DICK DALE hot rod surf LP CAPITOL “Checkered Flag” MONO orig ’63 NM

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Artist:  DICK DALE & His DEL-TONES

Title:   “Checkered Flag”

Label:   CAPITOL.  Black label with silver text.  Monaural pressing on medium weight vinyl.  Catalog number is T-2002.  

Date:  1963. 

Condition: 

DISC:  Vinyl is NEAR MINT with 100% of original gloss, as clean as can be found.  Appears to have been played one or two times at most, and handled with care.  Labels are clean.  Fidelity is superb.  A gorgeous disc you will never need to upgrade.      

JACKET:   Jacket is EXCELLENT with gorgeous front and back panels.  Nice seams and corners.  Front has a minor trace of ringwear just beginning to appear at the bottom.  Otherwise pristine, with no writing, stickers, or other issues.  A beautiful jacket worthy of display.       

Track Listing: 

Side One:

• The Scavenger
• Surf Buggy
• Hot Rod Racer
• Mag Wheels
• Big Black Cad
• Ho-Dad Machine

Side Two:

• Grudge Run
• Motion
• 426-Super Stock
• The Wedge
• It Will Grow On You
• Night  Rider

Review:

“Cars were second only to surfing as a teenage obsession in California in the early '60s, and after establishing himself as the King of Surf Guitar, Dick Dale set out to conquer new worlds by turning his attention to hot rods on his 1963 album Checkered Flag.  Like most of Dale's albums for Capitol, Checkered Flag is divided between the meat-and-potatoes instrumentals that were Dale's stock-in-trade and vocal numbers that usually featured elaborate production and the work of outside songwriters.  Dale was producer on the sessions for Checkered Flag, and he sounds like he's having more fun than usual on vocal numbers like "Hot Rod Racer," "Grudge Run," and the backhanded tribute to the Volkswagen Beetle, "It Will Grow on You" (and he manages to keep a straight face when he tells listeners about the "Big Black Cad" -- "Believe it or not, it's easy on gas!").  Of course, what most Dick Dale fans are looking for are tunes where the great man goes wild on guitar, and Checkered Flag certainly has its share, including the slow and slinky "Ho-Dad Machine," the frantic "The Wedge," and the supercharged closer, "Night Rider," and Dale had some great players backing him up for these sessions, including Hal Blaine and Earl Palmer on drums and Steve Douglas and Plas Johnson on sax.  While Checkered Flag devotes a bit too much of its playing time to novelty-oriented vocal numbers, it packs enough punch to be one of Dale's better albums with Capitol.

(courtesy Mark Deming, allmusic.com.)

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