Les Fradkin & Get Wet are the most successful Internet surf band for digital downloads. Led by Guitarist Les Fradkin, this band developed a new take on the hitherto established Surf rock Guitar sound which proved a great critical and sales success. Releasing a self-produced CD eponymously titled "Get Wet", tunes such as "Body Surfin'", "Surfin' The Classics, Parts 1 & 2 and "Reverbia" reached mp3.com's #1 position 16 times and garnered over 230,000 downloads. The music showed a blend of several notable influences including The Ventures, Dick Dale, Jeff Beck and various Classical music influences including J.S. Bach, Mozart and Paganini. In 2001, a follow-up CD "A Day At The Beach" was released and had further success with three titles ("A Day At The Beach", "Good Vibrations" and "The Bridge Across Forever") making the #1 slot on mp3.com.
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