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The Trashmen

Surfin' Bird

Very Rare Original US LP released on Garrett Records in 1964. 1st US pressing on the Red label distributed by Soma records.

A Minneapolis rock & roll band,  they evolved from Jim Thaxter & the Travelers, recording one single under that  name ("Sally Jo"/"Cyclone"). The group comprises Tony Andreason (lead guitar),  Dan Winslow (guitar/ vocals), Bob Reed (bass), and Steve Wahrer (drums/vocals).  Unfairly depicted as a novelty act, the Trashmen were in actuality a top-notch  rock & roll combo, enormously popular on the teen club circuit, playing  primarily surf music to a landlocked Minnesota audience. Drummer Steve Wahrer  combined two songs by the Rivingtons ("The Bird's the Word" and "Pa Pa Ooh Mow  Mow"), added freakish vocal effects and a pounding rhythm to the mix, and, by  early 1964, the group was in the Top Ten nationwide with "Surfin' Bird." Though  the group continued to release great follow-up singles and an excellent album,  their moment in the sun had come and gone; they disbanded by late 1967/early  1968. They re-formed in the mid-'80s and continued to play locally until  Wahrer's death. The Trashmen are revered by '60s collectors as one of the great  American teen band combos of all time, their lone hit exemplifying wild,  unabashed rock & roll at its most demented, bare-bones-basic, lone-E-chord  finest.

Tracks Are :-

Side One

1 Surfin' Bird 2:20
2 Misirlou 2:03
3 Money 3:05
4 Tube City 3:11
5 Kuk 2:03
6 It's So Easy 2:01

Side Two

1 King Of The Surf 2:25
2 Henrietta 2:29
3 Malaguena 2:31
4 My Woodie 1:47
5 Bird Bath 2:32
6 The Sleeper 2:29
 

 

Released on Garrett Records in 1964

Catalogue Number LPGA 200

Record is in Vg- condition (surface marks)

Sleeve is in Ex condition

 

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