Quentin Tarantino's smash hit film Pulp Fiction made heavy use of rock instrumentals on its soundtrack, spurring some interest in classic instrumentals, and revitalizing Dick Dale's career.

During the mid-to late 1990s, surf rock experienced a revival with surf acts, including Dick Dale recording once more, partly due to the popularity of the movie Pulp Fiction ( 1994 ), which used Dale's " Misirlou " and other surf rock songs in the soundtrack.

Their next and last commercially-released single from the album was " Pump It ", which borrows much of its sound from " Misirlou ", specifically Dick Dale's version ; it peaked at number 8 in Australia but 18 in America.

The song eventually gained worldwide popularity through Dick Dale's 1962 American surf rock version, which was responsible for popularizing the song in Western popular culture.

The series theme tune was Dick Dale's Let's Go Trippin '.

Just months earlier, The Beach Boys released a vocal single called " Surfing Safari " Some months before The Challenger's " Surfbeat " release, surf music icon Dick Dale's first album " Surfers Choice " was released.

Sam Bolle replaced Brent Liles in January 1992, remaining with the band until May 2003, when he left to join surf guitar legend Dick Dale's band.

James brought several arrangements to the band, and they began working on such tunes as Dick Dale's Misirlou.

Notable songs include Dick Dale's now-iconic rendition of " Misirlou ", which is played during the opening credits.

Many of the songs on the soundtrack were suggested to Tarantino by musician Boyd Rice through their mutual friend Allison Anders, including Dick Dale's " Misirlou ".

* " Pipeline " ( song ), a 1963 song by surf rock band The Chantays, also recorded by Johnny Thunders, Hank Marvin, The Ventures and Dick Dale, the Del-Tones, Agent Orange, and Anthrax

Though mainstream audiences in the early sixties preferred a clean-cut style – epitomised by the acts that appeared on the Nine Network pop show Bandstand – there were a number of ' grungier ' guitar-oriented bands in major cities like Sydney and Melbourne, who were inspired by American and British instrumental and surf acts like Britain's The Shadows – who exerted an enormous influence on Australian and New Zealand music prior to the emergence of The Beatles – and American acts like guitar legend Dick Dale and The Surfaris.

" Steven Blush, author of American Hardcore: A Tribal History, describes the single as " a blend of Devo-style New Wave and Dick Dale-like surf.

It has two major forms: largely instrumental surf rock, with an electric guitar or saxophone playing the main melody, largely pioneered by Dick Dale and the Del-Tones, and vocal surf pop, including both surf ballads and dance music, often with strong harmonies that are most associated with The Beach Boys.

Their early albums included both instrumental surf rock, including covers of music by Dick Dale, and vocal songs, drawing on rock and roll and doo wop and the close harmonies of vocal pop acts like the Four Freshmen.

In the early 1960s, surf rock guitarist Dick Dale worked closely with Fender to produce custom made amplifiers, including the first 100-watt guitar amplifier.

These experiments were represented most prominently in the guitar playing of East Bay Ray, who took cues from sources such as film music ( spy movie scores and Ennio Morricone spaghetti western scores ), instrumental surf rock ( the guitar stylings of Dick Dale and George Tomsco of The Fireballs ), as well as the psychedelic music of the 60s ( especially early Pink Floyd ) with his trademark echo effects.

The surf rock craze popularized and developed by Dick Dale and The Beach Boys, began to influence garage and later punk rock, with its lighter, twangier guitar tone.

The instrumental rock and roll pioneered by performers such as Duane Eddy, Link Wray, and The Ventures was developed by Dick Dale who added distinctive " wet " reverb, rapid alternate picking, as well as Middle Eastern and Mexican influences, producing the regional hit " Let's Go Trippin '" in 1961 and launching the surf music craze.

Their early albums included both instrumental surf rock ( among them covers of music by Dick Dale ) and vocal songs, drawing on rock and roll and doo wop and the close harmonies of vocal pop acts like the Four Freshmen.

This trio released the band's 1979 debut single " Ride the Wild " / " It's a Hectic World ", with a sound that blended Devo-like New Wave and Dick Dale-style surf.

In the United States early on in their career, Dick and Dee Dee performed at California high school assemblies with the upcoming surf band, The Beach Boys.

Since the regular appearance of mechanical vibrato systems in the 1950s, they have been used by many guitarists, ranging from the gentle inflections of Chet Atkins to the exaggerated twang effects of early rocker Duane Eddy to the buoyant effects of surf music aficionados like The Ventures, The Shadows and Dick Dale to art rock innovator Frank Zappa.

blended the surf rock style of the early 1960s like that of Dick Dale and The Spotnicks with the new wave and punk rock sounds of the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Legendary surf music guitarist Dick Dale memorialized the Wedge in an eponymous 1963 instrumental piece, which is included in his Greatest Hits.

The band also played that year with surf music legend and " King of the Surf Guitar ", Dick Dale, who was on his first tour of Japan.

Groucho developed friendships with rock star Alice Cooper — the two were photographed together for Rolling Stone magazine — and television host Dick Cavett, becoming a frequent guest on Cavett's late-night talk show.

The Third Reich ' n Roll came next, a pastiche on 1960s rock and roll with an overarching Nazi theme, represented visually on the album cover, which featured Dick Clark in an SS uniform holding a carrot, with a number of Hitlers dancing on clouds behind him.

Derek William Dick, better known as Fish, ( born 25 April 1958, Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland ) is a Scottish singer, lyricist and occasional actor, best known as the former lead singer of the neo-progressive rock band Marillion.

( Johnny Otis along with Alan Freed and Dick Clark were the major powers in the growing rock and roll industry.

* Paul Revere, born Paul Revere Dick, organist and leader of the rock group Paul Revere & the Raiders

Friends since their teen years, they were both fans of R & B music, blues, Chuck Berry, Dick Dale, the Ventures, and what would later be called garage rock: they adored any music with speed, energy and a rebellious attitude.

Dick Greener of Strawbs Web, the website of folk rock band The Strawbs, said that he was " A huge comic talent, and an all round thoroughly nice guy, I know ... those who have seen Fred in the past during his long and successful career, would want to pass on their condolences to Fred's family.

The band's name is a play on the name of the 1960s rock band Dick Dale and the Del-Tones.

This recreation features Dick Biondi and includes several classic rock and pop songs of that era, contemporary commercials, and DJ patter.

Surf rock is said to have been invented by Dick Dale with his 1961 ( see 1961 in music ) album " Let's Go Trippin '".

It produced stars like Johnny Hallyday, Richard Anthony, Dick Rivers and Claude François, the popular yé-yé girls like Sylvie Vartan and France Gall and artists who fuse various music genres like Dalida, who performed multi-lingual and ethnic styles like Italian style music in 50s ; twist, pop and rock in the 60s ( and later pop, disco, reggae, new wave and rock in the 70s and 80s ).

On-air hosts on the channel include original Rolling Stones manager / producer Andrew Loog Oldham, singer / guitarist Joan Jett, former record executive Kid Leo, punk rock singer Handsome Dick Manitoba, and rock entrepreneur Kim Fowley.

The song was featured in a performance by Jerry Lee Lewis and his band in the 1957 Warner Brothers rock and roll film Jamboree, which also featured Carl Perkins, Fats Domino, Buddy Knox, and Dick Clark.

1991 also saw Sessions in the BBC drama " Jute City ", a 3-part thriller based around a sinister Masonic bunch of villains, co starring with vocalist Fish ( Derek W. Dick ) from the 1980s rock band Marillion.

His compositional efforts have included a number of film scores, notably a set of songs written for Warren Beatty's 1990 film version of Dick Tracy ; one song, " Sooner or Later ( I Always Get My Man )" ( as performed by Madonna ), won Sondheim an Academy Award.

Some of the characters also have prototypes in the ballads: Dick Deadeye is based on a character in " Woman's Gratitude " ( 1869 ); an early version of Ralph Rackstraw can be seen in " Joe Go-Lightly " ( 1867 ), with its sailor madly in love with the daughter of someone who far outranks him ; and Little Buttercup is taken almost wholesale from " The Bumboat Woman's Story " ( 1870 ).

He did come out of retirement for a 1998 miniseries version of one of his most famous films, Moby Dick, portraying Father Mapple ( played by Orson Welles in the 1956 version ), with Patrick Stewart as Captain Ahab, the role Peck played in the earlier film.

Following the retirement of Dick Grayson as Robin, a new version of the character, Jason Todd, debuted in Batman # 357 ( 1983 ).

After Bruce Wayne's apparent death during Final Crisis, Todd attempted to usurp the Mantle of the Bat by battling Tim Drake and Dick Grayson during Battle for the Cowl as a brutal and murderous version of Batman.

On Earth-Two, home of the Golden Age version of DC's superheroes, Dick Grayson continued to be Robin even as an adult, having no successors, and even after Batman's death.

The Dick Grayson version of Robin also appears in Batman: The Animated Series, voiced by Loren Lester.

When the Teen Titans animated season two, episode eleven, " Fractured ", introduced their version of Bat-Mite he stated that he was Robin's DNA buddy ( genetic twin ) and was given the more pronounceable nickname " Larry " by Beast Boy, after Larry had given the team his real name, Nosyarg Kcid or Dick Grayson spelled backwards.

Other spoken word albums included Lullaby of Christmas, narrated by Gregory Peck, a twenty minute version of Moby Dick, with Charles Laughton as Captain Ahab, and The Littlest Angel, narrated by Loretta Young.

That version became the longtime theme for the TV quiz Sports Challenge, hosted by Dick Enberg.

Dick Clark insisted the violent content of the song be toned down when Price appeared on American Bandstand but it was still the " violent " version that was on top of the R & B charts of 1959.

Shortly after the series ended, Loud appeared on The Dick Cavett Show, performing with a working version of what would later become the band " Mumps " ( which at that point included his siblings Delilah, Michelle and Kevin in the line-up ), under the name " Loud ".

Some saw The Old Gold Comedy Theater as being a lighter version of Lux Radio Theater, and it featured some of the best-known film and radio personalities of the day, including Fred Allen, June Allyson, Lucille Ball, Ralph Bellamy, Linda Darnell, Susan Hayward, Herbert Marshall, Dick Powell, Edward G. Robinson, Jane Wyman, and Alan Young, among others.

The first version of a bill to establish a commission to regulate trade was introduced on January 25, 1912, by Oklahoma congressman Dick Thompson Morgan, once known as the " father of the Federal Trade Commission.

The Monday-night version aired its last program in December 1957, but ABC gave Clark a Saturday-night time slot for The Dick Clark Saturday Night Beech-Nut Show, which originated from the Little Theatre in Manhattan, beginning on February 15, 1958.

An American feature film version from Columbia Pictures was released in 1988, directed by British veteran director Ken Annakin, starring Tami Erin as Pippi with Eileen Brennan, Dennis Dugan, John Schuck and Dick Van Patten in supporting roles.

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McMahon appeared in several films, including The Incident, Fun With Dick and Jane, Full Moon High, and Butterfly, as well as briefly in the film version of Bewitched.

McMahon had a supporting role in the original 1970's version of the movie " Fun With Dick & Jane ".

Bernstein was portrayed by Dustin Hoffman in the film version of All the President's Men, and by Bruce McCulloch in the 1999 comedy film Dick.

** NWA United States Tag Team Championship ( Tri-State version ) ( 1 time ) – with Dick Murdoch

" The Flintstones " version was called the Twitch and aired in 1962, as did " The Dick Van Dyke Show "' s Twizzle.

Dick Clark is the host most commonly associated with the show, having hosted every incarnation from 1973 – 1988, save for a 1974 – 1979 syndicated version, The $ 25, 000 Pyramid, hosted by Bill Cullen.