Some blogs have specialized in finding you all the tunes that twang already. Flavorwire’s ‘17 Surf Rock Christmas Songs to Soundtrack Your Holiday Heatwave‘ tends to feature wallpaper and retakes on old standards. The sound matters over the subject matter. Yet, i did learn a thing or two…
“A Surfer’s Christmas List” was mentioned, but it was the classic by The Surfaris (famous for ‘Wipe Out’). It’s pretty and intelligible. Not mentioned was Monsters from the Surf, taking it to the garage. Unwaxed garbling. Yeah!
There’s also a P.S. for Meshugga Beach Party’s album Hot Rod Hanukkah, but these are in fact instrumentals for roadsters. Not even the titles include wave-riding. Cool, but–
For our own purposes, Anna Lusk plays folk with pop music to uke it up in “Oh Surfing Santa.” Hoo hoo hoo.