The RIP CHORDS
and How They Got Started

• HOME of the RIP CHORDS
• FULL HISTORY (new)
• Discography (new)
• Hollywood Palladium
• Rock'n'Roll Minister
• Doris Day
• CBS 1963
• Performers on Cobra Album
• Links & Buy
• Ernie Bringas - Author
• Homestead & Wolfe

This website is the Story of the RIP CHORDS from one of the two original RIP CHORDS.  The RIP CHORDS recorded from 1962-1965 at Columbia Records in Hollywood, California.  Please take a moment to visit my main page, and read the true story of how the RIP CHORDS started and evolved. Click on "Home" at the left side menu, or go directly to www.RipChords.INFO

Interesting Links:

• WQAM 1963 Survey Listed "Here I Stand" as #16 on the March 30 'survey'
• WLS 1963 top 40 list listed "Here I Stand" as #32 in it's 3rd week of release, May 3, 1963
• WLS top 40 list - "Here I Stand" as # 16 in it's sixth week of release, May 24, 1963
• Anopheles Records - Homestead & Wolfe - The Gold Star Tapes 1973-75

Purchase these from SunDazed Records

	Hey Little Cobra Here I Stand The Queen 409 Trophy Machine Gone Little Deuce Coupe '40 Ford Time She Thinks I Still Care Shut Down Drag City Ding Dong Karen
	Three Window Coupe Bonneville Bonnie Gas Money This Little Woodie Hot Rod U.S.A. Old Car Made In '52 Surfin' Craze Beach Girl My Big Gun Board Surf City Summer U.S.A. Big Wednesday
	THE 2006 Columbia/Sundazed release, says it best: NO GROUP EPITOMIZED THE SUN- SOAKED CALIFORNIA SOUND BETTER THAN THE fabulous Rip Chords Led by legendary producer Terry Melcher along with future Beach Boy Bruce Johnston and ace-vocalists Ernie Bringas and Phil Stewart, these long-board big-guns left an indelible mark on the surf’n strip sounds of the ‘60s…. the best of the Rip Chords! 20 trophy winning tracks!

Click here to read Ernie's Story of the Rip Chords (or click "home" on the top of the left side menu.)

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