Dick Dale: The King of Surf Guitar

Dick Dale is the “King of the Surf Guitar.” He was not only the first person to create the surf music sound, he was the first to take a sport and develop a music for it. He was also the first musician to have more than one record on the Top Ten charts at one time, and to have five songs from a single album on the charts at once. In 1996 Dale was presented a Platinum Record award for his performance recording of “Miserlou,” the guitar instrumental behind Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction.