Riding the Wave is a 2004 album by The Blanks

The Blanks

The Blanks are an a cappella group. Most notably, they appeared in the TV series Scrubs in a recurring guest role, under various names such as Ted's Band and The Worthless Peons...

. It features both original songs by the band and cover version

Cover version

In popular music, a cover version or cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording of a contemporary or previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song...

s of other songs, most of which were performed on the TV series Scrubs

Scrubs (TV series)

Scrubs is an American medical comedy-drama television series created in 2001 by Bill Lawrence and produced by ABC Studios. The show follows the lives of several employees of the fictional Sacred Heart, a teaching hospital. It features fast-paced screenplay, slapstick, and surreal vignettes...

. It also features candid recordings of the cast and production team of Scrubs (marked on the track listing as CR). Sam Lloyd

Sam Lloyd

Sam Lloyd may refer to:*Samuel T. Lloyd III, dean of Washington National Cathedral*Sam Lloyd, recurring guest character on several television shows including Scrubs and Desperate Housewives-See also:...

 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

1. "Superman
   Superman (Lazlo Bane song)
   “Superman” is a song by the American band Lazlo Bane, from their album All the Time in the World. It was written by Lazlo Bane and Pondy Doorcan. It is most noted for being the theme song to the American TV series Scrubs...
   
   " (originally by Lazlo Bane
   Lazlo Bane
   Lazlo Bane is an alternative rock band hailing from Santa Monica, California, United States. They are well known for collaborating with former Men at Work member Colin Hay, and providing the song "Superman" as the theme for the television show Scrubs...
   
   ) 3:20
2. "Charles in Charge" (theme tune from the sitcom
   Charles in Charge
   Charles in Charge is an American sitcom series which starred Scott Baio as Charles, a 19-year-old student at the fictional Copeland College in New Jersey, who worked as a live-in babysitter in exchange for room and board...
   
   ) 1:01
3. "A Little Polish"
4. "They'll Never Know" – CR
5. "Touched Up" – CR
6. "Play On" – CR
7. "Testy Tiger"
8. "Commandos (Attack!)"
9. "Good Old Days"
10. "Crowded Landscape" – CR
11. "Holy" – CR
12. "Elliot in Your Cup"
13. "By Mennen – G major"
14. "Happy Halloween"
15. "The Full Monty"
16. "Testy Tiger – reprise"
17. "What Now?" – CR
18. "I'm in the Middle" – CR
19. "Facts of Life" (theme tune from the sitcom
    The Facts of Life (TV series)
    The Facts of Life is an American sitcom that originally ran on the NBC television network from August 24, 1979 to May 7, 1988. A spin-off of the sitcom Diff'rent Strokes, the series' premise focused on Edna Garrett as she becomes a housemother at the fictional Eastland School, a prestigious...
    
    )
20. "By Mennen – D major"
21. "Flipper Theme" (theme tune from the TV series
    Flipper (1964 TV series)
    Flipper, from Ivan Tors Films in association with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Television, is an American television program first broadcast on NBC from September 19, 1964, until April 15, 1967. Flipper, a bottlenose dolphin, is the companion animal of Porter Ricks, Chief Warden at fictional Coral Key Park...
    
    )
22. "Speed Racer" (theme tune from the anime series
    Speed Racer
    Speed Racer is an English adaptation name of the Japanese manga and anime, which centered on automobile racing. Mach GoGoGo was originally serialized in print form in Shueisha's 1958 Shōnen Book, and was released in tankōbon book form by Sun Wide Comics, re-released in Japan by Fusosha...
    
    )
23. "The Riff Song" (originally from The Desert Song
    The Desert Song
    The Desert Song is an operetta with music by Sigmund Romberg and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Harbach and Frank Mandel. It was inspired by the 1925 uprising of the Riffs, a group of Moroccan fighters, against French colonial rule. It was also inspired by stories of Lawrence of...
    
     operetta
    Operetta
    Operetta is a genre of light opera, light in terms both of music and subject matter. It is also closely related, in English-language works, to forms of musical theatre.-Origins:...
    
    )
24. "John Fredrich" – CR
25. "Do You Want?" – CR
26. "If You Never Looked at Me" – CR
27. "Boing Fwip"
28. "Underdog" (theme tune from the animated series)
29. "Six Million Dollar Man" (theme tune from the TV series
    The Six Million Dollar Man
    The Six Million Dollar Man is an American television series about a former astronaut with bionic implants working for the OSI...
    
    )
30. "Testy Tiger – additional reprise"
31. "Love Having You" – CR
32. "I'll Be Seeing You" (from the 1944 movie)
33. "The Ballad of Jimmy Durante"
34. "Back To You" – CR

External links

• Information on the album at The Blanks' official website