Papa Doo Run Run
Performance: Papa Doo Run Run
Description: Papa Doo Run Run presents a tribute to the Beach Boys! The group also had an unprecedented 15-year run as the “Celebrity House Band” at Disneyland from 1975-90!
Date: Saturday, April 9, 2011
Time: 7:00 p.m
Ticket Prices: $26 (A/B) & $24 (C/D)
About Papa Doo Run Run
The year was 1965. The air was clean, music refreshingly innocent, and in Cupertino California, a small, pre-Silicon Valley town just south of San Francisco near Santa Cruz, 4 high school buddies got together to form a garage band.
This was not just any garage band – this band was special. They would succeed where others would fail – they would continue where others would die off. They had a focus where other bands just rambled. They wore suits! (and this was the 60’s). They believed that “good enough” never was. PAPA DOO RUN RUN (their name derived from the background line of Jan & Dean’s New Girl in School), established a solid performance schedule, playing as many as 200 dates a year, worldwide.
After meeting limited success with a few recording ventures in the 60′s and early 70′s, PAPA DOO RUN RUN caught the big wave with Be True To Your School (1975, RCA), produced by their friend Bruce Johnston of the Beach Boys. That single cracked the Billboard Top 40 chart, and hit No. 1 in California, earning them “KAHUNA” status among the veteran surf legends of the day. The flip side was a song called Disney Girls, which opened the door for what was to become an unprecedented 15 year run at Disneyland, as the “celebrity house band” (1975-90). Be True… was followed by a string of singles and EP’s, all of which received a respectable amount of airplay. PAPA DOO RUN RUN’s most significant recording accolade is a GOLD RECORD award and a GRAMMY nomination for their California Project CD (1985, Telarc Records). Since that time, PAPA has released 6 other CDs, including their critically acclaimed, all original album Santa Cruz (2001, Blue Pacific Records).
In the early 70’s PAPA met Jan & Dean (who had stopped performing in 1966 because of Jan’s debilitating car accident) and convinced the duo to get back together. After a series of very successful “trial concerts”, came 5 years of nationwide tours, a CBS-TV movie (Deadman’s Curve ) and soundtrack album. In the early 80s PAPA left Jan & Dean and for the next 2 decades, toured and recorded with members of the Beach Boys. PAPA DOO RUN RUN has also appeared in concert with such luminaries as Roy Orbison, Fleetwood Mac, Kenny Loggins, Chicago, Jimmy Buffett, and a zillion other huge names. Their most notable performances include two Olympics, eight Super Bowls, and twoInaugurations. In 1988, PAPA was dubbed “CALIFORNIA’S BAND” by California’s then Governor Dukmejian.
PAPA DOO RUN RUN’s lineup today includes: Don Zirilli – keyboards and vocals, Jim Rush – bass and vocals, (both of whom are original members since 1965); Adrian Baker – guitar and vocals, who for 20 years was a member of the Beach Boys, and prior to that was with Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons; Bobby “G” Gothar – guitar and vocals, who has performed with Merle Haggard, and Charlie Daniels; studio drummer Bo Fox, who throughout the 80’s toured with Jimmy Buffett and the Eagles; and (when he’s not touring with Brian Wilson), Jeffrey Foskett – lead vocalist and guitarist for the Beach Boys from 1980-90.
