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Surfin' Safari

Artist The Beach Boys Released 1962 Type album

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First of the 30 The Beach Boys records held here. It came a year into a run that began in 1961, the same year this tree dates Surf rock from. It is one of the four records Surf rock is listed as starting from.

From Wikipedia

Surfin' Safari is the debut studio album by the American rock band the Beach Boys, released on October 1, 1962, by Capitol Records. The official production credit went to Nick Venet, though it was Brian Wilson with his father Murry who contributed substantially to the album's production; Brian also wrote or co-wrote nine of its 12 tracks. The album reached number 32 in the US during a chart stay of 37 weeks.

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