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Jan & Dean

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2010 - Jan & Dean's Pop Symphony No. 1

1996 - Jan & Dean

1996 - Command Performance: Live in Person / Jan & Dean Meet Batman

1992 - Ride the Wild Surf & The Little Old Lady From Pasadena

1990 - Ride the Wild Surf

1979 - Dead Mans Curve

1966 - Save for a Rainy Day

1966 - Folk 'n Roll

1966 - Filet of Soul

1964 - The Little Old Lady From Pasadena

1963 - Surf City and Other Swingin' Cities

1963 - Drag City

0 - Golden Hits

0 - Jan & Dean Take Linda Surfin'

0 - Before Surf City Jan & Dean

0 - Gold

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Los Angeles, California, US

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Psychedelic Rock

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1958

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1958 to Present...

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Jan Berry and Dean Torrence began singing together after football practice at University High School in Los Angeles in the late 1950s. Primitive recording sessions followed soon after in a makeshift studio in Jan's garage. They first performed on stage as The Barons at a high school dance. Then they were known as Jan & Arnie. After Dean returned from a stint in the army reserves, the duo began to make music as Jan & Dean in 1958. Jan Berry and Brian Wilson collaborated on roughly a dozen hits and album cuts for Jan & Dean, including the number one national hit, "Surf City" (1963). Subsequent Top-10 hits for Jan & Dean included "Honolulu Lulu," "Drag City," "The Little Old Lady From Pasadena," and "Dead Man's Curve" -- which became eerily portentous when Berry received severe head injuries in an automobile accident just a short distance from Dead Man's Curve in April 1966. This accident marked the end of their commercial peak, during which they'd scored an impressive total of 26 chart hits over eight years. The group finally stopped performing after Jan Berry died in March 2004.