Soul, Blues, Sixties Music Database
PAPPA OOM MOW MOW– 1962 Liberty Mama oom Mow Mow The Bird Is The Word Your Gonna Pay The Rivingtons – From “Papa – Oom – Mow – Mow” to the “Surfin Bird” then on to the somewhat great “Your Gonna Pay” The Rivingtons surf type stuff got played at the Wheel. The Trashmen mixed … Read more
Jan and Dean – SURF CITYDEAD MANS CURVEThe Little Old Lady (From Pasadena) Only the Beach Boys came near to the ‘surf feel’ for that California sound that epitomised Jan and Dean. Brian Wilson sang backup vocals on their biggest hit (which he co-wrote with Jan) ‘Surf City,’ in 1963. Jan & Dean’s hits ‘The … Read more
Little Honda – Mercury 1964 A lot of surf, hot rod and dragster related music was played at the old Twisted Wheel. Examples were: “Little Honda” by the Hondells, GTO by Ronnie and The Daytoners, Bucket T, Jan and Dean and the Beach Boys did lots of similar stuff. In fact it was Brian Wilson … Read more
Stick Shift – London 1961 The Duels released Stick Shift a popular Surfer / Dragster instrumental in 1961. The term ‘stick shift’ refers to the manual gearbox preferred in European cars almost exclusively at the time whereas in the US virtually all cars are automatic.
Little G.T.O. BUCKET T Surfer and Dragster sounds were quite popular in the early and mid 1960’s, epitomised by the Beach Boys, Jan and Dean, and instrumentalists like the Surfaris and the Venturers. Ronnie & The Daytonas were played sometimes at the Twisted Wheel. But I once heard Roger Eagle tell someone requesting Bucket T … Read more
Lou Courtney – Skate Now Skate Skating and Skate Now by Lou Courtney were big with Dave Lomas the Blue Note DJ, he liked this record and he also was crazy on both dancing and Ice Skating and Surf Music and Dragster Racing.