[a fool in paradise]

In the early months of 1964, as America was in the grip of the early stages of Beatlemania, the Bird ascended to the Number Four spot on the Billboard pop singles chart, as well as becoming a smash in such far-flung locales as Australia, Sweden, Mexico and Venezuela.

[WOBBLY BOB]

The Trashmen are a rock and roll band formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1962.
The Trashmen’s most notable hit was 1963’s “Surfin’ Bird”, which reached #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the later part of that year. The song was a combination of two R&B hits by The Rivingtons, “The Bird’s the Word” and “Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow”. The earliest pressings of the single credit the Trashmen as composers, but following a threat from The Rivingtons’ legal counsel, that group was subsequently credited as composers.[citation needed] The song was later re-recorded by artists including the Ramones, The Cramps, Silverchair, Pee-Wee Herman, Equipe 84, and the thrash metal band Sodom. It has been used in movies and television shows including Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket and John Waters’ Pink Flamingos, and in the soundtrack to the video game Battlefield Vietnam.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trashmen

I can tell you from experience, not a lot of surfers in MPLS.

[Gasshog]

Nice pix. They were very clean cut Trashmen at any rate. And me like the Danelectro lyre/harp axe.