Catching A Wave 07-29-24

 

This hour of Catching A Wave is so jam packed with new tunes and special segments! We hear #5 and #4 in our Top 5 Favorite Dick Dale Song Countdown! Beth Riley has a deep track from The Beach Boys in her Surf's Up- Beth's Beach Boys Break. We have a tune by Los Straitjackets from an album celebrating it's 20th anniversary in our Good Time segment. There's a Two-nami in the forecast with 2 in a row by The Burkharts and we'll drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week! Plus, rockers from JD McPherson, Greg Townson, Jet Jaguars, The Babalooneys, Austin John, Pointbreak, Vacant Planets, Nautylus (feat. Sys Malakian), Rapt In Blue, The Baron Four, The Burial Quartet and Gary Usher!

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Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys

JD McPherson- "Sunshine Getaway"

Vacant Planets- "Mighty Sk8in' Power Rangers"

Favorite Dick Dale Song Countdown:

#5 Dick Dale- "Hava Nagila"

Austin John- "Sweet Tooth's Stomp"

Pointbreak- "Tiger Hour"

Good Time segment:

Los Straitjackets 20th anniversary of Los Straitjackets Play Favorites (2004)

Los Straitjackets- "Jack The Ripper"

The Babalooneys- "Oceanside"

Nautylus- "Eleki" (feat. Sys Malakian)

Surf's Up- Beth's Beach Boys Break:

The Beach Boys- "Be Still"

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Greg Townson- "Paint The Town"

#4 Dick Dale- "Let's Go Trippin'"

Rapt In Blue- "Inversion 35 Degrees"

The Burial Quartet- "Tiger By The Tail"

Two-Nami:

The Burkharts- "To Be Your Lover"

The Burkharts- "Daisy, We've Got A Good Thing"

Jammin' James Jukebox:

The Fashions- "Surfin' Back To School"

Gary Usher- "Mag Wheels"

Jet Jaguars- "All Gas No Brakes"

The Baron Four- "Never Feeling Blue"

Outro music bed: Link Wray- "The Wild One"

Catching A Wave 07-15-24

 

We boldly go into the ring with William Shatner (with Dennis Diken of The Smithereens on drums) and The Cramps both performing the same song on our Head 2 Head segment on this new Catching A Wave! We really get weird with our Good Time segment...we celebrate the 60th anniversary of another fun album by Mr. Gasser & The Weirdos! Beth Riley has a solo track by Bruce Johnston in her Surf's Up- Beth's Beach Boys Break. We drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week (Southern Culture On The Skids)! Plus, we have tracks by Kris Bone, Nick Lowe (with Los Straitjackets), Katatonics, Ichi-Bons, Magnatech, The Dirty Licks, Greg Townson, The Raveonettes, The Other Timelines, The Good Fortunes, The Ramblin' Ambassadors, The Currie Brothers, The Riptide Rats and The Hondells!

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Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys

Kris Bone- "Bustin' Surfboards"

The Currie Brothers- "Run Fink Run"

The Riptide Rats- "Rat Stomp!"

Nick Lowe (with Los Straitjackets)- "Went To A Party"

The Ramblin' Ambassadors- "Dogs Of Mischief"

Good Time segment:

Mr. Gasser & The Weirdos 60th anniversary of Surfink! (1964 Capitol Records)

Mr. Gasser & The Weirdos- "Phantom Surfer"

The Good Fortunes- "Breaking Waves"

The Other Timelines- "Unsafe At Any Speed"

Surf's Up- Beth's Beach Boys Break:

Bruce Johnston- "The Hamptons"

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The Raveonettes- "All I Have To Do Is Dream"

Greg Townson- "Closer To The Truth"

The Dirty Licks- "Malibu Barbie-Q"

Magnatech- "Dumla The Green Rabbit"

Head 2 Head:

William Shatner- "Garbageman"

The Cramps- "Garbageman"

Jammin' James Jukebox selection of the week:

Southern Culture On The Skids- "Rumors Of Surf"

The Hondells- "Black Boots And Bikes"

Ichi-Bons- "Leopardskin"

Katatonics- "Spy v Spy"

Outro music bed: Link Wray- "The Wild One"

Catching A Wave 02-20-23

 

There's new artists, hall of famers and everything in between on this new Catching A Wave!  Greg Townson talks about how he joined Los Straitjackets in our Green Room segment along with a tune of them covering Nick Lowe.  Beth Riley has a deep track from The Beach Boys in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break.  We spin a tune from The Surf Raiders from their 2nd album that is celebrating it's 40th anniversary this year, we bring you music news and we drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week (by Roger McGuinn and features Bruce Johnston on piano).  Plus, we've got songs from Dave Del Monte & The Cross County Boys (covering Buddy Holly), The Foreign Films, The Routes, Ichi-Bons, The Almighty Devildogs, The Smithereens, Softlung, Danyaal, The Weeklings (covering The Beatles), The Berlinettas (covering The Ventures), Cameronoise and a rockin' instrumental from Creedence Clearwater Revival to start the show!

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Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys

Creedence Clearwater Revival- "Glory Be"

Ichi-Bons- "Don't Call Me Fly Face"

Cameronoise- "Caution Tape

Danyaal- "Archipelago Rock"

Softlung- "Don't Say No"

"Good Time" segment:

The Surf Raiders 40th Anniversary of Surf Bound (1983)

The Surf Raiders- "Hit The Surf"

The Weeklings- "I've Just Seen A Face"

The Routes- "Attention"

Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break:

The Beach Boys- "Don't Hurt My Little Sister"

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The Smithereens- "Batman Theme"

The Foreign Films- "Into The Light"

The Berlinettas- "Walk, Don't Run"

The Almighty Devildogs- "Autorama"

Green Room Segment:

Greg Townson on how he joined Los Straitjackets

Los Straitjackets- "Shake & Pop"

Jammin' James Jukebox selection of the week:

Roger McGuinn- "Draggin'" (feat. Bruce Johnston on piano)

Dave Del Monte & The Cross County Boys- "Holly Hop"

Outro Music Bed: Eddie Angel- "Deuces Wild"

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Catching A Wave 03-28-22

 

LOTS of new tunes and classics on this hour of Catching A Wave!  We have a trio of "drive" tunes from Los Straitjackets, The Ventures and Jan & Dean.  Beth Riley has a deep track from The Beach Boys that everyone is in love with.  We continue our 10th Anniversary celebration of The Beach Boys' album, That's Why God Made The Radio and we'll drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox!  Plus, we've got great tunes from Greg Townson, Christian Love, Danny B. Harvey, Erik Alesi, The Razerbills, The Rumtones, The Babalooneys, Ramones, Cameronoise, Davie Allan & The Arrows, Jeremy Slemenda and Link Wray!

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Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys

The Razerbills- "Rossito's Revenge"

Davie Allan & The Arrows- "Straight 'N Arrow"

Ramones- "Go Lil' Camaro Go"

Cameronoise- "Wheel Of Misfortune"

Jeremy Slemenda- "Out Of Nowhere"

Trio of "Drive" tunes:

Los Straitjackets- "Galaxy Drive"

The Ventures- "Night Drive"

Jan & Dean- "I Gotta Drive"

Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break:

The Beach Boys- "Everyone's In Love With You"
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The Babalooneys- "Wide-Track Weekend"

Greg Townson- "My Crush On You"

Erik Alesi- "Last Breath"

Danny B. Harvey- "Surf Cat"

10th Anniversary Celebration of The Beach Boys- That's Why God Made The Radio

The Beach Boys- "Spring Vacation"

Jammin' James Jukebox selection of the week:

Jack Nitzsche- "The Lonely Surfer"

The Rumtones- "Terror In The Trench"

Christian Love- "Talk About The Things"

Link Wray- "Green Hornet"

Outro music bed: Eddie Angel- "Deuces Wild"

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Catching A Wave 02-21-22

 

Surf instrumentals of Elvis Presley? You bet!  Magnatech and The Terrorsurfs give some reverb drenched King covers this hour.  Also, Greg Townson covers The Honeys.  The Grip Weeds cover The Monkees.  The Supertones cover the Surf Raiders.  There's a trio of "Searchin'" themed tunes from The Raybeats, The Margraves and Robert Plant & Alison Krauss.  Plus, we've got rockers from The Courettes, Lulufin The WooHoo, Dave Delmonte & The Cross County Boys, The Surf Junkies and El Borko.  Beth Riley has a deep track from The Beach Boys in her always awesome Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break and we drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week!

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Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys

The Surf Junkies- "Barrel Pounder"

Magnatech- "(Marie's The Name Of) His Latest Flame"

Greg Townson- "Pray For Surf"

El Borko- "Headmixer Larry"

Dave Del Monte & The Cross County Boys- "Hurricane"

Trio of "Searchin'" Themed tunes:

The Margraves- "Searchin' For You"

Robert Plant & Alison Krauss- "Searching For My Love"

The Raybeats- "Searching"

Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break:
The Beach Boys- "There's No Other Like My Baby"
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Lulufin The WooHoo- "Jellyfish"

The Courettes- "R.I.N.G.O"

The Grip Weeds- "For Pete's Sake"

Catching A Wave Time Machine

For the week ending April 30, 1966:

#32 Brian Wilson- "Caroline, No"

#4 The Beach Boys- "Sloop John B"

#1 The Young Rascals- "Good Lovin'"

Jammin' James Jukebox selection of the week:

The Busters- "Bust Out"

The Supertones- "Curl Rider"

The Terrorsurfs- "Little Sister"

Outro music bed: Eddie Angel- "Deuces Wild"

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Catching A Wave 01-10-22

There is never a shortage of great tunes to choose from and this week's Catching A Wave is packed with them!  We've got a Two-nami with Brian Wilson, Beth Riley has a fun deep track from The Beach Boys in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break and we drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week.  Also, we've got rockers from Greg Townson, Magnatech, Susanna Hoffs, The Me Gustas, Peopleperson, Man Or Astro-Man?, The Surfrajettes, Jason Janik, The Green Reflectors, The Other Timelines, The Tremolo Beer Gut, The Ramblin' Bandits, The Surfaris, Secret Agent and Mark Eric!

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Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys

The Surfrajettes- "Surfrajette City"

The Tremolo Beer Gut- "Hot Hot Heatwave"

Peopleperson- "At Dawn We Ride"

Man Or Astro-Man?- "Tenth Planet"

Mark Eric- "Place For The Summer"

Magnatech- "Bad Blood"

Jason Janik- "Spyglass"

Secret Agent- "Stasi Romeo"

Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break:

The Beach Boys- "Island Fever"

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The Surfaris- "Boss Baracuda"

Greg Townson- "What A Way To Die"

The Green Reflectors- "Nitty Gritty Kitty"

The Ramblin' Bandits- "Run Chicken Run"

Two-Nami:

Brian Wilson- "It's Ok"

Brian Wilson- "Love & Mercy"

Jammin' James Jukebox selection of the week:

The Revels- "Comanche"

Susanna Hoffs- "Time Will Show The Wiser"

The Me Gustas- "Armada"

The Other Timelines- "Weird Ed's Microwave"

Outro music bed: Eddie Angel- "Mustang"

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Catching A Wave 10-18-21

We hear the #1 song in our Top 5 Favorite Songs Of The Beach Boys Countdown as voted on by YOU!  It was a tight race and over 50 songs were submitted as your favorites.  We also hear a deep track by The Beach Boys from Beth Riley in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break and a tune from their latest Feel Flows boxset later on the show as well.  We've got a trio of tunes from artists/bands with a color in their name (Junior Brown, The Green Reflectors and Blue Stingrays) as well as rockers from Surfer Joe, Los Twang Marvels, Greg Townson, The Surfaris, Jason Lee & The R.I.P.Tides, Shoot The Pier, The Explorers Club, Jason Janik, Slacktone, The Rip Chords and Blackball Bandits!!

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Also, check out my personal Top 5 favorite songs by The Beach Boys below too!

Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys

Jason Janik- "Light'em Up"

The Explorers Club- "Say You Will"

Blackball Bandits- "Night Rider"

The Rip Chords- "Surfin' Craze"

*Spongebob snippet

Greg Townson- "Aztec" (feat. Yolanda Marvel)

"Color" theme artist/band:

Blue Stingrays- "Green Sea"

Junior Brown- "Rock-A-Hula Baby"

The Green Reflectors- "Crypt Kicker"

Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break:

The Beach Boys- "Pitter Patter"

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Slacktone- "Blast Bolero"

Surfer Joe- "Coil Burner"

Jason Lee & The R.I.P.Tides- "Pain Killer"

Shoot The Pier- "Hallucinations"

Top 5 countdown of YOUR favorite songs by The Beach Boys:

#1 The Beach Boys- "Wouldn't It Be Nice"

The Surfaris- "I Wanna Take A Trip To The Islands"

Jammin' James Jukebox selection of the week:

Legendary Masked Surfers- "Gonna Hustle You"

Los Twang Marvels- "Guitars In Orbit"

The Beach Boys- "Seasons In The Sun"

Outro Music Bed:  Eddie Angel- "Deuces Wild"

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Jammin' James Riley's personal Top 5 Favorite songs by The Beach Boys:

#5.  "I Get Around"

While this song exploded out the radio when it was released in 1963, it still holds up today!  This showed a huge growth in Brian's production and the harmonies are amazing!

#4.  "God Only Knows"

This one still gives me chills with Carl's amazing lead vocals along with Brian and Bruce at the end of the song.  The production is perfect.  Easy to see why it's also Sir Paul McCartney's favorite too!

#3.  "Wouldn't It Be Nice"

This song ushered in a new level of intricate vocals and instrumentation for the band.  I never grow tired of this song.  It's my wife Beth's (from her "Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break" segment on here and her own awesome show "Boppin' With Beth") favorite from the group.  She recorded an intro talking about this song and sent it to SiriusXM when they were running The Beach Boys channel this summer and we actually heard it on the station...as we were driving to see them in concert this summer!!  It was Beth's first time seeing them and we were about to turn into the venue to go park when her intro came on the air!  Such a great memory to such a great song!

Also, check out this beautiful new version of "Wouldn't It Be Nice" from Brian Wilson's new release, At My Piano!

#2.  "Getcha Back"

You may be surprised by this addition to the top 5 but I've always loved this one.  It was the summer of 1985 and I was about to be a Junior in high school.  I had been a fan of the band since I was a little kid so it was exciting to hear them return and have a decent hit with this one.  I spent all previous years of being a fan of earlier material so even when new projects were released I was still busy trying to find everything I could of them to dig into.  This was the first NEW release I remember buying as soon as it came out and immersing myself into it.  I still smile whenever I hear it!

#1.  "Do It Again"

In all honesty, any of these songs could be #1 favorite at any given time.  However, this one is always near the top if not #1.  I've always loved the effect on the drum intro and they've long opened their shows with this one.  If anyone needs me, I'm going to blaring this one for a while!!