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2 unusual facts about Surf


Surf-Jet Girl

Three of the four tracks were written by the group, but the fourth, Decoy was a cover of a track by 60s surf instrumental group The Sandals.

The Blue Stingrays

The band was composed of the members of The Heartbreakers, Tom Petty's backup band, who took a short break from their work with Petty to record one album, Surf-N-Burn.


Bob Berryhill

In 1960, when Bob was 13 he took a trip to the Hawaiian Islands and learned to surf and play ukulele.

Butch Van Artsdalen

Because of his talents, Van Artsdalen was featured in several early surf films by Dale Davis and Bruce Brown, the most notable of which was The Endless Summer.

Cabo Blanco, Peru

In 1979, Peruvian surfer Gordo Barreda discovered the wave when he visited the village to check the surf in the area.

Cite de l'Ocean et du Surf

The Cité de l'Océan et du Surf, which opened in Biarritz, France in June 2011, is a museum designed by Steven Holl Architects in collaboration with Solange Fabião.

Dale Webster

He was featured in a four-minute scene in Dana Brown's 2003 surf movie Step into Liquid; a character in the movie is seen using a roll of stickers imprinted with the slogan "DALE WOULD GO".

David Elfick

This became one of the most successful Australian surf movies ever made, grossing over A$100,000 on its first release, followed by six-month run in London, where it ran on a double bill with René Laloux's Fantastic Planet and grossed over UK£100,000.

Death Spells

This included a support slot on Mindless Self Indulgence's East Coast US tour as well as playing Skate And Surf festival.

Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry

Surfing Tommies is a 2009 play by the Cornish author Alan M. Kent which follows the lives of three members of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry on a journey from the mines of Cornwall to the fields of Flanders, where they learned to surf with South African troops.

East Bay Ray

These experiments were represented most prominently in the guitar playing of East Bay Ray, who took cues from sources such as film music (spy movie scores and Ennio Morricone spaghetti western scores), instrumental surf rock (the guitar stylings of Dick Dale and George Tomsco of The Fireballs), as well as the psychedelic music of the 60s (especially early Pink Floyd) with his trademark echo effects.

Goin' To Rockingham

Goin' To Rockingham is the fifth album released by surf music band The Surfin' Lungs, released in 2002 on the Spanish label No Tomorrow.

Gwyn Ashton

"(Gwyn Ashton) blends the essences of Mississippi, New Orleans and Texas blues, 60s surf, British 70s rock and no-holds-barred Australian kick-ass boogie ... (He is) guaranteed to satisfy the most discriminating taste in guitar-led blues." (Review of his album "Prohibition" at CD Baby)

Hot Curl

The pot-bellied surf god quickly became a nation-wide sensation appearing in SURFtoons comics and as a plastic model kit, selling hundreds of thousands of copies.

Hubbs' beaked whale

Carl Leavitt Hubbs, a noted American ichthyologist, published a description of a whale found alive in the surf near his office at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, in 1945.

Killing with a Smile

Australian surf group the Bra Boys featured four songs from the album in the documentary film Bra Boys: Blood is Thicker than Water, the songs featured are "Gimme AD", "Anasasis (Xenophontis)", "Mutiny" and "It's Hard to Speak without a Tongue".

Longeville-sur-Mer

A celebrated surf spot, named Bud Bud, is found at Les Conches, whilst the road leading from the beach to the nearby town of Angles passes through a marsh, from which one may observe wild birds, including storks.

Mambo

Mambo Graphics, the company behind the Australian surf clothing brand Mambo

Max Dauphin

The exhibition successfully premiered on 25 October 2013 at the Rockaway Beach Surf Club, then showed on Lower East Side at ConArtist Gallery on 27 October.

MiraCosta College

MiraCosta also has a surf team that competes in the college division of the National Scholastic Surfing Association (NSSA).

Mishka

In 2012 Mishka released his EP album "Ocean Is My Potion" on Mailboat Records, featuring his long-time friend and legendary musician Jimmy Buffett and cover album artwork by surf genre fine artist Jay Alders.

Mooloolaba, Queensland

Evangelist Peter Foxhall and Pastor Bill Furler pioneered an Assemblies of God church at the Mooloolaba Surf Lifesaving Club in the mid-1980s.

Nervus Rex

Soon joined by Miriam Linna, drumming for the Cramps at the time and later, Jonathan Gildersleeve, Nervus Rex started to develop an uptempo pop sound focusing on driving surf guitar twang and danceable rhythms.

Nias

Oxfam, International Aid, Giving Children Hope, Save the Children Fund, World Vision, Surf Aid, Safe Harbor International and Caritas International are some of the international NGOs represented in Nias.

Noosa Festival of Surfing

The World Tandem Surfing Championships were brought to Noosa in 1999 and Stand up paddle surfing was incorporated into the Festival in 2007 with live entertainment and fundraising auctions also being held.The festival is currently sponsored by Global Surf Industries and is maintained and managed by USM Events and commences with the traditional Mixing of the Waters ceremony led by Hawaiian waterman Brian Keaulana.

Rabbit Kekai

The Rabbit Kekai Keiki Surf Contest is held every year at Waikiki Beach to promote surfing for Hawaii's children (keiki means "child" or "little kid" in the Hawaiian language).

Redline Coaches

In 2009 Redline acquired the business of Smith's City to Surf Coaches servicing the Dodges Ferry region.

Reid Jackson

The 2011 documentary film Tipping Barrels by director Ben Gulliver follows Reid Jackson and his brother Arran as they surf through the waves and fauna of the Great Bear Rainforest on the west coast of British Columbia, Canada.

Ride the Wild Surf

Phillips also founded Colpix Records and produced hits for Nina Simone, The Skyliners and one of Ride the Wild Surfs stars, Shelley Fabares.

Rob Simonsen

In 2004 he teamed up with Mychael Danna and has provided additional music and arrangements on Surf's Up, Fracture, Moneyball and the Oscar-winning, Life of Pi.

Rocket Jockey

The soundtrack is also unique in that live performers are used, most notably legendary surf rock guitar player Dick Dale.

Skip Engblom

Skip Engblom (born January 4, 1948) is one of the co-founders of the Jeff Ho Surfboards and Zephyr Productions Surf Shop in Santa Monica, California.

SLSA

Surf Life Saving Australia, the peak surf lifesaving organisation in Australia

Sony Pictures Animation

On its first anniversary, Sony Pictures Animation announced a full slate of animated projects in development: Open Season, an adaptation of a Celtic folk ballad Tam Lin, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Surf's Up, and a feature length version of the short film The ChubbChubbs!.

Surf Communication Solutions

Surf's products enable convergence of voice, video and data across IP, wireline and wireless networks, including 3G-324M mobile.

Surf Reality

Most recently, Surf Reality produced 64 Paintings/64 Plays, a multimedia collaboration between playwright Timothy Braun, painter Jennilie Brewster, sound artist Tom Tenney, and animator Ashleigh Nankivell.

Tamam Shud

The group was invited to contribute music for the soundtrack for the Alby Falzon surf movie Morning of the Earth and Falzon initially wanted Tamam Shud to provide all the music, but after G. Wayne Thomas took over as producer, other artists were added, and Tamam Shud's involvement was eventually reduced to just three tracks - the instrumental track "Bali Waters" (featuring Lockwood on flute), and the songs "Sea The Swells" and "First Things First".

Taree High School

In addition to the mandated, more traditional areas of study, the school offers unique study units such as Bush and Camp Crafts, Surf Survival, Ceramics and Robotics.

The Camels

After a performance at the Come Together Music Festival The band was then commissioned to write 3 songs for a documentary about Sydney's Bra Boys surf gang from Maroubra and returned to Birdland for the recording.

The Fender IV

When the popularity for surf music decreased their style changed to a vocal based sound, and they changed name to Sons of Adam, bestowed upon them by the record producer Kim Fowley.

The Lively Ones

Their 1963 song "Surf Rider" (written by Nokie Edwards from The Ventures) was used in the final sequence (and end credits) of Quentin Tarantino's film Pulp Fiction.

The Tornadoes

The Tornadoes were a surf band from Redlands, California, the second band to receive national airplay with a surf instrumental, after The Marketts.

Toyota Hilux Surf

The first run of Hilux Surf models were built at Toyota's plant in Tahara, Japan, but starting with the third generation models, production was split between the Tahara plant and Hino Motors' Hamura, Japan plant.

Trout bum

Use of the term is similar in tone and meaning to the antiquated term, "Surf Bum." The term was popularized by author John Gierach, whose first book, Trout Bum is an anthology of informal, narrative essays on flyfishing; and magazine articles he wrote before 1986.

Velvet Knights Drum and Bugle Corps

In 1978, corps members were hired by the California Surf professional soccer team to create the sound of pounding surf on tympani with special electronics effects, and in 1979, the corps appeared in the feature film, "Americathon".

William Halford

In attempting to land through the heavy surf, all but Halford were drowned, but he managed to reach shore and bring help to his shipmates.

Women and children first

Also, the restrictive, multi-layered clothing prescribed by Victorian fashion limited women's ability to swim in the heavy surf.

WRSF

In 1986 the station moved its studios and offices to Kill Devil Hills in the Nags Head Resort area of Dare County and became a live adult contemporary format as WRSF, Surf 106.

Yamba, New South Wales

Other attractions include Yamba Lighthouse also known as Clarence River Light, Story House museum, the ferry to Iluka on the northern banks, Yuraygir and Bundjalung National Parks and the surf beach at Angourie.

York Harbor, Maine

The Cliff Walk, an ancient shoreline path lined with beach roses, winds along Eastern Point ledges above the surf.


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