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| Released | 2004 | |||
| Recorded | 2003, Los Angeles | |||
| Genre | A cappella | |||
| Label | Parody Records | |||
| Producer | The Blanks Chad Fischer (Superman) | |||
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Riding the Wave is a debut album by the Blanks released in 2004 on CD and as a digital download. A limited edition vinyl was released in 2021 by Enjoy the Ride Records with four tracks from their second album Worth the Weight included in Side 2. [1] [2]
Riding the Wave features both original songs by the band and cover versions of other songs, most of which were performed on the TV series Scrubs . It also features candid recordings of the cast and production team of Scrubs. Sam Lloyd was written into the script for the all 9 seasons of Scrubs. The album cover jokes that these recordings are "used without [the cast and crew's] knowledge or permission".
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Superman" (theme from Scrubs, produced by Chad Fischer) | Fischer, Tim Bright, Chris Link | 3:20 |
| 2. | "Charles in Charge" (theme from Charles in Charge, from the episode "My Nightingale") | Michael Jacobs, Al Burton, David Kurtz | 1:00 |
| 3. | "A Little Polish" | Philip McNiven | 2:38 |
| 4. | "They'll Never Know" (cast recording) | The Blanks | 0:12 |
| 5. | "Touched Up" (cast recording featuring Judy Reyes) | Reyes, Sam Lloyd | 0:28 |
| 6. | "Play On" (cast recording featuring Robert Maschio) | Maschio, Lloyd | 0:23 |
| 7. | "Testy Tiger" | Paul F. Perry | 0:42 |
| 8. | "Commandos (Attack!)" (featuring Robert Beckwith as Major Butch Bullhorn, with new lyrics by Perry) | Lloyd, Perry | 2:05 |
| 9. | "Good Old Days" (theme from Our Gang [The Little Rascals], with new lyrics by Perry) | Leroy Shield | 2:32 |
| 10. | "Crowded Landscape" (cast recording featuring John C. McGinley) | McGinley, Lloyd | 0:18 |
| 11. | "Holy" (cast recording featuring Sarah Chalke) | Chalke, Lloyd | 0:25 |
| 12. | "Elliot in Your Cup" (from the episode "My Kingdom") | 0:12 | |
| 13. | "By Mennen - G Major" (from the episode "My Kingdom") | Doug Katsaros | 0:04 |
| 14. | "Happy Halloween" (with new lyrics by Perry) | Lloyd, Perry | 1:17 |
| 15. | "The Full Monty" (featuring Robert Beckwith as Major Butch Bullhorn) | Perry | 0:39 |
| 16. | "Testy Tiger – reprise" | Perry | 0:43 |
| 17. | "What Now?" (cast recording featuring Ken Jenkins) | Jenkins, Lloyd | 0:20 |
| 18. | "I'm in the Middle" (cast recording featuring Donald Faison) | Faison, Lloyd | 0:27 |
| 19. | "Facts of Life" (theme from The Facts of Life , from the episode "My Nightingale") | Burton, Gloria Loring, Alan Thicke | 0:53 |
| 20. | "By Mennen - D Major" | Katsaros | 0:04 |
| 21. | "Flipper Theme" (theme from Flipper ) | Henry Vars, William D. "By" Dunham | 0:39 |
| 22. | "Speed Racer" (theme from Mach GoGoGo [Speed Racer], full-length studio version, originally performed in the episode "My Hero") | Nobuyoshi Koshibe, Peter Fernandez | 1:15 |
| 23. | "The Riff Song" (number from The Desert Song ) | Sigmund Romberg, Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein II, Frank Mandel (uncredited) | 1:28 |
| 24. | "John" (cast recording featuring Christa Miller Lawrence) | Miller Lawrence, Lloyd | 0:19 |
| 25. | "Do You Want?" (cast recording featuring Aloma Wright) | Wright, Lloyd | 0:11 |
| 26. | "If You Never Looked at Me" (cast recording featuring Zach Braff) | Braff, Lloyd | 0:48 |
| 27. | "Boing Fwip" (including reprise of "By Mennen" in B flat, from the episode "My Kingdom") | Perry, Bill Lawrence, Eric Weinberg, Katsaros (uncredited) | 0:11 |
| 28. | "Underdog" (theme from Underdog, from the episode "My Hero") | W. Watts Biggers, Treadwell Covington, Joseph Harris, Chester Stover | 2:21 |
| 29. | "Six Million Dollar Man" (theme from The Six Million Dollar Man, full-length studio version, originally performed in the episode "My Nightingale") | Oliver Nelson | 1:29 |
| 30. | "Testy Tiger – additional reprise" | Perry | 0:53 |
| 31. | "Love Having You" (cast recording featuring Bill Lawrence) | Lawrence, Lloyd | 0:27 |
| 32. | "I'll Be Seeing You" | Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal | 1:40 |
| 33. | "The Ballad of Jimmy Durante" | Perry | 3:38 |
| 34. | "Back to You" (cast recording featuring Neil Flynn) | Flynn, Lloyd | 0:27 |
| Total length: | 34:28 | ||
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