Rockabilly & Blues Radio Hour

The tunes on this week's Catching A Wave are so good it's almost scary!  We spin tracks from The Creature Preachers, The Go-Go's, Didi Wray, Link Wray, The Monkees, Draculina, Basilantros, Slink Moss Explosion, The Transonics, Los Dedos, The Exotics and Duke Galaxy & The Pipeliners.  We also have a trio of "Holiday" tunes (songs with "holiday" in the title) from Chris Isaak, Lindsey Buckingham and Annette Funicello.  A Two-nami is in the forecast with 2 out of this world tunes from The Kaputniks.  Beth Riley has a deep track from The Beach Boys and we'll drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week.   Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys    Los Dedos- "Collapse" The Transonics- "Yes and No" The Creature Preachers- "Part-Time Frankenstein" Duke Galaxy and the Pipeliners- "Moondog's Revenge" The Go-Go's- "Get Up & Go"   "Holiday" trio: Lindsey Buckingham- "Holiday Road" Annette Funicello- "A Surfer's Holiday" Chris Isaak- "Summer Holiday"   Surf's Up: Beth's Bea

You won't believe all the great tunes we have for you this hour!  We've got killer tunes from The Courettes, Brian Wilson, The Surf Hermits, His Lordship, The Manakooras, Cameronoise, Greg Townson, Todd Bradley, The Surfrajettes, The Northwest, The Fuzziyama Surfers, Southern Culture On The Skids and Sys Malakian (with Ted Pilgrim of Satan's Pilgrims).  Beth Riley has a deep track from The Beach Boys and we also continue our celebration of the 10th anniversary of their 2012 That's Why God Made The Radio with another tune from that one.  And of course, we drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week! Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys   Michael Purkhiser- "Moonshot '69" Sys Malakian- "Eternal Sacrifice (feat. Ted Pilgrim) His Lordship- "All Cranked Up" The Surf Hermits- "The Revolver" The Fuzziyama Surfers- "Facing The Wave" Erik Alesi- "Mostly Automatic" The Manakooras- "Un Sueno" The Northwest- "Shoreline"   Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break: The Beach Boys- "Here

It's another jam-packed hour of great tunes and fun segments on this Catching A Wave!  Beth Riley has a deep track of The Beach Boys in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break.  Mike Love from The Beach Boys is in our Green Room segment talking about his late bandmate and cousin, Carl Wilson.  We have a "strange" trio of tunes from The Breakers, X (with Robby Krieger) and The Shadows and we'll drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week.  And if that isn't enough, we've got rockers from Tijuana Panthers, The Violet Mindfield, The Whys, Aqualads, The Green Reflectors, Pixies, King Beez, Los Straitjackets, Ramones, The Inquisitors, L'Exotighost and The B-52's!   Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys   The Green Reflectors- "Dr. Goldfoot" The Whys- "Clump Of Beach" L'Exotighost- "Kamongo" The Inquisitors- "Break Fast" Ramones- "I Wanna Be Sedated"   "Strange" trio: *The Breakers- "Strange Shores" X (with Robby Krieger)- "Strange Life" The Shadows- "The Stranger"   Surf'

Lots of great tunes and good vibes on this Catching A Wave!  We've got a trio of tunes with the word "without" in the title from Cayucas, The Hondells and McKinley James.  The Wheel Of Fun, Fun, Fun returns with covers of The Beach Boys by Papa Doo Run Run, The Challengers and The Weeklings.  Beth Riley also has a deep track from The Beach Boys that will make you flip a coin...and we drop that coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week!  Speaking of The Beach Boys earlier, we hear a newly remastered mix of "Good Vibrations" plus rockin' tunes from The Delstroyers, Secret Agent, Lee Hazlewood's Woodchucks, Garner Firebird, Shorty's Swingin' Coconuts, Webb Wilder, Toro Jones, Stories From Shamehill as well as Evan Foster and Wave Electric from the new Surf You Next Tuesday 2 The Revenge compilation! Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys   The Delstroyers- "Zomb Zomb" Stories From Shamehill- "Flatten The Curb" Secret Agent- "Honeytrap" Webb Wilder- "Rocket To Nowhere" Toro Jone

There's so much great new and vintage tunes rolling in here every week on Catching A Wave!  We've got some rockin' tracks from Todd Bradley, JD McPherson, The Surfrajettes, Televisionaries, Cop Shop, The Rondells, The Smithereens, Los Dedos, Jan & Dean, The Wave Chargers, The King Beez and a trio of songs to help you get "down" by Los Straitjackets (with Reverend Horton Heat), Mr. Mister and Bruce Johnston!  Beth Riley has a great deep track by The Beach Boys in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break.  We hear from Kurt Reil of The Grip Weeds in our Green Room segment and as always we drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox for our selection of the week!   Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys   Todd Bradley- "Round Midnight" King Beez- "Hound Dog" Televisionaries- "Mad About You" Cop Shop- "Sub-Rock" The Wave Chargers- "Bombora"   Time to get "Down": Bruce Johnston- "Down Under" Mr. Mister- "Don't Slow Down" Los Straitjackets (with Reverend Horton Heat)- "Down The Line"   Surf's Up: Beth's

We have a hot new Catching A Wave this hour with rockers from His Lordship, Jack White, Mario Monterosso, Dick Dale, Greg Townson, Stereophonic Space Sound Unlimited, Los Straitjackets, The Zipheads, The Babalooneys, The Violet Mindfield, Halibears, Pitted, Underwater Bosses, The Surfbeat Club and more.  Beth Riley has another awesome deep track from The Beach Boys in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break.  We board the Catching A Wave Time Machine for the week ending March 21st, 1964 and we drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week! Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys   Dick Dale- "Peter Gunn" Stereophonic Space Sound Unlimited- "Land Of Swingin' Atoms" The Surfbeat Club- "Triple Type" Jack White- "Fear Of The Dawn" Underwater Bosses- "Sea Wolf" Pitted- "The Best Barrels Ever" Greg Townson- "Step Aside" The Babalooneys- "Moment Of Truth"   Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break: The Beach Boys- "That Same Song" Follow "Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break" HERE   Halib

Get ready for another fun hour of Catching A Wave!  We continue our celebration of the 10th anniversary of The Beach Boys album That's Why God Made The Radio with another stellar track from that release.  Speaking of The Beach Boys, Beth Riley has a deep track from them singing about their favorite late night talk show host.  We have a trio of tv show themes from Danny Gatton, Los Straitjackets and The Ventures and of course we drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week!  Plus, we've got tunes from The Courettes, Jan & Dean, Duane Eddy, The Jackets, Shorty's Swingin' Coconuts, Secret Agent, Slink Moss Explosion, Danny B. Harvey, Frogman (with Hershel Yatovitz), Slacktone, The Krontjong Devils, The Rip Chords and The Eye Five. Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys   Shorty's Swingin' Coconuts- "Il Cavaliere" The Eye Five- "Hang Five" The Jackets- "What About You" The Krontjong Devils- "Gangsters" Slacktone- "Skateboard Commando"   Trio of TV themes: Danny Gatton- "

Tons of NEW tunes and classics on this week's Catching A Wave!  Hear rockers from JD McPherson, Kioea, The Surfrajettes, Fire Whale, The SurfAnauts, Frankie & The Poolboys, Jeffrey Foskett, Wiped Out, The Surf Junkies, Televisionaries, The Surfaris, The Me Gustas, Sant Anna Bay Coconuts, King Pelican and Beach Bomb!  Beth Riley has a deep track from The Beach Boys, we have a Twonami with 2 in a row by Link Wray and we drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week! Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys   The SurfAnauts- "Intoxica" Fire Whale- "Wave Paradox" Televisionaries- "Ultimatum" The Surf Junkies- "Tequila" Beach Bomb- "Tsharknami" JD McPherson- "Manta Ray" Wiped Out- "Mellow Out" King Pelican- "In The Shadow Of The Gallows"   Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break: The Beach Boys- "Full Sail" Follow "Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break" HERE   Sant Anna Bay Coconuts- "The Transporter" The Me Gustas- "Arriba, Abajo" Jeffrey Foskett- "Thru My Window"   Two

The Wheel Of Fun, Fun, Fun returns this hour with randomly selected covers of The Beach Boys by Dave Alvin, Alexis Cunningham and Christian Love!  We pay tribute to Dallas Wood of The Sadies who passed away Feb. 17 at 48 years old.  Beth Riley has a great track from The Beach Boys in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break, we have a "wind" themed trio of tunes from Cameronoise, Danny Amis & Twin Tones and The Ventures and we drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week.  Plus, we pack in rockers from The Grip Weeds, Mario Monterosso, Stories From Shamehill, Danny B. Harvey, The Explorers Club, The Courettes, Les Robots and Radioactive Electric Eel Factory! Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys   Stories From Shamehill- "Return Of The Space Mariachis Part 1" Les Robots- "You Got What I Want"   RIP Dallas Good of The Sadies...passed February 17-2022 48 years old: The Sadies- "The Double Wide"   Radioactive Electric Eel Factory- "Last Trout On The Left" The Courettes-

We've got a "secret" trio of tunes from The Young Barons, Dick Dale & His Del-Tones and Stereopohic Space Sound Unlimited.  Hear 2 tracks from the new Frogman release with Deke Dickerson and Danny B. Harvey.  Beth Riley has a windy tune from The Beach Boys in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break.  We board the Catching A Wave Time Machine for the week ending January 5th, 1963 for some tunes on the KFWB Los Angeles chart and we'll drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week.  We'll also pay tribute to Sandy Nelson who passed away on February 14th, 2022 at 83 years old.  Plus, we have tunes from The Zipheads, The Surf Hermits, The Leonites, Didi Wray, Masters Of The University, Papa Smurf and Peopleperson! Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys   The Surf Hermits- "Attack Of The Killer Pi" Peopleperson- "Suave Surf" Masters Of The University- "Marty and Stuart"   RIP Sandy Nelson (Dec. 1-1938 - Feb. 14, 2022): Sandy Nelson & The Sin City Termites- "Surf

LOTS of new tunes and classics on this hour of Catching A Wave!  We have a trio of "drive" tunes from Los Straitjackets, The Ventures and Jan & Dean.  Beth Riley has a deep track from The Beach Boys that everyone is in love with.  We continue our 10th Anniversary celebration of The Beach Boys' album, That's Why God Made The Radio and we'll drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox!  Plus, we've got great tunes from Greg Townson, Christian Love, Danny B. Harvey, Erik Alesi, The Razerbills, The Rumtones, The Babalooneys, Ramones, Cameronoise, Davie Allan & The Arrows, Jeremy Slemenda and Link Wray!   Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys   The Razerbills- "Rossito's Revenge" Davie Allan & The Arrows- "Straight 'N Arrow" Ramones- "Go Lil' Camaro Go" Cameronoise- "Wheel Of Misfortune" Jeremy Slemenda- "Out Of Nowhere"   Trio of "Drive" tunes: Los Straitjackets- "Galaxy Drive" The Ventures- "Night Drive" Jan & Dean- "I Gotta Drive"   Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break: The Beach Boys- "E

Kicking off Spring 2022 with a hot new Catching A Wave!  Our Two-Nami is on Mike Campbell with tracks from his bands Blue Stingrays and The Dirty Knobs.  Beth Riley has a funky deep track from The Beach Boys in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break.  We get to stompin' with a trio of tunes with "stomp" in the title from Eddie & The Showmen, J.P. McDermott and Western Stomp and The Space Cossacks and we drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week!  Plus, we have tunes from Surfer Joe, Black Valley Moon, Stereophonic Space Sound Unlimited, The Courettes, Messer Chups, Draculina, Fime, The Krontjong Devils, The Mellows, Fime and The Woodhavens! Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys   Surfer Joe- "Hit The Surf" Draculina- "Jet Black" The Krontjong Devils- "Call Me" Fime- "Born 2 Love" The Woodhavens- "Barkada"   Trio of "Stomp" theme: Eddie & The Showmen- "Showmen Stomp" J.P. McDermott and Western Bop- "Long Beach Stomp" The Space Cossacks- "Solaris Stomp"   Surf

This hour is all kinds of fun!  For one reason, we've got the Wheel Of Fun, Fun, Fun returning with randomly selected covers of The Beach Boys.  And a variety of more reasons including Surf's Up Beth's Beach Boys break and a cool track from The Beach Boys selected by Beth Riley, a trio of "reverb" tunes from Wiped Out, Martin Cilia and Southern Culture On The Skids" and of course the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week.  Plus, there's great tunes from JD McPherson, The Surf Junkies, The Grip Weeds, Mike Campbell & The Dirty Knobs, The Creature Preachers, Stories From Shamehill, The Zipheads, King Pelican and The Sparks Boys!! Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys   The Zipheads- "The Day The Surf Stood Still" Stories From Shamehill- "Bo George" The Sparks Boys- "Dead Valley" King Pelican- "The Rider" The Surf Junkies- "The Tube"   "Reverb" trio: Wiped Out- "Reverbology" Martin Cilia- "Reverb Beach" Southern Culture On The Skids- "Red Beans N' Reverb"   Surf's Up: Beth's Beac

Great new tunes continue to come in for Catching A Wave every week!  We've got rockin' tracks from The Courettes, Frogman, Atomic Drag, America, Surf Zombies, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, The Surfbeat Club, The Outta Sites, Darren Michael Boyd, Jeremy & The Harlequins, Astrosurf, The Dirty Licks, Halibears, The Desolate Coast and The Avocados.  We've got a Two-nami in the forecast with a couple of tunes Brian Wilson produced.  Beth Riley has a fun song from The Beach Boys in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break and we drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week!   Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys   Frogman- "C.C. Rider" The Dirty Licks- "Baby Rattle" The Desolate Coast- "Cindy's Breakaway" The Outta Sites- "She's So Fine" The Avocados- "Surf Juan O' Juan" The Courettes- "Hop The Twig" Darren Michael Boyd- "Melting Beneath The Moon" The Surfbeat Club- "Jack Is Back"   Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break: The Beach Boys- "Chug A Lug" Follow "Surf's Up: B

There is so much great music packed into this hour on Catching A Wave!  Beth Riley has a whistlin' tune from The Beach Boys in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break.  We've got a trio of "fish" themed tunes from Los Straitjackets, George Harrison & Dick Dale.  We continue our 10th anniversary celebration of The Beach Boys' That's Why God Made The Radio album and we'll drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week.  We'll pay tribute to Ronnie Spector who passed away on January 12th, 2022 with a solo tune and a classic from The Ronettes.  Plus, we've got tunes from Didi Wray, Ramones, The Lucky Odds, The Insanitizers, The Rip Chords, Susanna Hoffs, HJ & The Constellations, Underwater Bosses, The Currie Brothers, Marty Rudnick and The Me Gustas! Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys   The Me Gustas- "Conduit" The Lucky Odds- "Snake Eyes" Marty Rudnick- "Some Summer" The Currie Brothers- "Link Ray Gun" Underwater Bosses- "The Black Demon Of Cortez"   "Fire" themed

Surf instrumentals of Elvis Presley? You bet!  Magnatech and The Terrorsurfs give some reverb drenched King covers this hour.  Also, Greg Townson covers The Honeys.  The Grip Weeds cover The Monkees.  The Supertones cover the Surf Raiders.  There's a trio of "Searchin'" themed tunes from The Raybeats, The Margraves and The Raybeats.  Plus, we've got rockers from The Courettes, Lulufin The WooHoo, Dave Delmonte & The Cross County Boys, The Surf Junkies and El Borko.  Beth Riley has a deep track from The Beach Boys in her always awesome Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break and we drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week! Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys   The Surf Hermits- "Barrel Pounder" Magnatech- "(Marie's The Name Of) His Latest Flame" Greg Townson- "Pray For Surf" El Borko- "Headmixer Larry" Dave Del Monte & The Cross County Boys- "Hurricane"   Trio of "Searchin'" Themed tunes: The Margraves- "Searchin' For You" Robert Plant & Alison Krauss- "Sear

There's so much great music to choose from every week on Catching A Wave!  This hour, hear a Star Wars theme trio from The Surf Hermits, Urban Surf Kings and Doyley & The Twanglords.  Beth Riley has a deep track from The Beach Boys in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break.  We've got a Green Room segment with a snippet of John Fogerty's Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame induction speech for The Ventures.  We also pay tribute to Don Wilson (co-founder of The Ventures) who passed away on January 22nd, 2022.  Plus, we've got some rockin' tunes from The Explorers Club, The Rumtones, The Surfbeat Club, The Tourmaliners, The Starhoppers, Brian Wilson and friends, The Mighty Gordinis, Les Robots, The Wipeouters, Genki Genki Panic, JJ and The Trash Dogs, The Avocados and we'll drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week!   Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys   Genki Genki Panic- "Zelda II: The Adventures Of Link Palace" The Avocados- "Fuzz Pit" The Wipeouters- "Luna Goona P

This episode of Catching A Wave is HOT!  Partly due to our trio of "Fire" themed tunes from Southern Culture On The Skids, Cheap Trick and The Hi-Risers!  Beth Riley has a great deep track from The Beach Boys in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break.  And speaking of them, we have a snippet of Mike Love talking about "409" and Capitol Records in our Green Room segment and we also drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week.  Plus, crank up some rockers from The Grip Weeds, Les Agamemnonz, El Castillo, Sheverb, Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet, Surfer Joe, Messer Chups, Link Wray, Dick Dale, Olivia Jean and 12AX7! Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys   The Dirty Licks- "Go-Kart Death Race" El Castillo- "El Norte" 12AX7- "Tomales" Messer Chups- "Bumble Boogie" Surfer Joe- "Rebel Princess"   "Fire" theme: Southern Culture On The Skids- "Fight Fire" Cheap Trick- "Light Up The Fire" The Hi-Risers- "Fire Hazard"   Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break: The Beach Boys- "Lit

It might be cold where you are right now but it's summer all year long here on Catching A Wave!  Beth Riley rescues us with a great track from The Beach Boys in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break.  A "Two-Nami" is in the forecast with 2 in a row from The Surfaris (released 52 years apart) and we drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week.  We've got a fun variety of tunes in the mix too from Susanna Hoffs, B.A. Charles, Jan & Dean, Darren Michael Boyd, Whistle Bait, The Red Elvises, The Terrorsurfs, Underwater Bosses, The Silicon, Marmalade Wake, Voodoo Surf Tribe, Bali Lamas, The Go-Go's and Twang Inspectors! Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys   Underwater Bosses- "Aqualizer" Marmalade Wake- "Coconut Crackers" Whistle Bait- "At The Beach" Voodoo Surf Tribe- "Tijuana Tombstone" Twang Inspectors- "Snails On Speed" Susanna Hoffs- "You Just May Be The One" The Silicon- "Black Dory" Jan & Dean- "Sidewalk Surfin'"   Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break: The B

We start a new segment celebrating the 10th anniversary of The Beach Boys' That's Why God Made The Radio album that we'll spotlight throughout the year.  Plus, Beth Riley brings a deep track from them in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break.  We drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear a great rockin' selection of the week.  We pay tribute to Michael Nesmith with a tune from The Monkees that he wrote and did lead vocals on.  We also have some killer tunes from Rapt In Blue, The Surf Raiders, The El Caminos (covering The Surf Raiders), Brian Wilson, Tiki Riot, The Desolate Coast, The Ventures, The Hondells, The Breakers, Del Sotos, El Castillo, Magnatech and The Avocados. Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys   The Avocados- "Flipside" El Castillo- "Double Tap" Tiki Riot- "Savages" The El Caminos- "Wave Walk'n" The Surf Raiders- "Curl Rider 84"   Michael Nesmith- RIP (December 30, 1942 - December 10, 2021): The Monkees- "Sunny Girlfriend"   The Desolate Coast- "The Punk Stole My Raffle Tick