Posted by terry morgan on August 07, 2008 at 13:27:42:
In Reply to: Re: Muscle Beach Party, et al. posted by Frank Cavaliere on August 07, 2008 at 12:43:19:
Gary Usher (I believe) was music coordinator for those AIP beach movies. He also was working at Capitol as a producer and arranger and songwriter. When Dick Dale was signed to Capitol, the label wanted to make Dale's records sound more like the traditional surf record, so they assigned him briefly to Usher, who brought his session singers (who included Usher, Chuck Girard, Dick Burns, Joe Kelly, and possibly Dennis McCarthy and Glen Campbell.) I'm not sure, but the Deltones MAY have been replaced by the Wrecking Crew with Dick Dale playing lead guitar.
Also, Usher produced most of the new music tracks on those AIP beach movies.