Jan and dean famous songs from movies
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As teenagers, Jan Berry and Dean Torrence first started harmonizing in the showers after high school football practice and soon moved on to form a garage band called The Barons, with Arnie Ginsberg, Chuck Steele, Wally Yagi and John Seligman. During the group's short existence, Sandy Nelson, Torrence's neighbor, played drums, and future Beach Boy Bruce Johnston occasionally sang and played piano. Soon after performing in their high school talent show, the group splintered.
Shortly before being conscripted into the United States Army Reserve, Dean sang with Jan, Arnie Ginsberg and fellow University High student Donald J. Altfeld on a recording called "Jenny Lee", which executives at Arwin Records heard and offered to re-record and issue as a single. Released under the name of Jan and Arnie, "Jenny Lee" rose to #3 on the Cashbox Best Sellers chart, #8 on the Billboard Pop chart and #4 on the R&B chart in June, 1958. The duo became part of the Summer Dance Par
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The Truth About Jan and Dean
I’m a fan, not a critic. My regular readers will know that this is the general theme of Your Home for Vintage Leisure. You won’t get a lot of critical analysis of anything here but what you will get is the celebration of retro things, things that are inherently great because of their artistic merit and/or things that are simply great because of the joy they provide. Some things, SoulRide can and will defend; everything else is a guilty pleasure.
The vocal duo Jan & Dean passform into this latter category. Sort of. They made many iconic records with shiny polish and endless catchiness so you do get quality along with pleasure from listening to them. But I’ve discovered something insidious – and indefensible – lurking at the heart of this pair of LA boys.
Both lads came from upper-middle class families. Jan Berry’s father was an aeronautical engineer who worked for Howard Hughes and flew on the only vo
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Jan and Dean
American musical duo
Jan and Dean were an American rock duo consisting of William Jan Berry (April 3, 1941 – March 26, 2004)[1] and Dean Ormsby Torrence (born March 10, 1940). In the early 1960s, they were pioneers of the California Sound and vocal surf music styles popularized by the Beach Boys.
Among their most successful songs was 1963's "Surf City", the first surf song ever to reach the #1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US.[2] Their other charting top 10 singles were "Baby Talk" (1959),[3] "Drag City" (1963),[3] "Dead Man's Curve" (1964; inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2008,[4])[2][3] and "The Little Old Lady (from Pasadena)" (1964).[2][3]
In 1972, Torrence won the Grammy Award for Best Album Cover for the psychedelic rock band Pollution's first eponymous 1971 album,[5] and was nominated three other times in the same category for albums o