One of the defining instrumental recordings of early 1960s surf rock.
The instrumental “Miserlou,” most famously associated with Dick Dale and his band Dick Dale and the Del-Tones, is one of the defining recordings of early 1960s surf rock, though its origins reach much further back into Mediterranean folk tradition. The melody itself is a traditional tune of Middle Eastern and Eastern Mediterranean origin,
I’ve always loved music. Later in life I would make playlists on Cassette, CD’s and now on thumbdrives. With these posts I’ll reminisce about some of my all-time favorite songs.
I watched the 1934 the Universal Pictures psychological horror movie “The Black Cat” on Svengoolie. It stars two of the greatest in horror, Béla Lugosi as Dr. Vitus Werdegast and Boris Karloff as Hjalmar Poelzig. This was the first of this pairing with seven more movies to come. Black Cat was the number one movie for Universal in 1934. They hyped the move as an Edgar Allan Poe story but actually had little, more like nothing, to do with the famous writer. The name on the posters and other promotion certainly helped the movies appeal.
