"Wipe Out" was released by The Surfaris in 1963. The song, which is one of the most popular instrumental pieces from that time, spent four months on the Billboard Hot 100. The song peaked at No. 2 and ...

Jim Fuller, a co-founding member of the Surfaris whose lead guitar work is heard on the band's signature hit "Wipe Out," has died at the age of 69. Fuller's cause of death has yet to be publicly ...

It's a pumping Friday night at the blue light disco in Mount Magnet, 570 kilometres north-east of Perth. Kids and police are dancing up a storm, but it's not the latest Taylor Swift or Nicki Minaj hit ...

“Our career was a skyrocket.” It’s Bob Berryhill, the last original member of the Surfaris, phoning the Reader from his home in Laguna Beach. “We started in December of 1962.” The band was Jim Fuller, ...

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In 1963, The Surfaris’ story began with the release of “Wipeout.” More than 50 years later, the pioneering rock band continues with love. “ ’Wipeout’ has been very good to me,” Bob Berryhill said of ...

Regardless if a person has ever surfed or not, those first chords of “Wipe Out” can give a landlocked person a glimmer of the shore for a moment. The combination of the fairly simple guitar riff and ...

THE FOOTE FILES (CBSDFW.COM) — The Surfaris were a teen rock-and-roll surf band from Glendora, California. Members of the band included Ron Wilson, Jim Fuller, Bob Beryhill, Pat Connolly and Jim Pash.

Jim Pash, an original member of the classic rock band the Surfaris, died Friday of liver disease. He was 56.