Name: Endless Summer
Brand: The Sandals

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

RLGM12411PMI

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Colour

violet

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Ultraviolet

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Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2021-07-16

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Proper

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

848064012412

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / violet

LP-RGM-1242RT

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orange

Sunburst Creamsicle

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[r19493035]

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Rough Trade Exclusive: Yes

Extended format: Yes

2021-07-09

Rough Trade NYC

848064012429

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1 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: Yes / Signed copies: No / orange

Artist

The Sandals

Genre GB

Soundtracks

Label GB

Real Gone Music

1966 surf soundtrack classic that has only been reissued once on vinyl in Japan in 1981. You never know when the magic is going to happen. Witness the saga of The Sandals' 1966 album The Endless Summer. The San Clemente, CA-based surf group The Sandells had released their album Scrambler! on the World Pacific label in 1964 to little notice when they met up with surf documentary maker Bruce Brown. Brown had already made five surf-oriented movies, also largely ignored, but had hit upon an intriguing idea for his next one: tracking two surfers across the world as they followed the Summer sun from the Northern Hemisphere to the Southern Hemisphere and back in search of the perfect wave.

Brown was just beginning to edit his footage when The Sandells played him tunes from Scrambler!, hoping to sell him a song for the film. Brown was so smitten by the music that he used a number of tunes from Scrambler!, including the classic 'Theme from Endless Summer,' which, even though it was recorded two years earlier, became the film's musical calling card.

The blend of the easygoing surf instrumentals with Brown's spectacular footage proved to be pure gold: the movie The Endless Summer ran in New York for a full year and was instrumental (no pun intended) in spreading surf culture worldwide. As for The Sandells, they changed their name to The Sandals, and re-released Scrambler! as The Endless Summer in 1966, ensuring that the album took its rightful place as one of the greatest surf instrumental records of all time.

Endless Summer

Music GB