# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beach-music/656694/21 "2013-04-26T03:32:33Z")
The B-52’s are perfect beach music - _Rock Lobster_ is a given, but all of their music is great for the beach. _Love Shack_ is another must. ---
**Author:** ![moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beach-music/656694/22 "2013-04-26T03:36:23Z")
California Dreamin’ **‡** The Mamas & The Papas Livin’ Thing **‡** Electric Light Orchestra I’m Alive **‡** Electric Light Orchestra Xanadu **‡** Olivia Newton-John Finale: I Go To Rio **‡** Cast Recording Boy From Oz Downtown **‡** Petula Clark The Girl From Ipanema\*\* ‡\*\* Joao Gilberto To Sir With Love **‡** Lulu On A Clear Day **‡** Julie Andrews On The Boulevard **‡** The Manhattan Transfer Fever **‡** Peggy Lee You Are The Sunshine Of My Life **‡** Stevie Wonder Summer In The City **‡** The Lovin’ Spoonful In The Good Old Summertime **‡** Les Paul Hot Fun In The Summertime **‡** Sly & the Family Stone Vacation **‡** The Go-Go’s Aquarius / Let The Sunshine In **‡** The 5th Dimension Dancing In The Street **‡** The Mamas & The Papas Up-Up And Away **‡** The 5th Dimension Good Morning Starshine **‡** Gerome Ragni and James Rado Put On Your Sunday Clothes **‡** Jerry Herman Before The Parade Passes By **‡** Jerry Herman Don’t Rain On My Parade **‡** Barbra Streisand You Can’t Stop The Beat **‡** Marc Shaiman ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beach-music/656694/23 "2013-04-26T08:05:00Z")
_Guitar Noire_ and _Surfmania_ by The Aqua Velvets _Surfin’ Bird_ by the Trashmen _Pipeline_ by The Chantays _Baja_ by The Ventures _Big Surge_ and of course _Wipeout_ by The Surfaris _Panic Button_ by The Bel-Airs Finally, one cannot do the beach without Dick Dale’s _Miserlou_ ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beach-music/656694/24 "2013-04-26T16:02:53Z")
If you would like some more serene, summer-type songs: “[Everybody’s Talkin](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zHVFXorF38)’” by Nilsson “[On Some Faraway Beach](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNbzAG5Tk2Y)” by Brian Eno “[Look Into the Sun](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jG6wEXSCUY)” by Jethro Tull “[Towards the Sun](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh6270DFqHw)” by Druid ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beach-music/656694/25 "2013-04-26T16:23:23Z")
> [@randwill](#): > > 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: This list goes to 51: Bill Deal and the Rhondels. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beach-music/656694/26 "2013-04-26T17:11:59Z")
I have a playlist on the iPod called ‘Beach Music’, with songs I think are beachin’. Apache 64 _ **Apache** _ The Beach Boys _**Surfer Girl Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow Good Vibrations Surfin’ Safari Surfin’ U.S.A.**_ Big Kahuna & The Copa Cat Pack (Album) Brian Hyland _ **Itst Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini** _ The Champs _ **Tequila** _ Dick Dale _**Let’s Go Trippin’ Shake’n’Stomp Misirlou Mr. Peppermint Man Surf Beat Take It Off King Of The Surf Guitar (vocal) Hava Nagila Riders In The Sky The Wedge Night Rider Mr. Eliminator The Victor Taco Wagon Tidal Wave Banzai Washout One Double One Oh! (instrumental) Pipeline**_ Herb Alpert _**Tijuana Taxi Spanish Flea Walk, Don’t Run Zorba The Greek A Taste Of Honey**_ Green Day _ **Last Ride In** _ The Mermen _**Krill Slippin’ Neptune’s Revenge Splashin’ With The Mermaid Kaena Over The Falls Run Don’t Walk Sand The Drift Big Day At The Bay Hammer Head Abalone Daze Soul Surfin’ The Whales By The Sea I Will Stay Forever The Goodbye**_ Richie Valens _ **La Bamba** _ Santo & Johnny _ **Sleepwalk** _ The Surfaris _**Wipe Out Surfer Joe (hit version) Scatter Shield Murphy The Surfie Hot Rod High Mystic Island Drums Point Panic Waikiki Run I Wanna Take A Trip To The Islands Catch A Little Ride With Me Burnin’ Rubber Beat 65 Boss Barracuda Hiawatha Karen Surf Scene Surfer Joe (original version)**_ The Tornados _ **Telstar** _ The Ventures _**La Bamba Washington Square Pipeline Walk Don’t Run Hawaii Five-O Perfidia Ram-Bunk-Shush Slaughter On Tenth Avenue Blue Moon Lolita Ya Ya Lullaby Of The Leaves Diamond Head Theme from ‘A Summer Place’ Theme from 'The Wild Angels’**_ The Waikikis _ **Endless Summer** _ ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beach-music/656694/27 "2013-04-26T17:45:14Z")
The Girl From Impanema - Astrud Gilberto ---
**Author:** ![moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beach-music/656694/28 "2013-04-26T19:29:12Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Surfin’ Safari > Surfin’ U.S.A. Don’t forget [Skeet Surfin’](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f_19nxNfjs)! ---
**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 26, 2013, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beach-music/656694/29 "2013-04-26T19:35:24Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > 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. Of course, if you played that stuff at the beach now, the prevailing sentiment would be “Hey, let’s move away from that old fart and his dinosaur rock.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beach-music/656694/30 "2013-04-26T20:18:19Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Dick Dale > **Misirlou** By sheer coincidence as I was opening this thread I was listening to the really quite good [Bobby Fuller Four version](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr2PIyNSMaM') of this classic. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beach-music/656694/31 "2013-04-26T22:16:27Z")
[“Hot Fun in the Summertime”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ahhmiuyko0) - Sly & the Family Stone ---
**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 27, 2013, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beach-music/656694/32 "2013-04-27T01:05:39Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Of course, if you played that stuff at the beach now, the prevailing sentiment would be “Hey, let’s move away from that old fart and his dinosaur rock.” 😃 Hey now, I was only in college…oh crack, it’s been almost 20 years now. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2013, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beach-music/656694/33 "2013-04-27T03:31:40Z")
for beach sleaze: [Free Men of Mauna Loa](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91vr7hpgM-w) by the Honolulu Mountain Daffodils And, of course, Rio, by Duran Duran. ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2013, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beach-music/656694/34 "2013-04-27T05:19:57Z")
Beautiful Day - U2 ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2013, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beach-music/656694/35 "2013-04-27T13:00:10Z")
_Boys Of Summer_ Don Henley ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2013, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beach-music/656694/36 "2013-04-27T13:47:37Z")
[Depends. Are you going to the beach along the Jersey Shore?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oKeC0Qc7Ag) ---
**Author:** ![MostlyClueless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@MostlyClueless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MostlyClueless)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2013, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beach-music/656694/37 "2013-04-27T14:17:17Z")
[BEACHKRIEG!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXA0ZXrvQiA) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2013, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beach-music/656694/38 "2013-04-27T14:41:44Z")
> [@moriah](#): > > Don’t forget [Skeet Surfin’](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f_19nxNfjs)! Just what’s in the playlist, Mac! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2013, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beach-music/656694/39 "2013-04-27T14:49:43Z")
[_Last Ride In_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjqrDGnW0fA), Green Day [Theme from _The Endless Summer_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKMLB4COC-I), The Ventures A couple I mentioned earlier. They are similar tunes, and they just grab me for some reason. Thought I’d post links so that people could hear them. . ---
**Author:** ![Section\_Maker\_Jupe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/section_maker_jupe/32/1424_2.png) [@Section\_Maker\_Jupe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Section_Maker_Jupe)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2013, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beach-music/656694/40 "2013-04-28T17:27:30Z")
…haha…I’m a long time beach/surf bum 😉 …so, you want sunny blue sky music?..rough and tumbled shorebreak music?..dreary blown out? gigantic scary…? (the Mermen for that, as mentioned upthread) heres a nice Santana one for Dawn Patrol, with a cool offshore breeze…😃 https://www.youtube.com/embed/sUFu3vUMin0?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque&list=PL59EF8DE821F541FC and then this little JJ Cale song I only heard recently…for getting the flow going…😃 https://www.youtube.com/embed/3G_msX9iHwg?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque&list=PL59EF8DE821F541FC [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beach-music/656694.md?page=1)