Jan and Dean – "Surf City" (1963)

With two swingin’ honeys for every guy

And all you gotta do is just wink your eye!

The previous 2 or 3 lines enumerated a few of the many amazing statistical accomplishments of former NBA great Wilt Chamberlain.

Here’s one I left out.  No one other than Wilt Chamberlain has ever averaged more than 30 points and 20 bounds per game over the course of an entire season, but Chamberlain averaged more than 30 points and 20 rebounds per game over the course of his entire 14-year career!

As mind-boggling as Wilt’s basketball records were, his off-the-court numbers were even mind-bogglinger.

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Genesis 4:1 (King James Version) reads as follows:

And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived and bare Cain.

In his 1991 book, A View From Above, Chamberlain wrote that he had known 20,000 women:

Yes, that's correct, twenty thousand different ladies.  At my age, that equals out to having [known] 1.2 women a day, every day since I was fifteen years old.

Wilt Chamberlain in
action off the court

How did Chamberlain come up with that number?  A friend of Wilt’s later said that Chamberlain had once spent ten days at the friend’s Honolulu penthouse.  During those ten days, Wilt got to know 23 different women.

“That's 2.3 girls per day,” the friend said. “He took 2.3 and divided it in half, to be conservative. Then deducted fifteen from his current age, multiplied that by 1.2 women per day, and that's how he came up with 20,000.”

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There are about the same number of men and women in the United States.

Just imagine what Wilt Chamberlain might have accomplished if he had lived in Surf City – where there were two girls for every boy.

Click here to listen to Jan and Dean’s “Surf City,” which was released in 1963 on Surf City and Other Swingin' Cities, one of the first LPs I ever owned.  (The album included not only “Surf City” but also covers of Bobby Bare’s “Detroit City,” Wilbert Harrison’s “Kansas City,” and Freddy Cannon’s “Tallahassee Lassie.”)

Click here to buy “Surf City” from Amazon.