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Cleveland, 1978 - 82

"There's No Surf In Cleveland".The winter of 1977-8 was one of the worst in Cleveland history, topped off by the late January "Blizzard of '78".

According to other sources, somtime during the long hard winter, Rich Reising, who worked for the Scene magazine, and Jim Girard, the Scene's editor, were talking about a lyric in an Eric Carmen song (not sure which one, apparently it was unreleased) about no surf in Cleveland, and decided to write a song about it.

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Reising had been in Magic, the band that played on Carmen's first and most successfult LP, and Girard had played in Harlequin Colour. Girard was a big fan of the Beach Boys and together they wrote a Beach Boy styled song using the above as the theme and title.

Reising and Girard collected some local musicians and completed the recording, with help from Carmen.

Somewhere along the way it was decided to release the song through the Scene and donate the proceeds to charity. In order to com