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Tony Andreason, one of the men behind the Trashmen’s 1963 smash “Surfin’ Bird,” will be honored for his lifetime of contributions to the Minnesota music scene during the second annual Bill Diehl Award ...

Everybody’s heard about the bird, the catchy and weird “Surfin’ Bird,” released on this day in 1963 by the Twin Cities garage band the Trashmen. The Trashmen had been a decent cover band when they ...

Spring 1963: A year after forming, the Trashmen road-trip to California and come back as surf-rockers. Summer 1963: Drummer Steve Wahrer improvises an early version of "Surfin' Bird" at Chubb's ...

Dick Clark smugly asked those words in 1964 at the end of what has to be one of the strangest "American Bandstand" performances in the show's 47-year history. He clearly didn't expect Minnesota's ...

Who doesn’t love a little “Surfin’ Bird”? The 1963 surf rock anthem from The Trashmen was a huge hit when it was first released. It climbed to no. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart that very year. The ...