One of the coolest things about "Time is Tight" is the way the main theme kind of sneaks up on you under the background riffs. There's another Sixties song I just love that does the same thing. Okay, yeah, I'll admit it. I'm a sucker for surfer music, at least part of it. I loves me some Beach Boys and I loves me some Ventures and I loves me some Jan and Dean. But there is one, count 'em, one piece from the early 1960s surfer era that TOTALLY embodies the cool, understated, bitchin', "sneak-up-on-you" theme that is the essence of surfer cool.
Unfortunately, the Chantays unfortunately chose to unfortunately allow it to be unfortunately showcased on the unfortunately Lawrence unfortunately Welk unfortunately Show unfortunately. Unfortunately.
Dudes, I love you guys but unfortunately, "Serutan" spelled backwards is "Natures", and dudes, how could you? Hey, I loves me some '40s music and stuff, but really, Welk? Damn, guys, that hurts bad.
Well, major "make me feel even more like a geezer" stab-in-the-gut aside, here are the Chantays on the Lawrence Welk Show in 1963:
And here, to atone for embedding a Lawrence Welk Show video, is one with the studio version of the song (with suitably '60s weirdness for the video part):
Iz out!
2 months ago
2 comments:
I respect the Chantays for writing it, but the Ventures perfected it.
The Ventures' version is very admirable, but I still have to go with the Chantays.
Except for that Lawrence Welk part.
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