This is the theme song from the 1964 film of the same name. I concocted this video to go along with it, parts of which I hope you find humorous (mainly the blue screen work used in the film.)
Saw this 50 years ago when I was 8. Between the actual surf footage, music, Hawaiian scenery and beautiful women (Barbara Eden n Susan Hart especially) I thought at the time it was the greatest movie ever made. Pretty big stuff for a kid from Jersey on a Friday night.
On this day in 1964 {August 22nd} Jan and Dean performed "Ride the Wild Surf" on the late Dick Clark's American Bandstand... One month later on September 19th it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; eventually it peaked at #16 and spent 8 weeks on the Top 100... The song was heard once in the 1964 movie of the same name, during the closing credits... Jan Berry passed away on March 26th, 2004 at the age of 62... R.I.P. Mr. Berry and Mr. Clark...
The year was 1969. After finishing a late shift at McDonald’s I went over to a friends house; Ride The Wild Surf was on the ABC Sunday night movie. I was going to go in and watch but a girl I was sweet on (who had rejected me; I’ve since learned to thrive on rejection) was watching the movie. So I went home. However, I always loved that song. Its been on my RU-vid playlist for years. Today, Sunday, November 15, 2020, 51 years later, I’m watching Ride The Wild Surf for the very first time. Excellent.
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Loved this movie ! Back when Beach pictures were big. Shelley Fabare was such a doll ! Barbara Eden as a knockout Brunette. Love the song ! Great memories.🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊
I grew up in the 60's and well remember the surf fever back then. For us with no oceans, they came up with the skateboard. Sidewalk surfing was huge with us kids. I paid $4 for my first one in 1965-it had steel wheels! Lucky I survived. I couldn't afford the expensive clay wheels version, it was $8. It was a fever for a couple years, at least.
When I visited Hollywood in 1979, I got a chance to see Barbara Eden up close as she came out of the Palace Theatre. She looked terrific. What a knock out she was in the 60's.
I love the old surf movies also. I was watching it on TCM as well, Of course, I'm very familiar with Barbara Eden and Shelley Fabares, and I've heard of Fabian and Tab Hunter, but I thought the guy playing Fabian was Tab and vice-versa! lol I think I had just, perhaps, forgotten what they looked like! lol It was a good movie. While watching, I saw this guy that looked a lot like Robert Mitchum, and I thought it was him, but the credits said James Mitchum which is Robert's son apparently.
GREAT job with this video! I always did like the way they did the credits at the end - but the way you mixed it with clips, etc - was cool! thanks for helping bring back the memories of this movie
You don't say what a "blue screen" is, but I do know the great music of these corny beach movies throws rocks at the plots, themes and acting! Very well done - and probably all we'd ever need to see.
I've been to Waimea 50 years ago when I was in my 20's. Being from Seattle, I only learned to surf the little Honolulu waves on large rent-a-boards, so I didn't even think about going in at Waimea. A place very Jan & Dean fan should visit.
In '63 I converted my grandmother's wooden ironing board using my metal wheeled skates. Two wheels in the front, six across the back. Extremely noisy and lacked any lateral coefficient of friction, so it was like ball bearings on ice. Later converted it to a snowboard with a rug screwed onto the top and added a one inch skeg. Worked great and I still have it.
The rear projection on the credits sequence is hilarious. And one of the strangest cosmetic choices, IMO: making Shelley Faberes, a brunette, blonde, while making the real blonde, Barbara Eden, a redhead.
For Little Steven's Underground Garage. Next up : The Chantays, The Ventures, Dick Dale and his Del-tones, and of course, The Beach Boys. AFTER A BRUTAL WINTER, WELCOME SUMMER 2014!!!!!!!!
Growing up in SoCal in the 60's I was INUNDATED with surf culture. I spent most summers at Huntington Beach and San Clemente. I was poor and Mexican so I couldn't afford a surfboard, but I was an avid bodysurfer and boogie-boarder. The punk-ass "locals" (white boys) thought they owned the place. The chicks were stuck-up. Add to that the music that was copied to DEATH.So when Jimi came along and said, "You'll never hear surf music again" I was right there with him!! I will always love the ocean
After hearing a remastered version of this on earphones, some time ago, I was convinced that this was the greatest drumming I have ever heard in Rock, including Keith Moon & Ginger Baker. Not a stretch. The great Earl Palmer (& maybe Hal Blaine) play on this.Palmer was chosen as #3 Rock drummer ever. My #1. Also after reading about Jan Berry (co-writer, producer, arranger singer on most J&D hits, while in junior in college), I am convinced of his Genious & versatality. & Dean is quite an artist.
Jan & Dean were on track to become the Monkees before there was (or were?) a Monkees. Jan's accidents (train and car) kept them from fulfilling their TV show, motion picture and recording plans that were already in motion. {Click BB45s for Jan & Dean and Beach Boys playlists}
@grandmarazz Swimming is easy to learn, you can get lessons watever your age. Once you know how, you will wish you had done it sooner. Not only will it open up so much fun, it may save your life, or you may save someone else's. Also then you can learn to surf.It's not all that difficult. Don't just sit there, DO IT!
@clydesplace -- Most guys have heard the classic break-up lines such as "Can we just be friends?" and "I need my space." I can only imagine how the guy engaged to Dolores Hart felt when he got hit with "I've decided to become a nun." (I've read that they're still "good friends.")
I haven't seen any of these films but a little research shows that beach movies lasted from 1963 through 1967, not the fifties. (NOTE BEFORE I GET REPLIES: The first Gidget movie was in 1959 with sequels in 1961 and 1963 but all the Frankie/Annette and various copies started in 1963 with Beach Party).
Yes, my steel wheels skateboard did not work well at all. My friend Skip had an older sister. He "took" her skates, we removed the wheel portions, cut them in half(one pair for him, one pair for me). We cut out our own boards, screwed on the wheels, and that's it. Except for one thing. We didn't put the wheels on straight. We learned how to skateboard real good on "ours". But when we got on a store bought one, we could not control it. The wheels were too "straight". LOL.
This would have been a perfect post if the original soundtrack was used & not a retread...Still not too late to remake.......Excellent video, but.......RIP Jan Berry.....
@grandmarazz it wouldn't look the the same riding the surf with a walking frame. Only joking.I was surfing at that time,and I still ride my antique" Plastic Machine" board.
Blue screen? Certainly not in 1963, and not on movie film. They acted in front of a projected image, like every "driving in the car" scene long before and long after this movie.
Dear astra., Yes you are absolutely right. . One only has to think of that television series Baywatch to realise that the ninteen-fifties movies are exactly the same style soft porn, as you say. cheers.
Gosh, how corny this clip is! But, in a good way! :) By the way, this is NOT the original 1964 recording of "Ride The Wild Surf" which was actually part of the movie soundtrack, and became bit hit record. This recording is a remake done in the 70's or 80's by Dean Torrence (of Jan & Dean) and various other musicians. Dean sings lead on this version, but Jan sang lead on the original record. I'm posting this just for the record. (No pun intended).
Gee Barbara Eden couldn't be foxy enough she had to go and become a redhead!! Never heard of Susan Hart but she sure looks a lot like Alexandra Paul from Baywatch.
