As Much as I am not a fan of it, there is always the Ventures Medley,
WDR,Perfidia,Lullaby of the leaves, etc.....

Jeff(bigtikidude)

Penetration, Pipeline, Baja,

good luck making them into a Medley.

Jeff(bigtikidude)

You could use Junior Brown's surf medley for ideas. Some of those ideas you have already rejected, though.

I'd link to a youtube video, but he changes it up a lot, so you might have to listen to a few.

One of the greatest mash-ups I know of is Susan & The SurfTones doing Walk, Don't Run/ Jezebel. It was released on a Point Break magazine compilation disc. If I was all internet smart and stuff, I'd email you a copy to listen to. Great disc, by the way! Well worth adding to your collection if you can dig up a copy.

I think all the songs mentioned stand on their own and are worthy of a single play.

I generally dislike medleys...especially Surf medleys.

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One of the greatest mash-ups I know of is Susan & The SurfTones doing Walk, Don't Run/ Jezebel. It was released on a Point Break magazine compilation disc. If I was all internet smart and stuff, I'd email you a copy to listen to. Great disc, by the way! Well worth adding to your collection if you can dig up a copy.

I’m surprised somebody here remembers that! The comp was called “Smells Like Surf Spirit“. We never got around to a second volume. Gee-Dee had trouble finding a new distributor.

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Carol, I think you're looking for things that will be instantly recognizable by a non-surf audience (not least your band mates), so some of this might not work, except where you can use less familiar material attached to something more familiar, like Pipeline or Penetration.

Susan Yasinski does (did, long ago) a WDR-Jezebel "medley" (more of a mash up) that I kind of liked. She treated Jezebel (not really the surf version) as a kind of bridge for WDR. Her WDR was a bit different, I think to accommodate the pairing.

As far as something a little different, how about Pressure (Pyramids) & Tide Pool Q (Torquays)? (Idea stolen, sort of, from the AquaSonics, who, however, don't play them together.) I think Pressure goes pretty well with Penetration, too as far as that goes. (No joke intended, damn it.) Or Point Panic (Surfaris) and Goofy Foot (Lively Ones). Maybe Tube City (Trashmen) and Banzai (Chantays). Or the Chantay's Monsoon (somewhat reminiscent of Pipeline) might fit with Ghost Riders in the Sky.

I think the things that poison medleys for most people are that they often partner songs that don't fit together well (leading to awkward transitions) while simultaneously suggesting that none of the material is really worth a full independent play anyway. The more awkward transitions there are, the stronger the suggestion that the material is only worthy of a brief glance. In which case, why play it, of course!

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The Beloved Invaders' "Spy Set" is Secret Agent Man, James Bond Theme, Peter Gunn, Get Smart Theme, Hawaii Five-O, which never fails to please. They just play all five songs in a row. Not a medley. They have a sort of Space Set comprised of Journey to the Stars and Out of Limits. That also gets a good reception, though I suspect most people aren't quite sure what they are hearing.

I was going to say Pater Gunn/James Bond. aka the spy set, until now I thought it was my idea. i'm off to listen to some invaders.

There is an interesting medley of "Surf Softly & Carry a Big Board" (Astronauts) & "Storm Surf" (Surfaris). It is on the Aquasonics "Play Song's For The Surfin' Set" CD (on Wormtone records). They work really work well together (IMO). Also, in the early 80's, Jon & the Nightriders have an LP called "Charge of The Nightriders" with a medley called "Splashback" (there is also a different 12" vinyl "single of "Splashback" featuring a different recording). Then: Davie Allan & the Arrows put out "Stoked On Surf", also a medley of many surf instro's. You can find the actual song listings on Phil Dirt's "Reverb Central" site...(www.reverbcentral.com). I only posted this as "suggestion's", cos' there are so many that would work well together. Many years ago, a band I was in did "Spanish Spinner", which was actually our medley of "The Wedge/Malaguena/Miserlou" . (It worked good & we did real well with it in a "battle of the bands"). Good Luck & please tell us what you finally decided on "medleying".