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{{Infobox song
| name       = Let's Go Trippin{{'-}}
| cover      = Let's Go Trippin' (single).jpg
| alt        =
| type       = single
| artist     = [[Dick Dale]] and The Del-Tones
| album      = [[Surfers' Choice]]
| released   = September 1961
| recorded   = 1961
| studio     =
| venue      =
| genre      = [[Surf rock]]<ref name="Bog">{{cite book|editor-last1=Bogdanov|editor-first1=Vladimir|editor-link1=Vladimir Bogdanov (editor)|editor-last2=Woodstra|editor-first2=Chris|editor-last3=Erlewine|editor-first3=Stephen Thomas|editor-link3=Stephen Thomas Erlewine|title=All Music Guide to Rock: The Definitive Guide to Rock, Pop, and Soul|url={{google books |plainurl=y |id=1-pH4i3jXvAC}}|year=2002|publisher=Backbeat Books|isbn=978-0-87930-653-3|pages=1313–1314}}</ref><ref name="Doggett 2015">{{cite book|title= Electric Shock: From the Gramophone to the iPhone - 125 Years of Pop Music|first=Peter|last=Doggett|date= 1 January 2015|chapter= Sorry, Parents|page= 331|publisher=[[The Bodley Head]]|location= London|isbn=978-1-847-92218-2
|url=https://books.google.com/books/about/Electric_Shock.html?id=guSsCAAAQBAJ|access-date= 21 February 2025}}</ref>
| length     = 2:10
| label      = Deltone
| writer     = [[Dick Dale]]
| producer   = Jim Monsour
| prev_title = Ooh-Wee Marie
| prev_year  = 1961
| next_title = Jungle Fever
| next_year  = 1962
| misc       = {{Audio sample
 | type = single
 | file = Dick Dale - Let's Go Trippin'.ogg
}}
}}

"'''Let's Go Trippin{{'-}}'''" is an [[instrumental]] by [[Dick Dale]] and The Del-Tones.  It is often regarded as the first [[surf rock]] instrumental and is credited for launching the [[surf music]] craze.<ref name="Bog"/> First played in public in 1960 at the [[Rendezvous Ballroom]] in [[Balboa Peninsula, Newport Beach]], [[California]], it reached number 4 on the [[Los Angeles]] station [[KFWB]], and later peaked at number 60 on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]].

The song was used as the theme tune to the [[BBC Radio 4]] programme ''[[Home Truths]]'', originally presented by [[John Peel]].{{citation needed|date=March 2019}}

==References==
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==Bibliography==
* ''All Music Guide to Rock: The Definitive Guide to Rock, Pop, and Soul'', Backbeat Records, 2002, {{ISBN|978-0879306533}}

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