Dick Dale can claim to have coined the term 'Surf Music'. He had recorded records before 'Let's Go Tripping' but with little success. For 'Let's Go Tripping' he ditched all vocal but the title shouted at the start of the record and recorded it all as instrumental. Dale owed a lot to other guitar slingers such as Link Wray but with 'Tripping' Dale had tapped into something not heard before, something he called 'Surf Music'. The record proved popular and even influenced a boom in the whole surf culture, with young people making for the beaches of California in their droves.
Dale's tenure as King of Surf Music was short lived as young upstarts The Beach Boys were soon to release their own surf records such as 'Surfin' USA and Let's Go Surfin', but Dale always said that surf music does not have lyrics and he continued to play his own original 'Surf Music' well into the 90s.
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