The year was 1965. The air was clean, music refreshingly innocent, and in Cupertino California, a small, pre-Silicon Valley town just south of San Francisco near Santa Cruz, 4 high school buddies got together to form a garage band. This was not just any garage band - this band was special. They would succeed where others would fail - they would continue where others would die off. They had a focus where other bands just rambled. They wore suits! They believed that "good enough" never was. They practiced their 4 part harmony until their throats bled - and it paid off. PAPA DOO RUN RUN (their name derived from 1965 the background line of Jan & Dean's New Girl in School), established a solid performance schedule, playing as many as 200 dates a year, covering North America and two other continents, and a ton of island resorts. During their humble beginnings in the 60's and 70's, the band performed at nearly every high school and college in California. Some of PAPA's opening acts in the early days included Van Halen and the Doobie Brothers, when those bands were still in their garage band phase. 1975

After meeting limited success with a few recording ventures in the 60's and early 70's, PAPA DOO RUN RUN caught the big wave with Be True To Your School (1975, RCA), produced by their friend Bruce Johnston of the Beach Boys. That single cracked the Billboard Top 40 chart, and hit Number 1 in California, earning them "KAHUNA" status among the veteran surf legends of the day. The flip side was a song called Disney Girls, which opened the door for what was to become a 15 year run at Disneyland as the "celebrity house band".

Be True... was followed by a string of singles and EP's, all of which received a respectable amount of airplay. PAPA DOO RUN RUN's most recent recording accolade is another GOLD RECORD award and a GRAMMY nomination for their California Project CD (1985, Telarc Records). PAPA's most recent albums include their all digital, live (CD) appropriately entitled IT'S ALIVE! (1995, Blue Pacific Records), their retrospective collection, Archeology XXXV (2000, Blue Pacific Records), and their critically acclaimed, all original album Santa Cruz (2001, 1981 Blue Pacific Records).

1988 Throughout the late 70's PAPA toured with Jan & Dean as their opening act and back-up band, and appeared in and did the soundtrack album for the CBS-TV movie "Deadman's Curve. Throughout the 80's and 90's the band toured and recorded with members of the Beach Boys. PAPA DOO RUN RUN has also appeared in concert with such luminaries as Roy Orbison, Fleetwood Mac, Kenny Loggins, Chicago, Jimmy Buffett, and a zillion other huge names. Their most notable performances include two Olympics, eight Super Bowls, and two Inaugurations. In 1988, PAPA was dubbed "CALIFORNIA'S BAND" by California's then Governor Dukmejian, and in 1992 they added a former member of the Beach Boys to their line-up.

PAPA DOO RUN RUN today includes: Don Zirilli -

keyboards and vocals, Jim Rush - bass and vocals, (both of whom are original members since 1965), Randell Kirsch - guitar and vocals, who has performed with everyone from 1998 the Byrds to the Beach Boys, Bobby Gothar - guitar and vocals, who has shared the stage with Lee Greenwood, Merle Haggard, and Charlie Daniels, and studio drummer Bo Fox, who throughout the 80’s toured with Jimmy Buffett and the Eagles.

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