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unusual facts about Surfin' Safari


Homes Under the Hammer

For example, in the 14 April 2010 episode, a buyer said he enjoyed surfing and they played "Surfin' Safari" by The Beach Boys.


A Swingin' Safari

Joel Whitburn, The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits (6th ed. 1996), p. 632.

Bruce Brown

These short films along with some unused footage from The Endless Summer were included in the DVD Surfin' Shorts, as part of the Golden Years of Surf collection.

Goin' To Rockingham

This was the most productive longplayer released by the band yet as it contained 17 tracks, three of which were covers: "The Godfather", written by Nino Rota for the film of the same name; "Surfin' Hearse" had originally been a Jan & Dean song, which had been included on their 1963 album Drag City; "In The Sun" was a Blondie song.

Gravest Hits

Gravest Hits is the debut 12" EP by the American garage punk band The Cramps, compiling both sides of their first two 1978 Vengeance singles, "Surfin' Bird" and "Human Fly," and adding a fifth track, a cover of "Lonesome Town". It was released in July 1979 on Illegal Records and I.R.S. Records. The tracks were all produced by Alex Chilton and recorded at Ardent Studios in Memphis in 1977. It featured liner notes by "Dr.

Hang Loose With The Surfin' Lungs

Hang Loose With The Surfin' Lungs is the fourth album released by surf music band The Surfin' Lungs, released in 1996 on the Spanish label No Tomorrow.

Indiana State Road 162

The highway was designated the William A. Koch Memorial Highway in 2002 following the death of Bill Koch, who, along with his father, Louis J. Koch, was instrumental in creating the Holiday World & Splashin' Safari and the Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial.

Pebbles, Volume 4

Dave Edmunds – the only artist represented who is not American – had numerous hit songs in the late 1970s and early 1980s, including 1970's international success, "I Hear You Knocking." The Trashmen are renowned for their 1963 hit "Surfin' Bird" and are a prolific enough band that a 4-CD box set was released several years ago on Sundazed.

The Best of The Ramones

# "Surfin' Bird (Live)" - (Al Frazier/Sonny Harris/Carl White/Turner Wilson)

The Fantastic Baggys

Under the name The Fantastic Baggys, they released one album internationally, Tell 'Em I'm Surfin' (1964) on Imperial Records, several hit singles and several albums only in South Africa.


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