The Centurions

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The Centurions
General information
origin Newport Beach , California USA
Genre (s) Surf music
founding Late 1950s, June 1995
resolution Early 1970s, after 1995
Founding members
Dennis Rose
Ernie Furrow
Jeff Lear
Joe Dominic
Pat Gaguebin
Ken Robinson
Jerry Dicks
Last occupation
Dennis Rose
Charly Gray-Son
David Jobes
Perriss Alexander
Norman Knowles
Dennis Rehders

The Centurions were an American surf music band from Newport Beach , California . The band is best known today for their song Bullwinkle Part II .

biography

The band was founded by Dennis Rose in the late 1950s and was active until the early 1970s. Their only album was released in 1963 and was entitled Surfers' Pajama Party . Sometime after 1967 the band had to change their name to The Centurians for legal reasons, and the band split up a few years later.

In 1974 her song Intoxica , actually a cover song for the band The Revels, was featured in the film Pink Flamingos . In 1994, after the band had long since ceased to be active, they surprisingly achieved international fame with their song Bullwinkle Part II , which the film director Quentin Tarantino used in his globally successful film Pulp Fiction . On this occasion, Dennis Rose reformed the band in June 1995 with their original name The Centurions, and a second studio album was recorded with the title Bullwinkle Part III . In August 1995, the newly reformed Centurions gave a concert in Huntington Beach . Meanwhile the band is no longer active.

In 2004 the Del-Fi label re-released their first album, but it was decided that the album would be titled Bullwinkle Part II .

Discography

Trivia

  • The title and the album cover of their first studio album Surfers' Pajama Party were actually a mix-up from the Del-Fi label, because the album title and cover were originally intended for an album by Bruce Johnston .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ AllMusic Review by Lindsay Planer at allmusic.com