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Let the Beach Party Summertime Fun Begin!
THE BOB & THE BEACHCOMBERS WING OF THE MUSEUM OF ROCK & ROLL HISTORY
The Original 1986
Bob & the Beachcombers
| | | Thirty years of rock & roll had passed by in the Land of 10,000
Beaches, and Minnesota still didn't have a beach
party band to call it's own! Bob was determined to
change all that, and so it was that the
original Beachcombers band debuted on December 7, 1986, at the Blainbrook Bowl with original members Doug "The Snake" Locken on lead guitar, Sally "Surfboard Sal" Westermeyer on drums, Dick "Bird Dog" Erickson on vocals and bass, and Bob "The Big Kahuna" Burtis on keyboards, vocals, sax, and guitar. 
Their show always featured high quality sound, lights and music along with the latest in beach party fashions and inflatable pool toys, of course, but Bob & the Beachcombers went that extra mile
and brought along plenty of Hawaiian leis, beach balls, straw hats, sunglasses, palm trees and occasionally even a little sand, as they
faithfully recreated the beach party summertime fun good times and great oldies of the sixties! In no time at all, they were making waves, throughout the Twin Cities and the upper Midwest | |
1987
Bob & the Beachcombers
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Next summer, the Beachcombers were a featured attraction at the Valleyfair
Amusement Park in Shakopee, Minnesota, with their original rock & roll musical extravaganza entitled, "Beach Party
Summer"!
It was "Grease!" for the sixties with a classic tale of unrequited teenage love. The stars of the show, Johnny and Susie, fall in love at a beach blanket bingo bash, but when Johnny's ex-girlfriend Judy, shows up in the back seat of his little duece coupe at the drive-in movie during a romantic moment, hilarity ensues!
Act II opens at Hollywood High School, where we meet Big Alvin and Barbara Ann. Alvin is the biggest jock at school and he's sweet on Barbara Ann, but she's only got eyes for Johnny. Amidst fast-paced scenes of teenage angst, emotional turmoil and gratuitous violence, there is singing and dancing to musical highlights from more than 43 classic hits in one fifty minute show! Johnny and Susie eventually reunite, get married, and start a family (but not necessarily in that order...).
"Beach Party Summer!" featured Valleyfair's first ever on-stage audience, who not only enjoyed the best seats in the house, but also participated in the show and danced on-stage to the music of Bob & the Beachcombers! It was ground-breaking innovative family entertainment that everyone enjoyed, both on-stage and off! | | | |
1987
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