Sold Date: June 20, 2015
Start Date: June 20, 2015
Final Price: $600.00 (USD)
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BEACH BOYS  Surfin b/w Luau  Dennis remembers that they "got so excited hearing our record on the radio that Carl  threw up". Brian recalls that he "ran down the street screaming". Russ Regan, the man  who gave The Beach Boys their name, remembers that "Surfin‍ '​" "actually exploded here  in the city of Los Angeles. Their record was a big record here. It was just a natural  Southern California record." By the final weeks of 1961 "Surfin'" had sold more than  40,000 copies. Confusingly, "Surfin'" was seemingly released three times in three months on  (apparently) two different labels: Candix 331 in November 1961, X 301 in December and  Candix 301 in January 1962. The full story is complex and still imperfectly  understood, but in simple form, when the owners of Candix went back to the pressing  plant to order more of 331, they were told to settle their bills first, so in order  to maintain a flow of singles they had another plant press the record, hence the X  301 release (which is far and away the rarest of all). When sufficient cash had been  raised for a further repressing on Candix, the number 301 was retained, possibly for  the sake of continuity, possibly as a slip of the pen. Hite Morgan owned the X label and used hos small pressing as mainly promotion for the band as RCA objected to the label name which was the same a their subsidiary
ORIGINAL Mega Rare X-Records FIRST pressing 45 
Record Visually Graded VG++ "EXCELLENT" 
Clean labels X RECORDS 301 MATRIX: CD-T-S-2-R  delta 41389X  / CD-T-S-1-R delta 41389
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