Mr. Eliminator is the fourth studio album of surf music

Surf music

Surf music is a genre of popular music associated with surf culture, particularly as found in Orange County and other areas of Southern California. It was particularly popular between 1961 and 1965, has subsequently been revived and was highly influential on subsequent rock music...

 by surf pioneer Dick Dale

Dick Dale

Dick Dale is an American surf rock guitarist, known as The King of the Surf Guitar. He experimented with reverberation and made use of custom made Fender amplifiers, including the first-ever 100-watt guitar amplifier.-Early life:Dale was born in South Boston, Massachusetts and lived in nearby...

 (and his Del-Tones), released in 1964 as somewhat of a follow-up to the previous album Checkered Flag

Checkered Flag (album)

Checkered Flag is the third studio album of surf music by surf music pioneer Dick Dale and his Del-Tones, released in 1963. This is Dale's first entry into the "Hot Rod" style of surf music, which The Beach Boys, among others, were beginning to perform and record...

. This album consists mostly of hot-rod or racing themes, whether simply in the names, or in the slight alteration of beats and accompaniment as well, as was seen in the Checkered Flag album. Dale is widely known and famous for incorporating heavy middle-eastern influence into his recordings, and some may argue that "The Victor", a track on the album, as being probably the heaviest in influence. This album was Dale's last venture into the hot-rod style of surf music, and with his next album (and last studio album with the Del-Tones), Summer Surf

Summer Surf

-Track listing:#"Summer Surf"#"Feel So Good"#"Surfin'"#"Spanish Kiss"#"The Star "#"Banzai Washout"#"Glory Wave"#"Surfin' Rebel"#"Never On Sunday"#"Mama's Gone Surfin'"#"Tidal Wave"#"Thunder Wave"#"Who Can He Be"#"Oh Marie"...

, he would return to the "regular" style of surf music.

Track listing

1. "Mr. Eliminator"
2. "50 Miles to Go"
3. "Flashing Eyes"
4. "Taco Wagon"
5. "The Squirrel"
6. "The Victor"
7. "Blond in the 406"
8. "Firing Up"
9. "My X-KE "
10. "Nitro Fuel"
11. "Hot Rod Alley"

Personnel

• Dick Dale
  Dick Dale
  Dick Dale is an American surf rock guitarist, known as The King of the Surf Guitar. He experimented with reverberation and made use of custom made Fender amplifiers, including the first-ever 100-watt guitar amplifier.-Early life:Dale was born in South Boston, Massachusetts and lived in nearby...
  
   – guitar
• Glen Campbell
  Glen Campbell
  Glen Travis Campbell is an American country music singer, guitarist, television host and occasional actor. He is best known for a series of hits in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as for hosting a variety show called The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour on CBS television.During his 50 years in show...
  
   – guitar
• Gary Usher
  Gary Usher
  Gary Usher was an American surf rock musician, songwriter, and record producer.-Biography:Usher's early life was spent in Grafton, Massachusetts. He attended Norcross Grammar School with his sister, Sandra, who was in the same class and was likely his twin. Gary was kiddingly called "Chicken Feed"...
  
   – vocals
• Plas Johnson
  Plas Johnson
  Plas John Johnson Jr. is an American soul-jazz and hard bop tenor saxophonist, probably most familiar as the lead on Henry Mancini’s "The Pink Panther Theme"....
  
   – sax
• Jerry Cole – guitar
• Bruce Johnston
  Bruce Johnston
  Bruce Arthur Johnston is a member of The Beach Boys and a songwriter, remembered especially for composing "I Write the Songs". Johnston was not one of the original members of the band...
  
   – keyboards
• Earl Palmer
  Earl Palmer
  Earl Cyril Palmer was an American rock & roll and rhythm and blues drummer, and member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame....
  
  – drums