Rockabilly & Blues Radio Hour

The Wheel of Fun, Fun, Fun returns this week with randomly selected covers of The Beach Boys including The Grip Weeds, The Hot Doggers and Dino, Desi & Billy.  Beth Riley has a deep track from The Beach Boys that you're sure to remember and we drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week!  Plus, we'll spin tunes from Underwater Bosses, The Bomboras, The Smithereens, The 5678's, The Super Stocks, 12AX7, Big Mick & The Curl, The Mighty Gordinis, Jan & Dean, Lee Hazlewood's Woodchucks, Lo Moon, The Surf Dawgs, Frankie & The Poolboys and Surf Zombies! Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys   Big Mick & The Curl- "Beatnik Rick" The Mighty Gordinis- "Shockwave" Jan & Dean- "Waimea Bay" Lee Hazlewood's Woodchucks- "Movin'" Lo Moon- "Dream Never Dies" (radio edit) The Bomboras- "Planet Of The Ape Hangers" The Surf Dawgs- "Eight Days A Week" Frankie & The Poolboys- "Game Of Thrones"   Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break: The Beach Boys- "Do

There is never a shortage of great tunes to choose from and this week's Catching A Wave is packed with them!  We've got a Two-nami with Brian Wilson, Beth Riley has a fun deep track 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.  Also, we've got rockers from Greg Townson, Magnatech, Susanna Hoffs, The Me Gustas, Peopleperson, Man Or Astro-Man?, The Surfrajettes, Jason Janik, The Green Reflectors, The Other Timelines, The Tremolo Beer Gut, The Ramblin' Bandits, The Surfaris, Secret Agent and Mark Eric! Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys   The Surfrajettes- "Surfrajette City" The Tremolo Beer Gut- "Hot Hot Heatwave" Peopleperson- "At Dawn We Ride" Man Or Astro-Man?- "Tenth Planet" Mark Eric- "Place For The Summer" Magnatech- "Bad Blood" Jason Janik- "Spyglass" Secret Agent- "Stasi Romeo"   Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break: The Beach Boys- "Island Fever" Follow "Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break" HER

We're getting 2022 ready to rock in style! We've got a "green" theme trio from Duane Eddy, Bruce Johnston and The Chantays.  Beth Riley has a deep 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 Jeremiah Burnham and we drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week.  We've also got rockers from Messer Chups, Rondo Hatton, Del Sotos, Davie Allan & The Arrows, Jan & Dean, Allah-Las, Rondo Hatton, The Surf Hermits, Sean Eddy, 12AX7, Didi Wray, The Hang Ten Gallon Hats and Reverberati! Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys   Messer Chups- "Batman Taboo" Sean Eddy- "Slo Burn (Cigar Box Guitar) 12AX7- "Broken Stiletto" Didi Wray- "Speak Softly Love" The Hang Ten Gallon Hats- "Cactus Juice"   "Green" theme: Bruce Johnston- "Green Onions" The Chantays- "Green Room" Duane Eddy & The Rebels- "Tiger Love & Turnip Greens"   Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break: The Beach Boys- "Girl Don't Tell M

We're toward the end of 2021 and already talking about April Showers (new Los Straitjackets) plus killer tracks from The Green Reflectors, The Explorers Club, Surfer Joe, Goons!, The Bomboras, The Desolate Coast, La Luz, The Incomprehensible Static, The Cranzers, Tiki Riot & more!  We have a trio of tunes with a Banzai theme from Dick Dale & His Del-Tones, The Astronauts and Atomic Mosquitos.  Beth Riley has a deep track from The Beach Boys in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break.  We board the Time Machine for the week ending November 5, 1988 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 Green Reflectors- "Hot Ticket" Tiki Riot- "The Slasher" The Cranzers- "Minx" The Incomprehensible Static- "Quarter Mile Burnout" La Luz- "Goodbye Ghost"   "Banzai" theme: Dick Dale & His Del-Tones- "Banzai Washout" The Astronauts- "Banzai Pipeline" Atomic Mosquitos- "Banzai Fallout"     Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Brea

It's the All Christmas Show this hour on Catching A Wave!  To make things even better, Beth Riley co-hosts with me!  We've got a 1 song "Wheel Of Fun, Fun, Fun" playing a randomly selected cover of one of The Beach Boys Christmas tunes.  Beth brings a fun Christmas tune 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 a festive rocker from The Ventures!  Plus, we've got tunes from Southern Culture On The Skids, Los Straitjackets, The Monkees, Big Mick & The Curl, Mike Love (with 2 of his children- Ambha Love & Christian Love), Al Jardine, Supraphonics, JD McPherson, Goons!, Mark Malibu & The Wasagas, Urban Surf Kings, Joel Paterson, Brian Setzer Orchestra, The Tourmaliners, The Volcanics and Aqualads!!  We've also got some fun snippets of favorite Christmas movies and tv shows too!  Take a listen here:   Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys   Southern Culture On The Skids- "Surfing On Christmas Day" The Monkees- "I Wi

There is still great new music and classics hitting the playlist this week on Catching A Wave!  Hear rockin' tunes from Hershel Yatovitz, Voodoo Surf Tribe, Magnatech, Peopleperson, Elvis Costello & The Imposters, The Other Timelines and Christmas tunes from Lucky 757, The Buttondowns, Jason Janik, Didi Wray & Los Kanibales Surf Combo, Blackball Bandits, Black Flamingos, Martin Cilia, The Green Reflectors, Masters Of The University and The Buttondowns.  Beth Riley has a deep track from The Beach Boys in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break.  We go to the Green Room to hear a snippet of Dick Dale talking about his inspiration behind recording his version of "Silent Night" which we'll also play.  Plus, as always, 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   Peopleperson- "Riff Wars" Elvis Costello & The Imposters- "Magnificent Hurt"   Christmas: Blackball Bandits- "Yuletide Ride" Black Flamingos- "Merry Christma

We have a handful of Christmas tunes this week from Brian Wilson, The Beach Boys and The Doltones!  Beth Riley has a 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 June 25th, 1966 and we drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox selection of the week!  We'll spin a trio of tunes with a "young" theme from Chris Isaak, Al Dual and Link Wray and we've got rockers from The Bomboras, La Luz, The B. Christopher Band, The Manakooras, Aaron & The Lord, The Guantanamos and The Routes!   Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys   The Routes- "Fashion Victim" The Guantanamos- "Hange Loose" The Manakooras- "Howl Of The Jaguar"   Christmas: Brian Wilson- "Deck The Halls" The Beach Boys- "Santa's Got An Airplane"   "Young" theme: Link Wray- "Young Love" Al Dual- "When I Was Younger" Chris Isaak- "Forever Young"   Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break: The Beach Boys- "Pom Pom Playgirl" Follow "Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Bre

We've got a trio of songs with artists named Paul...Paul Johnson, Paul Carrack and Paul Revere & The Raiders.  Beth Riley has a deep track of The Beach Boys in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break.  We've got a Two-Nami in the forecast with 2 in a row from Southern Culture On The Skids and we'll drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week!  We've got rockers from from Surfer Joe, The Fantastic Baggys, Sail On, Beware Of Blast, Stereophonic Space Sound Unlimited, Bob Spalding, Jan & Dean, The Ventures, The Me-Gustas, Los Surfer Compadres plus some Christmas tunes hitting the playlist from The Hi-Risers, The Tremolo Beer Gut and The Neptunas!!   Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys   Surfer Joe- "Stay Stoked" Beware Of Blast- "Special Forces" Los Surfer Compadres- "Escape From Toxic Laguna" The Me-Gustas- "Monterrey" Stereophonic Space Sound Unlimited- "The Flawless Ms Drake"   Trio of "Paul's" Paul Johnson- "Wave Perfect" Paul Carrack- "Sunny" Paul Revere &a

It's more fun than should be allowed for a full hour!  On this Catching A Wave, we hear from the "King Of Twang" Duane Eddy in our Green Room segment.  Beth Riley has a deep track from The Beach Boys in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break.  We've got a "mystery" trio of songs from Man Or Astro-Man?, Cheap Trick and The Challengers and we drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week.  Plus, we've got killer tracks from The Ramblin' Bandits, Martin Cilia, Goons!, Masters Of The University, Del Sotos, Burt Rocket, repeat repeat, The Big Swell Drifters, The Breakers, The Surf Raiders, The Grip Weeds and Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday The 13th!     Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys   The Ramblin' Bandits- "Surfabilly" The Big Swell Drifters- "Deadman's Reef" The Breakers- "Wisconcentration" Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday The 13th- "The Creeper" The Grip Weeds- "Lies"   "Mystery" trio: The Challengers- "Man Of Mystery" Cheap Trick- "Magical Myste

This is one hot episode of Catching A Wave!  We board the Catching A Wave Time Machine for the week ending April 19th, 1963 to hear some songs on the Silver Dollar Survey for WLS in Chicago, Beth Riley has a great and noble deep track of The Beach Boys in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break, we've got a trio of "Time" themed tunes from Los Straitjackets, The Immediate Family and Eddie & The Showman and we drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox selection of the week!  You want more?  How about rockers from Hershel Yatovitz, Jim & The Sea Dragons, The Surf Hermits, Golden Richards, La Luz, Brian Wilson & Van Dyke Parks, Magnatech, Los Dedos and Little Kahuna!   Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys   Hershel Yatovitz- "Fast Layne" Los Dedos- "Crime Wave" Little Kahuna- "Stealthy Jaguar" Magnatech- "Foot Patter" Jim & The Sea Dragons- "The Brain That Refused To Die"   "Time" theme: Los Straitjackets- "Time Is On My Side" The Immediate Family- "Time To Come Clean" Eddie & The Sh

We have SOOO many new tunes and classics for you on the new Catching A Wave!  Hear The Surfrajettes, Brian Wilson, Man Or Astro-Man?, Satan's Pilgrims, The Bomboras, The Dirty Licks, Todd Bradley, Trevor Lake, Jackslacks, Fire Whale, Secret Agent, The Dirty Licks and Duane Eddy!  Beth Riley has a deep track from The Beach Boys in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break.  The Wheel Of Fun, Fun, Fun returns with 3 covers of The Beach Boys by Rivers Cuomo, Peanuts and The Midnight Callers AND we'll drop a quarter in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week!   Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys   Secret Agent- "Man In The Middle" Man Or Astro-Man?- "Space 1991" The Surfrajettes- "Couch Surfing" The Dirty Licks- "Holograham Crackers" *Rush Hour snippet The Bomboras- "Party At Greggs" Brian Wilson- "God Only Knows" Duane Eddy & The Rebels- "Beach Bound" Fire Whale- "Breathe Smoke"     Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break- The Beach Boys- "Sunshine" Follow "Surf's Up: Beth's Beach

Lots of new tunes, some classics and a lot of fun segments this hour!  We've got rockin' tracks from Martin Cilia, Girl Over Planet, The Neptunas, Southern Culture On The Skids, Deke Dickerson, Little Kahuna, Big Mick & The Curl, The Breakers, Hot Rod Trio and B Confidential & The Secret Four.  There's a trio of "Money" themed tunes from 3 monster guitarists: Dick Dale, Eddie Angel and Brian Setzer.  Speaking of money, we drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week and Beth Riley has a deep track from The Beach Boys in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break!   Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys   Southern Culture On The Skids- "Everybody's Talkin' At Me" The Neptunas- "The Lonely Bull" Deke Dickerson- "Shot Up With Hallmark" Little Kahuna- "Road Trip" *snippet from Blue Hawaii Big Mick & The Curl- "The Flyin' Hawaiian   "Money" theme: Eddie Angel- "No Money" Brian Setzer- "Stack My Money" Dick Dale- "Money"   Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break- The Beac

It's a full hour of Halloween songs and fun on this week's Catching A Wave.  Beth Riley has a "monster" song from The Beach Boys in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break and we get a spooky tune in our Jammin' James Jukebox selection of the week too!  Plus, we've got tunes from Dick Dale, Los Straitjackets, Didi Wray, Mark Malibu & The Wasagas, Black Flamingos, Billy F Gibbons, Jason Janik, The Creature Preachers, Man Or Astro-man?, Satan's Pilgrims, The Volcanics, Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday The 13th, Blackball Bandits, Messer Chups, Dave Del Monte and Atomic Drag!   Intro music bed: "Batman"- The Ventures   Blackball Bandits- "Night Of The Vampire" Black Flamingos- "Are You Afraid Of The Dark?" Mark Malibu & The Wasagas- "Summer Of Frightenstein" Atomic Drag- "Atomic Undead" *The Teenage Psycho Meets Bloody Mary trailer Messer Chups- "Ghost Party" Didi Wray- "Twilight Zone" *Halloween Convention Of Spooks trailer Dave Del Monte- "Haunted Horror Howl" The Volcanics- "Witc

We hear the #1 song in our Top 5 Favorite Songs Of The Beach Boys Countdown as voted on by YOU!  It was a tight race and over 50 songs were submitted as your favorites.  We also hear a deep track by The Beach Boys from Beth Riley in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break and a tune from their latest Feel Flows boxset later on the show as well.  We've got a trio of tunes from artists/bands with a color in their name (Junior Brown, The Green Reflectors and Blue Stingrays) as well as rockers from Surfer Joe, Los Twang Marvels, Greg Townson, The Surfaris, Jason Lee & The R.I.P.Tides, Shoot The Pier, The Explorers Club, Jason Janik, Slacktone, The Rip Chords and Blackball Bandits!!   Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys   Jason Janik- "Light'em Up" The Explorers Club- "Say You Will" Blackball Bandits- "Night Rider" The Rip Chords- "Surfin' Craze" *Spongebob snippet Greg Townson- "Aztec" (feat. Yolanda Marvel)   "Color" theme artist/band: Blue Stingrays- "Green Sea" Junior Brown- "Rock-A-Hula Baby" T

We're continuing our Top 5 Countdown of YOUR favorite songs by The Beach Boys this week as hear tunes #3 and #2.  Beth Riley also has a deep track from them in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break.  We've got a trio of tunes with "Watusi" in the title from Reverend Horton Heat, Duane Eddy and The Ventures plus we'll drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week!  Plus, we've got tunes from Brian Setzer, The Swongos, D. Clayton Thompson, Mark Malibu & The Wasagas (from the Hallmark Guitars compilation, Kustom Kings Ride Again), Jeffrey Foskett, Johnny Burnette, Escape The Tube, The Surf Raiders, The 5.6.7.8's, Los Blue Marinos, Coffin Daggers and Los Freneticos!    Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys   Brian Setzer- "Drip Drop" Jeffrey Foskett- "Sunshine All The Time" The Swangos- "Cardboard Creature" The Coffin Daggers- "Flowers In The Rain" Los Freneticos- "Americana Twist"   "Watusi" theme: Duane Eddy- "Wild Watusi" The Ventures- "The Wah-Watusi" Reverend Horto

It's a party on this week's Catching A Wave!  We hear a trio of "party" themed tunes from Annette, The Surfrajettes and Los Straitjackets with The World Famous Pontani Sisters and Kaiser George.  We hear #5 and #4 in our Top 5 Countdown of YOUR favorite songs by The Beach Boys.  Beth Riley has a deep track from The Beach Boys as well 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 (a song you may know by The Monkees but this band did it first).  Plus, we've got The Grip Weeds, La Luz, Little Kahuna, Black Flamingos, Supraphonics, Big Mick & The Curl, Southern Culture On The Skids, The B. Christopher Band, Twang Inspectors and The Surf Hermits all joining in on the party! Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys   Big Mick & The Curl- "67 Impala" Black Flamingos- "Feathery" Little Kahuna- "Little Kahuna" Twang Inspectors- "Snails On Speed" The Surf Hermits- "Palaver In The Desert"   Trio of "Party" themed tunes: Annette-

September may be coming to a close soon but things are still hot here on Catching A Wave.  We've got tunes from Greg Townson, The Volcanics, Slowey & The Boats, The Hang Ten Gallon Hats, The Tourmaliners, Junior Brown, Louie & The Wolf Gang, The Anderson Council, The Guantanamos, Satan's Pilgrims, The Routes, Mark Malibu & The Wasagas and more!  We've got a Two-Nami in the forecast with 2 in a row featuring Danny Amis.  Beth Riley has a toe-tapping 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   Greg Townson- "Go Go Power" Junior Brown- "Surf Medley" Louie & The Wolf Gang- "What The S___urf" The Hang Ten Gallon Hats- "Surf Session At Sunset" The Anderson Council- "Fire Island" The Guantanamos- "Guantanamos Twist" The Tourmaliners- "Amber" The Bomboras- "Riot City"   Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break: The Beach Boys- "Take A Load Off Your Fe

We've got an action packed hour of rockin' vintage and modern tunes for you on this week's Catching A Wave!  We'll hear a trio of tunes with "California" in the title from Cheap Trick, Dick Dale and Lenny Kravitz.  Beth Riley has a cool deep track from The Beach Boys in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break, we board the Catching A Wave Time Machine to hear 3 songs in the top 100 for the week ending October 17th, 1964 and we'll drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week!  Plus, we've got killer tunes from Didi Wray (feat. Señor Chancho), Jason Janik, Ramones, Wiped Out, The Hi-Tide Orchestra, The Coguaros, Marvin Etzioni, The Tremolo Beer Gut, Blackball Bandits, The Cudas and Bamboogie Injections! Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys   The Hi-Tide Orchestra- "Akaw!" Didi Wray (feat. Señor Chancho)- "One Step Beyond" The Tremolo Beer Gut- "Jive Jimmie Juma" Bamboogie Injections- "Marsfield Engineer" Blackball Bandits- "Down The Poisoned River"   Trio of "Cal

Hold on for a wild surf this hour on Catching A Wave!  Beth Riley has a deep track of The Beach Boys in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break.  Plus, Mike Love talks about another family group influence on The Beach Boys...The Everly Brothers...in our Green Room segment AND we spin another track from The Beach Boys Feel Flows box set later too.  Of course we also drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week and we also spin tunes from The Jagaloons, Surfer Joe, Trevor Lake, Introducers, Los Straitjackets, 12AX7, Underwater Bosses, The Cramps, King Of Hawaii, The Surfaris, Marmalade Wake, Black Valley Moon, La Luz, Messer Chups, The Metalunas and The Cosmic Wrays!!     Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys   The Jagaloons- "Journey To The Stars" The Cramps- "Peter Gunn" King Of Hawaii- "Man O' War" The Cosmic Wrays- "Ellen Barkin Across The 8th Dimension" La Luz- "Watching Cartoons" Black Valley Moon- "John Ashley's Eye" The Surfaris- "Wipe Out" (live)   Surf's Up: Bet

There's still a couple of weeks of Summer left...but then again it's Summer all year long here on Catching A Wave!  We've got another great Wheel Of Fun, Fun, Fun segment with covers of The Beach Boys by The Astronauts, Di Maggio Connection and The Anderson Council.  Speaking of The Beach Boys, Beth Riley has a track you'll love in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break.  We'll drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week and we've got tunes from Greg Townson, The Hang Ten Gallon Hats, Duane Eddy, Brian Setzer, Dick Dale, Lords Of Atlantis, Midnight Oil, Brian Wilson, Jim & The Sea Dragons, The Tourmaliners, The Breakers, Captain Rico & The Ghost Band and The Grip Weeds!! Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys   Greg Townson- "Goin' Wild" Brian Setzer- "Smash Up On The Highway" The Grip Weeds- "Vibrations" Lords Of Atlantis- "Long Live The King" Dick Dale- "Sloop John B" Midnight Oil- "Wedding Cake Island" Captain Rico & The Ghost Band- "Running In The Wind"