Surf Movie

Mark Harris and Mitch Corbett are two surfers on a mission; to discover how Californian cool arrived on Britain's bracing beaches, and grew from splashy summer fun, to a serious obsession with waves. They'll visit the most iconic surf spots around Britain's 5000 miles of rugged coastline; unraveling how the men and women of our native waters have evolved one of the most unusual and colourful surf scenes on the planet.

Mark Harris and Mitch Corbett are two surfers on a mission; to discover how Californian cool arrived on Britain's bracing beaches, and grew from splashy summer fun, to a serious obsession with waves. They'll visit the most iconic surf spots …

The story of how Britain has evolved one of the most unusual and colourful surf scenes on the planet.

To bridge the gap between volumes of “Where The Girls Are”, my oppo Malcolm Baumgart and I have taken Stephen J McParland’s recent book Bikinis, Black Denim & Bitchen Sounds* as our inspiration to concoct this fun new diversion to tide girl group buffs over. It’ll plug a few gaps in the collections of aficionados of surf, drag and hot rod music too, no doubt. The influence of California’s Beach Boys permeates “Hey, Beach Girls!” as it did the world of music in 1963. Brian Wilson and his cohorts had not long vacated the Top 3 with ‘Surfin’ USA’ when an opportunist East Coast record company exec with his eye on the latest pop fads dreamed up a plan to grab a piece of the action. Foisting the Surfer Girls moniker on a new teenage duo, he ushered them into the studio to parlay ‘Draggin’ Wagon’ to the very same tune. Meanwhile, over in Paris, France’s top girl group Les Gam’s flipped over the same Beach Boys platter to give ‘Shut Down’ their distinctive yé-yé treatment.

With the huge success recently of music from films, it's a great time for a compilation to round up the mega-hits that have come from, or been used in, films from the 60s onwards. For the first time on a compilation some of the biggest movie hits are brought together. Opening with the epic Whitney Houston blockbuster from ’The Bodyguard’, the first disc also features ‘(I’ve Had) The Time Of My Life’ from ‘Dirty Dancing’, ‘Happy’ from ‘Despicable Me 2’, and title track smashes from ‘Ghostbusters’, ‘9 to 5’ and ‘Footloose’. We’ve also included ABBA’s original version of ‘Mamma Mia’ and the fabulous ‘Grease Megamix’ which combines three huge tracks from ‘Grease’.

Mucho excitement! Movie soundtracks, soundies and shorts. 58 rockers and smoochers reaching way back to "Swing It Sister" by The Mills Brothers Swing Band from 1934 up to sax blaster Sam Butera & The Witnesses' "Twist All Night" from 1961.Set includes dance floor punishers by Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Eddie Cochran, Carl Perkins, Ritchie Valens, Bob Luman, Bill Haley plus a host of R&B soloists and vocal groups.A first-time assemblage of celluloid hipsters from the Golden Age of rockin' hysteria.Detailed liner notes with synopsis of each film.

Capitol Records/Universal Music will explore The Beach Boys‘ 1969-1971 period with a new archive release called Feel Flows – The Sunflower and Surf’s Up Sessions 1969-1971.