Julito_de
Joined: Oct 30, 2012
Posts: 7
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Posted on Oct 30 2012 02:21 PM
Hi everyone!!My name is Julio, I'm new to the forums and recently I became a big fan of surf music!! I play keyboards, I have a Yamaha keyboard and we have a small pet project about making a garage band with other friends. Our plan was originally to play psychodelic 60s music...(The Doors, Deep Purple, Jefferson Airplane, Iron Butterfly)...until by chance I heard a version of "Pipeline" somewhere...and I searched for the midi file...and there everything started!!!
I heard yesterday "The Creeper" and "The Swinging Creeper" by the Ventures. These are great tunes!!! I still have the melody on my mind since then, but after the initial ecstasy, I would like to find some midi file or music score of these songs (or at least, the chords, to play the song properly). Who was the organ player on these recordings? Can please someone help me to find more information chords, midis or music scores?
Greetings from Guatemala.
Julio.
PD. I usually play the organ part with the right hand and make some simple bass lines with the left hand, (after many, many months of practice!!). It was nice to see that in your forums there are some specific posts for keyboard playing, I will check them all!!!
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jonfender
Joined: Mar 09, 2011
Posts: 273
Melbourne FL USA
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Posted on Oct 30 2012 03:25 PM
The organ player on "The Creeper" (from "Walk Don't Run Vol. 2") was Leon Russell. The organ player on "The Swingin' Creeper" (a 45 "single" & LP cut on "The Ventures A-Go-Go" from 1965) was Lincoln Mayorga. In additon to this, Steve Douglas played saxophone through a leslie "spinning speaker" (possibly) on both of them...he is more in the background though. Hope this helps somewhat.
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Julito_de
Joined: Oct 30, 2012
Posts: 7
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Posted on Oct 30 2012 04:07 PM
__jonfender wrote:
The organ player on "The Creeper" (from "Walk Don't Run Vol. 2") was Leon Russell. The organ player on "The Swingin' Creeper" (a 45 "single" & LP cut on "The Ventures A-Go-Go" from 1965) was Lincoln Mayorga....
Dear Jonfender_
Thank you , the information is quite helpful!!! The quest for the creeper begins!!! (I have checked several ventures midis, but I could not locate the creeper tunes...(some websites also mistake "the ago-go dancer" with the swinging' creeper from the same album)
Best regards
Last edited: Oct 30, 2012 16:09:22
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Brian
Joined: Feb 25, 2006
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Des Moines, Iowa, USA
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Posted on Oct 30 2012 04:09 PM
I believe "A Go Go Dancer" was accidentally titled "Swinging Creeper" (or vice versa) on a certain (German?) release. Hence the confusion between the two songs ever since.
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jonfender
Joined: Mar 09, 2011
Posts: 273
Melbourne FL USA
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Posted on Oct 30 2012 04:39 PM
Thanks Brian ! Yes, this is true. Julito de; (With Ventures songs, in particular, sometimes one song will have at least 2 different "other" titles). This was Liberty Records "marketing dept." & they are notorious for this...."Sell the same song 3 times" they say. We say "Yup" & buy all 3 of em' ! If ya' still buy CD's, you can find these here www.bn.com Happy Hunting !
Last edited: Oct 30, 2012 16:40:38
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Tuck
Joined: Sep 02, 2006
Posts: 3166
Denver, CO
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Posted on Oct 30 2012 04:54 PM
Reversed song names or even reversing the A and B side labels are a serious problem in early surf record labels. Just plain mistitling the songs is yet another issue! And then there's retitling ...
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jonfender
Joined: Mar 09, 2011
Posts: 273
Melbourne FL USA
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Posted on Oct 30 2012 05:42 PM
In the Summer of 1963 we had "Wipe Out" by the Surfaris on Dot Records. At the same time (right above it in alphabetical order) we also had a "similar type instrumental" called "Kick Out" by the Safaris on Valiant Records. (Valiant was a Warner Brothers subsidiary so I think we can assume "This just didn't happen by coincidence).
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