Jan & Dean Surf City & Folk & Roll (CD)

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Jan & Dean: Surf City & Folk & Roll (CD)

(1996/ONE WAY) 25 tracks - 2 original LPs plus bonus track

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Interpret: Jan & Dean
Album titlle: Surf City & Folk & Roll (CD)
Year of publication 1996
Label ONE WAY
Artikelart CD
EAN: 0724381868522
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Jan & Dean - Surf City & Folk & Roll (CD) CD 1
01	Surf City	Jan & Dean
02	Memphis	Jan & Dean
03	Detroit City	Jan & Dean
04	Manhattan	Jan & Dean
05	Philadelphia, PA	Jan & Dean
06	Way Down Yonder In New Orleans	Jan & Dean
07	Honolulu Lulu	Jan & Dean
08	Kansas City	Jan & Dean
09	I Left My Heart In San Francisco	Jan & Dean
10	You Came A Lng Way From St. Louis	Jan & Dean
11	Tallahassee Lassie	Jan & Dean
12	Soul City	Jan & Dean
13	I Found A Girl	Jan & Dean
14	Hang On Sloopy	Jan & Dean
15	I Can't Wait To Love You	Jan & Dean
16	Ee Of Destruction	Jan & Dean
17	It's A Shame To Say Goodbye	Jan & Dean
18	Where Were You When I Needed You	Jan & Dean
19	A Beginning From An End	Jan & Dean
20	Yesterday	Jan & Dean
21	The Universal Coward	Jan & Dean
22	It Ain't Me Babe	Jan & Dean
23	Folk City	Jan & Dean
24	Turn, Turn, Turn	Jan & Dean
25	My Favorite Dream	Jan & Dean

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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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