Riding the Wave is a debut album by the Blanks released in 2004 on CD and as a digital download. A limited edition vinyl was released in 2021 by Enjoy the Ride Records with four tracks from their second album Worth the Weight included in Side 2.[1][2]
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| Released | 2004 | |||
| Recorded | 2003, Los Angeles | |||
| Genre | A cappella | |||
| Label | Parody Records | |||
| Producer | The Blanks Chad Fischer (Superman) | |||
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Overview
editRiding the Wave features both original songs by the band and cover versions of other songs, most of which were performed on the TV series Scrubs. It also features candid recordings of the cast and production team of Scrubs. Sam Lloyd was written into the script for the all 9 seasons of Scrubs. The album cover jokes that these recordings are "used without [the cast and crew's] knowledge or permission".
Track listing
edit| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Superman" (theme from Scrubs, produced by Chad Fischer) | Fischer, Tim Bright, Chris Link | 3:20 |
| 2. | "Charles in Charge" (theme from Charles in Charge, from the episode "My Nightingale") | Michael Jacobs, Al Burton, David Kurtz | 1:00 |
| 3. | "A Little Polish" | Philip McNiven | 2:38 |
| 4. | "They'll Never Know" (cast recording) | The Blanks | 0:12 |
| 5. | "Touched Up" (cast recording featuring Judy Reyes) | Reyes, Sam Lloyd | 0:28 |
| 6. | "Play On" (cast recording featuring Robert Maschio) | Maschio, Lloyd | 0:23 |
| 7. | "Testy Tiger" | Paul F. Perry | 0:42 |
| 8. | "Commandos (Attack!)" (featuring Robert Beckwith as Major Butch Bullhorn, with new lyrics by Perry) | Lloyd, Perry | 2:05 |
| 9. | "Good Old Days" (theme from Our Gang [The Little Rascals], with new lyrics by Perry) | Leroy Shield | 2:32 |
| 10. | "Crowded Landscape" (cast recording featuring John C. McGinley) | McGinley, Lloyd | 0:18 |
| 11. | "Holy" (cast recording featuring Sarah Chalke) | Chalke, Lloyd | 0:25 |
| 12. | "Elliot in Your Cup" (from the episode "My Kingdom") | 0:12 | |
| 13. | "By Mennen - G Major" (from the episode "My Kingdom") | Doug Katsaros | 0:04 |
| 14. | "Happy Halloween" (with new lyrics by Perry) | Lloyd, Perry | 1:17 |
| 15. | "The Full Monty" (featuring Robert Beckwith as Major Butch Bullhorn) | Perry | 0:39 |
| 16. | "Testy Tiger – reprise" | Perry | 0:43 |
| 17. | "What Now?" (cast recording featuring Ken Jenkins) | Jenkins, Lloyd | 0:20 |
| 18. | "I'm in the Middle" (cast recording featuring Donald Faison) | Faison, Lloyd | 0:27 |
| 19. | "Facts of Life" (theme from The Facts of Life, from the episode "My Nightingale") | Burton, Gloria Loring, Alan Thicke | 0:53 |
| 20. | "By Mennen - D Major" | Katsaros | 0:04 |
| 21. | "Flipper Theme" (theme from Flipper) | Henry Vars, William D. "By" Dunham | 0:39 |
| 22. | "Speed Racer" (theme from Mach GoGoGo [Speed Racer], full-length studio version, originally performed in the episode "My Hero") | Nobuyoshi Koshibe, Peter Fernandez | 1:15 |
| 23. | "The Riff Song" (number from The Desert Song) | Sigmund Romberg, Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein II, Frank Mandel (uncredited) | 1:28 |
| 24. | "John" (cast recording featuring Christa Miller Lawrence) | Miller Lawrence, Lloyd | 0:19 |
| 25. | "Do You Want?" (cast recording featuring Aloma Wright) | Wright, Lloyd | 0:11 |
| 26. | "If You Never Looked at Me" (cast recording featuring Zach Braff) | Braff, Lloyd | 0:48 |
| 27. | "Boing Fwip" (including reprise of "By Mennen" in B flat, from the episode "My Kingdom") | Perry, Bill Lawrence, Eric Weinberg, Katsaros (uncredited) | 0:11 |
| 28. | "Underdog" (theme from Underdog, from the episode "My Hero") | W. Watts Biggers, Treadwell Covington, Joseph Harris, Chester Stover | 2:21 |
| 29. | "Six Million Dollar Man" (theme from The Six Million Dollar Man, full-length studio version, originally performed in the episode "My Nightingale") | Oliver Nelson | 1:29 |
| 30. | "Testy Tiger – additional reprise" | Perry | 0:53 |
| 31. | "Love Having You" (cast recording featuring Bill Lawrence) | Lawrence, Lloyd | 0:27 |
| 32. | "I'll Be Seeing You" | Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal | 1:40 |
| 33. | "The Ballad of Jimmy Durante" | Perry | 3:38 |
| 34. | "Back to You" (cast recording featuring Neil Flynn) | Flynn, Lloyd | 0:27 |
| Total length: | 34:28 | ||
References
edit- ^ "The Blanks (5) – Riding The Wave". Retrieved 19 August 2024.
- ^ "The Blanks - Riding The Wave". Enjoy The Ride Records. Retrieved 19 August 2024.
- ^ The Blanks (2004). Riding the Wave (Media notes). Parody Records.
- Riding the Wave at AllMusic. Retrieved 18:45, 24 May 2021 (UTC).
External links
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