Tag: Instrumentals

Hi everyone, here is our weekly Suggested Listening and Viewing post; featuring ten songs and two streaming video recommendations, one from a mainstream service and the other from Kanopy, the library’s free to access streaming service (all you need is a library card!).

First off the music!

And this week we’re taking a list to some classic surf songs – surfs up!

Baja by The Astronauts 

 

Found on the Album: Surfin’ With The Astronauts (1963) 

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Bustin’ Surfboards by The Tornados 

 

Found on the Album: Bustin’ Surfboards (2017) 

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Let’s Go Trippin’ by Dick Dale 

 

Found on the Album: Surfer’s Choice (2006) 

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Mr. Moto by The Bel-Airs 

 

Found on the Album: Golden Echoes (1962) 

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Out of Limits by The Marketts 

 

Found on the Album: Out of Limits! (1963/2005) 

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Pipeline by The Chantays 

 

Found on the Album: Pipeline (1963/2001) 

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Soul Surfer by Johnny Fortune

Found on the Album: Soul Surfer (1963)

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Underwater by The Frogmen  

 

Found on the Album: Rock Instrumental Classics, Vol. 5: Surf (2006) (Rhino Records) 

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Walk, Don’t Run by The Ventures 

 

Found on the Album: Walk Don’t Run: The Best of the Ventures (1990) 

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Wipeout by The Surfaris 

 

Found on the Album: Wipe Out (1963) 

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Bonus Listen: Here is a song by a great guitarist & instrumentalist and granted he was not a surf music player but his music is definitely worth listening — Lonnie Mack. His first album is The Wham of that Memphis Man (1963). 

And from that album, here is the song: 

 Wham!  by Lonnie Mack

 

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And as a second bonus listen, another non-surfer & great guitar player whose music is also definitely worth checking out – although he was not just an instrumentalist – he also sang – is Freddie King and if you like guitar-centric instrumentals check out his instrumental album Let’s Hide Away and Dance Away (1961). 

And from that album, here is the original version of the song Hide Away, which Eric Clapton later recorded to great acclaim while playing with John Mayall’s Bluebreakers: 

Hide Away by Freddie King 

 

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Mainstream Stream  of the Week

Summer of ‘36 (2026) (Netflix) 

 

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Kanopy Stream of the Week

Reeling (2025) 

Reeling (2025) Trailer

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Have a great weekend!

Linda Reimer, SSCL

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Information on the four library catalogs 

The Digital Catalog aka Libby: https://stls.overdrive.com/ 

The Digital Catalog, is an online catalog containing eBooks, eAudiobooks, and digital magazines. You can use your library card and checkout content on a PC; you can also use the companion app, Libby, to access titles on your mobile devices; so you can enjoy eBooks and eAudiobooks on the go! 

All card holders of all Southern Tier Library System member libraries can check out items from the Digital Catalog. 

And The Digital Catalog/Libby features titles that may be checked out via the one-copy-one-user lending model, just like print books.  

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Hoopla Catalog: https://www.hoopladigital.com/ 

The Hoopla Catalog features on demand checkouts of eBooks, eAudiobooks, comic books, albums, movies and TV shows. Patron checkout limit is 10 items per month. 

Hoopla is a Southeast Steuben County Library service available to all Southeast Steuben County Library card holders. 

The Hoopla companion app, also called Hoopla is available for mobile devices, smart TVs & media streaming players. 

Titles in the Hoopla Catalog are available to be checked out on-demand by all library card holders, with the caveat of being able to check out a maximum of ten titles per month, per card.  

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Kanopy Catalog: https://www.kanopy.com/en 

The Kanopy Catalog features thousands of streaming videos available on demand.  

The Kanopy Catalog is available for all Southern Tier Library System member library card holders, including all Southeast Steuben County Library card holders! 

You can access the Kanopy Catalog through a web browser, or download the app to your phone, tablet or media streaming player (i.e. Roku, Google or Fire TV). 

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StarCat: The catalog of physical/traditional library materials: https://starcat.stls.org 

Card holders of all Southern Tier Library System member libraries can access StarCat to search for and request materials available at libraries through out the Southern Tier Library System.