Saw this 50 years ago when I was 8. Between the actual surf footage, music, Hawaiian scenery and beautiful women (Barbara Eden n Susan Hart especially) I thought at the time it was the greatest movie ever made. Pretty big stuff for a kid from Jersey on a Friday night.
On this day in 1964 {August 22nd} Jan and Dean performed "Ride the Wild Surf" on the late Dick Clark's American Bandstand... One month later on September 19th it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; eventually it peaked at #16 and spent 8 weeks on the Top 100... The song was heard once in the 1964 movie of the same name, during the closing credits... Jan Berry passed away on March 26th, 2004 at the age of 62... R.I.P. Mr. Berry and Mr. Clark...
The year was 1969. After finishing a late shift at McDonald’s I went over to a friends house; Ride The Wild Surf was on the ABC Sunday night movie. I was going to go in and watch but a girl I was sweet on (who had rejected me; I’ve since learned to thrive on rejection) was watching the movie. So I went home. However, I always loved that song. Its been on my UA-cam playlist for years. Today, Sunday, November 15, 2020, 51 years later, I’m watching Ride The Wild Surf for the very first time. Excellent.
@@chikkipop I sure do! Feel awful for a day. Then, let it go. Understand that somewhere, someone is hoping you’ll walk into their life. I have found that the more money I make, the better looking I get. Keep your word, be true to yourself, be accountable, don’t blame your life on anybody but you…you’ll have women beggin’ for ya.
Loved this movie ! Back when Beach pictures were big. Shelley Fabare was such a doll ! Barbara Eden as a knockout Brunette. Love the song ! Great memories.🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊
I grew up in the 60's and well remember the surf fever back then. For us with no oceans, they came up with the skateboard. Sidewalk surfing was huge with us kids. I paid $4 for my first one in 1965-it had steel wheels! Lucky I survived. I couldn't afford the expensive clay wheels version, it was $8. It was a fever for a couple years, at least.
When I visited Hollywood in 1979, I got a chance to see Barbara Eden up close as she came out of the Palace Theatre. She looked terrific. What a knock out she was in the 60's.
I love the old surf movies also. I was watching it on TCM as well, Of course, I'm very familiar with Barbara Eden and Shelley Fabares, and I've heard of Fabian and Tab Hunter, but I thought the guy playing Fabian was Tab and vice-versa! lol I think I had just, perhaps, forgotten what they looked like! lol It was a good movie. While watching, I saw this guy that looked a lot like Robert Mitchum, and I thought it was him, but the credits said James Mitchum which is Robert's son apparently.
GREAT job with this video! I always did like the way they did the credits at the end - but the way you mixed it with clips, etc - was cool! thanks for helping bring back the memories of this movie
After hearing a remastered version of this on earphones, some time ago, I was convinced that this was the greatest drumming I have ever heard in Rock, including Keith Moon & Ginger Baker. Not a stretch. The great Earl Palmer (& maybe Hal Blaine) play on this.Palmer was chosen as #3 Rock drummer ever. My #1. Also after reading about Jan Berry (co-writer, producer, arranger singer on most J&D hits, while in junior in college), I am convinced of his Genious & versatality. & Dean is quite an artist.
In '63 I converted my grandmother's wooden ironing board using my metal wheeled skates. Two wheels in the front, six across the back. Extremely noisy and lacked any lateral coefficient of friction, so it was like ball bearings on ice. Later converted it to a snowboard with a rug screwed onto the top and added a one inch skeg. Worked great and I still have it.
Growing up in SoCal in the 60's I was INUNDATED with surf culture. I spent most summers at Huntington Beach and San Clemente. I was poor and Mexican so I couldn't afford a surfboard, but I was an avid bodysurfer and boogie-boarder. The punk-ass "locals" (white boys) thought they owned the place. The chicks were stuck-up. Add to that the music that was copied to DEATH.So when Jimi came along and said, "You'll never hear surf music again" I was right there with him!! I will always love the ocean
I've been to Waimea 50 years ago when I was in my 20's. Being from Seattle, I only learned to surf the little Honolulu waves on large rent-a-boards, so I didn't even think about going in at Waimea. A place very Jan & Dean fan should visit.
You don't say what a "blue screen" is, but I do know the great music of these corny beach movies throws rocks at the plots, themes and acting! Very well done - and probably all we'd ever need to see.
For Little Steven's Underground Garage. Next up : The Chantays, The Ventures, Dick Dale and his Del-tones, and of course, The Beach Boys. AFTER A BRUTAL WINTER, WELCOME SUMMER 2014!!!!!!!!
Jan & Dean were on track to become the Monkees before there was (or were?) a Monkees. Jan's accidents (train and car) kept them from fulfilling their TV show, motion picture and recording plans that were already in motion. {Click BB45s for Jan & Dean and Beach Boys playlists}
The rear projection on the credits sequence is hilarious. And one of the strangest cosmetic choices, IMO: making Shelley Faberes, a brunette, blonde, while making the real blonde, Barbara Eden, a redhead.
@grandmarazz Swimming is easy to learn, you can get lessons watever your age. Once you know how, you will wish you had done it sooner. Not only will it open up so much fun, it may save your life, or you may save someone else's. Also then you can learn to surf.It's not all that difficult. Don't just sit there, DO IT!
I haven't seen any of these films but a little research shows that beach movies lasted from 1963 through 1967, not the fifties. (NOTE BEFORE I GET REPLIES: The first Gidget movie was in 1959 with sequels in 1961 and 1963 but all the Frankie/Annette and various copies started in 1963 with Beach Party).
@clydesplace -- Most guys have heard the classic break-up lines such as "Can we just be friends?" and "I need my space." I can only imagine how the guy engaged to Dolores Hart felt when he got hit with "I've decided to become a nun." (I've read that they're still "good friends.")
Yes, my steel wheels skateboard did not work well at all. My friend Skip had an older sister. He "took" her skates, we removed the wheel portions, cut them in half(one pair for him, one pair for me). We cut out our own boards, screwed on the wheels, and that's it. Except for one thing. We didn't put the wheels on straight. We learned how to skateboard real good on "ours". But when we got on a store bought one, we could not control it. The wheels were too "straight". LOL.
@grandmarazz it wouldn't look the the same riding the surf with a walking frame. Only joking.I was surfing at that time,and I still ride my antique" Plastic Machine" board.
This would have been a perfect post if the original soundtrack was used & not a retread...Still not too late to remake.......Excellent video, but.......RIP Jan Berry.....
Dear astra., Yes you are absolutely right. . One only has to think of that television series Baywatch to realise that the ninteen-fifties movies are exactly the same style soft porn, as you say. cheers.
Blue screen? Certainly not in 1963, and not on movie film. They acted in front of a projected image, like every "driving in the car" scene long before and long after this movie.
Gosh, how corny this clip is! But, in a good way! :) By the way, this is NOT the original 1964 recording of "Ride The Wild Surf" which was actually part of the movie soundtrack, and became bit hit record. This recording is a remake done in the 70's or 80's by Dean Torrence (of Jan & Dean) and various other musicians. Dean sings lead on this version, but Jan sang lead on the original record. I'm posting this just for the record. (No pun intended).
Gee Barbara Eden couldn't be foxy enough she had to go and become a redhead!! Never heard of Susan Hart but she sure looks a lot like Alexandra Paul from Baywatch.
I've seen ride the wild surf many times and the cast was magnificent and I didn't know that Barbara Eden look so gorgeous with brown hair I've always known her as a blonde but she looked very gorgeous with brown hair and Shelly Fabares was just beautiful like an angel from heaven and Susan Hart beautiful and sexy and exotic I've never met all three of them but someday I will meet any one of them if I ever meet Barbara Eden or Shelly Fabares or Susan Hart will be a dream come true
This seems to be a rather secondary, somewhat obscure version of this great song. The original, authentic released J & D version is far superior ... great footage from the movie however ...
Saw this 50 years ago when I was 8. Between the actual surf footage, music, Hawaiian scenery and beautiful women (Barbara Eden n Susan Hart especially) I thought at the time it was the greatest movie ever made. Pretty big stuff for a kid from Jersey on a Friday night.
I saw it to years ago loved Peter Brown
@jimjohnston,. Right there with you. Would like to see it again.before I turn the page. All the best and may God bless.
@@dalehood1846 it’s on tubi app.
@@dalehood1846 It’s on the too-obi app . YT won’t let me post the real app name.
@@dalehood1846 YT won’t let me reply to you where the movie can be found.
Took me 50 years but I finally (body) surfed Wiamea Bay. And yes, I went back for one last ride.
Hopefully didn’t break a rib.
Hellfire, good job !! Thanks for taking that last surf for all of us. 👍👍👍
On this day in 1964 {August 22nd} Jan and Dean performed "Ride the Wild Surf" on the late Dick Clark's American Bandstand...
One month later on September 19th it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; eventually it peaked at #16 and spent 8 weeks on the Top 100...
The song was heard once in the 1964 movie of the same name, during the closing credits...
Jan Berry passed away on March 26th, 2004 at the age of 62...
R.I.P. Mr. Berry and Mr. Clark...
The year was 1969. After finishing a late shift at McDonald’s I went over to a friends house; Ride The Wild Surf was on the ABC Sunday night movie. I was going to go in and watch but a girl I was sweet on (who had rejected me; I’ve since learned to thrive on rejection) was watching the movie. So I went home. However, I always loved that song. Its been on my UA-cam playlist for years. Today, Sunday, November 15, 2020, 51 years later, I’m watching Ride The Wild Surf for the very first time. Excellent.
Got any tips for thriving on rejection?
@@chikkipop I sure do! Feel awful for a day. Then, let it go. Understand that somewhere, someone is hoping you’ll walk into their life. I have found that the more money I make, the better looking I get. Keep your word, be true to yourself, be accountable, don’t blame your life on anybody but you…you’ll have women beggin’ for ya.
@@frankplaayer8221 *"the more money I make, the better looking I get"* So true!! And lots of good advice there!
Loved the song and the movie. I remember watching the movie at the theater in San Clemente in '64.
+mrbmac0509 Somewhere in Oz in '64 but a tad frightening to think how long ago! Still surf though thankfully.
Great movie and great song.
Those were the years of cool songs, surf and the best of times.
Please send me back.
George Vreeland Hill
Great memories from the 60's, thanks!!!
Best Shelley Fabrese ever looked! Great Music, great Movie!
She looked pretty good in the Elvis movies.
Remember her playing Craig T.Nelson wife Coach a tv show in the early '90s.
She looks amazing
Happy memories of, when l was in Hawaii.
Love the song AND the movie - GREAT job on this video! Thanks
Love the old surf movies
This one was on TCM tonight...
It was on again tonight
I just recently bought the DVD so I can watch it whenever I want.
Loved this movie ! Back when Beach pictures were big. Shelley Fabare was such a doll ! Barbara Eden as a knockout Brunette. Love the song ! Great memories.🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊
Great singers really love their songs and music 😀😃💙✋
I grew up in the 60's and well remember the surf fever back then. For us with no oceans, they came up with the skateboard. Sidewalk surfing was huge with us kids. I paid $4 for my first one in 1965-it had steel wheels! Lucky I survived.
I couldn't afford the expensive clay wheels version, it was $8. It was a fever for a couple years, at least.
"Endless Summer" was an excellent surfer movie.
The movie I saw the movie in the movie of the week on tv when I was about 5 yr.old,& love the song!
When I visited Hollywood in 1979, I got a chance to see Barbara Eden up close as she came out of the Palace Theatre. She looked terrific. What a knock out she was in the 60's.
This movie is on Get TV as I write. I've always like it, cheesy or not and the Jan and Dean theme is awesome.
I love the old surf movies also. I was watching it on TCM as well, Of course, I'm very familiar with Barbara Eden and Shelley Fabares, and I've heard of Fabian and Tab Hunter, but I thought the guy playing Fabian was Tab and vice-versa! lol I think I had just, perhaps, forgotten what they looked like! lol It was a good movie. While watching, I saw this guy that looked a lot like Robert Mitchum, and I thought it was him, but the credits said James Mitchum which is Robert's son apparently.
Fun entertaining movie
Great video bro, I miss those days. That whole era is over, glad e have youtube and people like you who upload!
mike
Sacramento.
This movie was on AMC last year........I want to see all of it!
I saw Barbara Eden up close coming out of the Hollywood Palace in 1979. She was a looker, indeed!
And Michael Ansara gave that up!!!
Absolute stunner!
GREAT job with this video! I always did like the way they did the credits at the end - but the way you mixed it with clips, etc - was cool! thanks for helping bring back the memories of this movie
can this song be brought into Power Metal ?
After hearing a remastered version of this on earphones, some time ago, I was convinced that this was the greatest drumming I have ever heard in Rock, including Keith Moon & Ginger Baker. Not a stretch. The great Earl Palmer (& maybe Hal Blaine) play on this.Palmer was chosen as #3 Rock drummer ever. My #1. Also after reading about Jan Berry (co-writer, producer, arranger singer on most J&D hits, while in junior in college), I am convinced of his Genious & versatality. & Dean is quite an artist.
@dwemi I so agree with you on Jan, Earl, and Hal
probably the late Hal Blaine he and The Wrecking Crew played on all the Jan and Dean tunes
i remember seein in 60's at drive in the start of great beach music
Outstanding ! Thanks for putting together.
In '63 I converted my grandmother's wooden ironing
board using my metal wheeled skates. Two wheels in
the front, six across the back. Extremely noisy and
lacked any lateral coefficient of friction, so it was like ball bearings on ice. Later converted it to a snowboard
with a rug screwed onto the top and added a one inch skeg. Worked great and I still have it.
Growing up in SoCal in the 60's I was INUNDATED with surf culture. I spent most summers at Huntington Beach and San Clemente. I was poor and Mexican so I couldn't afford a surfboard, but I was an avid bodysurfer and boogie-boarder. The punk-ass "locals" (white boys) thought they owned the place. The chicks were stuck-up. Add to that the music that was copied to DEATH.So when Jimi came along and said, "You'll never hear surf music again" I was right there with him!! I will always love the ocean
Great song from the 60's! Thanks for the post!
Ladies and gentlemen rock n roll !
I've been to Waimea 50 years ago when I was in my 20's. Being from Seattle, I only learned to surf the little Honolulu waves on large rent-a-boards, so I didn't even think about going in at Waimea. A place very Jan & Dean fan should visit.
You don't say what a "blue screen" is, but I do know the great music of these corny beach movies throws rocks at the plots, themes and acting! Very well done - and probably all we'd ever need to see.
For Little Steven's Underground Garage. Next up : The Chantays, The Ventures, Dick Dale and his Del-tones, and of course, The Beach Boys. AFTER A BRUTAL WINTER, WELCOME SUMMER 2014!!!!!!!!
Thumbs up if you ever practiced surfing on your moms ironing board when you were a kid.
I still do
Blue Hawaii, Hawaii , honolulu loulou & Ride the wild surf would make the best Advertisement for Hawaii ever !
I'm stoked!
Thanks again Brian Wilson
good music, better than the shit im subjected to these days
Jan & Dean were on track to become the Monkees before there was (or were?) a Monkees. Jan's accidents (train and car) kept them from fulfilling their TV show, motion picture and recording plans that were already in motion.
{Click BB45s for Jan & Dean and Beach Boys playlists}
AHHHHH THE MEMORIES !!!
I LIKE THIS SONG
Same here on Robert Mitchem, and when I heard her voice, I knew it, but couldn't quite place it. Then I saw the credits, Barbara Eden .. :-)
I love the fact that Tab Hunter was 33 years old when he did this. Lol. Fabian, meanwhile, was 21. x
The rear projection on the credits sequence is hilarious.
And one of the strangest cosmetic choices, IMO: making Shelley Faberes, a brunette, blonde, while making the real blonde, Barbara Eden, a redhead.
Nice video, particularly the actual surfing footage at the end.
This is my favorite anime...
I saw it the drive-in in '64. Ah the memories.
@grandmarazz Swimming is easy to learn, you can get lessons watever your age. Once you know how, you will wish you had done it sooner. Not only will it open up so much fun, it may save your life, or you may save someone else's. Also then you can learn to surf.It's not all that difficult. Don't just sit there, DO IT!
I've never seen this movie...
Gotta get it on Dvd..along with the beach party films
9'-6" Interisland Surf Shop, 16 yrs. old, what sharks? hahaha...what memories.
Man , they were all HOTTTT!!!
Everyone is talking and doing their tax returns while on a wave. :D
i went to the theater to see this movie, but i didn't know this song was done by jan and dean!
Great !!!
I haven't seen any of these films but a little research shows that beach movies lasted from 1963 through 1967, not the fifties. (NOTE BEFORE I GET REPLIES: The first Gidget movie was in 1959 with sequels in 1961 and 1963 but all the Frankie/Annette and various copies started in 1963 with Beach Party).
That's the late surfing legend,Mickey Dora doing the actual surfing.
Mentally I'm already there physically I wish I was there I'm an amateur surfer!
@clydesplace -- Most guys have heard the classic break-up lines such as "Can we just be friends?" and "I need my space." I can only imagine how the guy engaged to Dolores Hart felt when he got hit with "I've decided to become a nun." (I've read that they're still "good friends.")
those guys are hot.
Dear Gnilob.,
Thanks for your response to my coment.
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I've made a note of your good tips, and corrections.
.
Thank you very much.
cheers.
James Mitchum looks so much like his father
Yes, my steel wheels skateboard did not work well at all. My friend Skip had an older sister. He "took" her skates, we removed the wheel portions, cut them in half(one pair for him, one pair for me).
We cut out our own boards, screwed on the wheels, and that's it. Except for one thing. We didn't put the wheels on straight. We learned how to skateboard real good on "ours". But when we got on a store bought one, we could not control it. The wheels were too "straight". LOL.
Susan Hart is absolutely smoking
I need a cig after watching that!!
This comment made me laugh. 😂
DAMN! You had Roller Skates? Yeah, you Damn rich- folk anyway........
Eskimo may have been a jerk in the movie ,but I met JIM at my daughters wedding about two months ago an he is one hell of a nice guy,
That is so cool, you just got to least try it once before you die. Its really hard to explain. I'm gonna check out Moondog, he's knows that stuff.
Brian Wilson ..He wrote this song for them
The original beach boys
HEY HOTSHOT ! ! ---- YOUR O.K.!
Aw, those actors were just hodads, but I really dig the song.
25 feet waves in San Diego!
I have to do this for my dance review
@grandmarazz it wouldn't look the the same riding the surf with a walking frame. Only joking.I was surfing at that time,and I still ride my antique" Plastic Machine" board.
This version is NOT Jan and dean. It's a redo by dean (no Jan) and the great band, Papa Doo Run Run.
it actually is. They rerecorded it in the 1970's
God damn man! Can you believe that shit you know!
Surf girl surf
For Jewels
This would have been a perfect post if the original soundtrack was used & not a retread...Still not too late to remake.......Excellent video, but.......RIP Jan Berry.....
Dear astra.,
Yes you are absolutely right.
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One only has to think of that television series Baywatch to realise that the ninteen-fifties movies are exactly the same style soft porn, as you say.
cheers.
Dude at 1:19-1:54 is the Boss!
0:43 "see the piss"
Fun then....now 48 years later, leather skin, and melanoma.
Blue screen? Certainly not in 1963, and not on movie film. They acted in front of a projected image, like every "driving in the car" scene long before and long after this movie.
Gosh, how corny this clip is! But, in a good way! :) By the way, this is NOT the original 1964 recording of "Ride The Wild Surf" which was actually part of the movie soundtrack, and became bit hit record. This recording is a remake done in the 70's or 80's by Dean Torrence (of Jan & Dean) and various other musicians. Dean sings lead on this version, but Jan sang lead on the original record. I'm posting this just for the record. (No pun intended).
Gee Barbara Eden couldn't be foxy enough she had to go and become a redhead!! Never heard of Susan Hart but she sure looks a lot like Alexandra Paul from Baywatch.
Los Altos Drive-in Long Beach.
whooo I didnt no that fabion had a great body musules and that tony melbourne australiA
Oh yea, Fabian son has a little restaurant outside of Sacramento. :)
I've seen ride the wild surf many times and the cast was magnificent and I didn't know that Barbara Eden look so gorgeous with brown hair I've always known her as a blonde but she looked very gorgeous with brown hair and Shelly Fabares was just beautiful like an angel from heaven and Susan Hart beautiful and sexy and exotic I've never met all three of them but someday I will meet any one of them if I ever meet Barbara Eden or Shelly Fabares or Susan Hart will be a dream come true
Yes, it is....
Susan Hart resembles Liv Tyler. Don't you think?
Susan Hart, just in case you are interested, I do love you...
These beach movies were simply soft porn for the 50s/60s. Nothing much has changed.
This is really below what Jan and Dean are capable of doing in my opinion.
I would disagree: there were several other noteworthy scenes featuring the sexy Susan Hart. Her hula in a tight white dress is special.
watch this skip the film...I have this single with a great sleeve (see it at RAY's Juke-box on FB)
This is a different recording.....has violins or something.
This seems to be a rather secondary, somewhat obscure version of this great song. The original, authentic released J & D version is far superior ... great footage from the movie however ...