The Sandals - The Endless Summer ("Ultaviolet" Violet Viny Editionl)

Real Gone Music

£27.52

Format: Vinyl
Catalogue No.: RLGM12411PMI
Barcode: 848064012412
Release Date: 16th July 2021
Genre: ROCK/POP

• In 1964, The Sandals Were Still The Sandells with a Great but Obscure Surf Music Album Called Scrambler! to Their Credit
• But Then They Hooked Up with Surfing Documentary Maker Bruce Brown
• Brown Had the Idea of Following Surfers Around the World as They Chased the Summer Sun in Search of the Perfect Wave
• The Sandells Pitched Brown on Including a Song of Theirs in the Movie but Brown Ended Up Using Most of the Album
• The Blend of Easygoing Surf Instrumentals with Brown’s Spectacular Footage Proved to Be Pure Magic
• The Film The Endless Summer Ran for a Full Year in NYC and Proved Instrumental in Spreading Surf Culture Worldwide
• The Sandells Re-Named Themselves The Sandals, Re-Named Their Album The Endless Summer, and Became Surf Music Legends
• Now, Real Gone Music Is Re-Issuing The Endless Summer on Vinyl for the First Time Domestically
• Features the Smash “Theme from Endless Summer”
• “Ultraviolet” Vinyl Pressing
• Great Way to Kick Off the Summer!

You never know when the magic is going to happen. Witness the saga of The Sandals’ 1966 album The Endless Summer. The San
Clemente, CA-based surf group The Sandells had released their album Scrambler! on the World Pacific label in 1964 to little notice when they met up with surf documentary maker Bruce Brown. Brown had already made five surf-oriented movies, also largely ignored, but had hit upon an intriguing idea for his next one: tracking two surfers across the world as they followed the Summer sun from the Northern Hemisphere to the Southern Hemisphere and back in search of the perfect wave. Brown was just beginning to edit his footage when The Sandells played him tunes from Scrambler!, hoping to sell him a song for the film. Brown was so smitten by the music that he used a number of tunes from Scrambler!, including the classic “Theme from Endless Summer,” which, even though it was recorded two years earlier,
became the film’s musical calling card. The blend of the easygoing surf instrumentals with Brown’s spectacular footage proved to be pure gold: the movie The Endless Summer ran in New York for a full year and was instrumental (no pun intended) in spreading surf culture worldwide. As for The Sandells, they changed their name to The Sandals, and re-released Scrambler! as The Endless Summer in 1966, ensuring that the album took its rightful place as one of the greatest surf instrumental records of all time. Our Real Gone reissue comes in “ultraviolet” vinyl with the original artwork…first-ever domestic reissue, sunscreen not included!

SIDE ONE
1. Scrambler
2. 6-Pac
3. Drifting
4. Theme from Endless Summer
5. Good Greeves
6. Decoy
SIDE TWO
1. Out Front
2. Wild as the Sea
3. Trailing
4. Jet Black
5. Lonely Road
6. TR-6