Lloyd Thaxton, host and producer of The Lloyd Thaxton Show, one of the highest rated musical shows in Hollywood, presents surf rock giants 'The Challengers'. Released in 1963 at the peak of the "surf wave" in South California, this mix of cover versions of pre-surf rock instrumentals and Challengers originals is the band's second album, building on the breakout success and genre-defining debut album 'Surfbeat', and features surf rock classics 'Surfer's Pony', 'Tidal Wave' and 'The Twomp'.