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Yet while Jan was recovering from his accident in 1966, you recorded your own Pet Sounds — the rare psych-pop album, Save for a Rainy Day, which you credited to Jan and Dean and released on the ...
Jan Berry`s trials have been harsher than most people`s; in 1966 he was involved in a terrible car accident that was an eerie echo of the Jan and Dean hit ”Dead Man`s Curve,” and suffered ...
But the Jan and Dean engagement for the next two nights called for four separate shows at the fair-6:30 p.m. show, 9 p.m. show-and when duty calls, a responsible band member shows up.
Jan and Dean never won the critical hosannas of the Beach Boys, but over the years, the acts’ paths have crossed repeatedly. Berry and Wilson co-wrote the song “Surf City,” which later gave ...
Jan & Dean continued to have top 40 singles through mid-1966 with “Popsicle” and released albums that exposed the breadth of Berry’s talent — a symphonic record, ...
When We Get to Surf City is Bob Greene's memoir of 15 years spent hitchhiking that road, a series of Americana-fueled snapshots of singing and playing guitar with 1960s surf rock pioneers Jan and ...
But Jan And Dean didn’t hit their peak until they met Brian Wilson. The duo played a lot of early-’60s shows with the Beach Boys, with the Beach Boys even backing them up a few times.
Jan Berry, as readers might recall, passed away in 2004. Dean will come to Taiwan in September to join Starr's motorcycle brigade on a round trip across the highways and byways of colorful and ...
Jan Berry, half of the 1960s pop music duo Jan and Dean, who recorded such hits as their No. 1 "Surf City" and Berry's personal favorite, "Dead Man's Curve," has died.
Jan and Dean’s Beach Party! featuring Dean Torrence will be presented by Long Man Productions, 7:30 p.m. Sept. 10 at the Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido, Santa Barbara.
A recent lunch with Dean Torrence of Jan and Dean fame led to talk about how to pay tribute to Beach Boys co-founder Brian Wilson who died last week, the president and CEO of Huntington Beach’s ...