Dale Davis’ The Golden Breed (1968) is a classic surfing film with a soundtrack almost as famous as the film itself. Featuring San Fernando’s Davie Allen - who did the score for the awesome biker flick The Wild Angels - on guitar and a tubular horn section, The Golden Breed is a perfect blend of sound and vision and captures legendary longboard riders like Mickey Munoz, Nat Young, Mickey Dova, Barry Kanaiaupuni and Mark Martinson at a time when longboards were starting to fall out of fashion.
 

Longboards.
 
My mother bought me a Jacobs longboard when I was 13 years old. It cost $50 used and was almost 10 feet long. I weighed about 95 pounds and riding that board was like trying to ride a really pissed-off bucking bull. I was waaaay too small for the beast. When I was 29 I bought a Schroff shortboard and had the opposite problem. The stick was so light and fast that it would shoot out from under me and I’d end bouncing off the rocks in the shark-infested waters off of Montauk, Long Island. I ended up spending most of my time just sitting on the thing, nursing booze and cocaine hangovers while watching the smooth glide of dorsal fins off in the distance.

The Golden Breed was filmed in California, Peru, Hawaii and Mexico. Cowabunga crushers!