# Beach Music! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 25, 2013, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beach-music/656694 "2013-04-25T19:57:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2013, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beach-music/656694/1 "2013-04-25T19:57:56Z")
I need some new beach music, I’m making a cd. I like lots of kind of music. Lately it’s been a lot of classic rock stuff, but I feel I need a change up! So tell me, what songs send you to the beach when you hear them? (Please no Beach Boys, also rap not so much!). I look forward to your suggestions, thanks! Also I’m listening to every song you suggest, promise. ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2013, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beach-music/656694/2 "2013-04-25T20:13:02Z")
Blondie, “[In the Sun](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGioDGJ86Cg)” Hawaii Mud Bombers, “[Johanna Beach](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mFEtufXTsQ)” ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2013, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beach-music/656694/3 "2013-04-25T20:15:48Z")
Sheryl Crow, “Soak up the Sun” ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2013, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beach-music/656694/4 "2013-04-25T20:53:02Z")
[Concrete Beach](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wtl5uSzlsm0)–DOA [Rockaway Beach](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6siGKxcKol0)– Ramones ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2013, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beach-music/656694/5 "2013-04-25T21:39:54Z")
I like all the old twangy surf music. Dick Dale, The Ventures, Surfaris, Jan&Dean, Chantay’s ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2013, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beach-music/656694/6 "2013-04-25T21:45:04Z")
“Pulling Mussels From a Shell” - Squeeze “The Ocean” - Led Zeppelin “Sea of Love” - Honeydrippers ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2013, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beach-music/656694/7 "2013-04-25T22:03:53Z")
_The beach is a place where a man can feel he’s the only soul in the world that is real…_ Bellboy, The Who ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2013, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beach-music/656694/8 "2013-04-25T22:11:22Z")
I like Brazilian sambas… Jobim, Gilberto, great stuff ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2013, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beach-music/656694/9 "2013-04-25T22:16:08Z")
Bobby Darin, “Beyond The Sea”. Swingin’! The Righteous Brothers, “Ebb Tide”. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2013, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beach-music/656694/10 "2013-04-25T22:18:58Z")
Almost anything by Jimmy Buffet. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2013, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beach-music/656694/11 "2013-04-25T22:55:58Z")
For getting into the surf/beach frame of mind (even when the closest thing to it is Buckeye Lake), you can’t beat [The Mermen](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuVI1RLAlss) (“Unto the Resplendent” is one of their best). ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2013, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beach-music/656694/12 "2013-04-25T23:30:24Z")
Some North Carolina Style Beach music (although it does carry over to other areas as well.) The Drifters [The Drifters - Under the Boardwalk - YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPEqRMVnZNU) General Johnson and the Chairmen of the Board [The Drifters - Under the Boardwalk - YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPEqRMVnZNU) The Tams [Be Young Be Foolish Be Happy - The Tams - 1968 - YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAfaR6IuO-4) The Embers [Be Young Be Foolish Be Happy - The Tams - 1968 - YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAfaR6IuO-4) ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2013, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beach-music/656694/13 "2013-04-25T23:41:09Z")
They’re not necessarily beach themed songs, but in college when I’d go to the beach and I put Led Zeppelin on the ol’ boom box, I attracted all kinds of wanted attention. The CD I burned had: Whole Lotta Love, Over the Hills and Far Away, Bring it on Home, Nobody’s Fault but Mine, the Lemon Song, Rock and Roll, Fool in the Rain, D’yer Mak’er, Good Times Bad Times, Song Remains the Same, When the Levee Breaks, Hey Hey What Can I Do. Probably a few more, but these are what I remember. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2013, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beach-music/656694/14 "2013-04-25T23:43:34Z")
Thanks, these are all great suggestions! Don’t stop! I am making two CDs, one for the drive to the beach, and one for the drive home! In case you have songs that would suit either! (The drive starts in the city core, through some strip malls, schools, housing developments, then some light industrial, storage facilities, a few horse farms, then fields and fields of farmers crops, the turkey farm, couple of quaint tiny towns, all at once you can smell Lake Huron and then it’s over the bridge and around the bend and to the beach!) Sigh…forgive me but it has been an exceptionally wintry spring here, and am dreaming of the beach… ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2013, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beach-music/656694/15 "2013-04-25T23:58:37Z")
I think upbeat and sunny: The Sundays - Summertime Sheryl Crow - Love is Free Natalie Merchant - Where I Go Billy Idol - Hot in the City ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beach-music/656694/16 "2013-04-26T00:46:54Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > …through some strip malls… Perfect song for that stretch: _The Valley of Malls_ by Fountains of Wayne. And later on when you hit the beach, _Dip In The Ocean_ is a good pick. I always bring my Fountains of Wayne CDs on road trips. They have so many great, catchy pop tunes that are fun to sing along with. ---
**Author:** ![randwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beach-music/656694/17 "2013-04-26T00:47:44Z")
> [@Wargamer](#): > > Some North Carolina Style Beach music (although it does carry over to other areas as well.) > > The Drifters [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPEqRMVnZNU](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPEqRMVnZNU) > > General Johnson and the Chairmen of the Board [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPEqRMVnZNU](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPEqRMVnZNU) > > The Tams [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAfaR6IuO-4](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAfaR6IuO-4) > > The Embers [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAfaR6IuO-4](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAfaR6IuO-4) In Virginia, North and South Carolina, ‘beach music’ means something very different than in the rest of the country. It’s mostly old R&B-style stuff. Here’s one Top Fifty Best Beach Music list: 1. Sixty Minute Man - Dominoes 2. Carolina Girls - General Johnson & the Chairmen 3. I Love Beach Music - Embers 4. Ms. Grace - Tymes 5. Summertime’s Calling Me - Catalinas 6. Stay - Maurice Williams & the Zodiacs 7. My Girl - Temptations 8. Cool Me Out - Lamont Dozier 9. Under The Boardwalk - Drifters 10. Myrtle Beach Days - Fantastic Shakers 11. Brenda - O.C. Smith 12. One Mint Julep - Clovers 13. It Will Stand - Showmen 14. Rainy Day Bells - Globetrotters 15. Lady Soul - Temptations 16. Be Young, Be Foolish, Be Happy - Tams 17. You’re More Than A Number In My Little Red Book - Drifters 18. Hey Baby - Bruce Channel 19. With This Ring - Platters 20. Nip Sip - Clovers 21. Party Time Man - Futures 22. Club Savoy - Rockin’ Louie & The Mamma Jammers 23. Thank You John - Willie Tee 24. Think - Five Royales 25. (I’m Just Thinking About) Cooling Out - Jerry Butler 26. My Guy - Mary Wells 27. Come Get To This - Marvin Gaye 28. You Bring Out The Boogie In Me - Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee 29. Hello Stranger - Barbara Lewis 30. 39-21-46 - Showmen 31. Green Eyes - Ravens 32. It Ain’t No Big Thing - Radiants 33. Work With Me Annie - Midnighters 34. Anna - Arthur Alexander 35. Don’t Drop It - Wilbert Harrison 36. It’s All Right - Impressions 37. Baby I Need Your Lovin’ - Four Tops 38. Good Rockin’ Tonight - Wynonie Harris 39. I Got The Fever - Prophets 40. Just A Gigolo/I Ain’t Got Nobody - Louis Prima 41. Safronia B - Calvin Boze 42. Going Back To Louisiana - Delbert McClinton 43. Zing Went The Strings Of My Heart - Coasters 44. This Old Heart Of Mine - Isley Brothers 45. Stubborn Kind Of Fellow - Marvin Gaye 46. You’re So Fine - Falcons 47. Searchin’ - Coasters 48. Drinkin’ Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee - Stick McGhee 49. The Entertainer - Tony Clarke 50. Lipstick Traces - Benny Spellman ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beach-music/656694/18 "2013-04-26T01:08:25Z")
“Steal My Sunshine” - Len ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beach-music/656694/19 "2013-04-26T02:55:33Z")
311 - Amber Weezer - Island In The Sun Moby - Porcelain Sublime - Doin’ Time Sugar Ray - Every Morning Fresh Prince & DZ Jazzy Jeff - Summertime ---
**Author:** ![mariposalabrown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ad7895/32.png) [@mariposalabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mariposalabrown)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beach-music/656694/20 "2013-04-26T03:01:47Z")
Caught this band Cayucas this year at sxsw, they scream summer: [https://soundcloud.com/secretlycanadian/cayucas-cayucos](https://soundcloud.com/secretlycanadian/cayucas-cayucos) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beach-music/656694.md?page=2)