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The Centurions waren eine US-amerikanische Surf-Rock-Band aus Newport Beach, Kalifornien. Die Band wurde von Dennis Rose gegründet und war von 1950 bis in die späten 1960er Jahre aktiv. Ihr einziges Album erschien 1963 und trug den Titel Surfers' Pajama Party. Irgendwann nach 1967 musste die Band ihren Namen aus rechtlichen Gründen auf The Centurians abändern, wenig später löste sich die Band auf.

1972 war ihr Song Intoxica, eigentlich ein Cover von der Band The Revels, bei dem Film Pink Flamingos vertreten. 1994 gelangte die Band, als sie schon längst nicht mehr aktiv war, überraschend zu internationaler Bekanntheit durch ihren Song Bullwinkle Part II, der vom Filmregisseur Quentin Tarantino bei seinem weltweit erfolgreichen Film Pulp Fiction eingesetzt wurde. Aus diesem Anlass reformierte Dennis Rose die Band im Juni 1995 mit ihrem ursprünglichen Namen The Centurions, es wurde ein zweites Studioalbum mit dem Titel Bullwinkle Part III aufgenommen. Im August 1995 gaben die neu reformierten Centurions ein Konzert in Huntington Beach. Mittlerweile ist die Band nicht mehr aktiv.

2004 wiederveröffentlichte das Label Del-Fi ihr erstes Album, allerdings entschied man, dass Album mit Bullwinkle Part II zu betiteln.

Trivia

• After a mere 3 decades of false starts and mis-issues, it's finally released correctly. In the early 60's, the first Centurions (aka Centurians) album was released with the same artwork as the Bruce Johnston Band's "Surfers' Pajama Party", so no one knew which album they were getting. Then, 30+ years later, Del-Fi decided to reissue the album on CD, and guess what? So, after more bad press and customer complaints, they finally generated some real artwork for the album, and released on CD all cleaned up. The Centurions were/are from the Costa Mesa / Newport Beach area, starting in '58. It wasn't until 1960 that they went into a studio, and not until 1962 that they recorded and released some mighty gnarly surf tracks, which were available on the "Surf War" compilation on Shepherd, now reissued on CD by Sundazed. This album followed. It's more polished (less raw), if that word applies to the Centurions. Very ominous low-E reverb drenched surf mixed with Mariachi flavored "Soul Beat". You've doubtless heard "Bullwinkle Part II" from Pulp Fiction. Raw instros for a Saturday night rumble.

Picks: Bullwinkle Part II, Intoxica, Body Surfin', Surf Bird, Vesuvius, Tuff Soul, Sano, Comanche, Latin'ia, Surfin' At Mazatlan"

"The Bruce Johnston Surfing Band Campus Pajama Party 2 stars Label: Del-Fi DFCD 71228-2

This album was recorded live at the Sigma Pi fraternity at UCLA on January 6, 1962. It's crudely cut, and mostly pretty lame. "Campus Pajama Party" has little or no relationship to surf styles, but it is a surf-dance classic vocal. Most of the rest of the vocals are pedestrian white bread R&B, sappily sung, and badly recorded. Bruce Johnston is the lad that went on to Bruce & Terry and the Beach Boys, et al.

The Centurions were a surf rock band started by Dennis Rose from Newport Beach, California, active in the late 1950s and early 1960s. In recent times, they are best known for their recording "Bullwinkle Part II", a dark and saxy surf tune from their eponymous album. This tune is featured in the 1994 film Pulp Fiction[1] and in an episode of the TV show How I Met Your Mother entitled "Girls Versus Suits". Less well known is their cover of the classic song "Intoxica" a twangy and upbeat surf instrumental originally by The Revels, used in the 1972 film Pink Flamingos.

When they released their album on Del-Fi records in 1963, its cover was identical (as well as catalog number) to Bruce Johnston's release, hence the title "Surfers' Pajama Party" – which was not the name The Centurions had in mind. Their name was changed from The Centurions to The Centurians sometime after 1967 due to legal reasons.

In June 1995 Dennis Rose reformed [2] "The Centurions" with Dennis Rose (guitar), David Jobes (drums), Charly Grey-Son (bass), Perris Alexander (keyboards), Norman Knowles (tenor sax) and Dennis Rehders (tenor and baritone sax). They recorded a new album called Bullwinkle Part III produced by Dennis Rose and Perris Alexander. In August 1995 a reformed "The Centurions" performed a concert at Pierfest [3] in Huntington Beach.