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  • As the group was about to leave, Dennis Wilson mentioned they had a song called "Surfin.'"

    Fifty-Year-Old Boys Jim Fusilli 2011

  • The laughter and applause that greets the number, a scathing Elvis Costello-style satire called Surfin 'Guantánamo Bay, suggests that, yes, they might be.

    David Ford 2010

  • The song heard is called Surfin, and it is from an album called Hello Waveforms, which from the artist named William Orbit.

    WN.com - Articles related to Changi Airport Cargo Growth Slows 2010

  • The song heard is called Surfin, and it is from an album called Hello Waveforms, which from the artist named William Orbit.

    WN.com - Articles related to Changi Airport Cargo Growth Slows 2010

  • The song heard is called Surfin, and it is from an album called Hello Waveforms, which from the artist named William Orbit.

    WN.com - Articles related to Changi Airport Cargo Growth Slows 2010

  • At the start of Wednesday's performance, volunteers from other airport jobs performed an eight-minute dance routine on the floor of the terminal, stunning passengers and enticing some to dance along to recorded songs such as Surfin' USA, Rock Around the Clock and Stayin' Alive.

    TSA choir has holiday spirit down pat at LAX 2010

  • On the other hand, the Beach Boys 'Surfin' U.S.A. -- also from 1963 (year of the plagiarism plague?) -- is way too close to Chuck Berry's 1958 Sweet Little Sixteen to have been unconscious, and Berry won the right to claim songwriting credit.

    Michael Sigman: Plagiarism: The Words and the Music 2010

  • On the other hand, the Beach Boys 'Surfin' U.S.A. -- also from 1963 (year of the plagiarism plague?) -- is way too close to Chuck Berry's 1958 Sweet Little Sixteen to have been unconscious, and Berry won the right to claim songwriting credit.

    Plagiarism: The Words and the Music 2010

  • When his younger brother Dennis persuaded him to write a song about a new teen pastime, he came up with "Surfin '," which became the Wilson brothers 'first hit and led to their reinvention as the Beach Boys.

    'American Nerd: The Story of My People' 2008

  • Consisting of three brothers, a cousin, and a friend, the young group emerged from the working-class Los Angeles suburb of Hawthorne in 1961 with "Surfin '," an unpolished paean to the local surfing craze.

    A Lost Pop Symphony Staton, Scott 2005

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