Tally Ho!

The Surf Box - Vol.1
It may not be driven by blast beats and double bass, still one could find similarities between Surf music and Black Metal - the main one being the tremolo guitar picking, which lends itself to impressionistic land/seascape painting. Also, in its manifestation as instrumental music, Surf often evokes dark and mysterious themes, rather than images of sunkissed beachbeauties - the sea is a dangerous place after all. (Don't think one can compare the clientele for the genres, though...)

This compilation, I found in the cutout-bin and it is a cheapo-sampler , not identical with the Rhino 4-disc set of the same name, so it contains mostly stuff from the 80ies, live-material and rerecorded, even three cheesy Disco-"Surf" pieces. Nonetheless there is some classic stuff here with The Belairs, The Frogmen and most of all PJ & The Galaxies with "Tally Ho". Well, "Tally Ho" is not of the "dark and mysterious" kind, rather the opposite - it's hard to find a brighter song on this planet. In this respect it only has to compete with another "Tally Ho", the one from the New Zealanders The Clean, also one of the great wonders on this earth and a different song.
(Still another "Tally Ho!" can be found on the Trustar-Vibrations-Blog in the Surf Coasters post. Of course I had to download it, and I have to report, while retaining the connection with the origin of the expression in fox-hunting, the song hasn't quite the class of the other two Tally Hos.)

The "PJ" of The Galaxies is one Paul Johnson, who was a founding member of The Belairs, one of the first surf groups (1960) in Southern California - "Mr. Moto" arguably being the first surf single - before taking over guitar with The Galaxies in 1964. Paul Johnson seems to be quite a legendary figure - this is his website: http://www.pjmoto.com/index.html

01 - The Marketts - Out Of Limits.mp3
02 - The T-Bones - No Matter What Shape.mp3
03 - Jan&Dean - It's Such A Good Night For Dreaming.mp3
04 - The Halibuts - Mr. Mysterioso.mp3
05 - The Lively Ones - Southern Surf.mp3
06 - John Blair w The Eliminators - Depth Charge.mp3
07 - The Tornadoes - Bustin' Surfboards.mp3
08 - The Chantays - Crystal T.mp3
09 - The Frogmen - Underwater.mp3
10 - The Ventures - Pipeline.mp3
11 - Mike Gordon & The Agates - Rumble At New Port Beach.mp3
12 - The Challengers - K-39.mp3
13 - PJ & The Galaxies - Tally Ho.mp3
14 - The Belairs - Mr. Moto.mp3
15 - The Paul Johnson Band feat Randy Mitchell -
Sleepwalk.mp3
16 - The Routers - Caravan.mp3