From the MCRFB news archives:
DICK DALES RIDING BIG ON SURF AND CHARTS
HOLLYWOOD — One of the hottest selling attractions here on record disks and in person is a 24-year old surf-riding buff, Dick Dale, whose Del-Tone recording is currently dominating the local charts and whose personal appearances are drawing ‘turn-away’ crowds here in the lower California west coast area.
Dale currently has three single sides on local radio station playlists on KFWB and KRLA. Music City’s Top 40 Best Selling Singles chart lists Dale’s “Peppermint Man” in the No. 1 position, followed by “Miserlou” as the No. 2 best seller.
Music City’s Top 40 Best Selling Albums Chart lists Dale’s “Surfer’s Choice” LP in the No. 2 top-selling position, second only to Vaughn Meader’s “First Family” album. Sid Talmadge’s Record Merchandising, which happens to be a distributor for both Cadence and the Del-Tone label, said last week that the Dale package has started catching up with the Meader “First Family” album.
Talmadge also said he has already moved 50,000 copies of “Surfer’s Choice” LP and has sold more than 75,000 of the Dale singles. Dale, and his band the Deltones, comprising as an instrumental group of seven with Dale serving as lead, are currently appearing at the Harmony Park Ballroom in nearby Anaheim. END.
(Information and news source: Billboard; January 12, 1963).
