Surfin’ USA
~ Recording by Blind Guardian
Appears on releases
| # | Title | Length | Track artist | Release title | Release artist | Release group type | Country/Date | Label | Catalog# |
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| 1.2 | Surfin’ USA | 2:25 | Blind Guardian | The Forgotten Tales | Blind Guardian | Album + Compilation | Virgin (worldwide imprint of Virgin Records Ltd. and all its subsidiaries) | 724384162726, 841 627 2 | |
| 1.2 | Surfin' USA | 2:25 | Blind Guardian | The Forgotten Tales | Blind Guardian | Album + Compilation |
| Virgin (worldwide imprint of Virgin Records Ltd. and all its subsidiaries) | 841 626 2 |
| 1.11 | Surfin’ USA | 2:26 | Blind Guardian | Follow the Blind | Blind Guardian | Album |
| NEMS Enterprises (Argentinian label) | NEMS 39 |
| 1.2 | Surfin’ USA | 2:26 | Blind Guardian | The Forgotten Tales | Blind Guardian | Album + Compilation |
| NEMS Enterprises (Argentinian label) | NEMS 270 |
| 1.2 | Surfin’ USA | 2:26 | Blind Guardian | The Forgotten Tales | Blind Guardian | Album + Compilation |
| NEMS Enterprises (Argentinian label) | NEMS 270 |
| 1.2 | Surfin' USA | 2:27 | Blind Guardian | The Forgotten Tales | Blind Guardian | Album + Compilation |
| Century Media (imprint of Century Media Records GmbH and its subsidiaries) | 8256-2 |
| 1.2 | Surfin’ USA | 2:25 | Blind Guardian | The Forgotten Tales | Blind Guardian | Album + Compilation |
| Virgin (worldwide imprint of Virgin Records Ltd. and all its subsidiaries) | 396 5182 |
| 1.2 | Surfin’ USA | 2:25 | Blind Guardian | The Forgotten Tales (remastered) | Blind Guardian | Album + Compilation |
| Century Media (imprint of Century Media Records GmbH and its subsidiaries) | 8558-2 |
| 1.2 | Surfin’ USA | 2:23 | Blind Guardian | The Forgotten Tales (remastered 2007) | Blind Guardian | Album + Compilation |
| Nuclear Blast (1987-2022, rebranded to Nuclear Blast Records in 2022) | |
| 1.2 | Surfin' USA | 2:23 | Blind Guardian | The Forgotten Tales (Remastered) | Blind Guardian | Album + Compilation |
| Virgin (worldwide imprint of Virgin Records Ltd. and all its subsidiaries) | 0946 3 96518 2 5 |
| 1.7 | Surfin’ USA | 2:24 | Blind Guardian | Play It Metal! | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| EMI (Japanese double‐boxed logo) | 509999099792-1 |
| 7.2 | Surfin’ USA | 2:25 | Blind Guardian | A Traveler’s Guide to Space and Time | Blind Guardian | Album + Compilation |
| Virgin (worldwide imprint of Virgin Records Ltd. and all its subsidiaries), Virgin EMI Records (division of Universal Music UK, 2013–2020) | 725338 |
| 1.2 | Surfin’ USA | 2:23 | Blind Guardian | The Forgotten Tales (remastered) | Blind Guardian | Album + Compilation |
| Nuclear Blast (1987-2022, rebranded to Nuclear Blast Records in 2022), Shinigami Records (Brazilian metal label) | SRNB094 |
| 2.2 | Surfin’ USA | 2:25 | Blind Guardian | The Forgotten Tales | Blind Guardian | Album + Compilation |
| Nuclear Blast (1987-2022, rebranded to Nuclear Blast Records in 2022) | 27361 43290 |
| 1.2 | Surfin’ USA | 2:25 | Blind Guardian | The Forgotten Tales | Blind Guardian | Album + Compilation |
| Nuclear Blast (1987-2022, rebranded to Nuclear Blast Records in 2022) | 27361 43290 |
| 1.11 | Surfin’ USA | 2:26 | Blind Guardian | Follow the Blind | Blind Guardian | Album |
| NEMS Enterprises (Argentinian label) | NEMS 39 |
| Bootleg | |||||||||
| 1.15 | Surfin’ USA | 2:28 | Blind Guardian | Tokyo Tales / Singles Collection | Blind Guardian | Album + Compilation |
| AGAT Company Ltd. | |
Relationships
| recording engineer, engineer and mixer: | Piet Sielck |
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| producer: | Blind Guardian Piet Sielck |
| acoustic guitar, electric guitar [lead guitar] and electric guitar [rhythm guitar]: | André Olbrich |
| drums (drum set): | Thomen "The Omen" Stauch |
| electric bass guitar [bass] and lead vocals: | Hansi Kürsch (metal vocalist) |
| electric guitar [guitar]: | Marcus Siepen |
| piano: | Michael Schüren |
| background vocals: | Piet Sielck |
| phonographic copyright (℗) by: | Virgin Schallplatten GmbH (not for release label use! for copyrights use only, former German division of Virgin Records Ltd.) (in 1991) NEMS Enterprises (Argentinian label) (in 2001) |
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| recorded at: | Karo Musikstudio (Brackel) in Brackel, Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony), Germany Twilight Hall Studios in Grefrath, Nordrhein-Westfalen (North Rhine-Westphalia), Germany |
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| mixed at: | Central Sound in Hamburg, Germany |
| recording of: | Surfin’ U.S.A. (cover) |
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Related works
Surfin’ U.S.A.
| lyricist: | Brian Wilson (Beach Boys co‐founder) |
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| composer: | Chuck Berry |
| publisher: | Arc Music Corp. (U.S. rock & blues publisher) Isalee Music Publishing Company Jewel Music Publishing Co. Ltd. (publisher; do NOT use as release label) |
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| sub-publisher: | ロックンロール ミュージック (Rock ’n’ Roll Music) |
| referred to in medleys: | Can Can You Party (order: 4) Beach Boys Medley (order: 7) |
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| later parody versions: | Cruis’n USA (a "Surfin’ U.S.A." parody) Search And You'll Get Saved |
| later translated parody versions: | De Smurfen Gaan Naar Zee Saufen an ’nem See Sjömän av nya sorten |
| later translated versions: | サーフィン・U.S.A. サーフィンU.S.A. |
| is based on: | Sweet Little Sixteen |
| is the basis for: | Surfin' in Wave Race |
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