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No, Eddy Arnold had the first 45 (RCA, 1949).
john blair
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What' about 45 rpm singles, did Dick have the first one of
those?
Then the other bands just beat him to the Punch on the LP market?
Jeff(bigtikidude)
--- In , john.blair@s... wrote:
>
>
>
>
> > I recently took a look at Dick Dales myspace bio.
>
> >
>
> > I was surprised to read that Dick Dale "invented surf music in the
> > 1950's."
>
> While Dick certainly practiced his unique guitar style in the 50s,
the term
> "surf music" wasn't connected to his playing until 1961. There was
a
> specific time and place, and set of conditions that allowed that to
happen.
>
> > I'm also quite confused by the claim that Dick Dale's Surfer's
Choice
> > was the first surf album ever released, but perhaps that's
debateable
> > in how you interpret the sentence...but I am pretty sure that it
was
> > not released in the 50s...
>
> Don't be confused. "Surfer's Choice" wasn't released in the 50s.
It was
> released in 1962. First surf album? Debatable. Most likely, that
claim
> goes to the Challengers' "Surfbeat." Even the Mar-Kets' "Surfer's
Stomp"
> album was released before "Surfer's Choice."
>
> > "Dale had already been titled 'King of the Surf Guitar' by his
surfer
> > friends before his creation of the Fender Reverb, Dale's first
album
> > called 'Surfer's Choice' was the first Surfing album to be
> > commercially sold with a picture of Dale surfing by the pier in
San
> > Clemente, Ca. with a surfing title on it. This album alone sold
over
> > eighty-eight thousand albums in the late 50's and today in the
90's it
> > would be like 4 million."
>
> The above paragraph was poorly written, inaccurate, and
misleading. It's
> true that "Surfer's Choice" sold like hotcakes, primarily in
Southern
> California. I don't know how accurate the 88,000 figure is, but
the number
> was certainly quite large and in the many thousands. It just wasn't
> released in the late 50s.
>
>
> john blair
>
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