‘Misirlou’: The original surf sound

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It was originally a song that paid homage to an Egyptian woman. So how did “Misirlou”  become the quintessential sound of West Coast surf music? Host Marco Werman has an abbreviated history of the 1962 surf song from Dick Dale and the Del Tones. 

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