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Earlier this year we met our friends from Shwood up along the Oregon Coast. Shwood founder Eric Singer teamed up with Joe Blecha to create a one-of-a-kind board using reclaimed wood they found on a recent trip to the coast. They invited us to take the board on its maiden voyage in really fun Pacific Northwest surf. The above edit documents this process. View our Journals from the trip here: + Coastal Camping in the Pacific Northwest + Inside Shwood Shop + Under the Hood of the Oregonian Flatback

Born in Cairo, Egypt in 1944, Gillian Hills was pinned as the next Bridgette Bardot from an early age. She starred in numerous films and recorded EPs throughout the 1960s. This track when released in 1960 was the smash hit of the summer. Although Mad Men has influenced a resurgence in classic American sportswear, the music from the era never regained the same popularity. That changed when Megan (Jessica Paré) performed her own rendition in the season five premiere. Hills currently lives in England recording music and illustrating art.

Born in Rome, Armando Trovajoli had music in his blood. His father was a violinist and by age six was playing piano and violin. Trovajoli went on to graduate cum laude in Piano at the S. Cecilia Conservatory of Music in Rome. He's composed Italian films such as We All Loved Each Other So Much (1974) and Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963) and over 190 other titles.

Today's Sunday Soundtrack is from Norwegian jazz giant Karin Krog. In 1965 she earned the Buddy Prize from the Norwegian Jazz Federation, the most prestigious honors in her genre of the time; one listen to her and you'll understand why. "Ode to Billy Joe" is off Krog's 1971 album, Some other spring, which she recorded with Dextor Gordon a famed tenor saxophonist in his own right. Some other spring was voted record of the year in Japan at the time of it's release. Krog continues to produce music to this day.