We made an album although not under the name Rhythm Crusaders. We were hired fill out an album that the producer only had a few Dick Dale cuts to use. We provided the rest of the music and the producer named us "The Hollywood Surfers" on the album.
We did a couple of Battle of the bands with the Chantays, this was before they had a hit song. They were a bunch of high schoolers at the time and barely had 10 songs on thier set list. The producer of the show gave them an hour for their set and they had to give most of that to us.
I really didn't have leather pants. We wore black slacks at the time.
Jerry