Worst soundtrack (not meaning to be negative) was Free and Easy . Some great surfing , with great surfers , but.......cover versions of Beatle songs !!!!???????......Honolua Bay made up for the poor music choice easy.....
I made a couple of soundtrack CDs with iTunes by watching my favorite movies, writing down the songs in order, then making playlists to burn. I love my Cosmic Children CD for dawn patrols (especially Jethro Tull’s “Bouree”) and my Dogtown and Z-boys Part 1 and 2 when I need to rev up and stay awake to drive!
The Sandals LP “Endless Summer” isn’t really a soundtrack. The album was originally titled Scrambler. Bruce asked them to use a few tracks off the LP for his new film. After the movie hit wide release in 66, The Sandals re-titled the LP. Watch the movie and you’ll realize that very few Sandals tunes are used in the film.
CAUTION!! If you want that LP on CD, forget it. They went back into the studio some time in the 90s and re-did the whole LP. Not the same tracks and lacking the feeling of the originals.
Trivia question: What do The Sandals and surfboard building have as a connection?
No worse than Honk, or some of the other hippie lameness that was used in the late 60s and early 70s.
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The Sandals LP "Endless Summer" isn't really a soundtrack. The album was originally titled Scrambler. Bruce asked them to use a few tracks off the LP for his new film. After the movie hit wide release in 66, The Sandals re-titled the LP. Watch the movie and you'll realize that very few Sandals tunes are used in the film.
CAUTION!! If you want that LP on CD, forget it. They went back into the studio some time in the 90s and re-did the whole LP. Not the same tracks and lacking the feeling of the originals.
Trivia question: What do The Sandals and surfboard building have as a connection?
[/quote] Endless Summer......wasn't there a few tracks from Hank .B.Marvin and the Shadows ?
Alby Falzon [ut out a funky short surf film in the nineties call Cant step twice on the same piece of water, Island records supplied the music. Jim Banks alone at desert point with a great up beat sound track.
What is the name of the McGilgrave film with Jock blowing the Harmonica while looking for surf in Maui, Somewhat grating after a while but in the water he got the fin free and side slipped into the green room.
Gotta cast my vote for Honk, then the Sandals with Endless Summer. Greatest song-wave pairing though ever in a surf flick has to be Caravanserai by Santana in Fluid Drive with perfect Sunset and BK stylishly ripping, next followed by Micheal Peterson in Suppersession at that perfect point in Australia, Kirra?, and not sure of the band either but if you saw it you would remember.
Sorry but in my opinion everything from We Got Surf in the 80’s was downhill, but hey I’m 50 and I was one of those stoned surfers in the 70’s all you Honk haters are refering to. To each his own.
As commercial as they were, some of the Beach Boys later stuff was pretty good and lest we forget to mention the King of the surf guitar, Dick Dale.
Maybe it should have been for each decade since the 50’s. Honestly, didn’t think there would be any “bllowback”, ok that’s a Chalmers Johnson term until now defined for repercussions of CIA extraordinary foreign policy stuff, but I digress. I like the feel good vibrations that Honk still brings me back to. VW’s, surfracks, wax research, strawberry sex wax, Animal skins, shock cords, power cords, drilling out the fin for the leash, and then fin screws for leashes, no leashes… Going to different venues for surf movies, girls, girls, girls, cocoa butter, coppertone, hawaiian tropic, zinc oxide, nose-coat, pre-sun, surf-craters, wax rash…
Not a Mac-Free film. Pacific Vibrations by John Severson. Jock and Ham-o playing harp while Sevo drives. The tune used is not Jock and Billy, though.
That one has a few good tunes. But, again, too much hippie stuff. It was never released on video because they could not get the rights for the music after the initial 35mm run. The segment with the Indian music is the best, sonically.
I will look it up, later. Soundtrack had Cream, Steve Miller Band, Leo Kottke, and more.
PV was on Comcast free downloads a few months ago…Super clear video and the original soundtrack sounded fresh vinyl clean…I saved it and enjoy the trip back in time…
Thomas Campbell’s “The Present” has a great soundtrack. Great mood music for an all around surfing flic.
-Hanlon
Howzit Art, So you made a copy of the songs from Cosmic Children or is there a cd that already has the music on it since I would love to buy one if I knew it's name and where they sell them. Aloha,Kokua
The Sandals LP has a Shadows tune. “Jet Black”. It was not used in the movie, nor was any other Shadows tune.
If my memory serves me, the only Sandals tunes used were the theme, Lonesome Road, Wild As the Sea, and Scrambler. I have three copies of the LP. One mono, two stereo.
Hi Kokua, I made my own CD with iTunes. I watched the movie (which I do all the time anyway) and paused it often to write the songs down in order. Not all of them were recognizable and there was no listing at the end. So it doesn’t have the music from the beach party, the jazz instrumental from the Pipeline footage, or the instrumental from when they were at Cojo after the intermission, etc. But it does have the other songs in order, and a couple more I added at the end.
It looks like I can’t copy and paste the list - I just now tried. But if you PM me with your “snail mail” I can print it out and send it to you. Can’t make you a CD b/c iTunes only lets you make a certain number of copies, but if you have iTunes you could make your own. It’s fun b/c when I hear the songs I visualize that part of the movie.
I put my copy of Pacific Vibrations in the VCR and checked the opening credits.
Music by:
Steve Miller Band
Wolfgang
Beaver and Krause
Ashish Khan
Ry Cooder
Hard Meat
Crosby Stills and Nash
Little Walter
Leo Kottke
Colorado Purple Gang
Cream
Sky Oats
The blues harp piece during the segment with Jocko and Hamilton, spoken of earlier, is by Little Walter.
Super Sessions/Smog Horn
from the big screen sometime in the 1970’s
I have to go with Honk, I saw them live can't recall if it was at the Belly Up in Solana Beach, The South Cardiff Lodge. Might have been The La Paloma? For some reason my memory from that time isn't all that great.
La Paloma was the best theater to watch a Surf flick.
Slippery When Wet - Bud Shank 1959
Fantastic Plastic Machine - Harry Betts 1969
Tim
The first one? Yes!!
I have the second one in LP form. It is awful.
Bud Shank...Good Call.