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(2006/SUNDAZED) 12 tracks Assembled in the summer of '66 to coincide with 'Popsicle,' Jan &... more

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Jan & Dean: Popsicle

(2006/SUNDAZED) 12 tracks Assembled in the summer of '66 to coincide with 'Popsicle,' Jan & Dean's last great chart smash, the LP of the same name appeared mere months after Jan Berry's near-fatal car crash. The hybrid POPSICLE album is a magnificent confection all on its own, spotlighting the final meeting of the wit and studio savvy of Los Angeles' chart-topping dynamic duo, Jan Berry and Dean Torrence, with the teen-pulse-taking pop smarts of one of Tinseltown's most successful songwriting tandems, Phil Sloan and Steve Barri.

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Interpret: Jan & Dean
Album titlle: Popsicle
Genre Beat
Preiscode VCD6
Label SUNDAZED
Artikelart CD
EAN: 0090771624024
weight in Kg 0.1

Jan & Dean - Popsicle CD 1
01	Popsicle	Jan & Dean
02	The Restless Surfer	Jan & Dean
03	She's My Summer Girl	Jan & Dean
04	Down At Malibu Beach	Jan & Dean
05	Summer Means Fun	Jan & Dean
06	Tennessee	Jan & Dean
07	Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)	Jan & Dean
08	A Surfers' Dream	Jan & Dean
09	Surf Route 101	Jan & Dean
10	Surfin' Wild	Jan & Dean
11	Waimea Bay	Jan & Dean
12	One-Piece Topless Bathing Suit	Jan & Dean

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"Jan & Dean"

Jan & Dean

Think of 1960s 'surfer' music and two groups immediately come to mind: The Beach Boys and Jan & Dean. Jan Berry was half of the duo and sang lead on The Beach Boys' 1966 hit Barbara Ann.

Jan Berry was born in Los Angeles on April 3, 1941. In high school he met Arnie Ginsburg and Dean Torrance. The trio formed a musical group, The Barons, and Berry and Ginsburg began writing songs. In 1958, Jennie Lee, an ode to an LA stripper, was recorded in Jan's garage. Credited to Jan & Arnie, it became a hit, reaching #8 on the Pop Chart. One more Jan & Arnie side followed before the Jan & Dean line-up rolled up 24 chart singles. Their hits ended in 1966, a few months after Jan was left in a coma after wrecking his car speeding through Dead Man's Curve.

What inspired Berry and co-writer Jill Gibson to respond to Buffy Sainte-Marie's anti-war anthem, Universal Soldier, is unclear. Both the Donovan and Glen Campbell versions of the song were on the charts in fall '65, but neither sparked the kind of controversy that Eve Of Destruction did. When he co-wrote The Universal Coward, Jan had no direct stake in the Vietnam War. He had no military background, unlike Dean, who had done an Army Reserve stint. So it's interesting that Dean was sufficiently put off by the lyrics of Coward… that he did not want his name on the label.

Jan & Dean made a comeback in the late '70s on the back of the made-for-TV biopic 'Dead Man's Curve.' While there were no new records produced, the duo performed their hits on the 'oldies' circuit.

Jan Berry died of a seizure on March 26, 2004

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