Surfers’ Choice is the debut album of 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, pioneers in the surf genre. It was released in 1962. The recording established the conventions of surf music and brought the concept to middle America. The instrumentals, such as “Let’s Go Trippin’” and “Misirlou

Misirlou

Misirlou , is a popular Greek song with popularity in five styles of music: Greek rebetiko, Middle-Eastern belly dancing, Jewish klezmer, American surf rock, and international orchestral easy listening .- History :...

”, were the most influential. The album was mostly recorded live at the Rendezvous Ballroom, but with some overdubs added in the studio. The record was out of print

Out of print

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 for a long time but was reissue

Reissue

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d on CD by Sundazed Records

Sundazed Records

Sundazed Records is a record label based in Coxsackie, in the Catskills of New York. It specializes in obscure and rare recordings from the 1950s to the 1970s.Label founders Bob Irwin and his wife Mary started the label in 1989...

 in October 2006.

Track listing

1. "Surf Beat"
2. "Sloop John B
   Sloop John B
   "Sloop John B" is the seventh track on The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds album and was also a single which was released in 1966 on Capitol Records. It was originally a traditional West Indies folk song, "The John B. Sails," taken from a collection by Carl Sandburg . Alan Lomax made a field recording of...
   
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3. "Take It Off"
4. "Night Owl"
5. "Fanny Mae"
6. "Misirlou Twist"
7. "Peppermint Man"
8. "Surfing Drums" (this song is an earlier version of Jungle Fever, without the jungle noises added, and with a set of lyrics at the end)
9. "Shake 'n' Stomp"
10. "Lovey Dovey"
11. "Death of a Gremmie"
12. "Let's Go Trippin'"

Sundazed CD Bonus Tracks

• Del-Tone Rock
• Jungle Fever
• Misirlou
  Misirlou
  Misirlou , is a popular Greek song with popularity in five styles of music: Greek rebetiko, Middle-Eastern belly dancing, Jewish klezmer, American surf rock, and international orchestral easy listening .- History :...
  
  
• Eight Till' Midnight
• Lovin' On My Brain
• A Run For Life

Chart positions

Billboard Music Charts - Album

• 1963 Pop Albums No. 59

Billboard Music Charts — Single

• 1962 “Let’s Go Trippin’” Pop Singles No. 60