The Surfaris, like many other Southern California bands of the early 1960s, were initially influenced by Dick Dale ’s 1961 single “Let ’s Go Trippin. The Surfari ’s tale displays the saddening paradox of vital music being made by un-business savvy kids who, only in it for the fun, unknowingly fill the coffers of the record executives who profit the most from their naive golden geese. Plagued by deceitful record company practices, elusive royalty payments, and of course the ever popular “too much, too soon ” teenaged rock ’n ’roll effect, the Glendora, California quintet ’s saga is one that has been repeated many times. The story of the Surfaris is similar to scores of other bands of the 1950s and 1960s.
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