This website is the Story of the RIP CHORDS from one of the two original RIP CHORDS. The RIP CHORDS recorded from 1962-1965 at Columbia Records in Hollywood, California. Please take a moment to visit the main page, and read the true story of how the RIP CHORDS started and evolved.
Interesting Links:
- WQAM 1963 Survey Listed “Here I Stand” as #16 on the March 30 ‘survey’
- WLS 1963 top 40 list — “Here I Stand” is #32 in it’s 3rd week of release, May 3, 1963
- WLS 1963 top 40 list — “Here I Stand” is # 16 in it’s sixth week of release, May 24, 1963
- Anopheles Records – Homestead & Wolfe – The Gold Star Tapes 1973-75
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| Hear selections of a few songs from these origal albums: | ||
| Hey-Little-Cobra-short Here-I-Stand-short The Queen 409 Trophy-Machine Gone-Short |
Little Deuce Coupe ’40 Ford Time She Thinks I Still Care Shut Down Drag City Ding Dong Karen |
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| Three Window Coupe Bonneville Bonnie Gas Money This Little Woodie Hot Rod U.S.A. Old Car Made In ’52 |
Surfin’ Craze Beach Girl My Big Gun Board Surf City Summer U.S.A. Big Wednesday |
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THE 2006 Columbia / Sundazed “Best of” release, says it best:NO GROUP EPITOMIZED THE SUN-SOAKED CALIFORNIA SOUND BETTER THAN THE fabulous Rip ChordsLed by legendary producer Terry Melcher along with future Beach Boy Bruce Johnston and ace-vocalists Ernie Bringas and Phil Stewart, these long-board big-guns left an indelible mark on the surf’n strip sounds of the ‘60s…. the best of the Rip Chords! 20 trophy winning tracks! |
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Click here to read Ernie’s Story of the Rip Chords
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