Dale, Dick
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Dick Dale, 1963
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Dick Dale. Photo: John Severson / SURFER
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Dick Dale and his Del-Tones, 1961
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"King of the Surf Guitar" album cover, 1963
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"Surfer's Choice" LP cover, 1962
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Dick Dale, Rendezvous Ballroom, 1962
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Lightning-fast instrumental rock guitarist; surf music innovator in the early 1960s, and known as the "King of Surf Guitar." Born Richard Monsour (1937) in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of a Lebanese machinist, Dale as a child taught himself to play Hank Williams songs on ukulele and guitar. He began surfing as a teenager in the mid-'50s, after his family moved west to the Los Angeles County beachfront suburb of El Segundo; he was also writing instrumental country-western tunes.
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