TikTok star goes viral after sharing dad’s 43-year-old unreleased song ‘Surrender to Me’

Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things music Get our Now Hear This email for free Get our Now Hear This email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A TikTok user has revealed how he made his father’s 43-year-old unreleased song go viral. 19-year-old Zach Montana first heard the song titled “Surrender to Me”, which was written by his dad William “Curly” Smith, playing on an old truck last month. I’m so mad at him.” The video amassed thousands of plays overnight, with Montana telling The Guardian that he “woke up to texts from people I never get texts from — like my hairstylist — saying, ‘Yo, this is crazy!’” The track has now been played more than 3 million times and noticed by musicians such as Meghan Trainor and Herman Li. Montana’s father told The Guardian that the track had been sitting on the shelf for 43 years, saying: “He just discovered it in the car, did a TikTok thing on it, and the rest is history”.