Zero to 180 – Three Minute Magic
Liz Damon and the Orient Express Band were once the house band at the Hilton Hawaiian Village whose debut album, At the Garden Bar, Hilton Hawaiian Village, was originally issued on local label, Makaha, in 1970. Enter White Whale, the indie label that likely released surf music’s final first-wave recording
In 1966 brother and sister duo, Nino Tempo and April Stevens, left Atco for White Whale, a label then enjoying commercial success with The Turtles. White Whale demonstrated their eagerness to do business with Nino and April by allowing them complete artistic freedom in the recording studio. “All Strung Out”
Zero to 180 has been working tirelessly to determine who recorded the final surf song of the original era and when. Two previous posts (A and B) featured a pair of surf tunes from 1967 that seemed to spell the end of surf’s first wave. But then I was recently
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