@@robertturtle .....you can tell EXACTLY what the members of the orchestra think..... if you watch closely - some of them are slightly bopping their heads, tapping their feet and keeping time by moving their hands !
I'm almost 69 years old, and the 1st band I played in we always played this tune before our intermission break. It just brought back a flood of memories🎼🎸🥁👌
So shiny, clean cut, well mannered, who knew?😂. Love them forever for giving us the classic Pipeline; I would've taped it off radio on my reel-to-reel back then. Still great today❤
To all of the critics on here. How many of you can say you had a hit song? With or without guitar cords being plugged in... They made a classic song.... period !
The choreography is good. When one has to slide one out and it has difficulty releasing, try the different body contortions to help ease out your meatloaf.
@@thomaspick4123 Yes, the choreography is truly outstanding. You'll never see a performer today risking injury from such advanced acrobatics. One has to wonder how they got that way so young.
@@bobstuckrath1805this Music 🎼 was from the early Surf 🏄♂️ sean I remember in 1964-65 my brother followed the Ventures who covered this Song along with many other’s, my brother was real good guitar 🎸 player till he got drafted into the Army and served two years in a radar station in Alaska 1966-68 but never played guitar 🎸 again when he got discharged
At the time the Chantays and the Welk band were under contract with Dot Records. Although the Welk group was known for its traditional music on the show, featuring the Chantays may have been a way to bring in younger tv viewers. "Pipeline" has become an all-time classic surf instrumental.
Dot Records was the number one selling label in the 1950s and was successful for years under the leadership of founder Randy Wood of Morrison, TN (later Gallatin). Chantays were great.
Pipeline by the Chantays is a masterpiece. Other groups have played it. None have managed to find the magic of the Chantays. The subtle change in the middle by the piano makes all the difference.
If you like or are learning to like surf tunes, look up "Dick Dale and the Deltones". Dick is credited as being the first lead guitarist to do the "fret board pull" (that cool sound of decending notes). I met the man a couple of times when he lived in Newport Beach. Great guy, very talented, the world got a little dimmer when he passed.
Well, you get half of it. Some bass players claim the second bit makes it almost impossible to play. Our bass player said something rude and got it right first time, then he brought a 5 string and said "It's easier to play on a five".
They performed several times at The Rendezvous Ballroom in Balboa, CA. They had chops and could really play. The set lasted 2 hours and featured some great arrangements. For their closer, the sound man requested them to do "Pipeline" as a shuffle, and they did it, no sweat. I thought they were great musicians, and they influenced those of us just beginning to learn music. craig buhler, sax, Honk Band
The Rendezvous! Don’t forget Dick Dale and also the Righteous Brothers! In 1961 I bought my first car from Dale’s drummer. He had gotten drafted. It was a “54 Ford Victoria. Great first car. My friends and I had more than one encounter with the Brothers at the snack bar. Great memories! Dale drove a ’61 Cadillac Coupe De Ville, black with chrome reverse rims. First time we ever saw a luxury car with custom wheels! He lived about a mile from my house in Costa Mesa at the time. Several of my buddies’ parents were native South Coasters and had stories of the Rendesvouse from the ‘40s.
@@bfundom yes, sir, cant forget the master Dick Dale. If you're familiar with Newport Beach, then you no doubt know where Mr. Dale lived for so many years, last house facing the channel as you go to the wedge. Dick was always a master in my eyes. Nothing was better then him just grabbing a guitar and start solo playing. I got to jam with him once, I played drums (was a local band Costa Mesa, Newport back in the late 80's early 90's Darren and the O'Learys). And the Rendezvous Cafe (lol), and dont forget the Golden Bear in H.B.
I think this should be one of the greatest instrumentals and the Chantays in my opinion were ahead of their time as their showmanship and guitar and use of keyboard shows
Hahaha actually its pretty interesting because this was sort of a new sound, a "pre-beatles" sort of edgier style of rock instrumental. You can tell half of the band is taking it in but look closely and some of them are grooving a bit or tapping their hands or lightly bopping their heads. The last year of "innocence" after 1964 the world got alot more grittier and rebellious. Oh if they only knew what the rest of the decade would sound like in music haha!
Maybe some were, but being musicians themselves I think just as many appreciated what a great, unique instrumental song this was undoubtedly having heard it somewhat before this appearance.
They might have been more relaxed if they were plugged and could focus on playing versus acting. Retro classic regardless. They weren't high, angry or strung out. Landing that gig meant a lot to them.
MICHAEL DAVIS Instrument syncing creates a bit of a disconnection - like lip syncing - between the performer and audience. TV producers and sponsors were interested only in pleasing advertisers by drawing larger audiences to view top acts. Why spend on bringing in tech support to go live when it wasn't necessary?
Got it through Larry's Fender connection-all the bands back then attempted 'Steps'. Mmmm real tortoise shell pickguards-fools now think celluloid will spontaneously combust, or are too cheap to make them- even Fenders over priced 'Custom Shop' guitars have phony pickguards- Cowards...
I am 69 now and performed this last month at a fair in Huntington Beach California - Surf City. About 60 years ago I also performed it with my band. It never gets old, it's a great song everybody loves to play and listen to.
It's an act dude. Show business does not make its performers happy. Gene Krupa says this: "Played at the club until 2am then rehearsed until 5am for a recording session that started at 9am. A gig like that can leave you with a swinging headache, that's why I always have BC powder handy." It's a lot of work but the performers make it look easy and fun, it's not. These guys have gambling debts, onerous contracts, don't make much, if any, money, they get ripped off by the business men and the record labels, they get divorced, they travel all the time, they live out of a suitcase for years on the road. It's an act.
All these years later (60) & Pipeline still gets my vote for the coolest song ever. Our top local band played it at a sock hop in Jr High & it even drew more applause than when they played Wipeout.
+Kathleen Bergeron Don't forget the Stones on the Dean Martin Show, where he dissed them, and they walked off after their song without saying a word to him.
Funny. Lawrence Welk was one of the few musical shows we were allowed to watch. Frank Sinatra shows were not allowed until the three (4th child a baby) older kids could understand more about life. I liked them all. Mother's mother refused to let Frank Sinatra/Dean Martin music or TV shows in the house at all.
Both Lawrence Welk and Santa Ana's homeboys The Chantays were labelmates on Dot Records in 1963. Thus the reason The Chantays were the ONLY rock band to EVER grace Mr. Welk's stage. I'm sure some A&R executive had to twist Mr. Welk's arm to let them appear. They are so formal and polite here it makes you wonder what happened to musicians with class and manners.
This was a genre of music that ended with the beach-boys…. It’s a shame because it suffocated by the hippy psychedelic music that was ushered in by the drug culture of the mid 1960’s.
It ended because it was a musical dead-end - as fresh and singular as it was - the instrumentals all sounded remarkably similar to and derivative of one another, and so got boring and repetitious. The genre was obliterated by the Beatles, Motown and Dylan, not "hippie drug music"... @@Slo-ryde
@@flamencoprof sure, but drug use in general was limited to a subculture before the mid 60’s, and was seen as taboo by the main culture…. But it entered the mainstream in the mid to late 60’s as part of the turmoil that flooded the society at that time.
Totally random but Mr. Warren Waters was my 5th grade sub in the early 90s. He subbed all year because our teacher was out on leave. He would play the guitar and sing for us all the time during breaks, including playing this song. So cool.
On this day in 1963 {May 18th} the Chantay's performed "Pipeline" on the ABC-TV Saturday-evening program 'The Lawrence Welk Show'... At the time "Pipeline" was at position #6 on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart, two weeks earlier it had peaked at #4 {for 2 weeks} and it spent sixteen weeks on the Top 100... "Pipeline" was the the California band's only Top 100 record... And on the day of their 'Welk' appearance "Pipeline' peaked at #11 {for 1 week} on Billboard's Hot R&B Singles chart... "Pipeline" was track one of side one on the group's album of the same name, one month later on June 30th, 1963 the album peaked at #26 {for 1 week} on Billboard's Top 150 Albums chart... Note: This is just an assumption, but could it be that Mr. Welk invited the group to be on his show because their were both Dot Records' label mates??? In addition, later in 1963 Lawrence Welk released an album titled 'Scarlett O'Hara', on September 29th, 1963 it peaked at #34 on the Top 150 Albums chart, and track six on side one of the album was Mr. Welk's covered version of "Pipeline" {and of course it's available on You Tube}... And two days before the Chantay's appearance on the show, Mr. Welk celebrated his 60th birthday...
I think that's an excellent observation, that they were on the same label. It would make total sense to get some TV exposure for the Chantays by having them on the Welk show. Same with having Welk cover each and every one of their hit.
who cares live or not, the clip is real, the song is immortal, it's the song I must played on piano, and millions of us surfers have danced to it moving like we're paddling for and riding on a wave, a Pipeline musical eternal endless summer wave
Learned to swim about 40-50 miles south of Pipeline in 1956-7. Bellows Field. Was 4-5 yrs old. Remember it like it happened yesterday. Edit: apologies for the rant….
No its a different Bob Welch. Supposedly they did have Steve Kahn play drums---he's now a respected jazz and studio guitarist (Steely Dan) but they don't mention him anywhere on their website or their wiki article.
Loved watching and the music was great, BUT as we notice in the video clip they are not playing acoustic guitars which would mean the guitars are electric. No sign of power cords running to the guitars or amplifiers in sight ..LOL
We all can play that intro, but none like Brian Carman. His glissandos were rather unique. I'm sure none of those orchestra musicians wrote such an everlasting hit as Pipeline. Heads off to Chantays !!
Of course this music (SURF) has nothing to do with the funky genre which, with all due respect, those who perform it see success with binoculars. ruclips.net/video/ldTTVrfP3iY/видео.html *FIREBALL💛MAIL* Surf-Rock guitar in the style of *Duane 💚Eddy*
These songs bring back so many memories, when this song would come on the radio, instantly my Dad would start dancing, to see him do this no matter what was going, didn't matter it was Dance time, just friggin funny.
Welk hated rock music so this is really a rare moment. He also wouldn't allow anyone to do anything live because he was so afraid of mistakes (the Lennon sisters complained about this later). Check out when the Lennon Sisters actually sing "the Watusi" on Welk (another rare occurrence): he has them all covered up in these gigantic sweaters. He really was uptight.
He picked up master for "Pipeline" when it was apparent it could be a bigger hit and distributed it on Lawrence Welk's own lane, Dot Records. Good business man, yes?
The choreography was supposed to distract you from noticing they were unplugged and you were listening to a recording. It was a shame so many groups had to fake play to their recordings for TV in those days.
Yeah right. Five arrangers, three orchestrators, 7 copyists, three days of rehearsal, 28 takes, two days. and $200,000 later you'd have had a real piece of film. Or, just do it this way and you pay five guys union scale and everybody's out by lunch.
Dot Record obtained "Pipeline" by the Chantays (spelled "Chantay's" on the label) and released it nationally as Dot 16440. It rode the wave to #4, prompting Dot to re-release the Chantays' Downey 1002 album as Dot DLP-3516/25516. The Chantays were from Santa Ana, California, and included Bob Spickard on lead guitar, Brian Carmen on rhythm guitar, Rob Marshall on piano, Warren Walters on bass, and drummer Bob Welch. Spickard and Carmen had originally titled the song "44 Magnum," but renamed it after seeing a surfing film in 1962. After Dot obtained the single, they put on a PR press, and arranged for the group to appear on the Lawrence Welk television show. In 1966, the song became popular again, making top-10 in some cities like Chicago. Dot issued a second album by the Chantays that year called Two Sides of the Chantays, Dot DLP-3771/25771, which featured one instrumental side and one vocal side.
Just because they are miming their performance is no way comparable to Milli Vanilli. This was very common for performances on TV back in the 60s and 70s. Hardly any artists that appeared on American Bandstand actually performed live. They were lip-syncing the songs. On shows like Ed Sullivan, artists would sing live to the prerecorded instrumental track.
You have to give Lawrence Welk credit for trying a rock 'n roll band on his show. Mr. Welk was a Swing Man & could have had animosity to Rockers for steering the kids away from Swing & Big Band music ( In the Mid-50s U.S. - Early 60s U.K. ). He could recognize good musicians regardless of musical genre!
@@mikebarker9187 - It hard to say what the actual circumstance was, but somebody had some " pull " and was able to get The Chantays on his show. Perhaps the original members of The Chantays could tell us the story?
Lawrence Welk was a Dot Records artist in the early 1960's... the Chantays were also. I think there must have been some real "arm-twisting" to get Mr. Welk's approval to allow the Chantays to perform on his show. Great clip... wish they were playing "live."
Welk did complain of facing pressures from ABC to be more hip (allegedly that's what led to the infamous performance of "One Toke Over the Line" several years later) and you can tell he's uncomfortable introducing these kids. They handled it as well as anyone could ask of them.
Showing instrumental groups on TV is a challenge. Here the boys dress sharp and do some moves. They are told to smile and be polite. Lawrence Welk's TV show had an older following. He played bubbly"champagne music". He did have some good guitar players in his orchestra--Buddy Merrill and Neil LeVang. I would drool at seeing a Jazzmaster guitar and Stratocaster guitar being played by Neil and Buddy on TV. When the Ventures played 'Walk Don't Run" on the Dick Clark show they were told to move around a bit so they would not look so wooden and jazz things up a bit. They looked nervous but it came out okay. By the way--the pastor at my Church told about giving his first sermon in a Catholic Church. He looks up to see Mr. Lawrence Welk and family in the congregation !. He skipped a beat and carried on !
I remember seeing this on TV in the ‘60s The song came out in 1962 or ‘63, and that was when I started playing guitar (‘62-I was 12. I tried to work out Pipeline on my nylon-string acoustic guitar-it didn’t sound right on the acoustic, and I wasn’t using a pick yet, so the tremolo-picked glissando didn’t sound good; I was doing it with my index fingernail, up and down as fast as I could get it. I finally got it to where I could play it at the right tempo. A couple of years later I got an electric guitar and started using a pick, but that glissando was harder for me with the pick! 60 years later I still can’t pick that glissando up to speed! On the occasions when I have to play that song, I use the second finger for the glissando. It still works, but I don’t get the same attack that I would playing it with a pick, and I use pick and fingers for virtually everything else. I was a (mostly) working pro for 55 years, so it didn’t really cause me any trouble. Lucky for me I’m not a mandolin player!
Прекрасная музыка была !! И никакого деградирующего клубняка - " музыки " для нынешних ночных клубов и никакого примитивного рэпа. Тогда была тёплая, душевная музыка, мелодичная и человечная.
I remember listening to this song on my 2.00 transistor radio when I was a kid. 2 bucks was a lot of money then. Refund on pop bottles was 2 cents, quarts were 5 cents. The good ol days!
= Parents. Real parents. And spanking (which is necessary for under 8-year olds; you can't "reason" with them by talking like some dumb____ women today think).
The Lawrence Welk Show. Well known for bringing live music to everyone's living room. But; they still follow the American T.V. formula of making these guys "pretend to play" while a recording does the actual musical performance.
90% of the pop music performances on television were either lip synced to the hit record, or the vocal was done "live to track" (i.e. the instrumental mix)
1973 Hindi movie thriller named "36 Ghante" or "36 hours" has used this tune, scene of lady dancing to this tune in the hotel where fiancee of bank robber has come to hand over the robbed money to the owner of the house which has been taken hostage by the robbers- cast : Sunil Dutt, Danny Denzongpa, Ranjeet, Raj Kumar
Amazing these young kids had no idea that their song would not only hit big, but remain a musical treasure for decades after
So true. 😊
I wonder what those musicians in the orchestra were thinking... It must been mind blowing seeing those kids rock the show away
@@robertturtle .....you can tell EXACTLY what the members of the orchestra think.....
if you watch closely - some of them are slightly bopping their heads,
tapping their feet and keeping time by moving their hands !
So good that even the Ventures covered it!
@@felixmadison5736 And also Stevie Ray Vaughan with Dick Dale did a great version of it.
I'm almost 69 years old, and the 1st band I played in we always played this tune before our intermission break. It just brought back a flood of memories🎼🎸🥁👌
Das sind noch echte Musiker
After 60 years this song sounds GREAT!
AMEN! COWABUNGA!
TOTALLY!.
maybe because they played their record instead of plugging in...
Uhm… it does?
Sounds like some guys who just found out it’s not as easy to copy The Shadows as they thought…
Don’t know why, but I had always thought this song was by the VENTURES
This was road trip music, rolling down the highway on a warm summer night, hearing this on the radio....
My brother driving a 64 Chevy Impala, listening to this song on 8 Track, yep, brings back many memories.
Yeah. Days were so much longer back then...
Друг я из России, я тебя понимаю...
Man, I was 14 years-old in 1963, and I remember this song playing over the radio like it was yesterday! All us teens had this 45.
I was in diapers but remember this song
@@tonynewburey8900 You've got a great memory!!!
1947 here
@@tonynewburey8900I heard it coming through my mother’s naval
@@paulauerbach2874 Do remember her dancing around the house to this song?
So shiny, clean cut, well mannered, who knew?😂. Love them forever for giving us the classic Pipeline; I would've taped it off radio on my reel-to-reel back then. Still great today❤
To all of the critics on here. How many of you can say you had a hit song? With or without guitar cords being plugged in... They made a classic song.... period !
Amen!!
The choreography is good. When one has to slide one out and it has difficulty releasing, try the different body contortions to help ease out your meatloaf.
Looks are deceiving.
@@thomaspick4123 Yes, the choreography is truly outstanding. You'll never see a performer today risking injury from such advanced acrobatics. One has to wonder how they got that way so young.
@@bobstuckrath1805this Music 🎼 was from the early Surf 🏄♂️ sean
I remember in 1964-65 my brother followed the Ventures who covered this Song along with many other’s, my brother was real good guitar 🎸 player till he got drafted into the Army and served two years in a radar station in Alaska 1966-68 but never played guitar 🎸 again when he got discharged
At the time the Chantays and the Welk band were under contract with Dot Records. Although the Welk group was known for its traditional music on the show, featuring the Chantays may have been a way to bring in younger tv viewers. "Pipeline" has become an all-time classic surf instrumental.
Excellent observation my friend 👍
Dot Records was the number one selling label in the 1950s and was successful for years under the leadership of founder Randy Wood of Morrison, TN (later Gallatin). Chantays were great.
I've even played it with a 3 piece band. 2 guitars and drums.
And the ABC television network.
One of the best Surf tunes ever.
👍🏻👈🏻🎶
And a well turned out group of talented young men performing it.
The sound of Fender Guitars, Fender Reverb and a Wurlitzer Electric Piano. Can't get much better than that.
You definitely can’t. I grew up in that era and played many of those songs.
Especially when they plugged in.
@@earthman3000 Well, they were plugged in at the recording studio, where the sound originated.
@@earthman3000 Tell that steaming pile Beyonce to plug in
Actually that was recorded on cheap off brand guitars/equipment. They were able to buy the nice Fender stuff after it became a hit
Pipeline by the Chantays is a masterpiece. Other groups have played it. None have managed to find the magic of the Chantays. The subtle change in the middle by the piano makes all the difference.
One of the great instrumentals ever.
Whether it be the Chantays, The Ventures or the Shadows this is one of my favorite surf rock songs. What a great era for music 🎸
For me also Dick Dale & SRV.... Thank you.
Originally called "Liberty's Whip" from the movie. Luckily they changed the title and it's probably the top surf tune.
For me The Steelers are a great band with their versatile music!
🎸👍🏻👈🏻
If you like or are learning to like surf tunes, look up "Dick Dale and the Deltones". Dick is credited as being the first lead guitarist to do the "fret board pull" (that cool sound of decending notes). I met the man a couple of times when he lived in Newport Beach. Great guy, very talented, the world got a little dimmer when he passed.
Love this song. It was big when I was growing up. Those good times are gone but not forgotten. Thanks guys!
Slow it down to half speed and you get, Riders on the Storm.
Double it and you get some Calypso music.
yeh I put the bass line on my looper and play both!
Kind of !
Wow ... What a spot...
Well, you get half of it. Some bass players claim the second bit makes it almost impossible to play. Our bass player said something rude and got it right first time, then he brought a 5 string and said "It's easier to play on a five".
Classic hit. I remember listening to this on the radio when it came out. It still sounds great today.
They performed several times at The Rendezvous Ballroom in Balboa, CA. They had chops and could really play. The set lasted 2 hours and featured some great arrangements. For their closer, the sound man requested them to do "Pipeline" as a shuffle, and they did it, no sweat. I thought they were great musicians, and they influenced those of us just beginning to learn music. craig buhler, sax, Honk Band
The Rendezvous! Don’t forget Dick Dale and also the Righteous Brothers! In 1961 I bought my first car from Dale’s drummer. He had gotten drafted. It was a “54 Ford Victoria. Great first car. My friends and I had more than one encounter with the Brothers at the snack bar. Great memories! Dale drove a ’61 Cadillac Coupe De Ville, black with chrome reverse rims. First time we ever saw a luxury car with custom wheels! He lived about a mile from my house in Costa Mesa at the time. Several of my buddies’ parents were native South Coasters and had stories of the Rendesvouse from the ‘40s.
@@bfundom yes, sir, cant forget the master Dick Dale. If you're familiar with Newport Beach, then you no doubt know where Mr. Dale lived for so many years, last house facing the channel as you go to the wedge. Dick was always a master in my eyes. Nothing was better then him just grabbing a guitar and start solo playing. I got to jam with him once, I played drums (was a local band Costa Mesa, Newport back in the late 80's early 90's Darren and the O'Learys). And the Rendezvous Cafe (lol), and dont forget the Golden Bear in H.B.
Wireless technology way back in 1963. Awesome.
Got a kick outta that also. "Guitar lip synching".
The drummer has a wireless bass drum foot pedal.
Miming to the studio recording was common on television shows back then.
But The Beatles were live on Sullivan. He insisted.
@@WallyBernhardt Amazing that there is such a thing as a wireless electric piano...
I think this should be one of the greatest instrumentals and the Chantays in my opinion were ahead of their time as their showmanship and guitar and use of keyboard shows
Lawrence's band is sitting back there going, "What the f#&k?"
+newerafrican LOL
+newerafrican Lawrence who?
Hahaha actually its pretty interesting because this was sort of a new sound, a "pre-beatles" sort of edgier style of rock instrumental. You can tell half of the band is taking it in but look closely and some of them are grooving a bit or tapping their hands or lightly bopping their heads. The last year of "innocence" after 1964 the world got alot more grittier and rebellious. Oh if they only knew what the rest of the decade would sound like in music haha!
Maybe some were, but being musicians themselves I think just as many appreciated what a great, unique instrumental song this was undoubtedly having heard it somewhat before this appearance.
No, they were thinking "I can't believe I'm getting paid to watch these yo-yos shimmy. They better not call us late for lunch."
The Chantay's Nehru jackets pre-date The Beatles wearing them...just sayin....
In 2024 this shit still rocks
.......give some credit to Lawrence Welk for having the vision to put them on his show !
Just heard a remake on The Sopranos. This and Telstar were my favorites.
ur right but at 75yrs old now IVE LOST THE MOVES lol
They might have been more relaxed if they were plugged and could focus on playing versus acting. Retro classic regardless. They weren't high, angry or strung out. Landing that gig meant a lot to them.
+Evan Thompson I agree!
MICHAEL DAVIS Instrument syncing creates a bit of a disconnection - like lip syncing - between the performer and audience. TV producers and sponsors were interested only in pleasing advertisers by drawing larger audiences to view top acts. Why spend on bringing in tech support to go live when it wasn't necessary?
+MICHAEL DAVIS Me three!
Got it through Larry's Fender connection-all the bands back then attempted 'Steps'. Mmmm real tortoise shell pickguards-fools now think celluloid will spontaneously combust, or are too cheap to make them- even Fenders over priced 'Custom Shop' guitars have phony pickguards- Cowards...
seems , unplugged
This song is an instant reminisce of the early 60's....still a thrill to hear!
I remember when this came out, Still sounds great in 2024!
I am 69 now and performed this last month at a fair in Huntington Beach California - Surf City. About 60 years ago I also performed it with my band. It never gets old, it's a great song everybody loves to play and listen to.
OUTSTANDING!
Surf rock...this is a forever classic...look how happy they are...😂😂😂
And so young.
AND so square. Trifecta.
It's an act dude. Show business does not make its performers happy. Gene Krupa says this: "Played at the club until 2am then rehearsed until 5am for a recording session that started at 9am. A gig like that can leave you with a swinging headache, that's why I always have BC powder handy." It's a lot of work but the performers make it look easy and fun, it's not. These guys have gambling debts, onerous contracts, don't make much, if any, money, they get ripped off by the business men and the record labels, they get divorced, they travel all the time, they live out of a suitcase for years on the road. It's an act.
love these guys, I played this song many a times with my band in Lahaina in the surfin 60s..awesome Chantays and Pipeline
thanks for the great post
I feel so lucky to be related to one of the band members. :)
Which one four yrs later
which one, that lady in the back snapping her fingers ? awsome!
@@jimicmore1895 I really the answer to your question....
Rad
@@jimicmore1895 Which one? Five years later…..
All these years later (60) & Pipeline still gets my vote for the coolest song ever. Our top local band played it at a sock hop in Jr High & it even drew more applause than when they played Wipeout.
Well, I guess if Buddy Holly can do "Peggy Sue" on Arthur Murray's Dance Party, these guys can do Lawrence Welk.
+Kathleen Bergeron Don't forget the Stones on the Dean Martin Show, where he dissed them, and they walked off after their song without saying a word to him.
Hello Kathleen, How are you doing?
This song still gives me chills. Soo good!
Hello Barbara, How are you doing?
It's not a song it's instrumental
I had to watch the Lawrence Welk show every week with my grandfather. He saw this come on and threw his shoe at the television!
Maybe he had flashbacks of the civil war.
Funny. Lawrence Welk was one of the few musical shows we were allowed to watch. Frank Sinatra shows were not allowed until the three (4th child a baby) older kids could understand more about life. I liked them all. Mother's mother refused to let Frank Sinatra/Dean Martin music or TV shows in the house at all.
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😂😂😂😂
Both Lawrence Welk and Santa Ana's homeboys The Chantays were labelmates on Dot Records in 1963. Thus the reason The Chantays were the ONLY rock band to EVER grace Mr. Welk's stage. I'm sure some A&R executive had to twist Mr. Welk's arm to let them appear. They are so formal and polite here it makes you wonder what happened to musicians with class and manners.
Brewer and Shipley performed their hit One Toke Over the Line (sweet Jesus) on Welk’s show. Well was told it was a modern spiritual.
IIRC he also had the Tornadoes on his show playing “Telstar”
Lawrence was in the neighborhood (sort of). At one time, he had roots in Fallbrook (No. San Diego County).
?Couldn't stand the Welk show, but this is classic.
These guys were REALLY ahead of their time - no wires anywhere!
LOL Telepathic sounds
This was a genre of music that ended with the beach-boys…. It’s a shame because it suffocated by the hippy psychedelic music that was ushered in by the drug culture of the mid 1960’s.
It ended because it was a musical dead-end - as fresh and singular as it was - the instrumentals all sounded remarkably similar to and derivative of one another, and so got boring and repetitious. The genre was obliterated by the Beatles, Motown and Dylan, not "hippie drug music"... @@Slo-ryde
@@Slo-ryde So, no surfers ever used drugs?
@@flamencoprof sure, but drug use in general was limited to a subculture before the mid 60’s, and was seen as taboo by the main culture…. But it entered the mainstream in the mid to late 60’s as part of the turmoil that flooded the society at that time.
Totally random but Mr. Warren Waters was my 5th grade sub in the early 90s. He subbed all year because our teacher was out on leave. He would play the guitar and sing for us all the time during breaks, including playing this song. So cool.
What school??
Did he have his guitar plugged in then???
Wendy Barnes it was a school in Orange County in SoCal!
Thomas Foss it was a long time ago, I believe he played acoustic
That’s awesome
More than 140 bands played this song but the Chantays were the first.
'Cause they (Bob Spickard and Brian Carman) wrote the immortal surf tune.
Sounds like my wife.
On this day in 1963 {May 18th} the Chantay's performed "Pipeline" on the ABC-TV Saturday-evening program 'The Lawrence Welk Show'...
At the time "Pipeline" was at position #6 on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart, two weeks earlier it had peaked at #4 {for 2 weeks} and it spent sixteen weeks on the Top 100...
"Pipeline" was the the California band's only Top 100 record...
And on the day of their 'Welk' appearance "Pipeline' peaked at #11 {for 1 week} on Billboard's Hot R&B Singles chart...
"Pipeline" was track one of side one on the group's album of the same name, one month later on June 30th, 1963 the album peaked at #26 {for 1 week} on Billboard's Top 150 Albums chart...
Note: This is just an assumption, but could it be that Mr. Welk invited the group to be on his show because their were both Dot Records' label mates???
In addition, later in 1963 Lawrence Welk released an album titled 'Scarlett O'Hara', on September 29th, 1963 it peaked at #34 on the Top 150 Albums chart, and track six on side one of the album was Mr. Welk's covered version of "Pipeline" {and of course it's available on You Tube}...
And two days before the Chantay's appearance on the show, Mr. Welk celebrated his 60th birthday...
I think that's an excellent observation, that they were on the same label. It would make total sense to get some TV exposure for the Chantays by having them on the Welk show. Same with having Welk cover each and every one of their hit.
who cares live or not, the clip is real, the song is immortal, it's the song I must played on piano, and millions of us surfers have danced to it moving like we're paddling for and riding on a wave, a Pipeline musical eternal endless summer wave
Sometimes a song is more than just a song.
Learned to swim about 40-50 miles south of Pipeline in 1956-7. Bellows Field. Was 4-5 yrs old. Remember it like it happened yesterday.
Edit: apologies for the rant….
Somebody forgot to plug the guitars in!
And made them dance, for probably the first time in their musical careers.
and to put mics on the drums...
Somebody forgot to plug your brain in.
It is so melodically reminiscent of the ocean...I could listen to this over and over...like watching the waves...
Thanks! That is one great comment! Well thought out, and that feeling fitted to the song itself!
Tune in next week when The Surfaris perform Wipe Out on "Sing Along With Mitch" 😁😁😁
Wow!! Bob Welch of Fleetwood Mac ,and later Ebony Eyes, Precious Love, Sentimental Lady, Played drums for the chantays!!
No its a different Bob Welch. Supposedly they did have Steve Kahn play drums---he's now a respected jazz and studio guitarist (Steely Dan) but they don't mention him anywhere on their website or their wiki article.
Loved watching and the music was great, BUT as we notice in the video clip they are not playing acoustic guitars which would mean the guitars are electric. No sign of power cords running to the guitars or amplifiers in sight ..LOL
Am 67, back here in Sri Lanka this is big time. Clean cut and fabulous. Love them . Am still rocking. Believe am twenty.
So good they didn’t even need amplifiers! 🎸
or a bass drum pedal
Or any power to the Wurlitzer e-piano.
They just mimed the original recording.
@@prycerobertson4695Thanks Captain Obvious.
4 electric instruments and not a cord in sight .
It was pretty common for groups to fake it to the recording when performing on TV shows in those days.
We all can play that intro, but none like Brian Carman. His glissandos were rather unique. I'm sure none of those orchestra musicians wrote such an everlasting hit as Pipeline. Heads off to Chantays !!
"Glissandos". ! (reverb slide down the neck at intro). I called it "fishtailing". I didn't know how to explain it to my instrumental band !
No actually.....not all of us can play it.
As Lawrence Welk would say: "Play that funky music white boy"
LOL.
correction...."Play that-ah funky music, ah whiteboy!
Of course this music (SURF) has nothing to do with the funky genre which, with all due respect, those who perform it see success with binoculars. ruclips.net/video/ldTTVrfP3iY/видео.html *FIREBALL💛MAIL* Surf-Rock guitar in the style of *Duane 💚Eddy*
And now we will hear da lovely Lennon Sisters sing "I Can't Get No Satisfaction" 😁😁😁
Lawrence never said that. He said "and ah one and ah two and ah Pipeline out da wazoo."
They were great, surf music rules!
Love Pipeline, very popular song then and still popular today.
Look how handsome and sharp these young men look! I remember when the "surf sound" was the big thing.
A classic surf instrumental. One of the best of all time.
great group from Santa Ana, Calif
These songs bring back so many memories, when this song would come on the radio, instantly my Dad would start dancing, to see him do this no matter what was going, didn't matter it was Dance time, just friggin funny.
Welk hated rock music so this is really a rare moment. He also wouldn't allow anyone to do anything live because he was so afraid of mistakes (the Lennon sisters complained about this later). Check out when the Lennon Sisters actually sing "the Watusi" on Welk (another rare occurrence): he has them all covered up in these gigantic sweaters. He really was uptight.
Loosen him up a little and we got Billy Idol and Sid Viscious.
I CANT BELIEVE THEY WERE ON LAWRENCE WELK!!!!!! THIS BLOWS MY MIND!!
He picked up master for "Pipeline" when it was apparent it could be a bigger hit and distributed it on Lawrence Welk's own lane, Dot Records. Good business man, yes?
They really got a great tone out of their invisible amps.
The choreography was supposed to distract you from noticing they were unplugged and you were listening to a recording. It was a shame so many groups had to fake play to their recordings for TV in those days.
Damn! I thought that they had wireless pickups!@@russhenson5506
I know right. They look so stupid…bwahaha
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This is priceless! I wonder who came up with the choreography - possibly it may have influenced ZZ Top!
Hhahaha....I thought of that too.
Should have pluged in and let the LWs band join in would have been a jam. Great song
Yeah right. Five arrangers, three orchestrators, 7 copyists, three days of rehearsal, 28 takes, two days. and $200,000 later you'd have had a real piece of film. Or, just do it this way and you pay five guys union scale and everybody's out by lunch.
When gas was 25 cents per gallon
17 cents in Phoenix.
Gas was not 25¢/gallon in 1963. It went up towards 50¢/gallon with the gas shortage in 1973.
Dot Record obtained "Pipeline" by the Chantays (spelled "Chantay's" on the label) and released it nationally as Dot 16440. It rode the wave to #4, prompting Dot to re-release the Chantays' Downey 1002 album as Dot DLP-3516/25516. The Chantays were from Santa Ana, California, and included Bob Spickard on lead guitar, Brian Carmen on rhythm guitar, Rob Marshall on piano, Warren Walters on bass, and drummer Bob Welch. Spickard and Carmen had originally titled the song "44 Magnum," but renamed it after seeing a surfing film in 1962. After Dot obtained the single, they put on a PR press, and arranged for the group to appear on the Lawrence Welk television show. In 1966, the song became popular again, making top-10 in some cities like Chicago. Dot issued a second album by the Chantays that year called Two Sides of the Chantays, Dot DLP-3771/25771, which featured one instrumental side and one vocal side.
My understanding is that "The Chantays" was the only band that surfed and live the beach lifestyle.
Just because they are miming their performance is no way comparable to Milli Vanilli. This was very common for performances on TV back in the 60s and 70s. Hardly any artists that appeared on American Bandstand actually performed live. They were lip-syncing the songs. On shows like Ed Sullivan, artists would sing live to the prerecorded instrumental track.
but they didn't :"play it now" someone played the record now.
You have to give Lawrence Welk credit for trying a rock 'n roll band on his show. Mr. Welk was a Swing Man & could have had animosity to Rockers for steering the kids away from Swing & Big Band music ( In the Mid-50s U.S. - Early 60s U.K. ). He could recognize good musicians regardless of musical genre!
I suspect he hated the corporate company demand to put the guitar band on his Geritol show.
@@mikebarker9187 - It hard to say what the actual circumstance was, but somebody had some " pull " and was able to get The Chantays on his show. Perhaps the original members of The Chantays could tell us the story?
pete you think positively @
Lawrence Welk was a Dot Records artist in the early 1960's... the Chantays were also. I think there must have been some real "arm-twisting" to get Mr. Welk's approval to allow the Chantays to perform on his show. Great clip... wish they were playing "live."
+Fred Hoyt your right, or maybe a gun held up to Lawrence Welk's heads. This was a show only grown ups watch.
Welk did complain of facing pressures from ABC to be more hip (allegedly that's what led to the infamous performance of "One Toke Over the Line" several years later) and you can tell he's uncomfortable introducing these kids. They handled it as well as anyone could ask of them.
Nothing wrong with "staying in your lane"
A great timeless song!
It also captures the nature of that particular wave.
There was a sense of melodic beauty to be found in most instrumentals back then..
And also in your personality.
@@TheLarryBrown Never saw it that way before. Yes.
Showing instrumental groups on TV is a challenge. Here the boys dress sharp and do some moves. They are told to smile and be polite. Lawrence Welk's TV show had an older following. He played bubbly"champagne music". He did have some good guitar players in his orchestra--Buddy Merrill and Neil LeVang. I would drool at seeing a Jazzmaster guitar and Stratocaster guitar being played by Neil and Buddy on TV. When the Ventures played 'Walk Don't Run" on the Dick Clark show they were told to move around a bit so they would not look so wooden and jazz things up a bit. They looked nervous but it came out okay. By the way--the pastor at my Church told about giving his first sermon in a Catholic Church. He looks up to see Mr. Lawrence Welk and family in the congregation !. He skipped a beat and carried on !
I guess they had wireless instruments back then? Not one guitar cable
Fking brilliant thanks for the memories I was born in 1963 Fking brilliant 👏 and never Fking die 👏 ❤️ 😀 💙
Same here. I was born in 1963 too. Love them.
I remember seeing this on TV in the ‘60s The song came out in 1962 or ‘63, and that was when I started playing guitar (‘62-I was 12. I tried to work out Pipeline on my nylon-string acoustic guitar-it didn’t sound right on the acoustic, and I wasn’t using a pick yet, so the tremolo-picked glissando didn’t sound good; I was doing it with my index fingernail, up and down as fast as I could get it. I finally got it to where I could play it at the right tempo. A couple of years later I got an electric guitar and started using a pick, but that glissando was harder for me with the pick! 60 years later I still can’t pick that glissando up to speed! On the occasions when I have to play that song, I use the second finger for the glissando. It still works, but I don’t get the same attack that I would playing it with a pick, and I use pick and fingers for virtually everything else. I was a (mostly) working pro for 55 years, so it didn’t really cause me any trouble. Lucky for me I’m not a mandolin player!
Did I go to the Elks Lodge in Santa Ana, Calif. about 55 years ago and stomp (dance) to the Chantays? Anyone remember that?
Memories of listening to this on a transistor radio when I was nine. Timeless.
RIP Brian Carman
Wow....talk about a change for the Lawrence Welk show :)
I was in Jr. High when this came out. My sister's boyfriend brought the 45 over. I played it all the time! I'm 73!
Driving in my car in SoCal when this song came out and knew I had to have it. Had never heard anything like it before.
Soooo smoooth
Прекрасная музыка была !!
И никакого деградирующего
клубняка - " музыки " для
нынешних ночных клубов
и никакого примитивного
рэпа. Тогда была тёплая,
душевная музыка,
мелодичная и человечная.
Totally AWESOME!! Great "performance" and choreography on a great song!! They never missed a beat!
Truly amazing that they were able to play it exactly like their hit single!
Exactly! ;). @@davidedmundson8402
Always loved that instrumental.
I have a 1963 Mercury Comet convertible and love to cruise listening to this. 👏👏👏
I'm pretty sure you also love to cruise without listening to this.
I remember listening to this song on my 2.00 transistor radio when I was a kid. 2 bucks was a lot of money then. Refund on pop bottles was 2 cents, quarts were 5 cents. The good ol days!
Where is the bubble machine???
Ahead of there time. One of the Greatest Instrumentals of all time.
How sad that young people back then had class, deference, courtesy, respect toward other people and themselves compared to now.
= Parents. Real parents. And spanking (which is necessary for under 8-year olds; you can't "reason" with them by talking like some dumb____ women today think).
The Lawrence Welk Show. Well known for bringing live music to everyone's living room. But; they still follow the American T.V. formula of making these guys "pretend to play" while a recording does the actual musical performance.
90% of the pop music performances on television were either lip synced to the hit record, or the vocal was done "live to track" (i.e. the instrumental mix)
1973 Hindi movie thriller named "36 Ghante" or "36 hours" has used this tune, scene of lady dancing to this tune in the hotel where fiancee of bank robber has come to hand over the robbed money to the owner of the house which has been taken hostage by the robbers- cast : Sunil Dutt, Danny Denzongpa, Ranjeet, Raj Kumar
While I admire your "actor" memory, ain't nobody here ever heard of none of that.
Now I know where The Beatles got their 1963 jackets!......or was it the other way round?
the track who start the surf music!!
h : 00:39, 19/8/2024, : Ho il 45 giri in cui la Batteria è quasi del tutto assente.- Errore di missaggio ?! : Bah .-💹✅.- ( Aldo da Verona, Italia ).-
Dad dancin began with these guys
Brilliant stuff, we so enjoyed this fabulous number! Thank you.
TEXASMUDNECK SAY BRING BACK
OLD GREAT MENERYS
Thank You Chantays Cheers all round
How many classic surf sides featured keyboard work as boss as this? Always what pushed it over the top for me