Let's Go Trippin'

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“Let's Go Trippin'”
“Let's Go Trippin'” cover
Single by Dick Dale and the Deltones
from the album Surfers' Choice
Released September 1961
Format vinyl record (7")
Genre Surf Rock
Length 2:10
Label Deltone
Writer(s) Dick Dale
Dick Dale and the Deltones singles chronology
Ooh-Wee Marie
(1961)
Let's Go Trippin
(1961)
Jungle Fever
(1962)

"Let's Go Trippin'" is an instrumental by Dick Dale and the Del-Tones. It is often regarded as the first surf rock instrumental. It quickly reached #4 on influential Los Angeles station KFWB, and later reached #60 on the national charts.

The Beach Boys covered Let's Go Trippin' on their album Surfin' USA.

The song was used as the theme tune to the BBC Radio 4 programme Home Truths, originally presented by John Peel.

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