Riding the Wave (album)

Riding the Wave
Studio album by The Blanks
Released	2004
Recorded	2003, Los Angeles
Genre	A cappella
Label	Parody Records
Producer	The Blanks Chad Fischer (Superman)
The Blanks chronology
Riding the Wave (2004) Worth the Weight (2011)

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]}

Overview

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".

Track listing

CD edition ^[3]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
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

References

1. "The Blanks (5) – Riding The Wave" . Retrieved 19 August 2024.
2. "The Blanks - Riding The Wave". Enjoy The Ride Records. Retrieved 19 August 2024.
3. The Blanks (2004). Riding the Wave (Media notes). Parody Records.

• Riding the Wave at AllMusic . Retrieved 18:45, 24 May 2021 (UTC).

External links

• Information on the album at The Blanks' official website