KINDA TOUGH TO FIND THE TRASHMEN - SURFIN' BIRD ORIGINAL 1964 IN GLORIOUS MONO. ON THE GARRETT RECORD LABEL # LPGA 200. COVER IS SOLID NO SPLITS. DOES SHOW SMALL FADED WOC UPPER RIGHT CORNER AND ON BACK UPPER RIGHT COVER. SOLID SPINE WITH ALL TEXT VISIBLE. NOT A BAD COVER FOR ITS AGE OF 50 YRS! THE VINYL IS OH SO NICE AND APPEARS VG++ I DID NOT SEE ANY MARKS TO SPEAK OF. YOU MAY REMEMBER "MISIRLOU" WAS ONE OF THE SONGS THAT PLAYED ON THE FILM "PULP FICTION" A  QUENTIN TARANTINO MOVIE. I ESPECIALLY LIKE THE BOOMING BASS ON THIS RECORD. EVERY TRACK IS COOL! MAN YOU GOTTA LOVE THIS RECORD!!!!!!!  THX FOR LOOKING!

HISTORICAL NOTE: The Trashmen are a surf garage rock band formed in Minneapolis Minnesota, in 1962. The group's original lineup was Tony Andreason on lead guitar and vocals, Dal Winslow on guitar and vocals, Steve Wahrer on drums and vocals, and Bob Reed on bass guitar. The group played surf rock which included elements from garage rock. "Surfin' Bird"

The Trashmen's biggest hit was 1963's "", which "Surfin' Bird" reached No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the latter part of that year. The song was a combination of two R&B hits by The Rivingtons, "The Bird's the Word" and "Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow". The earliest pressings of the single ncredit the Trashmen as composers, but following a threat from The Rivingtons' legal counsel, that group was subsequently credited as composers.The early single was credited solely to the drummer (and singer) – Steve Wahrer. The song was later re-recorded by artists including the Ramones, The Cramps, Silverchair, The Psychotic Petunias, Pee-Wee-Herman, Equipe 84, and the thrash metal band Sodom. It has been used in filmmaking and television productions including, most notably, Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket; Vince Vaughan's "Fred Claus"; John Waters' Pink Flamingo's; Lyndall Hobbs Back to the Beach (where Pee-Wee-Herman sang it); and the soundtrack to the video game Battlefield Vietnam.

More recently, the song was the subject of the Family Guy episode "I Dream of Jesus", launching the song to No. 8 on the iTunes Top 10 Rock songs chart and No. 50 on the UK Singles Chart in 2009. Additionally, in 2010 a Facebook campaign was launched to get the song to No. 1 in the UK over Christmas; this was largely intended (as with Rage Against The Machine's "Killing in the Name", in 2009) as a protest against the takeover of the Christmas No. 1 spot by "The X Factor" winner's song. The track debuted in the UK Top Ten for the first time, on 19 December, at No. 3.