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
@@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 !
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❤
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🎼🎸🥁👌
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.
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.
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 !
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.
@@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.
@@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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
@@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.
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".
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!
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.
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.
= 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).
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.
Gigante, este es un Rolon Rolón Rolon, el grupazo The Chantays deja como legado a la humanidad este gran tema 60tero hasta los huesos, su coreografía increíble igual que ellos disfruté mucho la interpretación. Claro como auditorio. He dicho pero The Hot Wheels times Armando Arias, saludos desde la hermosa cd de Puebla México. 👋🤠🏎️🏁
Es una re-canción tocado por musicónes de verdad, es la mera musica de planear. Su guitarrôn tiene las cuerdónas pesadas asi es que su sonido es un regalón a tus oidos. Sorfeo de sorfeo, es musica sorfeóna!!!!!
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.
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 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.
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!
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
Boy what a find on TH-cam, I was a 1964 Grad from Santa Ana High school and they regularly Played at our high school Dances and the rendezvous ballroom Along with the Rythum Rockers another local band coed up the richious brothers first appearance..
Absolutely great! What a treasure of memories this video brings back to this older folk. Although I love the Ventures rendition, this original version is it and is so special. It warrants high praise IMHO as they don't make them like this anymore.
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.
I grew up watching Lawrence Welk. Saturday evenings we as a family sat down and watched it together. Dad would peel oranges for us. What a great show and time we had!
9/27/24 Wow! Lawrence Welk, no less! 🤣😂 Who knew? One of the greatest surf songs & instrumentals of all time. Have loved this since the 60s. THANKS FOR SHARING THIS. (I no recently looked for this song & this video never came up my feed. Finding this was a real mirace!)
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...
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.
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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
So true. 😊
I wonder what those musicians in the orchestra were thinking... It must been mind blowing seeing those kids rock the show away
@@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 !
So good that even the Ventures covered it!
@@felixmadison5736 And also Stevie Ray Vaughan with Dick Dale did a great version of it.
Love this song. It was big when I was growing up. Those good times are gone but not forgotten. Thanks guys!
The sound of Fender Guitars, Fender Reverb and a Wurlitzer Electric Piano. Can't get much better than that.
You definitely can’t. I grew up in that era and played many of those songs.
Especially when they plugged in.
@@earthman3000 Well, they were plugged in at the recording studio, where the sound originated.
@@earthman3000 Tell that steaming pile Beyonce to plug in
Actually that was recorded on cheap off brand guitars/equipment. They were able to buy the nice Fender stuff after it became a hit
This was road trip music, rolling down the highway on a warm summer night, hearing this on the radio....
My brother driving a 64 Chevy Impala, listening to this song on 8 Track, yep, brings back many memories.
Yeah. Days were so much longer back then...
Друг я из России, я тебя понимаю...
After 60 years this song sounds GREAT!
AMEN! COWABUNGA!
TOTALLY!.
maybe because they played their record instead of plugging in...
Uhm… it does?
Sounds like some guys who just found out it’s not as easy to copy The Shadows as they thought…
Don’t know why, but I had always thought this song was by the VENTURES
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❤
Pipeline. Walk Don't Run. & Wipeout. Yeah. 2024 still listening.❤
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
Don’t leave out the theme from “Hawaii 5-0”
While not an instrumental, Walk Right In - Sit Right Down ... was always a favorite of mine. 😊
There is no better music than the music from the 50s 60s and 70s and never will be
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🎼🎸🥁👌
Das sind noch echte Musiker
One of the best Surf tunes ever.
👍🏻👈🏻🎶
And a well turned out group of talented young men performing it.
One of the great instrumentals ever.
Agreed WHOLEHEARTEDLY!!!
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.
Excellent observation my friend 👍
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.
I've even played it with a 3 piece band. 2 guitars and drums.
And the ABC television network.
The Welk orchestra even recorded "Pipeline" on one of their albums featuring guitarist Neil Levang.
Classic hit. I remember listening to this on the radio when it came out. It still sounds great today.
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 !
Amen!!
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.
Looks are deceiving.
@@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.
@@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
Absolute surf classic. Remember it as a kid ... 😊
This song is an instant reminisce of the early 60's....still a thrill to hear!
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 🎸
For me also Dick Dale & SRV.... Thank you.
Originally called "Liberty's Whip" from the movie. Luckily they changed the title and it's probably the top surf tune.
For me The Steelers are a great band with their versatile music!
🎸👍🏻👈🏻
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.
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.
I was in diapers but remember this song
@@tonynewburey8900 You've got a great memory!!!
1947 here
@@tonynewburey8900I heard it coming through my mother’s naval
@@paulauerbach2874 Do remember her dancing around the house to this song?
I remember when this came out, Still sounds great in 2024!
Surf rock...this is a forever classic...look how happy they are...😂😂😂
And so young.
AND so square. Trifecta.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Love Pipeline, very popular song then and still popular today.
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
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.
OUTSTANDING!
This song still gives me chills. Soo good!
Hello Barbara, How are you doing?
It's not a song it's instrumental
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
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.
@@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.
great group from Santa Ana, Calif
Slow it down to half speed and you get, Riders on the Storm.
Double it and you get some Calypso music.
yeh I put the bass line on my looper and play both!
Kind of !
Wow ... What a spot...
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".
A classic surf instrumental. One of the best of all time.
More than 140 bands played this song but the Chantays were the first.
'Cause they (Bob Spickard and Brian Carman) wrote the immortal surf tune.
Sounds like my wife.
Memories of listening to this on a transistor radio when I was nine. Timeless.
Penny, Crystal my Weekusk sisters, atleast Dad taught us music from all genre's.
It is so melodically reminiscent of the ocean...I could listen to this over and over...like watching the waves...
Thanks! That is one great comment! Well thought out, and that feeling fitted to the song itself!
Such great Wonderful Memories 👍 🎶🎵🎶🎼💕❤️💕😅😅
Always loved that instrumental.
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!
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.
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
Am 67, back here in Sri Lanka this is big time. Clean cut and fabulous. Love them . Am still rocking. Believe am twenty.
Fking brilliant thanks for the memories I was born in 1963 Fking brilliant 👏 and never Fking die 👏 ❤️ 😀 💙
Same here. I was born in 1963 too. Love them.
Loved this song!!
One of the first singles I ever bought,what a production with a great ending
They were great, surf music rules!
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!
Maybe he had flashbacks of the civil war.
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.
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😂😂😂😂
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.
I feel so lucky to be related to one of the band members. :)
Which one four yrs later
which one, that lady in the back snapping her fingers ? awsome!
@@jimicmore1895 I really the answer to your question....
Rad
@@jimicmore1895 Which one? Five years later…..
What a gem of musical history ,thank you for posting this
Totally AWESOME!! Great "performance" and choreography on a great song!! They never missed a beat!
Truly amazing that they were able to play it exactly like their hit single!
Exactly! ;). @@davidedmundson8402
A great timeless song!
It also captures the nature of that particular wave.
Thank You Chantays Cheers all round
How sad that young people back then had class, deference, courtesy, respect toward other people and themselves compared to now.
= 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).
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.
How do you like electric guitars not connected to any amps?
One of the best instrumental songs of Rock. I can almost visualize the waves at Va. Beach crashing on the shore.
Santa Ana High School .. Orange county finest surf music.....
Gigante, este es un Rolon Rolón Rolon, el grupazo The Chantays deja como legado a la humanidad este gran tema 60tero hasta los huesos, su coreografía increíble igual que ellos disfruté mucho la interpretación. Claro como auditorio. He dicho pero The Hot Wheels times Armando Arias, saludos desde la hermosa cd de Puebla México. 👋🤠🏎️🏁
Es una re-canción tocado por musicónes de verdad, es la mera musica de planear. Su guitarrôn tiene las cuerdónas pesadas asi es que su sonido es un regalón a tus oidos. Sorfeo de sorfeo, es musica sorfeóna!!!!!
Look at those Fenders~!!! Look at those moves~!!! First song I learned on guitar.
These guys were truly great in their given moment. No one can do better.
Wireless technology way back in 1963. Awesome.
Got a kick outta that also. "Guitar lip synching".
The drummer has a wireless bass drum foot pedal.
Miming to the studio recording was common on television shows back then.
But The Beatles were live on Sullivan. He insisted.
@@WallyBernhardt Amazing that there is such a thing as a wireless electric piano...
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!
These guys were REALLY ahead of their time - no wires anywhere!
LOL Telepathic sounds
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.
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
@@Slo-ryde So, no surfers ever used drugs?
@@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.
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!
I CANT BELIEVE THEY WERE ON LAWRENCE WELK!!!!!! THIS BLOWS MY MIND!!
It's 2024 and I'm still playing this. What a fab summer sound.
Look how handsome and sharp these young men look! I remember when the "surf sound" was the big thing.
I have listened to her a lot on Siriusxm Missouri gal I believe Always a pleasure
Rock del más alto nivel. Eran tiempos en los que se vivía un despliegue musical fulgurante.
Sweet music of my childhood. I grew up with this, the Ventures and those Beach Boys. Such a variety and so much creativity. Classic!!!❤🌊
There was a sense of melodic beauty to be found in most instrumentals back then..
And also in your personality.
@@TheLarryBrown Never saw it that way before. Yes.
Surf / rock 60's , best music ever ! 👳♂️👍🥳🎯
Brilliant stuff, we so enjoyed this fabulous number! Thank you.
Never get tired of listening to this Fantastic Tune….absolutely love it 👌🏽
Would of loved to hear them play it live, great song.
Wow I never thought Lawrence welk was so hip back then.. thanks for posting this great memory for us
Wow!! Bob Welch of Fleetwood Mac ,and later Ebony Eyes, Precious Love, Sentimental Lady, Played drums for the chantays!!
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.
Yes. Yes I did listen to that song...a lot!
And my dad did watch Lawrence Welk every Saturday night.
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!
Left school this year- great memory.
I use this song as my ringtone on my cellphone…
Great also as a wake up track for your alarm, I keep in rotation with other gems like " Bustin Surfboards " by the Tornados.
Now that thar is some right fancy foot work!
the track who start the surf music!!
This was one of the songs my brother and I played on guitar in volunteer shows and church venues all over NJ back in the late 60's
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.
Of course you still have the Gibson amp.
Great memories of the era just roll on in. It was a different world and one I enjoyed growing up in
. We had little but we had fun 😎👍
Love that dad dancin by keyboard player ! 😄😄😄😄😄
What a legendary Tune first 🥇 class never gets old could hit the chart's today Unique sound with a unique band 🎙️🎹🥁🎸 from a Teddy Boy 🎶🎼📻🎶🚀👊✊✌️🤍💛💙🙌😍🤩
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.
Never knew the Chantays played Lawrence Welk many thanks Scott.
I love el. guitars without electricity. You Americans are so funny and intelligent...
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.
Just because we invented electricity doesn't mean we're intelligent. Or actually it does.
Still love this - was ahead of it's time way back then.
I have a 1963 Mercury Comet convertible and love to cruise listening to this. 👏👏👏
I'm pretty sure you also love to cruise without listening to this.
Boy what a find on TH-cam, I was a 1964 Grad from Santa Ana High school and they regularly
Played at our high school
Dances and the rendezvous ballroom
Along with the Rythum Rockers another local band coed up the richious brothers first appearance..
Surfing instrumental to perfection!
Absolutely great! What a treasure of memories this video brings back to this older folk. Although I love the Ventures rendition, this original version is it and is so special. It warrants high praise IMHO as they don't make them like this anymore.
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.
What school??
Did he have his guitar plugged in then???
Wendy Barnes it was a school in Orange County in SoCal!
Thomas Foss it was a long time ago, I believe he played acoustic
That’s awesome
I grew up watching Lawrence Welk. Saturday evenings we as a family sat down and watched it together. Dad would peel oranges for us. What a great show and time we had!
Dad dancin began with these guys
9/27/24 Wow! Lawrence Welk, no less! 🤣😂 Who knew? One of the greatest surf songs & instrumentals of all time. Have loved this since the 60s. THANKS FOR SHARING THIS. (I no recently looked for this song & this video never came up my feed. Finding this was a real mirace!)
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...
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.