[Fiji Hill]

This not a “Surfin USA “ / “Sweet Little Sixteen” thing.

How about a Chuck Berry/Clarence "Bon Ton" Garlow thing?

Route 90--Clarence "Bon Ton" Garlow (1954)

[sanjuanbob]

Good ear. Theft all the way.

[irishjuggler]

Whoa, I’ve never heard that one. Interesting.

The story I’ve read is that “Surfin USA” was originally credited to Brian Wilson, but when Chuck Berry’s people cried foul, Brian’s father Murry Wilson didn’t want litigation so he assigned 100% of the songwriting to Chuck. As the story goes, Chuck joked for years about how he was making more money off Surfin USA than his own stuff.

But perhaps Murry paid the wrong guy. Ha.