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"Wipe Out" is a surf music instrumental composed by Bob Berryhill, Pat Connolly, Jim Fuller and Ron Wilson. Composed in the form of twelve-bar blues , [ 1 ] the tune was first performed and recorded by the Surfaris , who became famous with the single in 1963.
The Surfaris are an American surf music band formed in Glendora, California, in 1962. [1] [2] They are best known for two songs that hit the charts in the Los Angeles area, and nationally by May 1963: "Surfer Joe" and "Wipe Out", which were the A-side and B-side of the same 45 rpm single.
Wipe Out is a Dot Records album credited to The Surfaris, released in 1963.It contains their best known song "Wipe Out".It turned out that only two tracks, "Wipe Out" and "Surfer Joe" were actually played by The Surfaris, therefore repressings were titled Wipe Out and Surfer Joe and Other Popular Selections by Other Instrumental Groups.
Ronald Lee Wilson (June 26, 1944 [citation needed] – May 12, 1989) was an American musician and recording artist, best known as an original member and drummer of The Surfaris, an early surf music group of the 1960s. Wilson's energetic drum solo on "Wipe Out" (a #2 US/#5 UK hit) made it one of the best-known instrumental songs of the period.
In 1995, Sundazed released on CD a surf music compilation album, originally released by Northridge in 1963 (NM-101), with the same title, Surfs Up! at Banzai-Pipeline (SC-6080). The album and the CD featured three tracks by The Original Surfaris: "Moment of Truth" (L.Weed-D.Weisman) "Kalani Wipeout" (V.Regina-L.Weed-A.Valdez), and
Probably the single-most famous surf tune hit was "Wipe Out" by the Surfaris, with its intro of a wicked laugh; the Surfaris were also known for their cutting-edge lead guitar and drum solos, and "Wipe Out" reached number two on the Hot 100 in August 1963 and number 16 in October 1966. The group also had two other global hits, "Surfer Joe" and ...
Surf's Up! At Banzai Pipeline was a 1963 various artist record album compilation that featured recordings by The Surfaris, Dave Myers and The Surftones, The Soul Kings, Coast Continentals and Jim Waller & The Deltas. It has been re-released a couple of times since.
Berryhill was a member of surf music group The Surfaris and co-writer and recording artist of "Wipe Out" and other Surfaris' hits. In 1960, when Berryhill was 13, he took a trip to the Hawaiian Islands and learned to surf and play ukulele. On returning to California, he began working seriously on guitar and two years later, "Wipe Out" was born.