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The Original Surfaris were a surf music American band of the early 1960s. ==History== In 1960, three young friends, Al Valdez at the piano, Mike Biondi on drums, and Richard Lippy played at the 8th grade graduation dance of St. Mary's Elementary School in Fullerton, California.〔Dalley (1988) pp.258-273〕 In the summer of the same year, Valdez, Biondi, guitarist Bobby Esco, and sax player Bob Bernard formed The Vogues and started playing at school assemblies.〔 Guitarist Larry Weed, with a country and western musical background, replaced Esco soon after. Weed, notably, used to wear his belt buckle on the side when onstage, "so he would not scratch the back of his Fender guitar."〔Doug Wiseman interview, from Dalley (1988)〕 In late 1961, a Sunday morning all-Mexican television show on KCHOP channel 13 announced that they were looking for musical groups to play on the show, and Valdez's mother phoned the show to submit the candidacy of the band her son was playing in. The Vogues, with Doug Wiseman having replaced Bob Bernard on sax, were contacted by Victor Regina, owner of a pizza stand on Western Avenue, also doubling as a music agent, who helped them, under the new name he gave them, The Customs, record their first single, "Steppin' Out" and "Hi Hat", both written by former member Bobby Esco.〔 Because Regina had put up all the money for the recording session, he took sole credit as the composer of the two songs.〔Al Valdez interview, from Dalley (1988)〕 Bassist Jim Tran, who was playing in a Yorba Linda musical trio at the time, was added to the band, soon after the session. Around the early summer of 1962, they started appearing regularly at a bar near Big Bear, with Wiseman's and Biondi's dads driving them there. Soon after, with Chuck Vehle also on guitar, they changed their name to The Surfaris, which was a word play between "surf" and "The Safaris", a music group well-known at the time〔Whitburn (2000)〕 for their hit "Image of a Girl".〔 The Danville Battle of the Bands gave the group a lot of exposure and more jobs. They started playing in the Ventura/Oxnard area. While performing there, they backed Bobby Vinton and others.〔Dalley (1995)〕 Between October 1962 and through January 1963, they recorded in the studio of producer Tony Hilder a number of songs written by Larry Weed, such as "Moment of Truth" and "Delano Soul Beat", also recording covers of "Ghost Riders in the Sky" and "Pipeline." The tracks "Moment of Truth" and "Delano Soul Beat" were released on Hilder's own Impact label, as part of a surf music compilation album titled ''Shake, Shout and Soul''.〔 These tracks subsequently appeared on various compilation albums, such as ''Wheels'' (Diplomat Records LP 2309); ''The World of Surfin (Almor LP 108); ''Surf's Up at Banzai Pipeline'' (Northridge Records LP 101); and others.〔 After some months, the band again went into the studio with Hilder producing and recorded a number of tracks intended to be released on the Impact label, as their first full-length LP. Two of the tracks, "Bombora"〔Not related musically to The Atlantics' 1963 hit by the same name〕 and "Surfari" were leased to Del-Fi Records, which sent them out as a single. But the record, even though it started selling well in the state〔 had to be pulled from the stores because of a lawsuit. It was in early 1963 that, while the band were on the road, the surf instrumental "Wipe Out" came out and broke big nationwide.〔 It was written and performed by a Glendora, California band who also called themselves The Surfaris. The Glendora group's management sued for the exclusive use of the name and, in the trial that followed, the judge awarded them sole use of "The Surfaris." However, the judge also allowed the Fullerton band to carry on under the name The Original Surfaris, although they continued to be billed in the various venues they played as "The Surfaris." After recording hot rod tracks, such as "Gum Dipped Stick", The Original Surfaris started changing their musical style, and Jim Tran along with Al Valdez left the group. The Original Surfaris started doing more vocals, in the soul and blues vein,〔 until eventually breaking up in May, 1965. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Original Surfaris」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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