Michael Ochs Archives/Getty The Ventures had 14 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 and sold over 100 million records. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008. Groups like The ...

Ventures founders Bob Bogle and Wilson were bricklayers when they bought guitars and chord books at a pawnshop in Tacoma in 1958. “They were just really cheap guitars,” Wilson once recalled.

The pioneering surf-rock band The Ventures have been an iconic presence in music and pop culture for 60 years, from their breakout hit "Walk Don't Run" to the enduring theme song to Hawaii 5-O to ...

One of The Ventures’ biggest hits includes “Walk, Don’t Run,” which you can see below. The song is considered a surf rock standard. The Ventures sold over 100 million records.

The Ventures’ only other top 10 hit was the “Hawaii Five-O” theme, which peaked at No. 4 in 1969. But between 1960 and 1972, the Ventures charted 37 albums in the Billboard top 200.

Ventures founders Bob Bogle and Wilson were bricklayers when they bought guitars and chord books at a pawnshop in Tacoma in 1958. “They were just really cheap guitars,” Wilson once recalled.