck, which fit between his knees. A couple of layers on the top and a deep fixed glass fin glassed to the bottom. Not much floatation, but shit howdy, it planed and torqued making huge turns on 20 foot waves easy.
Got to meet and work with my heros. It was the best job I ever had. And no shit, there were more than a few times someone would pass by and say surf's up ! and we would look at each other and have the shop locked up in 10 minutes and be heading straight to the beach.
Now I just ride a sponge when I can. Buxton is my favorite destination on the EC.
Many great posts on this thread. Love this one and others like it: you get taken to a place and time you never knew about it, or just didn't think deeply about. If I lived near the ocean with enough surf, I might get caught up in surfing.
Ben Aipa and Donald Takayama, names I haven't heard in awhile. We went through the surfboard licenses in Newport Beach in the 60's. Bastids. Got to surf with Rolf Aurness (Marshall Dillon's kid) at Cotton's, the Western White House just above Trestles and world champ at the time and David Nuuhiwa at Huntington. Prolly the craziest thing I ever did was climb up and down the 200 foot cliffs at Black's with 35 lb 10 foot boards at Torrey Pines above La Jolla. Young and dumb and in pretty good shape back then.
The factory I worked at where I met Velzy (El Paipo) was pretty neat. He was working for Hobie then. Steve Bigler popped in alot. His dog's name was Hookah. George Greenough also had us work on his prototype big wave kneeboard. Awesome design. He had a 5 foot board shaped. We glassed the bottom with about 8 layers of 10 oz cloth. We then flipped it over and scooped out the center leaving foam for the rails on the nose and the sides, flush at the tail which was basically square with a slight ridge down the center from the nose about 2 feet long on the deck, which fit between his knees. A couple of layers on the top and a deep fixed glass fin glassed to the bottom. Not much floatation, but shit howdy, it planed and torqued making huge turns on 20 foot waves easy.
Got to meet and work with my heros. It was the best job I ever had. And no shit, there were more than a few times someone would pass by and say surf's up ! and we would look at each other and have the shop locked up in 10 minutes and be heading straight to the beach.
Now I just ride a sponge when I can. Buxton is my favorite destination on the EC.
Many great posts on this thread. Love this one and others like it: you get taken to a place and time you never knew about it, or just didn't think deeply about. If I lived near the ocean with enough surf, I might get caught up in surfing.
Surfs Up!
Another tedious comment from myself...
I love instrumental surf.
(From the department or redundancy department).
I love instrumental surf.
(From the department or redundancy department).
nagsheadlocal wrote:
Yessir!
I uploaded "Pipeline Sequence" a while back... a true surf music classic...
https://youtu.be/JQ8QWqbsAy8
It was used by many a surf reporter for background music on FM radio back in the day.
It got the boot.
As much as I like this movie, "Five Summer Stories" is my favorite surf film. Better soundtrack, too.
Yessir!
I uploaded "Pipeline Sequence" a while back... a true surf music classic...
https://youtu.be/JQ8QWqbsAy8
It was used by many a surf reporter for background music on FM radio back in the day.
It got the boot.
Cynaera wrote:
lots of good stories down the comments line for this Sandells track, Cheers All
I NEED to win the lottery. Too much good music I can't afford to buy, like this offering. Thank all the cosmic forces for RP! If Neopoints were real money, I'd have about three million dollars, half of which would go to a decent MP3 player, a serious stereo system, and a wall of music. And maybe a tank of gas once in awhile. Oh - and food for the catsndogs. (See? I have priorities!)
lots of good stories down the comments line for this Sandells track, Cheers All
Bill, You are too funny.
ScottishWillie wrote:
Very good wellies weather but could do with some sun before the upcoming 11-month Wet in my village.
Looks like Vancouver has similar weather to the Scottish Lowlands?
Very good wellies weather but could do with some sun before the upcoming 11-month Wet in my village.
Looks like Vancouver has similar weather to the Scottish Lowlands?
schayler wrote:
Really? Which one? I don't remember any '70s TV show with music that sounded like this.
This is like bad 70's television theme show music.
Really? Which one? I don't remember any '70s TV show with music that sounded like this.
maxmox wrote:
Very good wellies weather but could do with some sun before the upcoming 11-month Wet in my village.
Very good sandal weather but could do with some rain before the upcoming 9-month Dry in my village.
Very good wellies weather but could do with some sun before the upcoming 11-month Wet in my village.
Brings heart-soaring happy memories of growing up in So Cal...going to Santa Monica Civic Auditorium to see the movie...a time when all was groovy with the world!
Very good sandal weather but could do with some rain before the upcoming 9-month Dry in my village.
The bass drummer and rhythm guitarist must've hated playing this song. You can almost imagine them falling asleep.
Good song tho - reminds me of ferry cross the mersey, and I'm making the assumption that this song was almost certainly ripped off by Gerry Marsden and recycled into his hit.
Good song tho - reminds me of ferry cross the mersey, and I'm making the assumption that this song was almost certainly ripped off by Gerry Marsden and recycled into his hit.
The SanDELLS!
Ah, the possibilities of global warming.
I'm ready for the movie again. Bring on the corny jokes!
OK, I really like this, but it drives me nuts each time it's played and misattributed!
The group was named the Sandells, NOT the Sandals.
A first-time studio album by a buncha young guys ('bout my age back then): brothers Gaston and Walter Georis, John Blakeley, Danny Brawner and John Gibson. Gaston Georis and John Blakeley composed 'Endless Summer'.
I should know; I still have their LP that I bought when I was posted at Pendleton in '64. I heard them one night in a SoCal watering hole (you think an ex-Marine remembers where he had too many beers one night in '64? Everywhere!) and I really liked their sound. Bought the LP on the way out, and still enjoy it, though it has a lot more scratches and pops than it used to. :)
Here's the LP cover:
And the back:
Don't know whatever became of them. Sure hope they went on to happy lives.
Bill, PLEASE correct the group's name. They deserve that...
I saw this on IFC and was surprised by how engaging it is. This theme works well for the movie, except that it gets played over and over and over and over. A variation on the theme would be welcome, but it's a low budget film. Definitely worth watching once.
Spent last weekend surfing overheads at Kill Devil Hills, storm surf from TS Leslie. Hella current from the south, but otherwise perfect surf. A bit of this ran through my head at one point, but I'd rather have Tower Of Power's "What is Hip?" for a real stoke for big surf.
WonderLizard wrote:
Me too!
It hangs proudly in my garage.
The greatest slacker movie ever. Still have one of the original day-glo posters.
Me too!
It hangs proudly in my garage.
schayler wrote:
Like when you weren't born yet.
This is like bad 70's television theme show music.
Like when you weren't born yet.
This is like bad 70's television theme show music.
The greatest slacker movie ever. Still have one of the original day-glo posters.
Xing wrote:
I agree
Possibly the prototype elevator music.
I agree
We're experiencing an ENDLESS SPRING here in Seattle, still waiting for summer to arrive.................. 
nagsheadlocal wrote:
Yeah, leashes are one of those religious disputes. I started using one because loose boards hitting tourist kids result in "surf zone" laws being passed, which severely limits surfing. We had a surf zone law passed in Wrightsville Beach NC in the mid-80s after a couple tourists got speared, and it took us 10 years to get it overturned.
I had a Bahne rounded pin for a while, but switched to an Aipa stinger - both were lost, alas, in a house fire. I recently found a mid-70s Aipa stinger on Ebay, I'm picking it up next weekend. So stoked I can hardly stand it, even though these days the Takayama 9'6" is my ride of choice. Another old guy on a longboard . . .
Ben Aipa and Donald Takayama, names I haven't heard in awhile. We went through the surfboard licenses in Newport Beach in the 60's. Bastids. Got to surf with Rolf Aurness (Marshall Dillon's kid) at Cotton's, the Western White House just above Trestles and world champ at the time and David Nuuhiwa at Huntington. Prolly the craziest thing I ever did was climb up and down the 200 foot cliffs at Black's with 35 lb 10 foot boards at Torrey Pines above La Jolla. Young and dumb and in pretty good shape back then.
The factory I worked at where I met Velzy (El Paipo) was pretty neat. He was working for Hobie then. Steve Bigler popped in alot. His dog's name was Hookah. George Greenough also had us work on his prototype big wave kneeboard. Awesome design. He had a 5 foot board shaped. We glassed the bottom with about 8 layers of 10 oz cloth. We then flipped it over and scooped out the center leaving foam for the rails on the nose and the sides, flush at the tail which was basically square with a slight ridge down the center from the nose about 2 feet long on the deck, which fit between his knees. A couple of layers on the top and a deep fixed glass fin glassed to the bottom. Not much floatation, but shit howdy, it planed and torqued making huge turns on 20 foot waves easy.
Got to meet and work with my heros. It was the best job I ever had. And no shit, there were more than a few times someone would pass by and say surf's up ! and we would look at each other and have the shop locked up in 10 minutes and be heading straight to the beach.
Now I just ride a sponge when I can. Buxton is my favorite destination on the EC.
Yeah, leashes are one of those religious disputes. I started using one because loose boards hitting tourist kids result in "surf zone" laws being passed, which severely limits surfing. We had a surf zone law passed in Wrightsville Beach NC in the mid-80s after a couple tourists got speared, and it took us 10 years to get it overturned.
I had a Bahne rounded pin for a while, but switched to an Aipa stinger - both were lost, alas, in a house fire. I recently found a mid-70s Aipa stinger on Ebay, I'm picking it up next weekend. So stoked I can hardly stand it, even though these days the Takayama 9'6" is my ride of choice. Another old guy on a longboard . . .
Ben Aipa and Donald Takayama, names I haven't heard in awhile. We went through the surfboard licenses in Newport Beach in the 60's. Bastids. Got to surf with Rolf Aurness (Marshall Dillon's kid) at Cotton's, the Western White House just above Trestles and world champ at the time and David Nuuhiwa at Huntington. Prolly the craziest thing I ever did was climb up and down the 200 foot cliffs at Black's with 35 lb 10 foot boards at Torrey Pines above La Jolla. Young and dumb and in pretty good shape back then.
The factory I worked at where I met Velzy (El Paipo) was pretty neat. He was working for Hobie then. Steve Bigler popped in alot. His dog's name was Hookah. George Greenough also had us work on his prototype big wave kneeboard. Awesome design. He had a 5 foot board shaped. We glassed the bottom with about 8 layers of 10 oz cloth. We then flipped it over and scooped out the center leaving foam for the rails on the nose and the sides, flush at the tail which was basically square with a slight ridge down the center from the nose about 2 feet long on the deck, which fit between his knees. A couple of layers on the top and a deep fixed glass fin glassed to the bottom. Not much floatation, but shit howdy, it planed and torqued making huge turns on 20 foot waves easy.
Got to meet and work with my heros. It was the best job I ever had. And no shit, there were more than a few times someone would pass by and say surf's up ! and we would look at each other and have the shop locked up in 10 minutes and be heading straight to the beach.
Now I just ride a sponge when I can. Buxton is my favorite destination on the EC.
kurtster wrote:
And before leashes ruined surfing. Once upon a time you had to know how to swim if you ever dared thinking about surfing. I was lucky enough to know Dale Velzy as a kid. He shaped me a nice minigun, glassed it myself. It was awesome. Had to sell it when I moved to the East Coast. Just didn't work there. Hope its still being ridden somewhere.
Ironically, I replaced it with a Bahne, Mike Hinson, who was in the Endless Summer, with Bob August.
Yeah, leashes are one of those religious disputes. I started using one because loose boards hitting tourist kids result in "surf zone" laws being passed, which severely limits surfing. We had a surf zone law passed in Wrightsville Beach NC in the mid-80s after a couple tourists got speared, and it took us 10 years to get it overturned.
I had a Bahne rounded pin for a while, but switched to an Aipa stinger - both were lost, alas, in a house fire. I recently found a mid-70s Aipa stinger on Ebay, I'm picking it up next weekend. So stoked I can hardly stand it, even though these days the Takayama 9'6" is my ride of choice. Another old guy on a longboard . . .
And before leashes ruined surfing. Once upon a time you had to know how to swim if you ever dared thinking about surfing. I was lucky enough to know Dale Velzy as a kid. He shaped me a nice minigun, glassed it myself. It was awesome. Had to sell it when I moved to the East Coast. Just didn't work there. Hope its still being ridden somewhere.
Ironically, I replaced it with a Bahne, Mike Hinson, who was in the Endless Summer, with Bob August.
Yeah, leashes are one of those religious disputes. I started using one because loose boards hitting tourist kids result in "surf zone" laws being passed, which severely limits surfing. We had a surf zone law passed in Wrightsville Beach NC in the mid-80s after a couple tourists got speared, and it took us 10 years to get it overturned.
I had a Bahne rounded pin for a while, but switched to an Aipa stinger - both were lost, alas, in a house fire. I recently found a mid-70s Aipa stinger on Ebay, I'm picking it up next weekend. So stoked I can hardly stand it, even though these days the Takayama 9'6" is my ride of choice. Another old guy on a longboard . . .
As much as I like this movie, "Five Summer Stories" is my favorite surf film. Better soundtrack, too.
I guess you'd have to see it to appriciate it. rated low. ............... whats next?
GawgaBoy wrote:
it's not just me then.
Nope, a lot of us still around, ignoring the shredders and the surf Nazis, sitting outside and waiting for that long line.
it's not just me then.
Nope, a lot of us still around, ignoring the shredders and the surf Nazis, sitting outside and waiting for that long line.
Watched the original and part 2...AGAIN this weekend. 
Moved to a 10. Few other pieces of music stay as distinct and welcome after all these years... Very few hold their value in as many climes, a many places and as many times of day or night... Thanks
Possibly the prototype elevator music.
jpfueler wrote:
I like that when they retraced the trip not too long ago, one of the African villages now has a bunch of the residents surfing...when they went there for the film the locals thought they were nuts at first.
Uh... nagsheadlocal wrote:
it's not just me then.
Dora lives.
it's not just me then.
I like that when they retraced the trip not too long ago, one of the African villages now has a bunch of the residents surfing...when they went there for the film the locals thought they were nuts at first.
bindi wrote:
this movie changed my life when I was a kid - our family went to see it in a snow storm at a theater in a strip mall in Rochester NY - the next year, I was surfing in Matenchen Bay, Mexico, on a board 3X my size. . .but I was surfing! Never lost the fever.
I love the whole dichotomy of you watching a surf movie in a snow storm... Didn't that sort of disorient you a bit? Do you still surf? I love to watch people go out there and tackle those waves, but I'd never be able to do it myself - I'm too scared of deep water. Still, when I lived in Oregon, I'd truck to the coast once in awhile, and I saw brave souls in wetsuits, riding waves that crashed against jagged rocks and cliffs - SKEERY. But beautiful and poetic, too... (Why don't we have a surfing banana?)Dora lives.
Gotta give this a 9. This surfing documentary film is still stuck in my mind after all these years. Hearing the theme song just took 40 years off my age.
This music somehow, for me, captures the surf, the sand, the warm days and cool water of a beach somewhere on the Pacific. Wish I knew how it did that.
A nice soundtrack for a sunny afternoon by the side of a pool in Florida.
Hey, Business Gypsy, your grass really is greener than mine!
Hey, Business Gypsy, your grass really is greener than mine!
Sitting here ,thinking of my many days surfing back in the 60's....god, how time has flown...Alice in Ventura
Thank You-!
Love the pacing of this original track. Back before board leashes and tow-in surfers things moved slower.
The movie was also good... made America want to surf... and then things changed-but it brings back a much more innocent an slower paced time... Hold up nicely as well...
Love the pacing of this original track. Back before board leashes and tow-in surfers things moved slower.
The movie was also good... made America want to surf... and then things changed-but it brings back a much more innocent an slower paced time... Hold up nicely as well...
We could use a whole lot more Sandals. Thanks Bill, this is awesome.
Very awesome segue from the Eels "Nowadays" to this. I find that they've got the same sort of guitar phrasing going on and that melancholy mood. Good one Bill!
Would love to hear Tim Buckley sing over this instrumentation.
Warm, sun drenched music for a grey 28 degree day!
Ready for Summer, anybody!?! Surf's Up!!!
Not a surfer, never have been, and I don't even really care for the beach. But the images conjured up by this music, the feeling it inexplicably gives me, cause me to rate this a 10. Thank you for this interlude, Bill.
Going surfing in a couple of weeks in SoCal!!!!
this movie changed my life when I was a kid - our family went to see it in a snow storm at a theater in a strip mall in Rochester NY - the next year, I was surfing in Matenchen Bay, Mexico, on a board 3X my size. . .but I was surfing! Never lost the fever.
I think I have only heard that song twice, maybe three times! Have only seen the movie two times. Love the song. And wish I would have learned to surf when I lived near the beach in Southern California (Westchester - near LAX) as a kid (the 60's).....
nagsheadlocal wrote:
And before leashes ruined surfing. Once upon a time you had to know how to swim if you ever dared thinking about surfing. I was lucky enough to know Dale Velzy as a kid. He shaped me a nice minigun, glassed it myself. It was awesome. Had to sell it when I moved to the East Coast. Just didn't work there. Hope its still being ridden somewhere.
Ironically, I replaced it with a Bahne, Mike Hinson, who was in the Endless Summer, with Bob August.
Just got a copy of "Five Summer Stories" the other day. Watching that and reading Greg Noll's autobio reminds me of what surfing was like before the corporate machine got hold of it.
And before leashes ruined surfing. Once upon a time you had to know how to swim if you ever dared thinking about surfing. I was lucky enough to know Dale Velzy as a kid. He shaped me a nice minigun, glassed it myself. It was awesome. Had to sell it when I moved to the East Coast. Just didn't work there. Hope its still being ridden somewhere.
Ironically, I replaced it with a Bahne, Mike Hinson, who was in the Endless Summer, with Bob August.
I NEED to win the lottery. Too much good music I can't afford to buy, like this offering. Thank all the cosmic forces for RP! If Neopoints were real money, I'd have about three million dollars, half of which would go to a decent MP3 player, a serious stereo system, and a wall of music. And maybe a tank of gas once in awhile. Oh - and food for the catsndogs. (See? I have priorities!)
only takes those first few notes to make the smile bloom all over me. god this is a perfect memory song.
quite nice !
DaveInVA wrote:
Cow-a-Dunga dude!
Actually blew my drink out of my nose. Do you know how rare that is? Just what the day needed!!
Just got a copy of "Five Summer Stories" the other day. Watching that and reading Greg Noll's autobio reminds me of what surfing was like before the corporate machine got hold of it.
this movie changed my life when I was a kid.
I like this!
Cow-a-Dunga dude!
Jeeze, just this morning a pal on Facebook was sharing some photos of surfspots on the NC banks from the mid-70s and there I was with my old Ben Aipa swallowtail. Now here comes The Sandals. I may have to blow off work this afternoon.
mikexican wrote:
Totally awesome. Perfect for a warm Friday afternoon on the coast. This is magic.
It's totally relaxing on a cold Wednesday night in Beijing. Yes, magic.Hm, I'm more familiar with Sandals, and their excellent album Rite To Silence, not quite so vintage (from the early 90's). Give it a listen Bill - I think some of your listeners might like it!
OMG YES! Where do you think they got it? I'll tell you - Corky Carroll. Look him up. And I hate him for it.
Actually, it was the signature expression of Chief Thunderthud, a character from the the American children's TV show The Howdy Doody Show (1947–1960) .
From the Howdy Doody wiki...
"Chief Thunderthud is the Head of the Ooragnak (kangaroo spelled backward) tribe of American Indians. Edward Kean originated Thunderthud's greeting "Kowabonga!"—a nonsense word that eventually became part of the California surfer culture lexicon. Chief Thunderthud was played by Bill Le Cornec. His
favorite remark was a boisterous "KOWA-BONGA!"
https://howdy-doody.fandom.com...