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Jon Blair of Jon & The Nightriders wrote the following for the
Rhino Surf Box Collection:
"The first record to be nationally identified with the Southern
California surf culture was "Surfer's Stomp" by the Mar-Kets.
Much like Dick Dale's "Let's Go Trippin'," it capitalized on a dance
step that began with audiences at the Rendezvous
Ballroom...The sound and style of the tune were a far cry from
what Dick Dale & The Deltones were doing...(Producer) Joe
Saraceno recalled, "I was in a bar where everyone was doing a
dance I had never seen before. One of the girls said it was
called the surfer stomp. So, I wrote the song with that pattern in
mind."
