THE YEAR SURF BROKE

I've had it with cold weather. Fuck you low pressure system and fuck your atmospheric river as well. I'm in Southern California and, weather-wise, I know I'm lucky. But this is getting old. Following a weekend where temperatures in the Northeast (NYC and Connecticut) reached the high eighties while here, roughly twenty miles from the southern border with Mexico, the temperature never made it past the low sixties. Worse, two weeks ago the water temperature was at an all time record low of 52.5°F.

Remedy? The Endless Summer, the first non-fiction surf movie released for distribution in regular theaters. (Prior to The Endless Summer, non-fiction surf movies were shown in rented halls. Only the phony beach party type movies got theatrical releases.) The soundtrack is pretty good, surf music with elements you don't often hear in surf music. Acoustic guitar, harmonica and, the weirdest of all, melodica. Here's a factoid for you. John Van Hamersveld, designer of that iconic movie poster (above) would later design the package for the Rolling Stones' Exile On Main St. incorporating photos by Robert Frank and Norman Seeff (the latter on postcards included in early pressings).

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Listen:
The Sandals - Scrambler mp3 at Internet Archive
The Sandals - 6-Pac mp3 at Internet Archive
The Sandals - Drifting mp3 at Internet Archive
The Sandals - Theme From The Endless Summer mp3 at Internet Archive
Watch:
The Endless Summer at Internet Archive Full length, 91 minutes, 1966