


The Tube City!: The Best of The Trashmen - The Trashmen - Sundazed Music Inc. To listen to this clip, click on the album name and you will be taken to a CD product web page with a list of album tracks linked to song clips. Demento 20th Anniversary Collection: The Greatest Novelty Records Of All Time - Various Artists - Rhino Records (2 CDs)Ī has an audio clip of "Surfin' Bird" by The Trashmen on the album listed below. Please note that these are referral or affiliate links from which may receive, at no additional cost to you, a commission if you should make any purchases through them.ĭr. Discogs.Disclosure: The following links will take you to various online merchants outside of that sell recordings with the song featured on this page. ^ "The Trashmen - Bird Dance Beat | Releases".Archived from the original on April 21, 2014. ^ The liner notes of a 2000 reissue of the single state "Recorded 1961".80) "The band paid for five hundred copies of "Cyclon" / "Sally Jo" to be pressed on their own Ariel label and sold them at their gigs" ( p. and a rockabilly tune called "Sally Jo" ( p. There was a Link Wray-styled guitar instrumental called "Cyclon".


The next 12 tracks are singles by the Trashmen. The first 12 tracks of it comprise the original Surfin' Bird LP, in the same track order. Īl Frazier, Carl White, Turner Wilson Jr., Sonny Harrisįred Wise, Milton Leeds, Nick Roubanis, Bob Russellīob Demmon, Dennis Linsey, Jim Gallagher, Rich FifieldĪl Frazier, Carl White, Sonny Harris, Turner Wilson Jr.Ī label called Request Record released a CD called Surfin' Bird in 1990. This release uses a different track order, and adds four extra songs. In 1995, the album received an official CD reissue by Sundazed Music. The 1995 reissue has Fifield listed in the credits, not Patterson. For reasons unknown, some copies of the album credit Rich Fifield, but not Jon Patterson, while others credit Patterson, but not Fifield. "Kuk" is a song originally by the Astronauts. Following legal threats by the group, the song was re-attributed to all four members of the Rivingtons. "Surfin' Bird" is actually a fusion of two songs by the Rivingtons: "The Bird's the Word" and " Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow". The LP incorrectly credits the title track to Steve Wahrer, the band's drummer and vocalist.
