Remembering Dick Dale, Birch Bayh, Scott Walker
Dick Dale was the West Coast guitarist who, more than any other single person was responsible for the surf sound in the 1950’s and 1960’s. His recording “Miserlou” is a classic of the genre. Birch Bayh was the Indiana senator who had a hand in two Constitutional amendments, one lowering the voting age to 18 and the other better defining the line of succession in the event of presidential incapacity. Scott Walker was the lead singer of Walker Brothers, an American group that had great success in England in the 1960’s,