SURFIN’ BIRD
I have never gotten a copy of the hit 45 “Surfin’ Bird” (or their first album Surfin’ Bird either for that matter), but I did purchase a copy of the Trashmen’s second single “Bird Dance Beat” at the time (it reached #30 on the singles charts); the flip side was a car song, “A-Bone” (the only thing surf bands love as much as surfing is cars).
They say that the Trashmen only released the one album Surfin’ Bird, although I have a copy of a second album Bird Dance Beat that sure looks it could have been a follow-up album (though my copy was obviously much newer than the mid-1960’s), along with The Great Lost Trashmen Album. Sundazed Records even put out a 4-CD box set in 1998 called Bird Call!: The Twin City Stomp of the Trashmen.
(May 2012)
