For a while, the Angels were one of the top proprietors of the sixties girl group sound. Having had a #1 hit with "My Boyfriend's Back" in 1963, the group also had some chart success with"Till" (#14, 1961), "I Adore Him" (#25), "Wow, Wow Wee (He's the Boy For Me)" (#41, 1964), and Cry Baby Cry (#38, 1962). While most other girl groups of the time sang sweetly over lightly percussive instrumentation, the Angels set themselves apart from the rest by performing heavier instrumentation under edgier (and sometimes just plain waspish) vocals.

 

​The album begins with a spoken word intro into "Wow, Wow, Wee," much in the same vein as "My Boyfriend's Back", which is a great brass-laden number in the iconic girl group style. "Java" is an updated version of Al Hirt's signature tune. "I Want To Hold Your Hand" will certainly interest Fab Four fans. The surprisingly good version of "Louie Louie" is one of the best tracks on the album. The Angels even duplicate the Kingsmen's (now iconic) false re-entry after the instrumental break. "(You Can't Take) My Boyfriend's Woody" is a fantastic lost artifact of the genre that could have easily been a Honeys release. "(He Is) The Kissing Kind" is a bouncy track that could've warranted a single release. Side two opens up with a Jan Berry written and produced "I Adore Him" - lavishly produced featuring an opening riff that would later be recycled into Jan and Dean's "I Found A Girl". "Little Beatle Boy" is a sappy love letter to the British foursome, which probably would've been addressed to the five boys from Hawthorne if it had been released the previous year. "Snowflakes and Teardrops" shows a more tender side of the band. Similarly, both "Guess the Boy Don't Love Me Anymore" and "By the Time You Read This Letter" are more akin to the standard 60s girl-group fare. The sleepy "Dream Boy" features a heavy fuzz guitar solo (something that wouldn't become popular in love ballads until the '70s), closing out the album on a much different note than what it started on.

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While not entirely surf-related, the Angels' A Halo to You features some excellent 1960s pop material with a few surf-ier moments thrown in for good measure.