Post by jpkansas on Dec 8, 2004 2:31:11 GMT -5
December 8, 1961: Three brothers, a cousin and a friend from Hawthorne, California released their first record. Although they were still in high school at the time and the record only cost them a couple hundred bucks to record, the song became a hit on the West Coast and a portent of things to come for the rest of America. Today in 1961, an unknown southern California group called The Beach Boys put their first record out. And a year later, the rest of America knew "the boys of summer" when Surfin' Safari became their first national hit.
