THE CHANTAYS Pipeline Tv 1963

Chantays performing their hit song PIPELINE in '63

[@floydpattersonii4996]

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

[@rw8733]

So true. 😊

[@robertturtle]

I wonder what those musicians in the orchestra were thinking... It must been mind blowing seeing those kids rock the show away

[@urbanurchin5930]

@@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 !

[@felixmadison5736]

So good that even the Ventures covered it!

[@wrenchgearsadventures]

@@felixmadison5736 And also Stevie Ray Vaughan with Dick Dale did a great version of it.

[@johnLA1961]

After 60 years this song sounds GREAT!

[@BBQDad463]

AMEN! COWABUNGA!

[@stuartgarfatth1448]

TOTALLY!.

[@bobs5596]

maybe because they played their record instead of plugging in...

[@AllenKerr]

Uhm… it does? Sounds like some guys who just found out it’s not as easy to copy The Shadows as they thought…

[@michaelallee]

Don’t know why, but I had always thought this song was by the VENTURES

[@pgh45rpms]

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.

[@jackshittle]

Excellent observation my friend 👍

[@bruceatnip986]

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.

[@lonnysimmons1889]

I've even played it with a 3 piece band. 2 guitars and drums.

[@dimitriberozny3729]

And the ABC television network.

[@pgh45rpms]

The Welk orchestra even recorded "Pipeline" on one of their albums featuring guitarist Neil Levang.

[@johnsalas379]

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 !

[@chazhernandez6933]

Amen!!

[@thomaspick4123]

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.

[@tomb8564]

Looks are deceiving.

[@bobstuckrath1805]

@@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.

[@horseyhorselips3501]

@@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

[@JB19504]

The sound of Fender Guitars, Fender Reverb and a Wurlitzer Electric Piano. Can't get much better than that.

[@kelalamusic9258]

You definitely can’t. I grew up in that era and played many of those songs.

[@earthman3000]

Especially when they plugged in.

[@JB19504]

@@earthman3000 Well, they were plugged in at the recording studio, where the sound originated.

[@pH7screwtube]

@@earthman3000 Tell that steaming pile Beyonce to plug in

[@chihuahuasurfers]

Actually that was recorded on cheap off brand guitars/equipment. They were able to buy the nice Fender stuff after it became a hit

[@michaelburke5907]

This was road trip music, rolling down the highway on a warm summer night, hearing this on the radio....

[@JamesSchmidt-by3wu]

My brother driving a 64 Chevy Impala, listening to this song on 8 Track, yep, brings back many memories.

[@JJMMWGDuPree]

Yeah. Days were so much longer back then...

[@ВладимирКу-л8л]

Друг я из России, я тебя понимаю...

[@paulleckner8235]

Driving down PCH (Pacific Coast Highway) on the California coast.

[@andykrahling6057]

Still sounds great today, 2025. Wow.

[@TomWilhelm-zn4sj]

Never goes out of style

[@HGANGHONY]

One of the best Surf tunes ever.

[@Harp_and_Guitar_Moving_Forward]

👍🏻👈🏻🎶

[@rw8733]

And a well turned out group of talented young men performing it.

[@wendyobrien7633]

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❤

[@duelenigma7732]

Me too . Still have the Sony reel to reel circa 1960 .

[@DianaBeurman-lucero]

Yeah, not faces and necks covered in tatoos.

[@davidkastin4240]

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 🎸

[@michaellittlewood3032]

For me also Dick Dale & SRV.... Thank you.

[@harvey1954]

Originally called "Liberty's Whip" from the movie. Luckily they changed the title and it's probably the top surf tune.

[@Justusosaa]

For me The Steelers are a great band with their versatile music!

[@Harp_and_Guitar_Moving_Forward]

🎸👍🏻👈🏻

[@kirkedwards365]

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.

[@noelsolo61]

One of the great instrumentals ever.

[@chatman2a]

Agreed WHOLEHEARTEDLY!!!

[@Craig-c6f]

Booker T. And the MG's. Green Onions, is also worth a listen.

[@roscoearbuckle2]

Pipeline. Walk Don't Run. & Wipeout. Yeah. 2024 still listening.❤

[@Mike-ws7bc]

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

[@chatman2a]

Don’t leave out the theme from “Hawaii 5-0”

[@jogallagher3680]

While not an instrumental, Walk Right In - Sit Right Down ... was always a favorite of mine. 😊

[@lucindajennings148]

Oh yeah!❤

[@FredSmith-s5t]

Love this song. It was big when I was growing up. Those good times are gone but not forgotten. Thanks guys!

[@michaelvarble4392]

There is no better music than the music from the 50s 60s and 70s and never will be

[@leafforever9174]

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🎼🎸🥁👌

[@carolasteinhoff7604]

Das sind noch echte Musiker

[@cheryl9389]

Surf rock...this is a forever classic...look how happy they are...😂😂😂

[@beanz4806]

And so young.

[@OnePost909]

AND so square. Trifecta.

[@TheLarryBrown]

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.

[@DianaBeurman-lucero]

When men were men!

[@Amen.22]

More than 140 bands played this song but the Chantays were the first.

[@beanz4806]

'Cause they (Bob Spickard and Brian Carman) wrote the immortal surf tune.

[@TheLarryBrown]

Sounds like my wife.

[@james-o5p2n]

As a surfer in the 60s, from Southern CA....this song just brings memories of riding the waves........

[@mikelocascio8695]

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!

[@timhinchcliffe5372]

Maybe he had flashbacks of the civil war.

[@barbarajordan3145]

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.

[@debrafischer807]

😄

[@TwylaTurner-l9y]

😂😂😂😂

[@felixmadison5736]

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.

[@tonynewburey8900]

I was in diapers but remember this song

[@felixmadison5736]

@@tonynewburey8900 You've got a great memory!!!

[@garylester8621]

1947 here

[@paulauerbach2874]

@@tonynewburey8900I heard it coming through my mother’s naval

[@felixmadison5736]

@@paulauerbach2874 Do remember her dancing around the house to this song?

[@CraigBuhlerMusic]

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

[@bfundom]

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.

[@kirkedwards365]

@@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.

[@godfreydaniel6278]

These guys were REALLY ahead of their time - no wires anywhere!

[@richardsmith4187]

LOL Telepathic sounds

[@Slo-ryde]

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.

[@godfreydaniel6278]

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]

@@Slo-ryde So, no surfers ever used drugs?

[@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.

[@09kittykatz09]

This song is an instant reminisce of the early 60's....still a thrill to hear!

[@jay0kew]

Well groomed appearance, well dressed, well mannered and polite (0:10 "thank you Mr. Welk) ... What has happened since then?

[@OverlandOne]

Classic hit. I remember listening to this on the radio when it came out. It still sounds great today.

[@williamtell8253]

Even after more than sixty years it's still a tremendous instrumental hit. Awesome!

[@angelsurfstyle]

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

[@christopherhelms7290]

Sometimes a song is more than just a song.

[@dr.OgataSerizawa]

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….

[@barbaraerickson9134]

This song still gives me chills. Soo good!

[@Kelly-nm4kw]

Hello Barbara, How are you doing?

[@Roy-le5cp]

It's not a song it's instrumental

[@rasputin4u1]

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

[@StratBurst92]

A classic surf instrumental. One of the best of all time.

[@jimgordon3206]

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.

[@reddevil9554]

Slow it down to half speed and you get, Riders on the Storm.

[@copypaste3526]

Double it and you get some Calypso music.

[@eggsmann594]

yeh I put the bass line on my looper and play both!

[@denp54z]

Kind of !

[@retro1937]

Wow ... What a spot...

[@JJMMWGDuPree]

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".

[@jogallagher3680]

Absolute surf classic. Remember it as a kid ... 😊

[@Dominicj2000]

I feel so lucky to be related to one of the band members. :)

[@jimicmore1895]

Which one four yrs later

[@eggsmann594]

which one, that lady in the back snapping her fingers ? awsome!

[@destinepunihaole2417]

@@jimicmore1895 I really the answer to your question....

[@Davepacheco1986]

Rad

[@chatman2a]

@@jimicmore1895 Which one? Five years later…..

[@ruthe.langley4013]

I remember when this came out, Still sounds great in 2024!

[@em3028]

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.

[@wendybarnes4930]

What school??

[@thomasfoss9963]

Did he have his guitar plugged in then???

[@em3028]

Wendy Barnes it was a school in Orange County in SoCal!

[@em3028]

Thomas Foss it was a long time ago, I believe he played acoustic

[@mattthebassboy]

That’s awesome

[@mtnman6557]

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]

If you feel like that, listen to Peace frog by The Doors

[@briseboy]

Mysteriously, the phrases and flow, the intensities of the piece REALLY do evoke the experience of paddling into and surfing waves there. Having days , weeks and more ,from alone, with brother and maybe one other, to the periodic weekend crowds, there, when Ehukai and Pipeline were never crowded, this music, very likely evoked by Spikard, Welch & othermembers in Orange county through watching the early surf movies of the reef, in their high school era. It still blows my mind how the music takes one to the hundreds of hours, days, years, of droping in, living in the water's roaring, being spit out, hosed out, by the solid spray on the back, as the ride winds down like the decrescendo of the musicinto the fast drumming heartbeat. (I just looked at a video with so many bodies, looking like fleas or flies at the break. Thinking "it's six inches deeper" which means acre-feet more water, and so, tamer. Other fast breaks have been found and surfed, some in cold water latitudes, and surfing commercialized and damaged by turning the art into competitive zero-sum meaningless spectator "thrills." As you may or may not see, almost no isolated experience of the beauty of harmonizing with nature, exists now. - the first time i paddled out there, it was alone. He large wave surfing enthralling others requires different skills, and are really not at all as compelling as the fast , agility of participating in beauty in that place where morning's black waves transform into emerald mid-day, afternoon's soft blues, watching a miscalculating friend being pitched out with lip onto the flat water before it, to be sucked over the falls about 3 times, board snapped more easily than a chip under elephant foot. It IS as the song without words.

[@donkloos9078]

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.

[@UnexpectedBooks]

OUTSTANDING!

[@sundayweekusk-zp2yt]

Penny, Crystal my Weekusk sisters, atleast Dad taught us music from all genre's.

[@donbrown1091]

A great timeless song!

[@RalphIrvine]

It also captures the nature of that particular wave.

[@welchshahan714]

I CANT BELIEVE THEY WERE ON LAWRENCE WELK!!!!!! THIS BLOWS MY MIND!!

[@pigjubby1]

Wireless technology way back in 1963. Awesome.

[@barryf5479]

Got a kick outta that also. "Guitar lip synching".

[@WallyBernhardt]

The drummer has a wireless bass drum foot pedal.

[@jeffjohnson9911]

Miming to the studio recording was common on television shows back then.

[@ClipontheEar]

But The Beatles were live on Sullivan. He insisted.

[@alanblanes2876]

@@WallyBernhardt Amazing that there is such a thing as a wireless electric piano...

[@wendybarnes4930]

They were great, surf music rules!

[@jeffreybarker4193]

Love Pipeline, very popular song then and still popular today.

[@cheryl9389]

It is so melodically reminiscent of the ocean...I could listen to this over and over...like watching the waves...

[@jmartin9785]

Thanks! That is one great comment! Well thought out, and that feeling fitted to the song itself!

[@VernMoline]

great group from Santa Ana, Calif

[@genataylor460]

Always loved that instrumental.

[@johnschultz9023]

How sad that young people back then had class, deference, courtesy, respect toward other people and themselves compared to now.

[@davidb2206]

= 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).

[@MrDabs-je9bm]

Santa Ana High School .. Orange county finest surf music.....

[@gulliver3644]

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!

[@FredWilliamson-kt6xe]

I'm reminded of riders of the storm which came later. I always appreciated hearing this tune. Its a treasure.

[@anniefannycharles9951]

Loved this song!!

[@philbyd]

What a gem of musical history ,thank you for posting this

[@shoestring1964]

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.

[@keithfarris7034]

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.

[@ImCarolB]

Look how handsome and sharp these young men look! I remember when the "surf sound" was the big thing.

[@jfinester]

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!

[@ansias77]

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 !!

[@weinerschnitzelrock1]

"Glissandos". ! (reverb slide down the neck at intro). I called it "fishtailing". I didn't know how to explain it to my instrumental band !

[@TheLarryBrown]

No actually.....not all of us can play it.

[@liastalard40]

Thank You Chantays Cheers all round

[@genez429]

There was a sense of melodic beauty to be found in most instrumentals back then..

[@TheLarryBrown]

And also in your personality.

[@genez429]

@@TheLarryBrown Never saw it that way before. Yes.

[@newerafrican]

Totally AWESOME!! Great "performance" and choreography on a great song!! They never missed a beat!

[@davidedmundson8402]

Truly amazing that they were able to play it exactly like their hit single!

[@newerafrican]

Exactly! ;). @@davidedmundson8402

[@senorxrey6429]

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.

[@tedecker3792]

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.

[@brucerubin7308]

IIRC he also had the Tornadoes on his show playing “Telstar”

[@barryf5479]

Lawrence was in the neighborhood (sort of). At one time, he had roots in Fallbrook (No. San Diego County).

[@MrSteve280]

Memories of listening to this on a transistor radio when I was nine. Timeless.

[@sauquoit13456]

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...

[@GoldwaterB]

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.

[@danielkenney5922]

Wow!! Bob Welch of Fleetwood Mac ,and later Ebony Eyes, Precious Love, Sentimental Lady, Played drums for the chantays!!

[@gbv23]

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.

[@TrixieRacer-]

One of the best instrumentals ever! Still enjoyed the world over!❤

[@jeromson1]

You will never beat a classic…always will be with us.

[@chrissylvester-c7r]

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!

[@andrewchippendale2820]

Fking brilliant thanks for the memories I was born in 1963 Fking brilliant 👏 and never Fking die 👏 ❤️ 😀 💙

[@richardvannatter3113]

Same here. I was born in 1963 too. Love them.

[@waynehughes9405]

One of the best instrumental songs of Rock. I can almost visualize the waves at Va. Beach crashing on the shore.

[@Tyrone1957]

Am 67, back here in Sri Lanka this is big time. Clean cut and fabulous. Love them . Am still rocking. Believe am twenty.

[@HHH-yy3cy]

I love el. guitars without electricity. You Americans are so funny and intelligent...

[@theblade9024]

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.

[@TheLarryBrown]

Just because we invented electricity doesn't mean we're intelligent. Or actually it does.

[@frendoman4327]

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

[@catholiccowboy8545]

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.

[@stephenellis2866]

One of the first singles I ever bought,what a production with a great ending

[@michaelginesi6432]

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.

[@lawdog490]

I use this song as my ringtone on my cellphone…

[@RickW-HGWT]

Great also as a wake up track for your alarm, I keep in rotation with other gems like " Bustin Surfboards " by the Tornados.

[@TheRoyalBavarian]

These guys were truly great in their given moment. No one can do better.

[@echoecho3108]

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.

[@johnsummerhill8323]

How do you like electric guitars not connected to any amps?

[@DeloresLandeis-kx5fu]

No critic here. Just someone who LOVES this song, appreciate these young fellows use their talents to give us Pipeline. Never gets old

[@spyderlogan4992]

Look at those Fenders~!!! Look at those moves~!!! First song I learned on guitar.

[@JohnKeller-fq8hn]

I like it. I remember my older sister and I would listen to it back in the day

[@dlsmpsn]

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.

[@TheLarryBrown]

Of course you still have the Gibson amp.

[@markpav9906]

Beautiful . i rember them as a kid oh and the shadows

[@ThatCoryKid]

In 2024 this shit still rocks

[@urbanurchin5930]

.......give some credit to Lawrence Welk for having the vision to put them on his show !

[@julieehrlich9925]

Just heard a remake on The Sopranos. This and Telstar were my favorites.

[@thomasfisher5742]

ur right but at 75yrs old now IVE LOST THE MOVES lol

[@hoytfred]

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."

[@ExAirboune]

+Fred Hoyt your right, or maybe a gun held up to Lawrence Welk's heads. This was a show only grown ups watch.

[@fullervisiondotnet]

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.

[@pH7screwtube]

Nothing wrong with "staying in your lane"

[@oldguy9078]

Back in the day groups didn't preform live on tv like the Chantays are doing here, but the did play live in the studio and it became the hit it was.

[@RaveDave871]

Dad dancin began with these guys

[@916rxyrox]

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!

[@bglions2001]

i can remember as a kid hearing this on the am radio as we drove through santa fe new mexico

[@TheLarryBrown]

What was playing when you passed through Albuquerque?

[@billclisham8668]

Now that thar is some right fancy foot work!

[@timhinchcliffe5372]

Would of loved to hear them play it live, great song.

[@benyessin6709]

Never knew the Chantays played Lawrence Welk many thanks Scott.

[@commodore665]

Love the foot work , a'la the Shadows

[@dougalexander7204]

I’m 70 and that takes me back to days of playing at the pool and doing wheelies on my stingray bike.

[@DRIVEIN101]

Tune in next week when The Surfaris perform Wipe Out on "Sing Along With Mitch" 😁😁😁

[@marktemsic485]

❤Love it❤️ Thanks for posting..👍

[@williamthurmond4940]

They really got a great tone out of their invisible amps.

[@russhenson5506]

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.

[@mikedinsmore7440]

Damn! I thought that they had wireless pickups!@@russhenson5506

[@BustedSills]

I know right. They look so stupid…bwahaha

[@Harp_and_Guitar_Moving_Forward]

👎👈🏼🎶

[@Charlesheusel62]

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.