The Resume

(1958- )
Born in Tacoma, Washington
1962 Line-Up:
Nokie Edwards (May 9, 1935- ), guitar
Don Wilson (February 10, 1933- ), guitar
Bob Bogle (January 16, 1934- ), bass guitar
Mel Taylor (September 24, 1933-August 11, 1996), drums
Recorded the singles 'Walk, Don't Run' (1960), 'Perfidia' (1960), 'Ram-Bunk-Shush' (1961), 'Walk, Don't Run '64' (1964) and 'Hawaii Five-O' (1969)
Recorded over 250 albums
Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2008)

Why they might be annoying:

Their first album was rushed out so fast, the cover features Liberty Records stockroom employees wearing sunglasses in place of the band.
Wilson commented, 'When I read that the Ventures are the pioneers of surf music, I go 'What?' We were never a surf group.'
John Durrill, their keyboard player in the late 60s and 70s, wrote the cheesy hit 'Dark Lady' for Cher (1974).
In the late 70s, they became the 'New Ventures,' a disco/rock band with female singers.
They became much bigger in Japan than America.

Why they might not be annoying:

Their '2,000 Pound Bee' was the first single to feature fuzz guitar.
They outsold the Beatles 2 to 1 in Japan.
They were the first foreign members of Japan's Conservatory of Music.
They received the Lifetime Achievement Award from Guitar Player magazine (1993).
So many guitarists learned by playing along with their albums they were called 'the band that launched a thousand bands.'

Credit: C. Fishel

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• C. Fishel's Profiles [Series 14]
• Hollywood RockWalk at the Guitar Center
• I Appeared on Jerry Lewis' MDA Telethon [U-Z]
• I Covered ‘Feliz Navidad’
• I Covered a Beatles Song
• I Covered a Carpenters' Song
• I Covered a Creedence Clearwater Revival Song
• I Covered Brenda Lee’s ‘Rockin Around the Christmas Tree’
• I Covered 'Last Christmas'
• I Covered 'Stagger Lee'
• I Covered the Beatles' 'Hey Jude'
• I Performed on American Bandstand [R-Z]
• I Recorded '(Ghost) Riders in the Sky'
• I Recorded ‘The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia’
• I Recorded 'Louie, Louie'
• I Sampled ‘Besame Mucho’
• I Sampled Kyu Sakamoto's ‘Sukiyaki (Ue o Muite Arukou)’
• I Sing About a Year (Ranked: 1964)
• Known By a Single Name
• Look at My Guitar
• Look at My Umbrella
• Oops, I Recorded a Disco Song
• Profiles 23501-23750 (Ranked: 23701)
• Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Members (Ranked: 2008)
• Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time (Ranked: 82)
• Rolling Stone's 25 Greatest Christmas Albums of All Time (Ranked: 12)
• Surf Music

Year In Review:

For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2023, Out of 17 Votes: 5.88% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 4 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 33 Votes: 15.15% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 5 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 26 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 5 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 13 Votes: 15.38% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 15 Votes: 46.67% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 13 Votes: 46.15% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 10 Votes: 20.0% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 75 Votes: 45.33% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 19 Votes: 42.11% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 69 Votes: 36.23% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 36 Votes: 36.11% Annoying