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A cover of "Surfin' Bird" was used in the first episode of the 1989 series The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, "The Bird! The Bird!" As with all cover songs from the show, later releases of the episode replaced the song with generic music. A separate cover of the song was also the theme song of the 1998 animated series Birdz. "Surfin' Bird" is ...
Gravest Hits is the first 12" EP by the American rock band the Cramps, compiling both sides of their first two 1978 Vengeance singles, "Surfin' Bird" and "Human Fly", with an added fifth track, a cover version of "Lonesome Town". It was released in July 1979 on Illegal Records and I.R.S. Records.
The Trashmen's biggest hit was 1963's "Surfin' Bird", [1] which reached No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the latter part of that year. The song was a combination of two R&B hits by the Rivingtons, "The Bird's the Word" and "Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow". [5] The song was recorded at Kay Bank Studios in Minneapolis. [6]
The LP incorrectly credits the title track to Steve Wahrer, the band's drummer and vocalist. "Surfin' Bird" is actually a fusion of two songs by the Rivingtons: "The Bird's the Word" and "Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow". Following legal threats by the group, the song was re-attributed to all four members of the Rivingtons.
The Trashmen would release "Surfin' Bird", a song that was a combination of "The Bird is the Word" and "Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow" by The Rivingtons. The song was a big hit on the charts. On January 4, 1964, Wahrer would appear on the show American Bandstand performing "Surfin' Bird" with the Trashmen and being interviewed. [4] [5] [6] In 1967, the band ...
The album catalog was later acquired by The Bicycle Music Company. In September 2011, Los Angeles–based Oglio Records announced they were releasing the Television's Greatest Hits song catalog after entering into an arrangement The Bicycle Music Company. A series of 9 initial "6-packs" including some of the songs from the album had been ...
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 ...
Together with the Rivingtons' 1963 novelty song "The Bird's the Word", "Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow" was the basis for the song "Surfin' Bird", a number four hit in 1963 by The Trashmen. [3] The combination of the songs, played at a much livelier pace than the original doo-wop songs, was ad-libbed at an early live performance by the band and later ...