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11 Jan 2008: it's a "Surfin' Safari"!
« on: January 11, 2008, 07:33:39 AM »
Dave said he had a "great" 1971 set planned, that would include Long John Baldry and the Carpenters (gee... 3 guesses as to what those 2 songs were), but when he found out that Maverick's is tomorrow, he decided to dredge up a surfing set he did some years back. So '71 will be Monday. 
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Re: 11 Jan 2008: it's a "Surfin' Safari"!
« Reply #1 on: January 11, 2008, 09:59:39 AM »
I don't recall the Surfin' set he's referring to (haven't checked the DB yet), but it won't be hard to pick at least a few of the songs:

Surfin' Bird
Surfin' USA
Little Old Lady from Pasadena
Surfer Girl
Surf''s Up

How many Beach Boys songs can he squeeze into one set?
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Re: 11 Jan 2008: it's a "Surfin' Safari"!
« Reply #2 on: January 11, 2008, 10:04:40 AM »
Two girls to every boy!  Yay!
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Re: 11 Jan 2008: it's a "Surfin' Safari"!
« Reply #3 on: January 11, 2008, 10:06:58 AM »
BOS1 Miserlou, the inimitable Dick Dale. More fun with reverb!!
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Re: 11 Jan 2008: it's a "Surfin' Safari"!
« Reply #4 on: January 11, 2008, 10:07:19 AM »
I don't recall the Surfin' set he's referring to (haven't checked the DB yet), but it won't be hard to pick at least a few of the songs:

Surfin' Bird
Surfin' USA
Little Old Lady from Pasadena
Surfer Girl
Surf''s Up

How many Beach Boys songs can he squeeze into one set?

also "Beach baby", for all those surfers in... San Jose?
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Re: 11 Jan 2008: it's a "Surfin' Safari"!
« Reply #5 on: January 11, 2008, 10:12:29 AM »
BOS TradeWinds, "NY's a Lonely Town".  This would seg nicely into "No Surf in Cleveland" by the Euclid Beach Band (produced by Eric Carmen) but I'm not holding my breath.
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Re: 11 Jan 2008: it's a "Surfin' Safari"!
« Reply #6 on: January 11, 2008, 10:13:20 AM »
I keep my "woody" INside, if you catch my drift...
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Re: 11 Jan 2008: it's a "Surfin' Safari"!
« Reply #7 on: January 11, 2008, 10:14:20 AM »
Just occurred to me this could be the shortest set ever, 'cause all these surf tunes are like 1:48.

Surfer Joe, very cool. Haven't heard this in decades.
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Re: 11 Jan 2008: it's a "Surfin' Safari"!
« Reply #8 on: January 11, 2008, 10:14:29 AM »
Surfer Joe, go man go!  I feel like I've stumbled onto a Little Steven show.
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Re: 11 Jan 2008: it's a "Surfin' Safari"!
« Reply #9 on: January 11, 2008, 10:14:40 AM »
Surfer Joe wins!

I'm enjoying the set, but don't seem to have much commentary
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Re: 11 Jan 2008: it's a "Surfin' Safari"!
« Reply #10 on: January 11, 2008, 10:14:57 AM »
What's this Surfer Joe tune?  It's quite terrible, and borrows pretty heavily from Monster Mash.
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Re: 11 Jan 2008: it's a "Surfin' Safari"!
« Reply #11 on: January 11, 2008, 10:16:16 AM »
How could we forget "Wipe Out!" BOS2 -- maybe the Ramones cover of "Surfin Bird" is coming up?
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Re: 11 Jan 2008: it's a "Surfin' Safari"!
« Reply #12 on: January 11, 2008, 10:17:50 AM »
What's this Surfer Joe tune?  It's quite terrible, and borrows pretty heavily from Monster Mash.

yeah, it's a pretty cheezy novelty, and certainly doesn't qualify as a rock record. But that was what the charts were like in '63 or thereabouts.
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Re: 11 Jan 2008: it's a "Surfin' Safari"!
« Reply #13 on: January 11, 2008, 10:21:35 AM »
Urth scores again -- his third predicted song comes true. Not the Ramones version, sadly.  papa-oo-mow-mow!
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Re: 11 Jan 2008: it's a "Surfin' Safari"!
« Reply #14 on: January 11, 2008, 10:24:26 AM »
BOS3 "Ride the Wild Surf" -- one of the best surf songs, from the film of the same name (one of the best surf movies).
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