THE CHALLENGERS- SURF'S UP RARE 1965 ORIGINAL MONO SURF GARAGE REVERB LP
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RARE 1965 ORIGINAL MONO PRESSING!
"THE CHALLENGERS- SURF'S UP!"
1965 Vault Records 109 label
The condition of the cover is VG+ with some seam fraying/spliting, otherwise cool! The condition of the disc is VG+ and plays well in the MONO mix!
RARE 1965 ORIGINAL U.S. MONO PRESSING IN NICE KEEPER CONDITION!!
RARE...Original 1965 first pressing in glorious MONO and on the California based "Vault" Records label.... the classic surf music period begins about 1958 and ends about 1966 with the emergence of the San Francisco psychedelic incarnations. ofThe Challengers were a surf-garage band that started in late 1962. They were located in Los Angeles. They represented a growing love for surf music and helped make the genre popular. Their debut album "Surfbeat" was the biggest selling surf album of all time and helped bring surf music from California to the rest of the world.The band was formed out of the pioneer surf band called The Bel-Airs. The Bel-Airs were still in high school at the time, but scored a hit with an instrumental song titled "Mr. Moto." Their potential was cited by many, but it was an argument about use of the then new Fender reverb unit that led to their breakup. The Bel-Airs were originally formed by two guitarists, Eddie Bertrand and Paul Johnson, both 16 years old at the time they recorded "Mr. Moto". In early 1963, Eddie Bertrand heard Dick Dale using the Fender reverb unit and wanted to start incorporating heavy reverb into The Bel-Airs songs. He felt reverb was the sound that would come to define surf music. Even at 17, Johnson was something of an independent thinker and told Bertrand that The Bel-Airs had done quite well without reverb and he didn't see any reason at all to begin using it. The argument escalated until Bertrand finally left the band which then broke up for good shortly after. Challengers guitar driven group led to the creation of four more groups with members from The Challengers. The Surfriders, The Good Guys, The Clee-Shays and The De-Fenders all produced albums for these foreign markets. In addition The Challengers produced some tracks for the car & hot rod music scene that was gaining popularity in the mid 60's USA on the heels of the surf craze.!
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