'66 Sunset Strip: Tiki Oasis
09.23.24
Take a trip to ’66 Sunset Strip as dublab steps into the wayback machine and revisits 1960s Hollywood nightclubs like The Trip, Hullabaloo, Whisky a Go Go and Pandora’s Box.
Monkey Bar, Friday, August 2, 2:30 to 5:15 pm
Back in the mid-1990s, Kristine Maddocks and I produced a night together called Downhear Lounge at Café Dunord on Market Street in San Francisco, in the Castro District. By 1996 it had gotten the pick for “Best DJ Night” in SF Weekly. The DJ sets I do at Tiki Oasis more recently are a return to that style for me, and it’s with great pleasure that I can share them with you the last few years via dublab.com. Be sure to check out the other episodes of ’66 SUNSET STRIP on the archive under my name, Domenic Priore.
Cover photo: Domenic Priore with Becky Ebenkamp at Tiki Oasis, 2024
Tracklist:
The Music from Marlboro Country “The Magnificent Seven” – Conducted by Elmer Bernstein
The Five Lords – High Noon (Non Mi Abbandonare) – from the Italian LP “The West in
Music: Unforgettable Film Themes”
Dick Dale & his Del-Tones – Ghost Riders in the Sky
Duane Eddy – Detour
Duane Eddy – Cannonball
Les Paul – How High The Moon (from the Phase 4 Stereo label, London Records)
Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant – Old Joe Clark (Capitol Records, ’50s)
The Maddox Brothers and Rose – Honky Tonkin’
Roy Milton and his Solid Senders – Hop, Skip and Jump
The Collins Kids – Hoy, Hoy
The Collins Kids – Mercy
Music Composed and Conducted by Harry Betts – (Theme From) The Fantastic Plastic Machine
Carol Conners – (Theme From) A Swingin’ Summer
Lalo Schifrin – (Theme From) Gone with The Wave (featuring Paul Horn, Shelly Manne,
Howard Roberts, Laurindo Almeida, Milt Holland, Jackie Kelso, Frank Rosolino, Victor
Feldman, John Pisano, Bob Bain, Joe Mondragon and Francisco Aquabella)
The Crickets – La Bamba (from the Columbia motion picture “Girls on the Beach”)
Lesley Gore – Leave Me Alone (from the Columbia motion picture “Girls on the Beach,” produced by Quincy Jones)
The Beach Boys – Little Honda (from the Columbia motion picture “Girls on the Beach,” produced by Brian Wilson)
The Catalinas – Banzai Washout (Tommy Tedesco, lead guitar, sax man Steve Douglas
wrote it; band also featured Jay Migliori on sax, Hal Blaine on drums, Leon Russell on
piano, Bruce Johnston on piano, Ray Pohlman on Fender bass, Billy Strange on guitar, Bill
Pitman on guitar, Jerry Cole on guitar. RCA Music Center of the World Studios on Sunset
Boulevard near Vine, engineered by Dave Hassinger with Gold Star’s Larry Levine,
produced by Bobby Darin’s T.M. Productions, 1964)
Santo & Johnny – Off Shore
The Exotic Sounds of Martin Denny – The Enchanted Sea
Harry Owens & his Royal Hawaiians – Song of the Islands (Capitol Records, 1957) vocal: (the original) Eddie Bush
The Waikiki Hula Boys – King Kamehameha (Columbia Records, 1954) featuring Harry
Baty (leader), Danny Stewart, Sam Koki, Pua Almeida, Sam Kaapuni, Bud Smith, Andy Iona Long.
Hawaiian Chant, Hula and Music (Folkways Records) – Pihanakalani (bamboo instrument)
The Surfers – Nane Waimea
The Surfers – Shangri-La (live at Duke Kahanamoku’s, International Marketplace, Honolulu, Hawaii)
Bud Shank – (Theme From) Barefoot Adventure (Bruce Brown film; band features Shelly
Manne, Gary Peacock, Dennis Budimir, Carmell Jones and Bob Cooper)
Duane Eddy – Ginza Lights (from his 1960s Japan-only Reprise LP “Tokyo Hits”)
The Shangaans – Afrikaan Beat (UK LP)
The Rock-A-Teens – Woo-Hoo
Link Wray – Ace of Spades (from the motion picture “Pulp Fiction”)
Link Wray – Jack the Ripper (from the motion picture “Pulp Fiction”)
Elvis Presley – Ready Teddy
Jerry Lee Lewis – High School Confidential (from the motion picture “High School Confidential”)
Gene Vincent & his Blue Caps – Race with The Devil
The Tornados – Life on Venus (produced by Joe Meek)
The Ventures – Sha La La
The Shadows – Thunderbirds Theme (from the motion picture “Thunderbirds are Go”)
The Shadows – Lady Penelope (from the motion picture “Thunderbirds are Go”)
Cliff Richard & the Shadows – Shooting Star (from the motion picture “Thunderbirds are Go”)
The Barry Gray Orchestra – (Theme From) Stingray
Bob Crewe – (Theme From) Barbarella
France Gall – Les Sucettes
France Gall – Jazz a Go Go
The Ventures – Ten Seconds to Heaven (45; really “Stranger in Paradise”)
The Islanders – (Theme From the 20th Century Fox TV Show) Adventures in Paradise
Verve Records and Esquire Magazine (Kenyon Hopkins) – Hula Shuffle
The Exotic Sounds of Martin Denny – Miserlou
Mongo Santamaria – Congobel
The Barefoot Man – No Shoe Man
Mark Laub and the Lowrey – Meleheni Mele
Tom Merrill (from EP “Music of Maui”) – Bottles & Cans
Muzzy Marcellino – On the Beach at Waikiki (from “Whistling on the Beach at Waikiki,” Coral Records)
Frankie Carle (produced ’62 by Neely Plumb) – My Little Grass Shack (In Kealakekua, Hawaii)
Bill Haley & his Comets – Crazy, Man, Crazy
Link Davis – Sixteen Chicks
The Sparkletones – Rocket
Billy Lee Riley – Flyin’ Saucers Rock ’n’ Roll
The Phantom – Love Me
Ritchie Valens – Ooh! My Head (as seen in the movie “Mr. Rock ’n’ Roll”)
Dale Hawkins – Little Pig
Eddie Cochran – C’mon, Everybody
The Astronauts – Surf Party (from the 20th Century Fox motion picture soundtrack)
Jan & Dean – Ride the Wild Surf (produced by Jan Berry, from the Columbia motion picture soundtrack)
The Aquanauts – Rumble on the Docks
Zorba and the Greeks – Shockwave
Jan & Dean – Hawaii (produced by Jan Berry)
Preston Epps – Bongo Party
Dave & the Customs – The Local
The Baymen – Bonzai (leader John Anderson was also in Eddie & the Showmen)
The Breakers – Kami-Kaze (written by Paul Johnson for The Belairs)
The Revels – Comanche (from 45; “The Detoured Theme,” originally from the motion picture “The Exiles,” then later “Pulp Fiction”)
“Barefoot Adventure” trailer (featuring Bruce Brown):
Lorrie Collins “Mercy” on Tex Ritter’s “Ranch Party” TV show
The Fantastic Plastic Machine trailer:
Ritchie Valens “Ooh My Head” from “Mr. Rock ’n’ Roll”
Cliff Richard & the Shadows test film for “Thunderbirds are Go” (1966)
The Shadows w/ Cliff Richard in “Thunderbirds are Go” (1966)
“Ride the Wild Surf” trailer:
“Barbarella” trailer:
France Gall “Jazz a Go Go” promotional film (1964)
Jerry Lee Lewis’ opening credit sequence to “High School Confidential”
“Gone with the Wave” surfing movie with Lalo Schifrin soundtrack: