Let's Go Trippin'

"Let's Go Trippin'" is an instrumental by Dick Dale and The Del-Tones. It is often regarded as the first surf rock instrumental and is credited for launching the surf music craze.^[1] First played in public in 1960 at the Rendezvous Ballroom in Balboa Peninsula, Newport Beach, California, it reached number 4 on the Los Angeles station KFWB, and later peaked at number 60 on the Billboard Hot 100.

"Let's Go Trippin'"
Single by Dick Dale and The Del-Tones
from the album Surfers' Choice
Released	September 1961
Recorded	1961
Genre	Surf rock[1][2]
Length	2:10
Label	Deltone
Songwriter(s)	Dick Dale
Producer(s)	Jim Monsour
Dick Dale and The Del-Tones singles chronology
"Ooh-Wee Marie" (1961) "Let's Go Trippin'" (1961) "Jungle Fever" (1962)
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The song was used as the theme tune to the BBC Radio 4 programme Home Truths, originally presented by John Peel.^{[citation needed]}