Surf instrumentals

"Misirlou" is a folk song from the Eastern Mediterranean region. The song's original author is unknown, but Arabic, Greek, and Jewish musicians were playing it by the 1920s. The earliest known recording of the song is a 1927 Greek rebetiko/tsifteteli composition. There are also Arabic belly dancing, Albanian, Armenian, Serbian, Persian, Indian and Turkish versions of the song. This song was popular from the 1920s onwards in the Arab American, Armenian American and Greek American communities who settled in the United States.

instrumental composed by Jerry Lordan

1962 single by The Chantays

single

instrumental composition widely known as the Ventures' 1960 single, which originally recorded by Johnny Smith in 1954