RIP Dick Dale (1937 – 2019)

Dick Dale was an American guitarist best-known for his 1962 arrangement of the Eastern Mediterranean classic “Misirlou“, the use of which in the 1994 Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction gained him a new audience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi-TRetuhKs

“Miserlou” was originally a hit for Jan August in 1946 …

… but is believed to be first recorded in 1927.