January Birthdays 
The Piltdown Men do Piltdown Rides Again, an arrangement of the William Tell Overture a/k/a the Theme for the Lone Ranger.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gev61vACRtU
I believe this must be the original of the Crossfires' Silver Bullet arrangement of the William Tell Overture.
There's another surf connection here, of course, which is that the Rhythm Kings a/k/a the Soul Kings spent part of 1960 touring the West Coast (only, I think) for Ed Cobb and Lincoln Mayorga as the Piltdown Men. The actual Piltdowns were a group of session men assembled to record some novelty "cave man style" instrumentals for Cobb & Mayorga of the Four Preps. The Rhythm Kings' "Piltdown Men" period was during their early three saxophonists and one trumpeter period. "Half the band" - I don't know which of them - were drafted suddenly in late 1960, which ended that phase of their existence. They reformed with only one sax (and one trumpet) in 1962 (plus guitars and drums, of course) and spent couple of years (1962-1964) recording for Tony Hilder & Bob Hafner before going on to a long career as a Latin dance band. It looks like they never had a dedicated bassist. Apparently Al Garcia (trumpet) and Vince Bumatay (sax) and Freddie Mendoza (rhythm) all doubled on bass.
