One of my favourite surf records ever. This song first came out years before as a Jan And Dean record until the shipment of records was halted because somebody actually woke up to what hustling some girl on the beach was all about. Subsequently they re-recorded the vocals and released it as New Girl in school. Jan and Dean fell out of fashion and Jan had a terrible car crash and that was that. Until 1973 when Dean Torrence and Brian Wilson went into the studio and recorded a bunch of tracks as the Legendary Masked Surfers.
Not a big surf fan I listened to Jan and Dean's music because Keith Moon of the Who said they were his favourite artists. So I checked them out. Some brilliant songs. Some slightly naff songs about grannies in hot rods. In 1973 they had a hit in Melbourne with Summer Means Fun as The LMS. I was riding my bike into Blackburn, crossing over Canterbury Road when this came on the transistor radio, My radio was tied to the front of my handlebars. A bike stereo you might say. DJs in those days did strange things. This DJ played Summer Means Fun and then bang into Gonna Hustle You. 3XY goes surf. Fantastic moment. And I was riding downhill, Warm weather, wind blowing my long hair back. It could of been Malibu. Unfortunately it was Nunawading.
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