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Alongside being used as the album's title, the phrase "mercury falling" appears as the first and last lyrics heard on the album. The lyric was the first written for the album (for "The Hounds of Winter"), and Sting later felt the phrase evoked the mood of the record and its variety of styles: "there are so many styles on this record and it darts around from genre to genre and back again.
It is often regarded as the first surf rock instrumental and is credited for launching the surf music craze. [1] First played in public in 1960 at the Rendezvous Ballroom in Balboa Peninsula, Newport Beach , California , it reached number 4 on the Los Angeles station KFWB , and later peaked at number 60 on the Billboard Hot 100 .
The single "Surfin' U.S.S.R." was accompanied by Stevens' second music video. The song humorously combines the iconic sound of the Beach Boys with themes related to the real-world events of the Soviet Union. The second single, "The Day I Tried to Teach Charlene Mackenzie How to Drive," narrates a comedic attempt to teach a deaf woman how to drive.
Preview: In a rare extensive interview to air on "CBS Sunday Morning" Sept. 22, Eddie Vedder and bass player Jeff Ament open up about the legendary band's founding.
"Surfin' Bird" is a song performed by American surf rock band the Trashmen, containing the repetitive lyric "the bird is the word. " It has been covered many times. It is a combination of two R&B hits by the Rivingtons : " Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow " and "The Bird's the Word."
California Games uses the song as background music for the surfing game. The card game DropMix features a loop card called "Wipe Out", part of the Flawless playlist, that when placed in the board plays the guitar part of the song, albeit the sample is a cover made by Harmonix rather than the original.
A video from the Chiefs showed Gay ask a cameraman to get word that he wanted to hear the song, “Swag Surfin’” by F.L.Y. played at Arrowhead. That request was granted, and it started a dance ...
Another surf music group from Los Angeles named themselves The Bomboras inspired by the instrumental track. The Original Surfaris allegedly never received any money for the tracks they recorded with Tony Hilder, since they had signed all their publishing rights away for one dollar per song.