So shiny, clean cut, well mannered, who knew?😂. Love them forever for giving us the classic Pipeline; I would've taped it off radio on my reel-to-reel back then. Still great today❤
Amazing these young kids had no idea that their song would not only hit big, but remain a musical treasure for decades after. The orchestra in the back know they love what their hearing but they can't show it or there'll be repercussions
@@robertturtle .....you can tell EXACTLY what the members of the orchestra think..... if you watch closely - some of them are slightly bopping their heads, tapping their feet and keeping time by moving their hands !
To all of the critics on here. How many of you can say you had a hit song? With or without guitar cords being plugged in... They made a classic song.... period !
The choreography is good. When one has to slide one out and it has difficulty releasing, try the different body contortions to help ease out your meatloaf.
@@thomaspick4123 Yes, the choreography is truly outstanding. You'll never see a performer today risking injury from such advanced acrobatics. One has to wonder how they got that way so young.
@@bobstuckrath1805this Music 🎼 was from the early Surf 🏄♂️ sean I remember in 1964-65 my brother followed the Ventures who covered this Song along with many other’s, my brother was real good guitar 🎸 player till he got drafted into the Army and served two years in a radar station in Alaska 1966-68 but never played guitar 🎸 again when he got discharged
At the time the Chantays and the Welk band were under contract with Dot Records. Although the Welk group was known for its traditional music on the show, featuring the Chantays may have been a way to bring in younger tv viewers. "Pipeline" has become an all-time classic surf instrumental.
Dot Records was the number one selling label in the 1950s and was successful for years under the leadership of founder Randy Wood of Morrison, TN (later Gallatin). Chantays were great.
If you like or are learning to like surf tunes, look up "Dick Dale and the Deltones". Dick is credited as being the first lead guitarist to do the "fret board pull" (that cool sound of decending notes). I met the man a couple of times when he lived in Newport Beach. Great guy, very talented, the world got a little dimmer when he passed.
I'm almost 69 years old, and the 1st band I played in we always played this tune before our intermission break. It just brought back a flood of memories🎼🎸🥁👌
It's an act dude. Show business does not make its performers happy. Gene Krupa says this: "Played at the club until 2am then rehearsed until 5am for a recording session that started at 9am. A gig like that can leave you with a swinging headache, that's why I always have BC powder handy." It's a lot of work but the performers make it look easy and fun, it's not. These guys have gambling debts, onerous contracts, don't make much, if any, money, they get ripped off by the business men and the record labels, they get divorced, they travel all the time, they live out of a suitcase for years on the road. It's an act.
Well, you get half of it. Some bass players claim the second bit makes it almost impossible to play. Our bass player said something rude and got it right first time, then he brought a 5 string and said "It's easier to play on a five".
They performed several times at The Rendezvous Ballroom in Balboa, CA. They had chops and could really play. The set lasted 2 hours and featured some great arrangements. For their closer, the sound man requested them to do "Pipeline" as a shuffle, and they did it, no sweat. I thought they were great musicians, and they influenced those of us just beginning to learn music. craig buhler, sax, Honk Band
The Rendezvous! Don’t forget Dick Dale and also the Righteous Brothers! In 1961 I bought my first car from Dale’s drummer. He had gotten drafted. It was a “54 Ford Victoria. Great first car. My friends and I had more than one encounter with the Brothers at the snack bar. Great memories! Dale drove a ’61 Cadillac Coupe De Ville, black with chrome reverse rims. First time we ever saw a luxury car with custom wheels! He lived about a mile from my house in Costa Mesa at the time. Several of my buddies’ parents were native South Coasters and had stories of the Rendesvouse from the ‘40s.
@@bfundom yes, sir, cant forget the master Dick Dale. If you're familiar with Newport Beach, then you no doubt know where Mr. Dale lived for so many years, last house facing the channel as you go to the wedge. Dick was always a master in my eyes. Nothing was better then him just grabbing a guitar and start solo playing. I got to jam with him once, I played drums (was a local band Costa Mesa, Newport back in the late 80's early 90's Darren and the O'Learys). And the Rendezvous Cafe (lol), and dont forget the Golden Bear in H.B.
I think this should be one of the greatest instrumentals and the Chantays in my opinion were ahead of their time as their showmanship and guitar and use of keyboard shows
Pipeline by the Chantays is a masterpiece. Other groups have played it. None have managed to find the magic of the Chantays. The subtle change in the middle by the piano makes all the difference.
Funny. Lawrence Welk was one of the few musical shows we were allowed to watch. Frank Sinatra shows were not allowed until the three (4th child a baby) older kids could understand more about life. I liked them all. Mother's mother refused to let Frank Sinatra/Dean Martin music or TV shows in the house at all.
All these years later (60) & Pipeline still gets my vote for the coolest song ever. Our top local band played it at a sock hop in Jr High & it even drew more applause than when they played Wipeout.
@@macwyll Yeah, 1 of many good 1's by the Doors. I miss the all the music from the early 60's through the early 70's; so many fantastic bands! The Moody Blues were my fave, but so many greats, especially the many bands out of CA, like Quicksilver Messenger Service & I always liked White Bird by It's A Beautiful Day + too many other groups to mention them all. *the closest music to Pipeline I can think of would be to blend these songs into one: Walk Don't Run, Samba Pa Ti, Pali Gap (a Hendrix instrumental) w/ a dash of Sleep Walk by Santo & Johnny.
I am 69 now and performed this last month at a fair in Huntington Beach California - Surf City. About 60 years ago I also performed it with my band. It never gets old, it's a great song everybody loves to play and listen to.
This was a genre of music that ended with the beach-boys…. It’s a shame because it suffocated by the hippy psychedelic music that was ushered in by the drug culture of the mid 1960’s.
It ended because it was a musical dead-end - as fresh and singular as it was - the instrumentals all sounded remarkably similar to and derivative of one another, and so got boring and repetitious. The genre was obliterated by the Beatles, Motown and Dylan, not "hippie drug music"... @@Slo-ryde
@@flamencoprof sure, but drug use in general was limited to a subculture before the mid 60’s, and was seen as taboo by the main culture…. But it entered the mainstream in the mid to late 60’s as part of the turmoil that flooded the society at that time.
Totally random but Mr. Warren Waters was my 5th grade sub in the early 90s. He subbed all year because our teacher was out on leave. He would play the guitar and sing for us all the time during breaks, including playing this song. So cool.
who cares live or not, the clip is real, the song is immortal, it's the song I must played on piano, and millions of us surfers have danced to it moving like we're paddling for and riding on a wave, a Pipeline musical eternal endless summer wave
Learned to swim about 40-50 miles south of Pipeline in 1956-7. Bellows Field. Was 4-5 yrs old. Remember it like it happened yesterday. Edit: apologies for the rant….
These songs bring back so many memories, when this song would come on the radio, instantly my Dad would start dancing, to see him do this no matter what was going, didn't matter it was Dance time, just friggin funny.
I remember listening to this song on my 2.00 transistor radio when I was a kid. 2 bucks was a lot of money then. Refund on pop bottles was 2 cents, quarts were 5 cents. The good ol days!
= Parents. Real parents. And spanking (which is necessary for under 8-year olds; you can't "reason" with them by talking like some dumb____ women today think).
My late mom and my cusin Sharon who lives now around los angeles California used to bring their boyfriends over to my late aunt Dorothy and late uncle al house to watch the chantays perform that same instrumental on the lawrence welk show and dance with their boyfriends at their house in east, Dallas texas back in 1963 when they debut that instrumental on the lawrence welk show back then in 1963 in east Dallas, Texas. Thomas Keith Farris.
Both Lawrence Welk and Santa Ana's homeboys The Chantays were labelmates on Dot Records in 1963. Thus the reason The Chantays were the ONLY rock band to EVER grace Mr. Welk's stage. I'm sure some A&R executive had to twist Mr. Welk's arm to let them appear. They are so formal and polite here it makes you wonder what happened to musicians with class and manners.
Hahaha actually its pretty interesting because this was sort of a new sound, a "pre-beatles" sort of edgier style of rock instrumental. You can tell half of the band is taking it in but look closely and some of them are grooving a bit or tapping their hands or lightly bopping their heads. The last year of "innocence" after 1964 the world got alot more grittier and rebellious. Oh if they only knew what the rest of the decade would sound like in music haha!
Maybe some were, but being musicians themselves I think just as many appreciated what a great, unique instrumental song this was undoubtedly having heard it somewhat before this appearance.
Can't believe these guys played on Lawrence Welk. My Grandma must not have been babysutting me that night, because she always watched LW, and I loved this song, so I definitely would have remembered this performance. Thanx so much for sharing this little treasure, and for the nostalgia trip! Good times. I miss them.
No its a different Bob Welch. Supposedly they did have Steve Kahn play drums---he's now a respected jazz and studio guitarist (Steely Dan) but they don't mention him anywhere on their website or their wiki article.
The choreography was supposed to distract you from noticing they were unplugged and you were listening to a recording. It was a shame so many groups had to fake play to their recordings for TV in those days.
They might have been more relaxed if they were plugged and could focus on playing versus acting. Retro classic regardless. They weren't high, angry or strung out. Landing that gig meant a lot to them.
MICHAEL DAVIS Instrument syncing creates a bit of a disconnection - like lip syncing - between the performer and audience. TV producers and sponsors were interested only in pleasing advertisers by drawing larger audiences to view top acts. Why spend on bringing in tech support to go live when it wasn't necessary?
Got it through Larry's Fender connection-all the bands back then attempted 'Steps'. Mmmm real tortoise shell pickguards-fools now think celluloid will spontaneously combust, or are too cheap to make them- even Fenders over priced 'Custom Shop' guitars have phony pickguards- Cowards...
The drummer forgot his bass drum pedal. Must be hard to stay focused when pretending to play. Also being young and having a band behind you of "real" Musicians.
We all can play that intro, but none like Brian Carman. His glissandos were rather unique. I'm sure none of those orchestra musicians wrote such an everlasting hit as Pipeline. Heads off to Chantays !!
Gigante, este es un Rolon Rolón Rolon, el grupazo The Chantays deja como legado a la humanidad este gran tema 60tero hasta los huesos, su coreografía increíble igual que ellos disfruté mucho la interpretación. Claro como auditorio. He dicho pero The Hot Wheels times Armando Arias, saludos desde la hermosa cd de Puebla México. 👋🤠🏎️🏁
Es una re-canción tocado por musicónes de verdad, es la mera musica de planear. Su guitarrôn tiene las cuerdónas pesadas asi es que su sonido es un regalón a tus oidos. Sorfeo de sorfeo, es musica sorfeóna!!!!!
I was lucky enough to have worked with Brian Carmen at Electro-Sound (Rickenbacker Guitars) in the mid-1970s. Brian was a warm friendly wonderful person. Great video showing them so young!
On this day in 1963 {May 18th} the Chantay's performed "Pipeline" on the ABC-TV Saturday-evening program 'The Lawrence Welk Show'... At the time "Pipeline" was at position #6 on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart, two weeks earlier it had peaked at #4 {for 2 weeks} and it spent sixteen weeks on the Top 100... "Pipeline" was the the California band's only Top 100 record... And on the day of their 'Welk' appearance "Pipeline' peaked at #11 {for 1 week} on Billboard's Hot R&B Singles chart... "Pipeline" was track one of side one on the group's album of the same name, one month later on June 30th, 1963 the album peaked at #26 {for 1 week} on Billboard's Top 150 Albums chart... Note: This is just an assumption, but could it be that Mr. Welk invited the group to be on his show because their were both Dot Records' label mates??? In addition, later in 1963 Lawrence Welk released an album titled 'Scarlett O'Hara', on September 29th, 1963 it peaked at #34 on the Top 150 Albums chart, and track six on side one of the album was Mr. Welk's covered version of "Pipeline" {and of course it's available on You Tube}... And two days before the Chantay's appearance on the show, Mr. Welk celebrated his 60th birthday...
I think that's an excellent observation, that they were on the same label. It would make total sense to get some TV exposure for the Chantays by having them on the Welk show. Same with having Welk cover each and every one of their hit.
I remember seeing this on TV in the ‘60s The song came out in 1962 or ‘63, and that was when I started playing guitar (‘62-I was 12. I tried to work out Pipeline on my nylon-string acoustic guitar-it didn’t sound right on the acoustic, and I wasn’t using a pick yet, so the tremolo-picked glissando didn’t sound good; I was doing it with my index fingernail, up and down as fast as I could get it. I finally got it to where I could play it at the right tempo. A couple of years later I got an electric guitar and started using a pick, but that glissando was harder for me with the pick! 60 years later I still can’t pick that glissando up to speed! On the occasions when I have to play that song, I use the second finger for the glissando. It still works, but I don’t get the same attack that I would playing it with a pick, and I use pick and fingers for virtually everything else. I was a (mostly) working pro for 55 years, so it didn’t really cause me any trouble. Lucky for me I’m not a mandolin player!
Dot Record obtained "Pipeline" by the Chantays (spelled "Chantay's" on the label) and released it nationally as Dot 16440. It rode the wave to #4, prompting Dot to re-release the Chantays' Downey 1002 album as Dot DLP-3516/25516. The Chantays were from Santa Ana, California, and included Bob Spickard on lead guitar, Brian Carmen on rhythm guitar, Rob Marshall on piano, Warren Walters on bass, and drummer Bob Welch. Spickard and Carmen had originally titled the song "44 Magnum," but renamed it after seeing a surfing film in 1962. After Dot obtained the single, they put on a PR press, and arranged for the group to appear on the Lawrence Welk television show. In 1966, the song became popular again, making top-10 in some cities like Chicago. Dot issued a second album by the Chantays that year called Two Sides of the Chantays, Dot DLP-3771/25771, which featured one instrumental side and one vocal side.
I learned to play the lead of this song from their insturction LP when I was in high school (65-66). It was very well done and learned it in about a month, after school. I was new player, and just bought a used Gibson SG Junior and a Gibson 30 watt amp, w/reverb.
Of course this music (SURF) has nothing to do with the funky genre which, with all due respect, those who perform it see success with binoculars. ua-cam.com/video/ldTTVrfP3iY/v-deo.html *FIREBALL💛MAIL* Surf-Rock guitar in the style of *Duane 💚Eddy*
Great iconic theme song from one of my all time favorite TV shows from the 1960's. Bobby Jo was my favorite Bradley sister. She had a perfect figure and spontaneous personality. What a pretty young girl who stole my heart. I had a tremendous crush on her as a young boy. She was a living doll baby! The perfect teenage crush she had it all in all the right places too. Natural Beauty.
Lawrence Welk was a Dot Records artist in the early 1960's... the Chantays were also. I think there must have been some real "arm-twisting" to get Mr. Welk's approval to allow the Chantays to perform on his show. Great clip... wish they were playing "live."
Welk did complain of facing pressures from ABC to be more hip (allegedly that's what led to the infamous performance of "One Toke Over the Line" several years later) and you can tell he's uncomfortable introducing these kids. They handled it as well as anyone could ask of them.
Showing instrumental groups on TV is a challenge. Here the boys dress sharp and do some moves. They are told to smile and be polite. Lawrence Welk's TV show had an older following. He played bubbly"champagne music". He did have some good guitar players in his orchestra--Buddy Merrill and Neil LeVang. I would drool at seeing a Jazzmaster guitar and Stratocaster guitar being played by Neil and Buddy on TV. When the Ventures played 'Walk Don't Run" on the Dick Clark show they were told to move around a bit so they would not look so wooden and jazz things up a bit. They looked nervous but it came out okay. By the way--the pastor at my Church told about giving his first sermon in a Catholic Church. He looks up to see Mr. Lawrence Welk and family in the congregation !. He skipped a beat and carried on !
Loved watching and the music was great, BUT as we notice in the video clip they are not playing acoustic guitars which would mean the guitars are electric. No sign of power cords running to the guitars or amplifiers in sight ..LOL
So shiny, clean cut, well mannered, who knew?😂. Love them forever for giving us the classic Pipeline; I would've taped it off radio on my reel-to-reel back then. Still great today❤
Me too . Still have the Sony reel to reel circa 1960 .
Amazing these young kids had no idea that their song would not only hit big, but remain a musical treasure for decades after. The orchestra in the back know they love what their hearing but they can't show it or there'll be repercussions
So true. 😊
I wonder what those musicians in the orchestra were thinking... It must been mind blowing seeing those kids rock the show away
@@robertturtle .....you can tell EXACTLY what the members of the orchestra think.....
if you watch closely - some of them are slightly bopping their heads,
tapping their feet and keeping time by moving their hands !
So good that even the Ventures covered it!
@@felixmadison5736 And also Stevie Ray Vaughan with Dick Dale did a great version of it.
After 60 years this song sounds GREAT!
AMEN! COWABUNGA!
TOTALLY!.
maybe because they played their record instead of plugging in...
Uhm… it does?
Sounds like some guys who just found out it’s not as easy to copy The Shadows as they thought…
Don’t know why, but I had always thought this song was by the VENTURES
This was road trip music, rolling down the highway on a warm summer night, hearing this on the radio....
My brother driving a 64 Chevy Impala, listening to this song on 8 Track, yep, brings back many memories.
Yeah. Days were so much longer back then...
Друг я из России, я тебя понимаю...
Driving down PCH (Pacific Coast Highway) on the California coast.
The sound of Fender Guitars, Fender Reverb and a Wurlitzer Electric Piano. Can't get much better than that.
You definitely can’t. I grew up in that era and played many of those songs.
Especially when they plugged in.
@@earthman3000 Well, they were plugged in at the recording studio, where the sound originated.
@@earthman3000 Tell that steaming pile Beyonce to plug in
Actually that was recorded on cheap off brand guitars/equipment. They were able to buy the nice Fender stuff after it became a hit
Love this song. It was big when I was growing up. Those good times are gone but not forgotten. Thanks guys!
One of the best Surf tunes ever.
👍🏻👈🏻🎶
And a well turned out group of talented young men performing it.
There is no better music than the music from the 50s 60s and 70s and never will be
Pipeline. Walk Don't Run. & Wipeout. Yeah. 2024 still listening.❤
Roscoe you got it man. The Ventures. Walk Don't Run was released and released again a few years later. Great instrumentals .Great times. The 60s
Don’t leave out the theme from “Hawaii 5-0”
While not an instrumental, Walk Right In - Sit Right Down ... was always a favorite of mine. 😊
Oh yeah!❤
To all of the critics on here. How many of you can say you had a hit song? With or without guitar cords being plugged in... They made a classic song.... period !
Amen!!
The choreography is good. When one has to slide one out and it has difficulty releasing, try the different body contortions to help ease out your meatloaf.
Looks are deceiving.
@@thomaspick4123 Yes, the choreography is truly outstanding. You'll never see a performer today risking injury from such advanced acrobatics. One has to wonder how they got that way so young.
@@bobstuckrath1805this Music 🎼 was from the early Surf 🏄♂️ sean
I remember in 1964-65 my brother followed the Ventures who covered this Song along with many other’s, my brother was real good guitar 🎸 player till he got drafted into the Army and served two years in a radar station in Alaska 1966-68 but never played guitar 🎸 again when he got discharged
At the time the Chantays and the Welk band were under contract with Dot Records. Although the Welk group was known for its traditional music on the show, featuring the Chantays may have been a way to bring in younger tv viewers. "Pipeline" has become an all-time classic surf instrumental.
Excellent observation my friend 👍
Dot Records was the number one selling label in the 1950s and was successful for years under the leadership of founder Randy Wood of Morrison, TN (later Gallatin). Chantays were great.
I've even played it with a 3 piece band. 2 guitars and drums.
And the ABC television network.
The Welk orchestra even recorded "Pipeline" on one of their albums featuring guitarist Neil Levang.
Whether it be the Chantays, The Ventures or the Shadows this is one of my favorite surf rock songs. What a great era for music 🎸
For me also Dick Dale & SRV.... Thank you.
Originally called "Liberty's Whip" from the movie. Luckily they changed the title and it's probably the top surf tune.
For me The Steelers are a great band with their versatile music!
🎸👍🏻👈🏻
If you like or are learning to like surf tunes, look up "Dick Dale and the Deltones". Dick is credited as being the first lead guitarist to do the "fret board pull" (that cool sound of decending notes). I met the man a couple of times when he lived in Newport Beach. Great guy, very talented, the world got a little dimmer when he passed.
I'm almost 69 years old, and the 1st band I played in we always played this tune before our intermission break. It just brought back a flood of memories🎼🎸🥁👌
Das sind noch echte Musiker
One of the great instrumentals ever.
Agreed WHOLEHEARTEDLY!!!
Surf rock...this is a forever classic...look how happy they are...😂😂😂
And so young.
AND so square. Trifecta.
It's an act dude. Show business does not make its performers happy. Gene Krupa says this: "Played at the club until 2am then rehearsed until 5am for a recording session that started at 9am. A gig like that can leave you with a swinging headache, that's why I always have BC powder handy." It's a lot of work but the performers make it look easy and fun, it's not. These guys have gambling debts, onerous contracts, don't make much, if any, money, they get ripped off by the business men and the record labels, they get divorced, they travel all the time, they live out of a suitcase for years on the road. It's an act.
Man, I was 14 years-old in 1963, and I remember this song playing over the radio like it was yesterday! All us teens had this 45.
I was in diapers but remember this song
@@tonynewburey8900 You've got a great memory!!!
1947 here
@@tonynewburey8900I heard it coming through my mother’s naval
@@paulauerbach2874 Do remember her dancing around the house to this song?
Classic hit. I remember listening to this on the radio when it came out. It still sounds great today.
This song is an instant reminisce of the early 60's....still a thrill to hear!
More than 140 bands played this song but the Chantays were the first.
'Cause they (Bob Spickard and Brian Carman) wrote the immortal surf tune.
Sounds like my wife.
Slow it down to half speed and you get, Riders on the Storm.
Double it and you get some Calypso music.
yeh I put the bass line on my looper and play both!
Kind of !
Wow ... What a spot...
Well, you get half of it. Some bass players claim the second bit makes it almost impossible to play. Our bass player said something rude and got it right first time, then he brought a 5 string and said "It's easier to play on a five".
They performed several times at The Rendezvous Ballroom in Balboa, CA. They had chops and could really play. The set lasted 2 hours and featured some great arrangements. For their closer, the sound man requested them to do "Pipeline" as a shuffle, and they did it, no sweat. I thought they were great musicians, and they influenced those of us just beginning to learn music. craig buhler, sax, Honk Band
The Rendezvous! Don’t forget Dick Dale and also the Righteous Brothers! In 1961 I bought my first car from Dale’s drummer. He had gotten drafted. It was a “54 Ford Victoria. Great first car. My friends and I had more than one encounter with the Brothers at the snack bar. Great memories! Dale drove a ’61 Cadillac Coupe De Ville, black with chrome reverse rims. First time we ever saw a luxury car with custom wheels! He lived about a mile from my house in Costa Mesa at the time. Several of my buddies’ parents were native South Coasters and had stories of the Rendesvouse from the ‘40s.
@@bfundom yes, sir, cant forget the master Dick Dale. If you're familiar with Newport Beach, then you no doubt know where Mr. Dale lived for so many years, last house facing the channel as you go to the wedge. Dick was always a master in my eyes. Nothing was better then him just grabbing a guitar and start solo playing. I got to jam with him once, I played drums (was a local band Costa Mesa, Newport back in the late 80's early 90's Darren and the O'Learys). And the Rendezvous Cafe (lol), and dont forget the Golden Bear in H.B.
I think this should be one of the greatest instrumentals and the Chantays in my opinion were ahead of their time as their showmanship and guitar and use of keyboard shows
Pipeline by the Chantays is a masterpiece. Other groups have played it. None have managed to find the magic of the Chantays. The subtle change in the middle by the piano makes all the difference.
I feel so lucky to be related to one of the band members. :)
Which one four yrs later
which one, that lady in the back snapping her fingers ? awsome!
@@jimicmore1895 I really the answer to your question....
Rad
@@jimicmore1895 Which one? Five years later…..
I had to watch the Lawrence Welk show every week with my grandfather. He saw this come on and threw his shoe at the television!
Maybe he had flashbacks of the civil war.
Funny. Lawrence Welk was one of the few musical shows we were allowed to watch. Frank Sinatra shows were not allowed until the three (4th child a baby) older kids could understand more about life. I liked them all. Mother's mother refused to let Frank Sinatra/Dean Martin music or TV shows in the house at all.
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No critic here. Just someone who LOVES this song, appreciate these young fellows use their talents to give us Pipeline. Never gets old
All these years later (60) & Pipeline still gets my vote for the coolest song ever. Our top local band played it at a sock hop in Jr High & it even drew more applause than when they played Wipeout.
If you feel like that, listen to Peace frog by The Doors
@@macwyll Yeah, 1 of many good 1's by the Doors. I miss the all the music from the early 60's through the early 70's; so many fantastic bands! The Moody Blues were my fave, but so many greats, especially the many bands out of CA, like Quicksilver Messenger Service & I always liked White Bird by It's A Beautiful Day + too many other groups to mention them all. *the closest music to Pipeline I can think of would be to blend these songs into one: Walk Don't Run, Samba Pa Ti, Pali Gap (a Hendrix instrumental) w/ a dash of Sleep Walk by Santo & Johnny.
I remember when this came out, Still sounds great in 2024!
I am 69 now and performed this last month at a fair in Huntington Beach California - Surf City. About 60 years ago I also performed it with my band. It never gets old, it's a great song everybody loves to play and listen to.
OUTSTANDING!
Wireless technology way back in 1963. Awesome.
Got a kick outta that also. "Guitar lip synching".
The drummer has a wireless bass drum foot pedal.
Miming to the studio recording was common on television shows back then.
But The Beatles were live on Sullivan. He insisted.
@@WallyBernhardt Amazing that there is such a thing as a wireless electric piano...
This song still gives me chills. Soo good!
Hello Barbara, How are you doing?
It's not a song it's instrumental
Penny, Crystal my Weekusk sisters, atleast Dad taught us music from all genre's.
Absolute surf classic. Remember it as a kid ... 😊
A classic surf instrumental. One of the best of all time.
It is so melodically reminiscent of the ocean...I could listen to this over and over...like watching the waves...
Thanks! That is one great comment! Well thought out, and that feeling fitted to the song itself!
These guys were REALLY ahead of their time - no wires anywhere!
LOL Telepathic sounds
This was a genre of music that ended with the beach-boys…. It’s a shame because it suffocated by the hippy psychedelic music that was ushered in by the drug culture of the mid 1960’s.
It ended because it was a musical dead-end - as fresh and singular as it was - the instrumentals all sounded remarkably similar to and derivative of one another, and so got boring and repetitious. The genre was obliterated by the Beatles, Motown and Dylan, not "hippie drug music"... @@Slo-ryde
@@Slo-ryde So, no surfers ever used drugs?
@@flamencoprof sure, but drug use in general was limited to a subculture before the mid 60’s, and was seen as taboo by the main culture…. But it entered the mainstream in the mid to late 60’s as part of the turmoil that flooded the society at that time.
Totally AWESOME!! Great "performance" and choreography on a great song!! They never missed a beat!
Truly amazing that they were able to play it exactly like their hit single!
Exactly! ;). @@davidedmundson8402
love these guys, I played this song many a times with my band in Lahaina in the surfin 60s..awesome Chantays and Pipeline
thanks for the great post
Love Pipeline, very popular song then and still popular today.
I like it. I remember my older sister and I would listen to it back in the day
great group from Santa Ana, Calif
Totally random but Mr. Warren Waters was my 5th grade sub in the early 90s. He subbed all year because our teacher was out on leave. He would play the guitar and sing for us all the time during breaks, including playing this song. So cool.
What school??
Did he have his guitar plugged in then???
Wendy Barnes it was a school in Orange County in SoCal!
Thomas Foss it was a long time ago, I believe he played acoustic
That’s awesome
who cares live or not, the clip is real, the song is immortal, it's the song I must played on piano, and millions of us surfers have danced to it moving like we're paddling for and riding on a wave, a Pipeline musical eternal endless summer wave
Sometimes a song is more than just a song.
Learned to swim about 40-50 miles south of Pipeline in 1956-7. Bellows Field. Was 4-5 yrs old. Remember it like it happened yesterday.
Edit: apologies for the rant….
Memories of listening to this on a transistor radio when I was nine. Timeless.
These songs bring back so many memories, when this song would come on the radio, instantly my Dad would start dancing, to see him do this no matter what was going, didn't matter it was Dance time, just friggin funny.
Am 67, back here in Sri Lanka this is big time. Clean cut and fabulous. Love them . Am still rocking. Believe am twenty.
I remember listening to this song on my 2.00 transistor radio when I was a kid. 2 bucks was a lot of money then. Refund on pop bottles was 2 cents, quarts were 5 cents. The good ol days!
How sad that young people back then had class, deference, courtesy, respect toward other people and themselves compared to now.
= Parents. Real parents. And spanking (which is necessary for under 8-year olds; you can't "reason" with them by talking like some dumb____ women today think).
I CANT BELIEVE THEY WERE ON LAWRENCE WELK!!!!!! THIS BLOWS MY MIND!!
A great timeless song!
It also captures the nature of that particular wave.
My late mom and my cusin Sharon who lives now around los angeles California used to bring their boyfriends over to my late aunt Dorothy and late uncle al house to watch the chantays perform that same instrumental on the lawrence welk show and dance with their boyfriends at their house in east, Dallas texas back in 1963 when they debut that instrumental on the lawrence welk show back then in 1963 in east Dallas, Texas. Thomas Keith Farris.
They were great, surf music rules!
Santa Ana High School .. Orange county finest surf music.....
One of the first singles I ever bought,what a production with a great ending
Always loved that instrumental.
I use this song as my ringtone on my cellphone…
Great also as a wake up track for your alarm, I keep in rotation with other gems like " Bustin Surfboards " by the Tornados.
Both Lawrence Welk and Santa Ana's homeboys The Chantays were labelmates on Dot Records in 1963. Thus the reason The Chantays were the ONLY rock band to EVER grace Mr. Welk's stage. I'm sure some A&R executive had to twist Mr. Welk's arm to let them appear. They are so formal and polite here it makes you wonder what happened to musicians with class and manners.
Brewer and Shipley performed their hit One Toke Over the Line (sweet Jesus) on Welk’s show. Well was told it was a modern spiritual.
IIRC he also had the Tornadoes on his show playing “Telstar”
Lawrence was in the neighborhood (sort of). At one time, he had roots in Fallbrook (No. San Diego County).
Look how handsome and sharp these young men look! I remember when the "surf sound" was the big thing.
Lawrence's band is sitting back there going, "What the f#&k?"
+newerafrican LOL
+newerafrican Lawrence who?
Hahaha actually its pretty interesting because this was sort of a new sound, a "pre-beatles" sort of edgier style of rock instrumental. You can tell half of the band is taking it in but look closely and some of them are grooving a bit or tapping their hands or lightly bopping their heads. The last year of "innocence" after 1964 the world got alot more grittier and rebellious. Oh if they only knew what the rest of the decade would sound like in music haha!
Maybe some were, but being musicians themselves I think just as many appreciated what a great, unique instrumental song this was undoubtedly having heard it somewhat before this appearance.
No, they were thinking "I can't believe I'm getting paid to watch these yo-yos shimmy. They better not call us late for lunch."
There was a sense of melodic beauty to be found in most instrumentals back then..
And also in your personality.
@@TheLarryBrown Never saw it that way before. Yes.
Can't believe these guys played on Lawrence Welk.
My Grandma must not have been babysutting me that night, because she always watched LW, and I loved this song, so I definitely would have remembered this performance.
Thanx so much for sharing this little treasure, and for the nostalgia trip!
Good times.
I miss them.
How do you like electric guitars not connected to any amps?
Thank You Chantays Cheers all round
Wow!! Bob Welch of Fleetwood Mac ,and later Ebony Eyes, Precious Love, Sentimental Lady, Played drums for the chantays!!
No its a different Bob Welch. Supposedly they did have Steve Kahn play drums---he's now a respected jazz and studio guitarist (Steely Dan) but they don't mention him anywhere on their website or their wiki article.
Loved this song!!
Driving in my car in SoCal when this song came out and knew I had to have it. Had never heard anything like it before.
They really got a great tone out of their invisible amps.
The choreography was supposed to distract you from noticing they were unplugged and you were listening to a recording. It was a shame so many groups had to fake play to their recordings for TV in those days.
Damn! I thought that they had wireless pickups!@@russhenson5506
I know right. They look so stupid…bwahaha
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This song's, like, TOTALLY tubular! 🥰🤗💖
They might have been more relaxed if they were plugged and could focus on playing versus acting. Retro classic regardless. They weren't high, angry or strung out. Landing that gig meant a lot to them.
+Evan Thompson I agree!
MICHAEL DAVIS Instrument syncing creates a bit of a disconnection - like lip syncing - between the performer and audience. TV producers and sponsors were interested only in pleasing advertisers by drawing larger audiences to view top acts. Why spend on bringing in tech support to go live when it wasn't necessary?
+MICHAEL DAVIS Me three!
Got it through Larry's Fender connection-all the bands back then attempted 'Steps'. Mmmm real tortoise shell pickguards-fools now think celluloid will spontaneously combust, or are too cheap to make them- even Fenders over priced 'Custom Shop' guitars have phony pickguards- Cowards...
seems , unplugged
One of the best instrumental songs of Rock. I can almost visualize the waves at Va. Beach crashing on the shore.
I love el. guitars without electricity. You Americans are so funny and intelligent...
The drummer forgot his bass drum pedal. Must be hard to stay focused when pretending to play. Also being young and having a band behind you of "real" Musicians.
Just because we invented electricity doesn't mean we're intelligent. Or actually it does.
These guys were truly great in their given moment. No one can do better.
We all can play that intro, but none like Brian Carman. His glissandos were rather unique. I'm sure none of those orchestra musicians wrote such an everlasting hit as Pipeline. Heads off to Chantays !!
"Glissandos". ! (reverb slide down the neck at intro). I called it "fishtailing". I didn't know how to explain it to my instrumental band !
No actually.....not all of us can play it.
Gigante, este es un Rolon Rolón Rolon, el grupazo The Chantays deja como legado a la humanidad este gran tema 60tero hasta los huesos, su coreografía increíble igual que ellos disfruté mucho la interpretación. Claro como auditorio. He dicho pero The Hot Wheels times Armando Arias, saludos desde la hermosa cd de Puebla México. 👋🤠🏎️🏁
Es una re-canción tocado por musicónes de verdad, es la mera musica de planear. Su guitarrôn tiene las cuerdónas pesadas asi es que su sonido es un regalón a tus oidos. Sorfeo de sorfeo, es musica sorfeóna!!!!!
Fking brilliant thanks for the memories I was born in 1963 Fking brilliant 👏 and never Fking die 👏 ❤️ 😀 💙
Same here. I was born in 1963 too. Love them.
I was lucky enough to have worked with Brian Carmen at Electro-Sound (Rickenbacker Guitars) in the mid-1970s. Brian was a warm friendly wonderful person. Great video showing them so young!
On this day in 1963 {May 18th} the Chantay's performed "Pipeline" on the ABC-TV Saturday-evening program 'The Lawrence Welk Show'...
At the time "Pipeline" was at position #6 on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart, two weeks earlier it had peaked at #4 {for 2 weeks} and it spent sixteen weeks on the Top 100...
"Pipeline" was the the California band's only Top 100 record...
And on the day of their 'Welk' appearance "Pipeline' peaked at #11 {for 1 week} on Billboard's Hot R&B Singles chart...
"Pipeline" was track one of side one on the group's album of the same name, one month later on June 30th, 1963 the album peaked at #26 {for 1 week} on Billboard's Top 150 Albums chart...
Note: This is just an assumption, but could it be that Mr. Welk invited the group to be on his show because their were both Dot Records' label mates???
In addition, later in 1963 Lawrence Welk released an album titled 'Scarlett O'Hara', on September 29th, 1963 it peaked at #34 on the Top 150 Albums chart, and track six on side one of the album was Mr. Welk's covered version of "Pipeline" {and of course it's available on You Tube}...
And two days before the Chantay's appearance on the show, Mr. Welk celebrated his 60th birthday...
I think that's an excellent observation, that they were on the same label. It would make total sense to get some TV exposure for the Chantays by having them on the Welk show. Same with having Welk cover each and every one of their hit.
I was in Jr. High when this came out. My sister's boyfriend brought the 45 over. I played it all the time! I'm 73!
I remember seeing this on TV in the ‘60s The song came out in 1962 or ‘63, and that was when I started playing guitar (‘62-I was 12. I tried to work out Pipeline on my nylon-string acoustic guitar-it didn’t sound right on the acoustic, and I wasn’t using a pick yet, so the tremolo-picked glissando didn’t sound good; I was doing it with my index fingernail, up and down as fast as I could get it. I finally got it to where I could play it at the right tempo. A couple of years later I got an electric guitar and started using a pick, but that glissando was harder for me with the pick! 60 years later I still can’t pick that glissando up to speed! On the occasions when I have to play that song, I use the second finger for the glissando. It still works, but I don’t get the same attack that I would playing it with a pick, and I use pick and fingers for virtually everything else. I was a (mostly) working pro for 55 years, so it didn’t really cause me any trouble. Lucky for me I’m not a mandolin player!
Now that thar is some right fancy foot work!
Dad dancin began with these guys
I have listened to her a lot on Siriusxm Missouri gal I believe Always a pleasure
Dot Record obtained "Pipeline" by the Chantays (spelled "Chantay's" on the label) and released it nationally as Dot 16440. It rode the wave to #4, prompting Dot to re-release the Chantays' Downey 1002 album as Dot DLP-3516/25516. The Chantays were from Santa Ana, California, and included Bob Spickard on lead guitar, Brian Carmen on rhythm guitar, Rob Marshall on piano, Warren Walters on bass, and drummer Bob Welch. Spickard and Carmen had originally titled the song "44 Magnum," but renamed it after seeing a surfing film in 1962. After Dot obtained the single, they put on a PR press, and arranged for the group to appear on the Lawrence Welk television show. In 1966, the song became popular again, making top-10 in some cities like Chicago. Dot issued a second album by the Chantays that year called Two Sides of the Chantays, Dot DLP-3771/25771, which featured one instrumental side and one vocal side.
I learned to play the lead of this song from their insturction LP when I was in high school (65-66). It was very well done and learned it in about a month, after school. I was new player, and just bought a used Gibson SG Junior and a Gibson 30 watt amp, w/reverb.
Of course you still have the Gibson amp.
Look at those Fenders~!!! Look at those moves~!!! First song I learned on guitar.
What a gem of musical history ,thank you for posting this
As Lawrence Welk would say: "Play that funky music white boy"
LOL.
correction...."Play that-ah funky music, ah whiteboy!
Of course this music (SURF) has nothing to do with the funky genre which, with all due respect, those who perform it see success with binoculars. ua-cam.com/video/ldTTVrfP3iY/v-deo.html *FIREBALL💛MAIL* Surf-Rock guitar in the style of *Duane 💚Eddy*
And now we will hear da lovely Lennon Sisters sing "I Can't Get No Satisfaction" 😁😁😁
Lawrence never said that. He said "and ah one and ah two and ah Pipeline out da wazoo."
Great iconic theme song from one of my all time favorite TV shows from the 1960's. Bobby Jo was my favorite Bradley sister. She had a perfect figure and spontaneous personality. What a pretty young girl who stole my heart. I had a tremendous crush on her as a young boy. She was a living doll baby! The perfect teenage crush she had it all in all the right places too. Natural Beauty.
Lawrence Welk was a Dot Records artist in the early 1960's... the Chantays were also. I think there must have been some real "arm-twisting" to get Mr. Welk's approval to allow the Chantays to perform on his show. Great clip... wish they were playing "live."
+Fred Hoyt your right, or maybe a gun held up to Lawrence Welk's heads. This was a show only grown ups watch.
Welk did complain of facing pressures from ABC to be more hip (allegedly that's what led to the infamous performance of "One Toke Over the Line" several years later) and you can tell he's uncomfortable introducing these kids. They handled it as well as anyone could ask of them.
Nothing wrong with "staying in your lane"
So good they didn’t even need amplifiers! 🎸
or a bass drum pedal
Or any power to the Wurlitzer e-piano.
They just mimed the original recording.
@@prycerobertson4695Thanks Captain Obvious.
Tune in next week when The Surfaris perform Wipe Out on "Sing Along With Mitch" 😁😁😁
One of the greatest songs of all time
Brilliant stuff, we so enjoyed this fabulous number! Thank you.
Showing instrumental groups on TV is a challenge. Here the boys dress sharp and do some moves. They are told to smile and be polite. Lawrence Welk's TV show had an older following. He played bubbly"champagne music". He did have some good guitar players in his orchestra--Buddy Merrill and Neil LeVang. I would drool at seeing a Jazzmaster guitar and Stratocaster guitar being played by Neil and Buddy on TV. When the Ventures played 'Walk Don't Run" on the Dick Clark show they were told to move around a bit so they would not look so wooden and jazz things up a bit. They looked nervous but it came out okay. By the way--the pastor at my Church told about giving his first sermon in a Catholic Church. He looks up to see Mr. Lawrence Welk and family in the congregation !. He skipped a beat and carried on !
Surfing instrumental to perfection!
This was one of the songs my brother and I played on guitar in volunteer shows and church venues all over NJ back in the late 60's
In 2024 this shit still rocks
.......give some credit to Lawrence Welk for having the vision to put them on his show !
Just heard a remake on The Sopranos. This and Telstar were my favorites.
ur right but at 75yrs old now IVE LOST THE MOVES lol
Love that dad dancin by keyboard player ! 😄😄😄😄😄
The song actually conveys the feeling of surfing Pipeline on a small day. Loved the time when it debuted and still love it today. Still surfing too!
What's a "small day?"
Loved watching and the music was great, BUT as we notice in the video clip they are not playing acoustic guitars which would mean the guitars are electric. No sign of power cords running to the guitars or amplifiers in sight ..LOL
Such great Wonderful Memories 👍 🎶🎵🎶🎼💕❤️💕😅😅