Where you might have heard them Their music is dated in many ways, but so well-crafted and irresistibly catchy that their best-known songs have a permanent place on oldies radio. When left alone, Jan & Dean and the group of talented friends who co-wrote most of their songs produced hit after hit and were one of the dominant groups of 1963 and 1964. but the music is first-rate. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. During this time Berry co-wrote or arranged and produced songs for other artists outside of Jan and Dean, including the Angels ("I Adore Him", Top 30), the Gents, the Matadors (Sinners), Pixie (unreleased), Jill Gibson, Shelley Fabares, Deane Hawley, the Rip Chords ("Three Window Coupe", Top 30), and Johnny Crawford, among others. Is Jan and Dean still living? Morantz first submitted the story to Playboy, who recommended it to Rolling Stone. Who wrote Jan and Dean songs? [41], Jan and Dean also filmed two unreleased television pilots: Surf Scene in 1963 and On the Run in 1966. It entered the Billboard charts on August 24, 1958, and peaked at No. After meeting the Beach Boys on the L.A. scene, Jan befriended leader Brian Wilson, and the two began work on what would become "Surf City." On October 19, 1958, Jan & Arnie performed "The Beat That Can't Be Beat" on CBS's Jack Benny Show. By this time Berry was co-writing, arranging, and producing all of Jan and Dean's original material. Dean then left for a six month stint in the Army and Jan signed up with Arwin records and released the two songs as being by "Jan and Arnie." All. He had limited use of his right arm, and had to learn to write with his left hand and had to learn to walk again. "Jennie Lee" peaked at No. Torrence majored in advertising design in the school of architecture at USC, where he also was a member of the Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity. Berry and Torrence had adjoining lockers, and after football practice, they began harmonizing together in the showers with several other football players, including future actor James Brolin. On April 12, 1966, Berry received severe head injuries in an automobile accident on Whittier Drive, just a short distance from Dead Man's Curve in Beverly Hills, California, two years after the song had become a hit. Namesake. That night, they joked around and stopped lip-syncing on stage while the music continued, but the audience became angry and started booing. Jan & Dean are justifiably thought of as the best vocal surf/hot rod act besides the Beach Boys. They hit the top spot before the Beach Boys, which is ironic because Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys wrote most of the song. [21], In March 1958, the fathers of Berry and Ginsburg signed contracts authorizing Lubin to produce, arrange, and manage their sons. Jan & Dean had seven top 10 singles. Silver Summer was officially released as a Jan & Dean album, but falsely gives credit to Berry as co-producer and singer; Berry did not contribute to the album. Dean Torrence of Jan and Dean is featured on lead vocals along with Brian Wilson.Torrence is not credited on the album, but Carl Wilson is heard saying "Thanks, Dean" at the song's conclusion. So what else is it? After graduation Ginsburg worked for several noted Los Angeles architects, among them Charles Eames,[34] and in December 1973 he was granted a U.S. patent for a table he designed. Also in 1964, the duo performed the title track for the Columbia Pictures film Ride the Wild Surf, starring Fabian Forte, Tab Hunter, Peter Brown, Shelley Fabares, and Barbara Eden. Jan Berry co-wrote all of them except "Baby Talk." After undergoing years of extensive therapy, Berry was able to return to music in 1973. Along with the CD, there was a limited edition (1500 copies), which included a 10-track LP. The album included many of their top hits, starting with 1958's "Jennie Lee" and ending with 1968's "Vegetables". Brian Wilson has cited Berry as having a direct impact on his own growth as a record producer.[54]. It is one of only a few songs the group performed that surf-fan Keith Moon provided the lead vocals. Their music has been covered by numerous punk rock and alternative rock bands since the 1970s. In February 2010, the Jan & Dean album Carnival of Sound was released on the Rhino Handmade label. Brian Wilson only co-wrote three of them. Berry adapted the Civil War tune "Aura Lea" and arranged the harmonies. In 1964, at the height of their fame, Jan and Dean hosted and performed at The T.A.M.I. White Lighting Publishing (2013), Berry, Torrence, Jan & Dean Archives Volume 2. [33], By the end of the year, when Torrence had completed his six-month stint at Fort Ord, Ginsburg had become disenchanted with the music business. But their constant improvement and the increased complexity of their arrangements in the latter recordings showed their fealty to Brian Wilson's baroque approach. White Lighting Publishing (2014), This page was last edited on 22 February 2021, at 13:24. It reached number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. Jan and Dean version. Drag City has been described by Dean Torrence as Jan & Dean's first concept album, with all of the songs written or chosen around a very specific theme. Ancestry.com. Ginsburg enrolled in the School of Architecture and Design at the University of Southern California and graduated in the field of product design in 1966. "Dead Man's Curve" is a 1964 hit song by Jan and Dean whose lyrics detail a teen street race gone awry. Show appearance. The album was released in Europe in April 2010 in its original US form. Ancestry.com. Pop "Baby Talk" (1959), "Drag City" (1964), "Dead Man's Curve" (1964), "The Little Old Lady (From Pasadena)" (1964), Notable covers As with a lot of surf artists, Jan and Dean's music was beloved by some subsets of punks, which is why the Ramones covered "Surf City" on their famous 1994 covers album Acid Eaters and why Blink 182, around the same time, took on "Dead Man's Curve." In an interview conducted by Jan & Dean fan and historian David Beard for the Collectors' Choice release, Jan & Dean, the Complete Liberty Singles,[55] Dean Torrence stated that he felt the duo should be in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: "We have the scoreboard if you just want to compare number of hits and musical projects done. Jan Berry, the creative force behind legendary surf rock duo Jan and Dean, died Friday after suffering a seizure at his Los Angeles home; he was sixty-two. In 1997, after many years of hard work, Berry released a solo album called Second Wave on One Way Records. JAN BERRY — A SELECTED TIMELINE By Mark A. Moore Author of The Jan & Dean Record. He also had separated from his girlfriend of seven years, singer-artist Jill Gibson, later a member of the Mamas & the Papas for a short time, who also had co-written several songs with him. Okay....somehow...somewhere...in this crazy world...we missed a few of the bestest songs to come out of the industry. [36] In September 1976, Ginsburg and Michael W. O'Neill were granted a patent for a portable batting cage.[37]. Roy Orbison wrote A Love So Beautiful, Running Scared and You Got It. Jan wrote produced and went to college. He was on his way to a business meeting when he crashed his Corvette into a parked truck on Whittier Drive, near the intersection of Sunset Boulevard, in Beverly Hills. Billy Ward and his Dominoes's R&B cover of "Jennie Lee" reached No. Ancestry.com. Books Magazines. June 11, 2002, Torrence released a solo album titled Anthology: Legendary Masked Surfer Unmasked.[49]. Attendees included Torrence, Lou Adler, Jill Gibson, and Nancy Sinatra, along with many family members, friends, and musicians associated with Jan and Dean and the Beach Boys, including the original members of Papa Doo Run Run. This is the number that Jan & Dean are remember for and it really is one of the top surf song of the 60s. Jan's high school buddy and sometimes roommate Don Altfeld and his girlfriend Jill Gibson wrote or co-wrote a good number of Jan & Dean songs, and it was Don who had the original inspiration for The Little Old Lady from Pasadena. Torrence (with Gene Brownell) won a Grammy Award for "Album Cover of the Year" in 1971, for the album Pollution by Pollution on Prophesy Records. The original b-side of "Curve," called "The New Girl in School," was revisited by Box Tops/Big Star legend Alex Chilton on his 1995 solo album A Man Called Destruction. Their next song, the #1 Surf City, made them a Surf Duo but their previous work was primarily doo-wop/Teen appeal. He currently resides in Huntington Beach, California, with his wife and two daughters. That song, actually written about a stripper, gained Berry some friends in the business, including Herb Alpert and producer Lou Adler. However this single failed to chart, due in part to a lack of distribution. Jan and Dean reached their commercial peak in 1963 and 1964, after they met Brian Wilson. Jan & Dean's Greatest Hits | Best Songs of Jan & Dean - Full Album Jan & Dean NEW Playlist 2017 "Music can change the world because it can change people." 10 hit on the Dore label with "Baby Talk" (1959)[38] (which was incorrectly labeled as Jan & Arnie when it initially was released), then scored a series of hits over the next couple of years. U.S. Public Records Index, Volume 1 [database on-line]. DVDs Blu-ray VHS. Unlike most other rock 'n roll acts of the period, Jan and Dean did not give music their full-time attention. The duo flourished well into the mid-Sixties, weathering even the British Invasion. Styles Rock and roll, Surf vocal, Hot Rod vocal, Pop-rock, Folk rock, Doo-wop, Jan Berry (b. William Jan Berry, April 3, 1941, Los Angeles, CA; d. March 26, 2004, Los Angeles, CA): harmony vocals (bass), piano, production, Dean Ormsby Torrence (b. "[25] Distributed by Dot Records,[26] "Jennie Lee" was released in mid-April,[27] entered the charts on May 10, 1958, the same day they appeared on ABC's Dick Clark Show. The album also features Dean's two daughters, Jillian and Katie Torrence. Show became a seminal and original production – in essence one of the first rock videos – on its release in 1964. [11], During its short duration, Sandy Nelson, Torrence's neighbor, played drums, and future Beach Boy Bruce Johnston occasionally sang and played piano. Subsequent top 10 hits included "Drag City" (#10, 1964), the eerily portentous "Dead Man's Curve" (#8, 1964), and "The Little Old Lady from Pasadena" (#3, 1964). [3], William Jan Berry (April 3, 1941 – March 26, 2004), was born in Los Angeles to Clara Lorentze Mustad (born September 2, 1919, Bergen, Norway – died July 9, 2009) and aeronautical engineer William L. Berry (born December 7, 1909, New York City – died December 19, 2004, Camarillo, California),[4] He was raised in Bel Air, Los Angeles. [5], Jan's father worked for Howard Hughes[5] as a project manager of the "Spruce Goose" and flew on its only flight with Hughes.[4][6][7]. After that, with surf and car music on the wane, jan tried to find a new niche but never saw the top ten again. In "Phase II" of their career, Torrence led the touring operation. Sales. The album cover was designed by Torrence. California Death Index, 1940–1997 [database on-line]. Torrence was Berry's best man at the wedding. Technically, we could add The Beach Boys Barbara Ann to Jan & Dean's hit singles, as it is infact Dean Torrence singing the high falsetto on that great Beach Boys song. U.S. Public Records Index, Vol. The duo scored sixteen Top 40 hits on the Billboard and Cash Box magazine charts, with a total of twenty-six chart hits over an eight-year period (1959-1966). The April, 1966 car accident suddenly ended everything. It was also a smash, but it wasn't until 1963, with the release of the Four Seasons-inspired "Linda," that the Jan and Dean sound began to take shape. Torrence also toured briefly as "Mike & Dean", with Mike Love of the Beach Boys. [31], By September 6, 1958, Jan & Arnie's third and final single, "The Beat That Can't Be Beat" backed with "I Love Linda" (Arwin 113), again composed by the Berry, Ginsburg and Altfeld team, was released. Between the 1970s and the early 2000s, Torrence issued a number of re-recordings of classic Jan and Dean and Beach Boys hits. Ancestry.com. 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Robert Fontenot Jr. is an entertainment critic and journalist focusing on classic rock and roll and published nationally for more than 25 years. "Baby Talk". [17] Joe Lubin, Vice President and Head of A & R of Arwin Records, was impressed and offered to add instruments and to release it through Arwin. That;s also their harmonies mingling with the Beach Boys throughout their classic 1965 album Beach Boys' Party! The T.A.M.I. "The New Girl in … Berry was still suffering the effects of his 1966 accident, with partial paralysis and aphasia. The single, "Girl in Zanzibar" b/w "Guitarro", was released on vinyl in January 1959, preceding Jan and Dean's first single "Baby Talk", released in May 1959. In Berry's absence, Torrence released several singles on the J&D Record Co. label and recorded Save for a Rainy Day in 1966, a concept album featuring all rain-themed songs. [39] Berry took science and music classes at UCLA, became a member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, and entered the California College of Medicine (now the UC Irvine School of Medicine) in 1963. That's okay with me." Though "The Little Girl I Once Knew" was … Though Dean Torrence co-wrote the song, “Yellow Balloon” and released a single under the billing, Jan and Dean, the song was dead in the water once Screen Gems warned Columbia Records not to promote the single. Jan Berry, Arnie Ginsburg and Dean Torrence were in a band called The Barons when they got the idea for this song. The Barons rehearsed for hours in Berry's parents' garage, where Berry's father provided an upright piano and two two-track Ampex reel-to-reel tape recorders.[12][17]. He serves as a spokesman for the City of Huntington Beach, California, which, thanks in part to his efforts, is nationally recognized as "Surf City USA". “The Little Girl I Once Knew" (1965) Written by Brian Wilson. In 1971, Jan & Dean released the album Jan & Dean Anthology Album under the label United Artists Records. The Herald Angels Sing, Silent Night, Rockabilly Gal, More and other songs. 4 on the R&B charts, and No. "The Little Old Lady (From Pasadena)" "Sidewalk Surfin'". Alternative rock group the Red Hot Chili Peppers referenced the duo in their song "Did I Let You Know", on the album I'm with You. Copyright: Writer(s): Brian Douglas Wilson, Roger Val Christian, Jan Berry Lyrics Terms of Use Social Security Death Index [database on-line]. The band saw her perform at the Follies Burlesk theater in Los Angeles, and decided to write a song about her. B y August 1962 Jan & Dean had begun performing live with the Beach Boys, an up and coming band from the South Bay founded in 1961. kidnapping. "Dead Man's Curve". Columbia Records released one single from the project ("Yellow Balloon") as did the song's writer, Gary Zekley, with the group the Yellow Balloon. The song reached number three on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1964 and number one on Canada's RPM chart. Show and the list of performers (including a performance by James Brown that many critics have called the best of his career) marked a high point for Jan and Dean, as they were the hosts and one of the main featured acts as well. Nevertheless, Jan Berry and Dean Torrence's anti-establishment attitudes toward the music industry are well-documented. Jan and Dean enjoyed renewed popularity after Dead Man’s Curve, the … Jan Berry and Brian Wilson (the new group’s leader) became fast friends, bonded creatively, and at the urging of Jan & Dean’s manager Lou Adler, soon began writing songs together. The Final Tours with Papa Doo Run Run • January-May 1980 — Jan & Dean’s third tour with Papa Doo Run Run • March-June 1980 — Jan worked on the master for “Hot Lookin’ Lady.” • April 1980 — The duo established Jan & Dean Enterprises for the production and sale of live and recorded music. Show set the standard for all succeeding music film and video work, including many of the early videos shown by MTV 17 years later. Show, a historic concert film directed by Steve Binder. Even after the fad had passed, Jan Berry continued to follow an unconventional musical path... that is, until one of their songs came tragically to life. 1980. In the Netherlands the showing on television of the movie by Veronica in August 1979 earned them a huge[clarification needed] hit record of the re-recorded "Surf City" and "Deadman's Curve" songs as a double A-sided single record release, and a golden oldies record having "The Little Old Lady From Pasadena" as its flip side reached a lower position in the charts. Berry and Torrence met while both were students at Emerson Junior High School in Westwood, Los Angeles, and both were on the school's football team. See University High School Yearbook (June 1958):46, 104. In the early 1980s, Papa Doo Run Run left to explore other performance and recording ventures. The pair were also to have appeared in the film, but their roles were cut following their friendship with Barry Keenan, who had engineered the Frank Sinatra Jr. 55 in the Pop charts in June 1958,[29] while other cover versions including that of Moon Mullican (Coral 9-61994) and Bobby Phillips & the Toppers (Tops 45-R422-49), released in 1958 failed to chart.[29]. Often misspelled "John Sagliman". In December 1967, Jan and Dean signed an agreement with Warner Bros. Records. Social Security Death Index. The Carpenters routinely included "Curve" in their live "oldies medley. Dean Ormsby Torrence (born (1940-03-10) March 10, 1940 (age 81)) was born in Los Angeles, the son of Natalie Ormsby (April 10, 1911 – August 10, 2008) and Maurice Dean Torrence (December 5, 1907 – November 16, 1997). [8][9] His father, Maurice, was a graduate of Stanford University,[10] and was a sales manager at the Wilshire Oil Company. Jan & Dean were, however, inducted into the Hollywood Rock Walk of Fame on April 12, 1996, exactly 30 years after Jan Berry had his near fatal car accident. Early '60s purveyors of innocuous fun songs concerning surfing, cars, girls, and high school, Jan and Dean were second only to The Beach Boys in the promotion of these Southern California themes. Jennie Lee (real name: Virginia Lee Hicks) was an exotic dancer famous for her twirling tassels. Consequently, one of the other co-writers, Gary Zekey, assembled a group named Yellow Balloon to make a recording of the single. [44] The duo's first live performance after Berry's accident occurred at the Palomino Nightclub in North Hollywood on June 5, 1976, ten years after the accident, as guests of Disneyland regulars Papa Doo Run Run. They kind of always held that against us. Their other charting top 10 singles were "Drag City" (1963), "Dead Man's Curve" (1964) (inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2008[1]), and "The Little Old Lady from Pasadena" (1964). The revolutionary technical achievements of The T.A.M.I. Berry was in a coma for more than two months; he awoke on the morning of June 16, 1966. With the help of record producers Herb Alpert and Lou Adler, Jan and Dean scored a No. Working with Alan Wolfson, he began writing and producing music again. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. After Torrence returned from a six-month compulsory stint in the US Army Reserve, Berry and Torrence began to make music as "Jan and Dean". Technically, I guess this only marginally qualifies, … That fall, The Beach Boys served as Jan & Dean's backing group on a few live dates for the duo. [32], Arnie Ginsburg recorded a one-off single with a band named the Rituals on the Arwin label. Jan and Dean's career together ended with Jan Berry's death on March 26, 2004, after he suffered a seizure eight days before his 63rd birthday. The song was performed live by The Beach Boys at Sacramento Memorial Auditorium on August 1, 1964 for inclusion on their No.1 album Beach Boys Concert. In 1964, Jan and Dean were signed to host what became the first multi-act Rock and Roll show that was edited into a motion picture designed for wide distribution. In July 1958, Jan & Arnie released their second single, "Gas Money" backed with "Bonnie Lou" (Arwin 111), both written by Berry, Ginsburg, and Altfeld. ", Movies and TV Both Jan and Dean appeared as judges in the short-lived Chuck Barris TV beauty pageant "Dream Girl of '67:; though they didn't star in it, the 1978 NBC smash biopic Deadman's Curve was an unflinching look at their pre and post-crash lives; the duo perform "Pasadena" in the legendary 1964 live concert film The T.A.M.I. Spend $75 for Free Shipping * Order by Phone 1-800-336-4627 Your Account Order Status Help. Sundazed Records reissued Torrence's Save for a Rainy Day in 1996 in CD and vinyl formats, as well as the collector's vinyl 45 rpm companion EP, "Sounds For A Rainy Day", featuring four instrumental versions of the album's tracks. After being inspired by a poster featuring a local Hollywood burlesque performer, Virginia Lee Hicks, who was then performing as Jennie Lee, the "Bazoom Girl", at the New Follies Burlesk at 548 S. Main St, Los Angeles,[20] Ginsburg wrote a tribute song, "Jennie Lee", that he brought to Berry and Torrence. I really dont care for the instrumental surf music. [18] Following the contest, various members of the Barons drifted away, leaving only Berry and Torrence,[19] who tried to write their own songs. [53] Certainly their casual and goofy stage antics were consistent with some of punk rock's ethos. Ancestry.com. Martin, Betty. 1 [database on-line]. [11] Berry and Torrence had adjoining lockers, and after football practice, they began harmonizing together in the showers with several other football players, including future actor James Brolin. Gifts. “Honolulu Lulu” (Charted #11 in … Among their most successful songs was 1963's "Surf City", the first surf song to top the Hot 100. The singer had endured various health problems ever since a 1966 car accident left him brain damaged. “Hawaii Five-O,” The Ventures (1969); Billboard #4. They had major hits , Jan was the first to use two drummers on recordings. Roy Orbison originally did Devil Doll, Children Go Where I Send Thee, Hark! 8 on the Billboard charts on June 30, 1958. In 1962 Jan & Dean did a version of the song for Liberty Records that reached #28 on the Billboard Hot 100. In 1964, Jan and Dean released the song, Dead Man’s Curve (The mini soap opera song about a tragic California car crash). The Beach Boys, and particularly Brian Wilson, who co-wrote several of Jan & Dean's biggest surf hits, had supported Jan & Dean in the recording studio to initiate them in the surf music genre. During this period, they also began to experiment with cutting-edge comedy concepts such as the original (unreleased) Filet of Soul and Jan & Dean Meet Batman. In 1972, Torrence won the Grammy Award for Best Album Cover for the psychedelic rock band Pollution's first eponymous 1971 album,[2] and was nominated three other times in the same category for albums of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. "The Little Old Lady (from Pasadena)" is a song written by Don Altfeld, Jan Berry and Roger Christian, and recorded by 1960s American pop singers, Jan and Dean. The song, penned by Jan Berry, Brian Wilson and Roger Christian, was a Top 20 national hit. It is unclear if the actual single was released for the general public but there are several promotional copies pressed to vinyl in existence. The song was performed live by The Beach Boys at Sacramento Memorial Auditorium on August 1, 1964 for inclusion on their No.1 album Beach Boys Concert. This page on the Jan & Dean fan site lists the bands hit singles, of course, apart from the songs mentioned, Jan & Dean also had numerous hits in the Billboard top 200. Berry struggled to overcome drug addiction. White Lighting Publishing (2013), Berry, Torrence and Kelly, Mike, Jan & Dean Archives Volume 1. Playing local venues, they met and performed with the Beach Boys, and discovered the appeal of the latter's "surf sound". The Blueprint for Philly Soul: The Spinners, Kings of the Rock Instrumental: The Ventures, 8 Bands That Covered the 1960s Batman Theme Song, Chicago (the band): Jazz-Rock Crosses Over, Doo-Wop's Boy Band: Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, Biography of Chuck Berry, Rock and Roll Pioneer, Berry was a major influence on Wilson's production, Bridged the vocal era of doo-wop and the Southern California sound, Employed the famous "Wrecking Crew" of L.A. session musicians, One of the first rock groups to incorporate classical arrangements, Torrance became one of rock's great graphic artists, Jan Berry's comeback after a near-fatal crash is one of pop music's most inspiring achievements, Dean recorded a solo pro-war answer to "The Universal Solider" called "The Universal Coward", Recorded a full-length album parody of the "Batman" craze in 1966, Set to star in their own "Route 66"-type TV show on ABC before Berry's crash, In addition to designing many album covers in the Seventies, Torrence co-created the logo for the band Chicago, Neil Young's "Tonight's The Night" references Jan's brother Bruce, Berry's '60s girlfriend, Jill Gibson, was in an early version of The Mamas and the Papas. 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