Soundtrack of My Misspent Youth - I

This is the first part of a chronicle of my high school rock band.

Origins

                 Laurie,                Me,                    Tom,                       Andy

In 1963, three of my buddies and I thought it might be cool to form a band.

This week I'll be featuring the songs that “The Others” (my old junior/senior high school rock band) used to play. There aren’t any videos of us, of course, so I’ll have links to various covers/artists of the tunes in this list, some of which may surprise you.

Surf, Hot Rod, and other kinds of primitive instrumental music were popular at the time so, seeing that we didn't actually own any microphones or a PA, we started with those:

Wipe Out
Point Panic
Similau
Diamond Head
Pipeline
Miserlou

All of the above are Surf Classics, still often played, even by notable performers.
There were some non-surf tunes as well:

Walk Don’t Run (Written by jazz great Johnny Smith)
Out Of Limits (a cheesy TV show theme!)

After a few months (and after we got a microphone), we added some vocals (but no love songs yet!):

Surfer Joe - The flip side of Wipeout
A-Bone - great Hot Rod song, an 80s New York punk band took this song for its name.
Surfin’ Bird (of course!)

The next three songs were covers of songs by The Kingsmen, a Portland, Washington, based bar band which put out several albums full of rock classics; they were extremely influential source of material for garage bands:

Louie Louie
Long Tall Texan
Long Green

More of this nostalgic nonsense tomorrow...