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Splash in Surf. Distinct from the brown-sound school are the Beach Boys from California: "We're not colored; we're white. And we sing white." They made their big splash with the "surf sound"?clean, breezy orchestration, a jerky, staccato beat and a high, falsetto quaver reminiscent of the Four Freshmen. The Beach Boys' tenor harmony goes so high that it sounds almost feminine, a fact that has all but locked out girl singers from the scores of surf groups performing on the West Coast. Beach Boys' songs, says Jack Good, producer of the rock 'n' roll...
With hits like Surfin' and Hang Ten (toes over the edge of the surf board), the Beach Boys?three brothers, a cousin and a neighbor?have sold more than 2 million records, grossed as much as $25,000 for one concert in Sacramento. They write their own songs, following one rule of thumb: "We picture the U.S. as one great big California...
Part of the subculture of the surf sound is the hot-rodders' hit parade. Poaching off their own sandy preserve, the Beach Boys started with Shut Down, a classic of pit-stop poetry...
...kneecaps and on the top of the feet of suntanned surfboarders are generally recognized as a status symbol, the mark of a practiced wave rider. The medical significance of the strange lumps is a knottier problem, and West Coast doctors are now seeing more and more evidence of such surf board trauma...
...while before they get down to Miami again. Three years, to be exact. Even so, Beachboys Jack ("Murf the Surf") Murphy, 27, Allen Dale Kuhn, 26, and Roger Clark, 29, might have drawn up to 21 years each in the pokey for swiping $410,000 worth of gems from Manhattan's Museum of Natural History last October. They rated "sympathetic consideration," New York Supreme Court Justice Mitchell D. Schweitzer decided, because they did help recover most of the gems, notably the 563-carat Star of India sapphire, the Midnight sapphire, the Easter Egg emerald. If they can just manage...