Gregg Carroll Posted The Following On Facebook - December 19, 2012

Came across the following narrative along with a picture of the record jacket for the soundtrack to Skaterdater and thought it was kinda cool! I didn't know Mike Curb was such a heavy in the recording industry and he also went on to become Lieutenant Governor for California..... "This was the first ever skateboarding movie – filmed in California in the summer of ’65 it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Film and is effectively a silent movie having no actual dialogue. The soundtrack does the talking and what a soundtrack it is! The music was by Mike Curb and Nick Venet. Curb went on to produce for Sammy Davis Jr. amongst others, had his own band The Mike Curb Congregation, ran Hitsville Records for Motown and also became president of MGM and Verve Records (blimey!). Venet (who died in 1998) went on to sign the Beach Boys for Capitol Records and produce a number of their early releases. He also produced The Walker Brothers, Sam Cooke, Lou Rawls and Linda Ronstadt alongside a myriad of other artists."