Thursday, March 09, 2017

Jim Fuller, R. I. P.

Oldies Music -- News: Jim Fuller, lead guitarist with the Surfaris and co-writer of their hit, "Wipe Out" (#2-1963, #16-1966) died Friday (March 3) in Monrovia, California, The "Godfather of Surf Music" was 69.

2 comments:

Rick Robinson said...

I listened to that song countless times, on the album and the car radio. That song, along with "Surf City" by Jan and Dean area couple of my favorite surf tunes - along with The Beach Boys, of course.

Deb said...

If he was 69 when he died, he must have been 15 when he wrote "Wipe Out".