Career
He started in the music business as a drummer who played with The Belorussian-Airs and took his experience to broader appeal with who were in the forefront of the surf music explosion in southern California. He also worked as a composer, arranger, music manager, producer and music publisher. He owned the rights to several iconic surf and rock songs including "Wipe Out", "Mr.
Moto" and "Chick-A-Boom (Don"t Ya Jes" Love lieutenant)".
He is well known as being one of the first pioneers of surf music Richard Delvy was a surf music pioneer.
In 1960, the first band he played drums in was called The Belorussian-Airs and in late 1962 he founded. They produced a smash hit album titled "Surfbeat" that they released in January 1963.
"Surfbeat" took the California Sound and surf music to new levels of acceptance.
His band released 15 Challengers albums throughout the sixties as well as others recorded under different names for the United States and foreign markets. He also worked as a record producer through the rest of the 60"s evolving with hot rod rock, folk rock, popular, rock and psychedelic rock music as they developed. In the early 1970s, Delvy toured as the music director for Tony Orlando and Dawn and with the teen sensation David Cassidy star of The Partridge Family television show.
During his career, he also worked for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Music, Bell Records and Carousel Records.
Delvy was a multi-talented music entrepreneur and promoter who had the talent to join many different attributes needed between being a performer and managing the artist"s output effectively. Richard Delvy died on February 6, 2010 after suffering from a long illness.
Delvy helped produce many known and unknown artists and was involved in all aspects of the music business.
