It's one of the most recognizable tunes to come out of the 1960s, and after nearly 50 years it is still played by people across the world.
Friday we sat down with the man behind the famous song, "Wipe Out."
Bob Berryhill and the Surfaris knew there was something special about this song.
"Wipe Out was written in about 10 minutes," said Berryhill.
But they never imagined it would be one of the most popular tunes of their generation.
"The bass player kind of had a feel for this and through that into the lead," he said.
Berryhill says the song was written because the group needed a second tune for their 45. Wipe Out sent the Surfaris from the California surf scene to international fame.
"And by the third time he says okay boys, that's good, we got it, and that was all there was to it. It was just a spontaneous creation of three 15 years old and our drummer, he was an old guy, he was 17."
That was in January 1963. By April it was number one in Los Angeles and by July, Wipe Out shot to number one across the world.
"And it was number one in Germany for that year, number one in Australia, number one in Japan so it went all over the world just lightning, so by the time we were 16 years old we had a number one record all over the world."
Today it is one the most popular songs played on the ukulele. This is Hawaii's own Jake and Bruce Shimabukuro shredding it at a local bar.
"It's been on 746 albums documented on BMI."
The 63-year-old Berryhill says the song allowed he and his high school buddies to travel the world touring with such acts the Beach Boys and Roy Orbison. Billboard recently came out with the 30 most popular summer songs of all time. Wipe Out was number two behind Summer in the City, by Lovin Spoonful.
"It's one of those situations where you learn to enjoy the greatness of something at 15 years old. I tell other guys who are learning to play guitar be careful what you create when you're a young kid, it might stick with you."
And to think it started when a bunch of southern California surfers decided to make a fun song a song that is still loved decades later.
Berryhill will be on the Perry & Price Show Saturday morning.
