Editing Surf music (section)

====Hot rod rock====
{{Further|Car song}}
[[File:Little Deuce Coupe.jpg|thumb|right|The [[1932 Ford]] that appeared on the cover to the Beach Boys' album, ''[[Little Deuce Coupe]]'' from 1963]]
"Hot rod music" or "hot rod rock" evolved from surf music.{{sfn|Cozzen|2015|p=8}} Dick Dale recalled how surf music was re-imagined as hot rod music by a record company-inspired move to capture a larger market.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-07-27-ss-819-story.html|title=SURF COUNTY, USA : No Words Can Describe Real Surf Music|date=July 27, 1990|website=Los Angeles Times}}</ref> According to ''The Ultimate Hot Rod Dictionary'', by Jeff Breitenstein: "While cars and, to a lesser degree, hot rods have been a relatively common and enduring theme in American popular music, the term ''hot rod music'' is most often associated with the unique 'California sound' music of the early to mid-1960s&nbsp;... and was defined by its rich vocal harmonies, amplified (generally Fender brand) electric guitars, and youth-oriented lyrics (most often celebrating hot rods and, more broadly, surfing and 'girls')."{{sfn|Breitenstein|p=107}}

Author David Ferrandino wrote that "the Beach Boys' musical treatments of both cars and surfboards are identical",{{sfn|Ferrandino|2015|p=149}} whereas author [[Geoffrey Himes]] elaborated on "subtle" differences: "Translating the surf-music format into hot-rod tunes wasn't difficult... If surf music was a lot of Dick Dale and some Chuck Berry, hot-rod music was a little more Berry and a little less Dale — i.e. less percussive staccato and more chiming riffs. Instead of slang about waxes and boards, you used slang about carburetors and pistons; instead of name-dropping the top surfing beaches, you cited the nicknames for the top drag-racing strips; instead of warning about the dangers of a 'wipe out', you warned of 'Dead Man's Curve'."<ref name=HimesSurf />