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Does anyone know the 'Chip and Del' song?

posted 14 years ago by rehiii76
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Just curious if anyone knows who sang the Chip and Del song "Leg Looker" from season one that is featured in the beginning of the #1 With a Bullet episode?

The song begins to play just after Chip and Del leave the studio and get into Del's fancy sports car and take off down the Pacific Coast Highway. It's actually a pretty awesome song to be honest. I have been unable to turn up much about it to be honest. I know that it used to be on Youtube but I haven't been able to find it on there of late.

Here is the lyrics to the opening stanza of the song:

Hey Leg Looker, you're gonna go far
Girls on the beach, they don't care
Leg Looker is the man of the hour
Lays on his board, lookin' so rare

Pacific Coast Highway is a Leg Looker's dream
The beach is a blanket of girls
If you're ever in trouble in a Leg Looker's dream
Then you gotta be inside the curl, you gotta be inside the curl

[–] Doug-Oh 9 years ago

I recall that song as I recently recorded and watched that ep.

The whole ep. has a Jan & Dean (1959-1966) and Beach Boys (1962-2016) feel to it.

The songs evoke J&D and Beach Boys vibes, which were Southern California acts that enjoyed big national hit making success.

For instance, at the memorial vigil, the crowd sings a song with one of the lines as "... you don't even know the way..."
It is similar to Jan & Dean's THE LITTLE OLE' LADY FROM PASADENA (1964).
"... go granny, go granny, go, granny, go !!!"

It's fiction, of course, because neither Jan Berry or Dean Torrance was murdered and as far as I know, didn't abuse drugs.