P F Sloan - Sailover

PF Sloan's career is a fascinating music business story. He started his career at age 14, making a single for Aladdin Records, the great LA R&B label. In 1964 his group The Fantastic Baggys had a hit with Tell 'Em I'm Surfin' and the album contained the original version of the surf music classic Summer Means Fun that was later recorded by Bruce and Terry, Jan and Dean, and the Legendary Masked Surfers. Sloan wrote all the songs on the record and produced it. He went on to be the in-house musical force behind Dunhill Records, produced, played on and wrote many of the Dunhill hits including Eve Of Destruction (writer), Monday, Monday and California Dreamin (lead guitar) and had a hit in LA and Europe under his own name with Sins Of A Family. He sang the falsetto lead on Little Old Lady From Pasadena as well as many other records by Jan and Dean. He also wrote hits for The Turtles, The Searchers, Herman's Hermits and Johnny Rivers.