# A Song I Totally Didn't Make Up (Little Dead Surfer Girl) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [July 7, 2025, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-song-i-totally-didnt-make-up-little-dead-surfer-girl/1020579 "2025-07-07T02:05:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2025, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-song-i-totally-didnt-make-up-little-dead-surfer-girl/1020579/1 "2025-07-07T02:05:15Z")
Mods, feel feel to move this to Cafe or summat if needed. When I was younger, so much younger than today, in the mid-late-1980s, I listened to “The Half-Hour Comedy Hour” on a station out of Rhode Island; it came on before WPLR’s broadcast of Doctor Demento, so I got a super-strong comedy fix on Sunday Nights. I also recorded a lot of stuff on cassette tape, which was the style at the time. I used to have a recording of “Little Dead Surfer Girl,” a parody song in the style of the Beach Boys. For some reason today, it began playing in my head, and I can hear my recorded-off-the-radio version clear as day: _Rhonda was a surfer girl, golden hair down to her buns_ _Of all the surfer girls in the world, I knew she was the one_ _Rhonda headed out to sea_ _Tried to sail her board to Waikiki_ _Guess you had to say Rhonda was kind of du-umb_ (…) _And when the tide comes in_ _So does Rhonda_ _With the_ [\*blurry memories + fuzzy recording] _marks all over her bod_ (…) So I looked that up this evening, and the closest thing I could find was this: > **[Little Dead Surfer Girl](http://www.petelevin.com/ibbbb/ibbbb07.htm)** And _some_ of the lyrics are: **And when the tide flows in, so does Rhonda.** **With the whale bites in her body,** But the tune and the rest of it don’t match up one. Single. Bit. Does anyone know what I’m hearing in my head? I thought maybe it was from the National Lampoon radio show, but my friend Goggle produces bupkis. ---
**Author:** ![DMC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dmc/32/18049_2.png) [@DMC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMC)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2025, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-song-i-totally-didnt-make-up-little-dead-surfer-girl/1020579/2 "2025-07-07T02:15:58Z")
The only other version I know of is from [King Uszniewicz and His Uszniewicztones](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8qt0oL6tuY) and I’m pretty sure it shares lyrics with the version you referenced from the Incredible Broadside Brass Bed Band. Buzz Bomber and the M-80s apparently [did a version as well](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhIv5gp_99w), but I’m pretty sure that’s NOT what you are remembering. ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2025, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-song-i-totally-didnt-make-up-little-dead-surfer-girl/1020579/3 "2025-07-07T02:48:41Z")
Definitely not that! “My” version was slickly produced. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2025, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-song-i-totally-didnt-make-up-little-dead-surfer-girl/1020579/4 "2025-07-07T03:10:41Z")
> [@Daithi\_Lacha](#): > > Mods, feel feel to move this to Cafe or summat if needed. Moved to the Cafe (from FQ). ---
**Author:** ![DMC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dmc/32/18049_2.png) [@DMC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMC)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2025, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-song-i-totally-didnt-make-up-little-dead-surfer-girl/1020579/5 "2025-07-07T03:33:40Z")
It is probably the version from Rob Carlson, but I can’t seem to find any audio clips of it that don’t require a sign up. That was the version that [Dr. Demento played in 1983](https://dmdb.org/cgi-bin/plinfo.pl?drd83.0904.html). If you’re willing to sign up for it, you should be able to listen to it [here](https://madmusic.com/playlist.aspx?Show=83-36). ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2025, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-song-i-totally-didnt-make-up-little-dead-surfer-girl/1020579/6 "2025-07-07T12:03:07Z")
By the gods, @DMC, you’re 100% correct! And I know you’re 100% correct because I had the first segment of that Doctor Demento broadcast (i.e. the first nine songs) on one side of a C60 or C90 cassette, recorded back in '83 – and the other side had WDRI’s comedy program, that’s why I have conflated the two in my head. Thank you!