Word: surfin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although it was three and a half years ago when the Boys first broke into the charts in Southern California, the details of the first recording session and appearances are very vivid to Dennis. They first played "Surfin'", which preceded the big hit "Surfin' Safari," at a dance for the local Veterans of Foreign Wars. "The crowd either foxtrotted or stood around not knowing how to move," Dennis says. A month later, they appeared at a Hawthorne Youth Canteen dance, against the will of a high school classmate now at Radcliffe, who insisted the Canteen should hire any other group...
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...
...record industry in its search for a solid money-making groove. And then a new type of rock song began to climb the charts. Now it is the rock fan's wish to die that is supposed to account for the success of hot-rod and surfin' songs, a great tonic to the industry for all of a year...
...Today. How ingenious such theorizing. But death has no dominion in rock 'n' roll. Songs that hint of a teenage demise do so with a bright insouciance, as if the singer imagines death to be only the flip side of life. In surfin' music-which is just rock 'n' roll dressed for the beach-sudden death is treated as a nuisance hardly worse than rain...
...surfin' today...