The ventures are the reason that I am still playing guitar today at age 77. When I was 15 they came out with this song and it changed my whole life when I start playing guitar.
Hard to believe that the bassist here (Nokie Edwards) switched to lead and never looked back. The middle guy (Bob Nogle) was lead at this stage, switched to bass and really owned it - much like Paul McCartney. Don did play rhythm, but sometimes took lead. What a band...
@@billd9667 Nookie was the key to their success. They “stole” Nookie Edwards from Buck Owens when his band came to Seattle in 1959. Nookie was such a great guitar player, Bob Bogle traded his guitar for bass. Not to diminish the contribution of any other band member… had it not been for Nookie Edwards lickity-split guitar playing, they would never be as successful, (or possibly even survived)… and they knew it. The Ventures inspired legions to learn the guitar. (Including Me)
@@nigel900 Mel Taylor sucked? News to me. Keep in mind that Walk, Don’t Run was recorded before Edwards joined the band. And Nogle really ripped it up on bass. He could have played for anyone, but stayed with the Ventures. Don Wilson was good, not great, but could sing fairly well.
RIP Mr.”TekeTeke” Don Wilson. I’d like to say thank you for delivering electric guitar sound to our land Japan🇯🇵 for 60 years! Doumo Arigato Gozaimashita🙇🏻
This was originally a jazz song, written by guitarist Johnny Smith. If you listen to his version, you'll be impressed. But as a kid who ran out and bought this record the first time I heard it, the Ventures' version cannot be beat.
When I first heard this on the radio at eight years old, I was transfixed. I could not move. It was the most wonderful song I had heard up till then. The year was 1960.
@@djmammo9826 Agreed. Sleepwalk will be a classic as long as humans roam the Earth until the other asteroid from the asteroid pair that took out the dinosaurs returns to get us! Hey, I can make science up it I want to!
Old is ALWAYS gold.......grew up listening to Walk Don't Run, Pipeline........love The Ventures....don't understand why some folks gave a thumbs down...makes no sense.
probably didnt care for their music they were a lengend a lot of basic concepts as bands were concerned were initiated by them as such 3 instruments started out just 2 guitars had to develop a style strong rythum with a spunky leadplayed against it ler added bassguitar and drums round out the sound basic sound of The Ventures was Don Wilson and Bob Bogle
I still get goosebumps listening to this song. I discovered The Ventures listening to my dad's records growing up, and could never get enough. I still love them!!
Almost the ultimate 'must learn' guitar tune. The early 60s was such a great time for popular music and this song is one of the reasons why that era is so fondly remembered. The soundtrack to a generation of music and surf loving teenagers, the Ventures perfectly captured that amazing era.
The Ventures have sold over 100 million albums in their careers, making them one of the top groups of all time. I just ordered a 2-CD album of 50 of their greatest hits. I've been surfing for 68 years! A friend of mine hooked up a PA speaker to the clubhouse outlet at our bodysurfing break in La Jolla, so we could hear the Ventures, the Beach Boys and Dick Dale while out waiting for a wave. That was in 1963. Bitchin'!
sunking2001 Yeah, I did TV show in the "60's" where we played along to the record, and if you look closely, you will not see cords plugged in, even has a shot of the drummer's foot with no bass drum pedal hooked-up.
i guess its a sign of getting old but the music of today has talented musicians but no creativity. i think music went down the wrong road. it all started with rap but its a misnomer the real word should have had a capital C in front of rap.
1960 was an amazing time to be a guitar player. Stratocasters didn’t cost much, reverb always sounded classic, you could play guitar instrumentals and still get on the radio and your guitar didn’t even have to be in tune to make a hit record.
True. But 1960 you have to work much longer for ca. 285 $. And one "Jaguar" was there, i don't know, was it cheaper ? However: This is the "classic" sound of the NEW Single-Coil Guitar with a Fender Amp
What a different time for American music, radio, and television. I missed the beginning and guys like this who invented it but sometimes I just step back and appreciate how amazingly lucky I am to have been born when the combination of culture and musical evolution and the electric guitar and magnetic tape recording technology all came together to create Rock and Roll.
I worked as a radio DJ for a number of years in the 70s. You can bet that I used the Ventures music when I needed an instrumental (which is often in radio)! Great song!
This song brings to me so many remembrances of 1960 when I was fourteen years old. I remember I was a little clumsy then as I had not accustomed myself to the size my body had as i grew up 4 inches that year. This tune is very good to hear and enjoy 60 years later.
Amazing! Cordless guitars in 1960! I was 4yrs old. But this was still playing on the radio as I grew up in the 60's. It defined the era along with those other iconic tunes of the time. 60's cool...✌🏻😎
Surf rock in general is great for beginners, so is some grunge era stuff. Some of the first songs I’ve learned are this song, Misirlou by Dick Dale, and numerous nirvana songs.
I had a 1966 GT Mercury Cyclone, 289 c.i., 4-speed, candy apple red with an 8-track tape player in it. I got stopped by the cops in 1968 in Charlottesville, Va. for playing the Ventures' tape too loudly when going down Main Street at 2am. Those were the days! Wish I had that sweet ride back. Miss my youth so!
LOL, as a teenager, I used to blast my 1988 Yamaha synthesizer in my room while my parents were sleeping well into midnight. Now that we're older, we realize how inconsiderate we were back then.
There is not a single guitar god from the 60s 70s, 80,s who did not start out learning to play guitar with this as one of the first songs they ever learned..
RIP Don Wilson (February 12, 1933-January 22, 2022), The Ventures´ rhythm guitar player. You will surely will be missed, as well as the members of the classic line up of The Ventures who have passed away. The Ventures is the best instrumental Rock group and my favourite too.
Nokie Edwards looks like he’s thinking “Why am I stuck playing bass?” Shortly after this was recorded, he took over lead guitar and Bob Bogle moved to bass.
wow i remember this and the memories came flashing by. they had many hits and were good musicians. the electric guitar was about as cool as you can get back then.
Without a doubt,one of the biggest instrumentals of all time (next to the theme of Hawaii Five O) by the Ventures! Really,this is one of the first tunes I learned on electric guitar!
Charles Aguilar You should check out their TH-cams! I saw them in September in Berkeley. They played the East Coast, West Coast and in between until going to Japan for there long tour.
@James Hama Good morning, Mr. Hama! I'm doing well. Had to see the video clip of the Ventures performing 'Walk Don't Run' on Dick Clark's show. It was great; the guys wore jackets and ties, and they looked like a group!
What a fabulous slice of musical history there! All those young people in the audience would be in their 80s today, if still alive....but "Walk Don't Run" lives on!
Yes I agree, awesome footage of music history. These young guys and so many others had so much talent and creativity. How incredible it would be to transport back to those days!
The Ventures were great. All the garage bands around town played their stuff. You didn't have to have a good singing voice, just play your instrument and try to make it sound like The Ventures. Telstar and the lonely bull. Great stuff. OK, maybe someone had to say WIPEOUT during that performance.
Neo-classical guitar shredders are a dime-a- dozen today and I can't remember one song that any of them have ever written but Walk Don't Run is haunting and timeless and instantly memorable.
I remember listing to my older sisters albums in 66, I was 10 years old then. These guys were great mostly instrumentals. All her boyfriends were "greasers" fonzie types. One guy gave me a ride in his brand NEW 1966 Chevy Impala!
Same demographic. Walk don't run was "one to learn". Used to hate it when DJs in 60's used it for "bumper music" for newscasts or station identification.
Am I the only one who sometimes has a hard time telling Nokie Edwards and Steve Cropper apart? Yes, different artists, different bands, but even if I jumble them up I still win :) And yes, this track was and is awesome. Instrumentals have some strange advantage over many (not all) vocal tracks. I find some voices become instruments. You don't even hear the words.
Had the pleasure of seeing these guys perform live in the late 70s. The greatest instrumental groups of the 60s. Don Wilson invented the guitar "surf rock" sound that inspired so many other groups. Also love "Pipeline".u Because they were an instrumental group, there was no language barrier & they became hugely successful in Japan, outselling the Beatles 2:1.
For you kids, The Ventures have influenced greats like the Beatles, Clapton. Jeff Beck, Tom Petty and thousands more look it up you will be surprised. The Bass played took over the lead guitar after this song and his name is Nokie Edwards. Look him up you will be amazed how well this man can play guitar.
I remember this was the song that sparked my interest in guitar music. I think it was named "song of the year in 1964" the album cover had the 4 ventures looking at a young woman dressed in tight green slacks!!!
Esta canción la escuché siendo un niño, y lo vi en canal 4 de Lima Perú en el TV Philco de mi casa, en el programa Ritmo en el 4, ahí había una chiquilla muy linda que se llamaba Gladys Arista, y que lindo bailaba esa canción.
Not to be rude or anything j-dog, but "just how far back was your day?" I go back a long ways myself j-dog and I've never seen the drummer in the front. My grandfather was a drummer in a polka band in Pennsylvania and my younger brother who is in his 60's and still plays on occasion have always had their drum sets in the back. And to be honest with you, when I first saw this video I thought how strange is was for the drummer to be in front. The only reason I can come up with for him to be in front is for the solo.
***** After further research its true that drummers "back in the day" were positioned in front or to the side. Gene Krupa preferred to be in front while Buddy Rich positioned himself left front as the audience viewed him However, according to Drummers World magazine during the advent of rock, the drummer was in the back but usually elevated on a platform for audiences to see him better since the lead singer and sometimes guitars were in front. And how did you know that my father once played in the Glenn Miller band when he was in the Army and then had his own 'Lawrence Welk" type orchestra when he left the military. He didn't play drums, sax and clarinet were his staples.
Carl Loud I'm pretty personally knowledgeable about the subject. Let's just leave it at that. Glad I helped to clear things up. If you're interested, as an example of the drummer being in front, here's a classic example from one of the most iconic Japanese songs of the '60s. randommusings.filminspector.com/2014/12/and-now-for-something-completely.html Best of luck with everything.
***** Never heard of the group or the song even though that was the era I grew up in. And I think they only positioned themselves in that manner for TV purposes.
The days of yesteryear when it was much harder to sync to the playback... gotta love the blonde chick saying "It's fake"... at 1:41.... love the Ventures, thanks for the clip.
Now you're talking! "It's me", not "It's fake". By the way, did we all realize how goodlooking the girls were back then, who were our ages? Such beauty, and such innocence, and lack of egos, pretty much. Although they were starting to develop egos. Too bad, for the guys, things changed, and they became egotistical and aloof, pretty much. Until then, they were humble and shy and sweet and didn't have egos, pretty much.
It's a different world today because we people of color have forgotten our place or whatever that was. We suffered injustices in silence back then.....Today NO MORE...We ain't singing we shall overcome anymore. been there done that....We're taking our rightful share of the American pie too
Jason Mitchell The Ventures caused more kids of the early1960"s to buy and learn to play the guitar than any other instrumental group. One of the old Ventures record albums was titled "Play Along With The Ventures". I wore mine out. Once upon a time, I had 17 Ventures record albums. Thank you Columbia Record Club!
The ventures are the reason that I am still playing guitar today at age 77. When I was 15 they came out with this song and it changed my whole life when I start playing guitar.
That’s awesome. I have similar inspirations even as someone born 60 years later, there is a lot of power in music.
The ventures are the reason that I am still playing guitar today at age 88.
When I START playing...???
Not started???
@@johnmoreno6374 jesus calm down it’s just a spelling mistake
Ok, I'm only 70 but, I got the album Learn to play guitar with the Ventures and started playing guitar when I was in my teens. Still do.
Don Wilson was a class act. His guitar and surf sound will be remembered for many long years into the future.
Hard to believe that the bassist here (Nokie Edwards) switched to lead and never looked back. The middle guy (Bob Nogle) was lead at this stage, switched to bass and really owned it - much like Paul McCartney. Don did play rhythm, but sometimes took lead. What a band...
@@billd9667 Nookie was the key to their success. They “stole” Nookie Edwards from Buck Owens when his band came to Seattle in 1959. Nookie was such a great guitar player, Bob Bogle traded his guitar for bass. Not to diminish the contribution of any other band member… had it not been for Nookie Edwards lickity-split guitar playing, they would never be as successful, (or possibly even survived)… and they knew it. The Ventures inspired legions to learn the guitar. (Including Me)
@@nigel900 Mel Taylor sucked? News to me.
Keep in mind that Walk, Don’t Run was recorded before Edwards joined the band. And Nogle really ripped it up on bass. He could have played for anyone, but stayed with the Ventures. Don Wilson was good, not great, but could sing fairly well.
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@@billd9667 Satire.
RIP Mr.”TekeTeke” Don Wilson. I’d like to say thank you for delivering electric guitar sound to our land Japan🇯🇵 for 60 years! Doumo Arigato Gozaimashita🙇🏻
This was originally a jazz song, written by guitarist Johnny Smith. If you listen to his version, you'll be impressed. But as a kid who ran out and bought this record the first time I heard it, the Ventures' version cannot be beat.
This tune never gets old.
..and Apache by The Shadows
@@roshanfernando9657... and Perfidia by The Ventures
It really doesn't-- it started in the late 50s, I think.
When I first heard this on the radio at eight years old, I was transfixed. I could not move. It was the most wonderful song I had heard up till then. The year was 1960.
Honorable mention goes to Sleepwalk by Santo & Johnny
Wait'll you hear PF SLOAN....sing songwriter muscician....over 200 pieces, many he never received credit for
Because perry como etc. Anything was better.
@@djmammo9826 Agreed. Sleepwalk will be a classic as long as humans roam the Earth until the other asteroid from the asteroid pair that took out the dinosaurs returns to get us! Hey, I can make science up it I want to!
@@charlotteskiftun753 who dat? sounds interesting.
Old is ALWAYS gold.......grew up listening to Walk Don't Run, Pipeline........love The Ventures....don't understand why some folks gave a thumbs down...makes no sense.
probably didnt care for their music they were a lengend a lot of basic concepts as bands were concerned were initiated by them as such 3 instruments started out just 2 guitars had to develop a style strong rythum with a spunky leadplayed against it ler added bassguitar and drums round out the sound basic sound of The Ventures was Don Wilson and Bob Bogle
WLk don't run and pipeline sound so similar. I know they are slightly different but there's a lot of similarities I feel
@georginapinzon01 oh well as long as you feel, then it must be true. Feelings never lie, are certainly not as reliable as thoughts.
I still get goosebumps listening to this song. I discovered The Ventures listening to my dad's records growing up, and could never get enough. I still love them!!
Almost the ultimate 'must learn' guitar tune. The early 60s was such a great time for popular music and this song is one of the reasons why that era is so fondly remembered. The soundtrack to a generation of music and surf loving teenagers, the Ventures perfectly captured that amazing era.
The Ventures have sold over 100 million albums in their careers, making them one of the top groups of all time. I just ordered a 2-CD album of 50 of their greatest hits. I've been surfing for 68 years! A friend of mine hooked up a PA speaker to the clubhouse outlet at our bodysurfing break in La Jolla, so we could hear the Ventures, the Beach Boys and Dick Dale while out waiting for a wave. That was in 1963. Bitchin'!
These guys are so good, they don't even have to plug their guitars in!
ditto
That's funny...back in those days there were many lip-synch-non-guitar-cord videos made...even with the Beatles!
sunking2001 Yeah, I did TV show in the "60's" where we played along to the record, and if you look closely, you will not see cords plugged in, even has a shot of the drummer's foot with no bass drum pedal hooked-up.
Warren Waters That's the way they did it back in those days. Obviously, that would never work nowadays.
Warren Waters (90% of the bands back then just played to they're records. Rarely would you ever see you're favourite band perform live.
pure energy..nothing like the 60s,70s and amazing 80s...you just had to be there in your prime
i guess its a sign of getting old but the music of today has talented musicians but no creativity. i think music went down the wrong road. it all started with rap but its a misnomer the real word should have had a capital C in front of rap.
I was.
Listening to 'Walk Don't Run' never fails to send me back to the early 60s.
Epic - "The best of the Ventures" is a MUST HAVE in EVERY ambitious music collection. Back in the days AND NOW!
YOU GUYS DONT KNOW HOW MUSIC WAS IN THE 60'S....I WAS 12 YRS OLD WHEN I FIRST HEARD THIS TUNE... FELT EXHILIRATING ..!!
This sure beats the hell out of snoop dog!
I was 10 and ran right out to buy the 45 rpm. Those were the days!!!
1960 was an amazing time to be a guitar player. Stratocasters didn’t cost much, reverb always sounded classic, you could play guitar instrumentals and still get on the radio and your guitar didn’t even have to be in tune to make a hit record.
True. But 1960 you have to work much longer for ca. 285 $. And one "Jaguar" was there, i don't know, was it cheaper ? However: This is the "classic" sound of the NEW Single-Coil Guitar with a Fender Amp
What a different time for American music, radio, and television. I missed the beginning and guys like this who invented it but sometimes I just step back and appreciate how amazingly lucky I am to have been born when the combination of culture and musical evolution and the electric guitar and magnetic tape recording technology all came together to create Rock and Roll.
It's incredible 56 years later I listen this kind of music the 27th of August 2016 because It was the 27th of August 1960
I worked as a radio DJ for a number of years in the 70s. You can bet that I used the Ventures music when I needed an instrumental (which is often in radio)! Great song!
This song brings to me so many remembrances of 1960 when I was fourteen years old. I remember I was a little clumsy then as I had not accustomed myself to the size my body had as i grew up 4 inches that year. This tune is very good to hear and enjoy 60 years later.
Same here. 😉
@@kathrynmiller9622 Well, we have something in common. Regards.
I showed up here to take a trip down memory lane.
Thank you
Amazing! Cordless guitars in 1960! I was 4yrs old. But this was still playing on the radio as I grew up in the 60's. It defined the era along with those other iconic tunes of the time. 60's cool...✌🏻😎
Not real--they were playing a tape, or record, of the song in the background. On the Dick Clark show, you just pretended to sing or play.
Arguably, the first song every aspiring young guitarist learns.
Surf rock in general is great for beginners, so is some grunge era stuff. Some of the first songs I’ve learned are this song, Misirlou by Dick Dale, and numerous nirvana songs.
My mom and dad went to school with those guys my mom still loves to hear them play dad's gone now so I get to carry on 😊
One the first songs I learn how to play when I was a about 6 or 7. I'm 62 in 2021. I love it!
I had a 1966 GT Mercury Cyclone, 289 c.i., 4-speed, candy apple red with an 8-track tape player in it. I got stopped by the cops in 1968 in Charlottesville, Va. for playing the Ventures' tape too loudly when going down Main Street at 2am. Those were the days! Wish I had that sweet ride back. Miss my youth so!
Barry Hollifield hehe you should record it
My best friend had a '66 GTO 3-speed stick, racing clutch . . . cruisin' the Square . . . those days are gone forever :(
Mr. Barry stay young at Heart!!
✌🏼☮️✨
LOL, as a teenager, I used to blast my 1988 Yamaha synthesizer in my room while my parents were sleeping well into midnight. Now that we're older, we realize how inconsiderate we were back then.
My car back then that I bought new was a Cyclone GT 390 4-speed. Loved that car so much that over the years I bought 4 more.
There is not a single guitar god from the 60s 70s, 80,s who did not start out learning to play guitar with this as one of the first songs they ever learned..
👍
Nokie Edwards, who was playing bass at the time, switched over to lead guitar and Bob Bogle switched over to bass
.. yes in N. America. In Europe they worship the Shadows. I don't know why ?!!!
Watching this right now because my guitar teacher told me to learn this
@@joerichristiaens7114 .. jeff beck has a nice version .. Check it out.
Those were the DAYS GREAT MUSIC, I WAS a Teenager, now 70 around the corner, where did time go
RIP Don Wilson (February 12, 1933-January 22, 2022), The Ventures´ rhythm guitar player. You will surely will be missed, as well as the members of the classic line up of The Ventures who have passed away. The Ventures is the best instrumental Rock group and my favourite too.
@James Hama Thank you James. Fine. I hope you are din well too Long live The Ventures.
Nokie Edwards looks like he’s thinking “Why am I stuck playing bass?”
Shortly after this was recorded, he took over lead guitar and Bob Bogle moved to bass.
Bob Bogles playing infuenced the firsttwo albums his vibrato work ontwonof chetAtkins songs Mistr Calhan and he did rythum workmon Lonesome town too
wow i remember this and the memories came flashing by. they had many hits and were good musicians. the electric guitar was about as cool as you can get back then.
Hello Jody, How are you doing?
I wish we had music like this again!!
Chewing gum and listening the Ventures - sweet.
Always good to see the audience clapping on the one and the three.
On the 2 and the 4 makes it calypso... or something.
White people only know how to clap on 1 and 3
TheSoundOutside just the lame ones
LOL
It’s white people’s international “show of support”
Great song. So many versions. An enduring classic
RIP mr. Don wilson, thank for bringing lots of joy and smile to the world.
The first time i heard this i immediately fell in love with it. Almost makes me wish I was born then.
Just absolute great music, and guitar skills.
Without a doubt,one of the biggest instrumentals of all time (next to the theme of Hawaii Five O) by the Ventures! Really,this is one of the first tunes I learned on electric guitar!
Charles Aguilar You should check out their TH-cams! I saw them in September in Berkeley. They played the East Coast, West Coast and in between until going to Japan for there long tour.
You missed about 300 great "surf" guitar pieces.
First song I learned properly on guitar.
God bless my teacher for his taste. I was only 16!
The 60s was the decade of great instrumentals, this being one of them.
Classy, classic Fenders...and the drums out front....beautiful!
I grew up in Hermosa beach i.always heard this out on the sand with many ppl.with there radios sounded awsome
This was 1963.......the world was a different place...than 2023..... People
Had. Sincere....fun in music.
They played the recording in the background and "airplayed" the instruments.
1963 - President Kennedy was assassinated.
These guys were my friends. I miss them all.
Remember being at my great grandmother's house one summer, and this song was playing on a soap opera...
R. I. P.
Don Wilson 🎸
God bless our rocknroll heroes from a by-gone era.
I love this song!!
there is a book out about their life also lookit up,on internet
Over six decades, and I still remember the notes; some things just stick with you.
Way to go, Ventures! Don, Bob, Nokie and Howie really rocked on their signature tune.
@James Hama Good morning, Mr. Hama! I'm doing well. Had to see the video clip of the Ventures performing 'Walk Don't Run' on Dick Clark's show. It was great; the guys wore jackets and ties, and they looked like a group!
What a fabulous slice of musical history there! All those young people in the audience would be in their 80s today, if still alive....but "Walk Don't Run" lives on!
Yes I agree, awesome footage of music history. These young guys and so many others had so much talent and creativity. How incredible it would be to transport back to those days!
Excelente grupo instrumental, pasan los años y siguen siendo lo mejor ❤❤
I played bass in a band named "Underground Fire". We used this song as our intro and closing song. People love this song
The Ventures were great. All the garage bands around town played their stuff. You didn't have to have a good singing voice, just play your instrument and try to make it sound like The Ventures. Telstar and the lonely bull. Great stuff. OK, maybe someone had to say WIPEOUT during that performance.
Man alive, yeah! I grew up in Erie, Pa and we had several neighborhood garage bands. Seemed like everyone wanted to get into music then...
I was fortune enough to have seen them at the Golden Bear in Huntington Beach California, in 1981 or so. What a great concert!
I just played my dad's original copy of The Ventures Play Telstar last night! 😎
We have the same picture
Rest In Peace to one of the greatest surf rock guitars🕯 🏄♂️ 🎸🏄♂️ 🕯
Surf Rock still holds up today. Some of the best sounding and catchiest music of that time.
I grew up in the sixties on the beaches in Southern California and surfing music was king! Thanks
Neo-classical guitar shredders are a dime-a- dozen today and I can't remember one song that any of them have ever written but Walk Don't Run is haunting and timeless and instantly memorable.
Johnny Smith wrote that one, jazz guitarist.
@@gospodine
Hey where are you from? "Gospodine"
Yes, I remember this song and still like it.
THE top guitar instrumental group ever.
R.I.P. - HOWIE JOHNSON - drums
R.I.P. - BOB BOGLE- lead & rythym guitar
R.I.P. Don Wilson 1933 - 2022😢
Nokie Edwards is shredding in Heaven now... and 468 people will never hear or appreciate surf music again
Nokie Edwards
Quanta saudade! Eu ouvia isso no rádio quando tinha seis , sete anos. Vontade de chorar!!!
I remember listing to my older sisters albums in 66, I was 10 years old then. These guys were great mostly instrumentals. All her boyfriends were "greasers" fonzie types. One guy gave me a ride in his brand NEW 1966 Chevy Impala!
Brings me back to my childhood.❤️
Surfs up!!!! Love this to death. Those Fender guitars give me fever!!!
Me also
JUST TAKE ME BACK IN 60'S THOSE GOOD OLD DAYS !
t's great that this wonderful music unites completely different people!!Peace Be Upon You People Of The Whole Earth!!!With love from Russia
What a terrific instrumental track,
I was only 10 years old when this came out back in 1960,I’m nearly 73 now and it still sounds good today.
just think how good they would have been if they had plugged the guitars up. - Great music miss it
Same demographic. Walk don't run was "one to learn". Used to hate it when DJs in 60's used it for "bumper music" for newscasts or station identification.
I was just 6 but my older brother had a radio and i remember it's airplay quite well. Also their follow up song "Perfidia" a few months later.
Am I the only one who sometimes has a hard time telling Nokie Edwards and Steve Cropper apart? Yes, different artists, different bands, but even if I jumble them up I still win :) And yes, this track was and is awesome. Instrumentals have some strange advantage over many (not all) vocal tracks. I find some voices become instruments. You don't even hear the words.
I remember when this came out, I was 7, and I still love listening to it today.
Brings back memories. Thumb up! Beer up!
Sadly the last original member died today. Their fantastic music last forever
Had the pleasure of seeing these guys perform live in the late 70s. The greatest instrumental groups of the 60s.
Don Wilson invented the guitar "surf rock" sound that inspired so many other groups.
Also love "Pipeline".u
Because they were an instrumental group, there was no language barrier & they became hugely successful in Japan, outselling the Beatles 2:1.
ADORABLES🙌🎼❤️🔥
I remember this song so well..a fond memory..
For you kids, The Ventures have influenced greats like the Beatles, Clapton. Jeff Beck, Tom Petty and thousands more look it up you will be surprised. The Bass played took over the lead guitar after this song and his name is Nokie Edwards. Look him up you will be amazed how well this man can play guitar.
Nokie passed away recently. He was the best, and always a gentleman. R.I.P.
@Mike Grafft My Mom bought me Play guitar with the Ventures when I was about 13. I learned this, Pipeline, and Wipeout.
Also a big influence on an Aussie band--The Shadows!
And Johnny Smith the writer of this song was better than all of them
Legends! Huge contribution to music!
I remember this was the song that sparked my interest in guitar music. I think it was named "song of the year in 1964" the album cover had the 4 ventures looking at a young woman dressed in tight green slacks!!!
Oh! I didn't realize the band was in that picture.
there is about 250lbs of gum stuck and fossilized to the underside of those seats.
亡き父がよく聴いていたベンチャーズ
私も聴けるようになりました。
Can't get enough of this song!!!
O SOM DE REVERB DAS GUITARRAS E AMPS DESTA ÉPOCA É SIMPLESMENTE INCRÍVEL. MUITO MASSA!!!
RIP Don Wilson
Esta canción la escuché siendo un niño, y lo vi en canal 4 de Lima Perú en el TV Philco de mi casa, en el programa Ritmo en el 4, ahí había una chiquilla muy linda que se llamaba Gladys Arista, y que lindo bailaba esa canción.
Back in my day the drummer sat in front of the band
Not to be rude or anything j-dog, but "just how far back was your day?"
I go back a long ways myself j-dog and I've never seen the drummer in the front.
My grandfather was a drummer in a polka band in Pennsylvania and my younger brother who is in his 60's and still plays on occasion have always had their drum sets in the back. And to be honest with you, when I first saw this video I thought how strange is was for the drummer to be in front. The only reason I can come up with for him to be in front is for the solo.
Carl Loud The drummer often sat in front during the 60s. Well, maybe not on the Lawrence Welk show so maybe you missed it....
***** After further research its true that drummers "back in the day" were positioned in front or to the side. Gene Krupa preferred to be in front while Buddy Rich positioned himself left front as the audience viewed him However, according to Drummers World magazine during the advent of rock, the drummer was in the back but usually elevated on a platform for audiences to see him better since the lead singer and sometimes guitars were in front. And how did you know that my father once played in the Glenn Miller band when he was in the Army and then had his own 'Lawrence Welk" type orchestra when he left the military. He didn't play drums, sax and clarinet were his staples.
Carl Loud I'm pretty personally knowledgeable about the subject. Let's just leave it at that. Glad I helped to clear things up.
If you're interested, as an example of the drummer being in front, here's a classic example from one of the most iconic Japanese songs of the '60s.
randommusings.filminspector.com/2014/12/and-now-for-something-completely.html
Best of luck with everything.
***** Never heard of the group or the song even though that was the era I grew up in. And I think they only positioned themselves in that manner for TV purposes.
エレキ・ギターのバンドなら、ベンチャーズでしたね。 テケ・テケ・テー・・・のパフォーマンスが、少年達に、大受けでした。
The days of yesteryear when it was much harder to sync to the playback... gotta love the blonde chick saying "It's fake"... at 1:41.... love the Ventures, thanks for the clip.
are you a professional lip reader?
Doesn't take that much to figure out what she said.
Read her lips. She is saying "It's me." She saw herself on the monitor.
Now you're talking! "It's me", not "It's fake". By the way, did we all realize how goodlooking the girls were back then, who were our ages? Such beauty, and such innocence, and lack of egos, pretty much. Although they were starting to develop egos. Too bad, for the guys, things changed, and they became egotistical and aloof, pretty much. Until then, they were humble and shy and sweet and didn't have egos, pretty much.
joe appelbaum Good assessment. Now it seems the girls all want to look and act like Britney Spears and Beyonce. Kind of trashy, really.
As a 25 year old Floridian, even to this day this is the perfect beach song
A different world. Wow how time has changed.
Jon Shonebarger Those Girls Were Gorgeous
It's a different world today because we people of color have forgotten our place or whatever that was. We suffered injustices in silence back then.....Today NO MORE...We ain't singing we shall overcome anymore. been there done that....We're taking our rightful share of the American pie too
Never gets old!!! Surf's up!!!
Great Band,great Sound!!!
The Ventures & Dick Dale; the real sounds of the 60’s! 👏🏼😎
Suddenly I feel the need to go to the beach.
It was the ventures that I learn to be a drummer by listening to their best. Thanks ventures.
The title of this song is perfect for school hallways, they should play this.
+John Donahue And be there a crash, "Wipe Out."
+Gaiusolga yes, i agree.
They play this song in my school when the bell rings for class, funny that you said that
but what if you have to go to the bathroom real bad and cant hold it much longer...im going to run down that hall-lol
Jim Davis You better do! Hurry!
The lyrics are amazing.
Especially the part that goes,
" " , That line always gets to me. 👍😁
12 years old. First song I learned on guitar.
That's Howie Johnson on the drums, before Mel Taylor. Mel Taylor was the best drummer in all of rock & roll.
JAG312 Hal Blaine of the Wrecking Crew wasn’t bad. He could go.
Ever hear of a man named Neil Peart?
I know it's been two years, but I have to say you're right.
The audience are all into the chewing gum.
That was the latest teenage fad in the late 1950s and early 1960s. 😆
PT: Advertisers probably gave free gum to the audience.
forgive me but I never knew how important the ventures to rock and roll it just blow my mind!
Jason Mitchell
The Ventures caused more kids of the early1960"s to buy and learn to play the guitar than any other instrumental group. One of the old Ventures record albums was titled "Play Along With The Ventures". I wore mine out.
Once upon a time, I had 17 Ventures record albums. Thank you Columbia Record Club!
It's been a long time since I heard that! I've always loved music, and I remember loving this song when I was only 3 yrs old.
still sends a shiver up my spine love it !
The sound is still great after all these years..