Dick Dale
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Dick Dale (born Richard Anthony Monsour on May 4, 1937) is an American surf rock guitarist, known as The King of the Surf Guitar. He pioneered the surf music style, drawing on Eastern musical scales and experimenting with reverberation. He worked closely with Fender to produce custom made amplifiers, including the first-ever 100-watt guitar amplifier. He pushed the limits of electric amplification technology, helping to develop new equipment that was capable of producing distorted, "thick, clearly defined tones" at "previously undreamed-of volumes." The "breakneck speed of his single-note staccato picking technique" and showmanship with the guitar is considered a precursor to heavy metal music, influencing guitarists such as Jimi Hendrix and Eddie Van Halen.
Early life
Dick Dale (singer)
Richard L. "Dick" Dale (September 14, 1926 December 26, 2014) was an American singer and musician, best known as a featured singer and saxophone player on the television variety show The Lawrence Welk Show.
A native of Algona, Iowa, he served in the United States Navy during World War II after graduation from Algona High School. His entertainment career began when he worked for several bands such as Harold Loeffelmacher and his Six Fat Dutchmen polka band. He was discovered by Lawrence Welk in 1951.
During his tenure on The Lawrence Welk Show, in addition to playing the saxophone, Dale sang not just solos but also in duets, performed in comedy sketches, dances, and also played Santa Claus for many years on the Christmas shows. Even after the show went into retirement in 1982, he continued to perform with his fellow Welk alumni. From 1990 to 1996, he co-owned and operated the Rainbow Music Theater in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee with fellow Welk star Ava Barber.
He married his wife, Marguerite, in 1949, and they had four children. After making their home in Sparks, Nevada for several years, the Dales moved back to his Iowa hometown of Algona in 2006.
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Dick Dale
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- Guitar Legend: the Very Best of Dick Dale released: 2010
- Mr Eliminator released: 2006
- Surfer's Choice released: 2006
- Spacial Disorientation released: 2002
- The Best of Dick Dale & His Del-Tones released: 1997
- Better Shred Than Dead released: 1997
- The Phantom Surfers & Dick Dale released: 1996
- Calling Up Spirits released: 1996
- Unknown Territory released: 1994
- Tribal Thunder released: 1993
- Misirlou released:
- Legend of the Surf Guitar released:
Better Shred Than Dead
Released 1997- Ooh‐Whee Marie
- Stop Teasing
- Jessie Pearl
- Let’s Go Trippin’
- Del‐Tone Rock
- Shake‐N‐Stomp
- Miserlou
- Surf Beat
- Peppermint Man
- Miserlou Twist
- A Run for Life
- Take It Off
- King of the Surf Guitar
- Hava Nagila
- Riders in the Sky
- Secret Surfin’ Spot
- The Wedge
- Night Rider
- Mag Wheels
- Mr Eliminator
- Flashing Eyes
- Banzai Washout
- Tidal Wave
- Spanish Kiss
- Angry Generation (live)
- Ramblin’ Man
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Misirlou
by: Dick DaleI love you, Pumpkin.
I love you, Honey Bunny.
Everybody be cool this is a robbery!
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