Dick Clark smugly asked those words in 1964 at the end of what has to be one of the strangest "American Bandstand" performances in the show's 47-year history. He clearly didn't expect Minnesota's ...

“Surfin’ Bird” could have been one of the most annoying and forgettable novelty tunes in the history of rock ‘n’ roll music. Instead, it became the No. 1 hit in Minnesota in early 1964, and made it to ...

Tony Andreason, one of the men behind the Trashmen’s 1963 smash “Surfin’ Bird,” will be honored for his lifetime of contributions to the Minnesota music scene during the second annual Bill Diehl Award ...

Spring 1963: A year after forming, the Trashmen road-trip to California and come back as surf-rockers. Summer 1963: Drummer Steve Wahrer improvises an early version of "Surfin' Bird" at Chubb's ...

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Everybody’s heard about the bird, the catchy and weird “Surfin’ Bird,” released on this day in 1963 by the Twin Cities garage band the Trashmen. The Trashmen had been a decent cover band when they ...

Who doesn’t love a little “Surfin’ Bird”? The 1963 surf rock anthem from The Trashmen was a huge hit when it was first released. It climbed to no. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart that very year. The ...

For me and for a lot of people like me, popular music has a way of defining a particular decade or a particular year. For example, when many people think of the year 1964, they think of the British ...