On this day in 1961, a group of teens from Hawthorne California calling themselves The Pendletones recorded three songs for Hite and Dorinda Morgan, who ran a publishing business and two small record labels. One of those songs was called Surfin, which, when pressed on to a Candix Records 45 rpm disc, was credited to The Beach Boys, a name made up by promotion man Russ Reagan, who had taken it upon himself to re-christen the band. Surfin got to #75 on the Billboard chart and sold 50,000 copies, launching the career of one of Americas most successful Rock n Roll acts.
Posted on: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 03:10:21 +0000
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