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Huki, Hu / Click For LookRadio • an & Dean were a rock and
roll duo, popular from the late 1950s through the
mid 1960s, consisting of William Jan Berry (3 April
1941 &endash; 26 March 2004) and Dean Ormsby
Torrence (born 10 March 1940). Although Jan &
Dean pre-dated The Beach Boys, they became most
famously associated with the vocal "surf music"
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"Deadmans Curve", the story of singers Jan and Dean
at CBS Studios, Studio City
- 1978. A Pat Rooney
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Produced
by Cameron Michael Parkes and Mark A. Moore.
Featuring seven tracks from 1968's "Carnival of
Sound" album, plus 14 more songs highlighting Jan's
career as a writer, arranger, and producer. Promo
song: "California Sunshine" (originally "Ginny On
My Mind"
•••
Berry and Torrence, both born in Los Angeles,
California, began singing together after football
practice at University High School. Primitive
recording sessions followed soon after, in a
makeshift studio in Berry's garage. They first
performed on stage as The Barons at a high school
dance. Their first commercial success was "Jennie
Lee" (1958), a top 10 ode to a local burlesque
performer that Berry recorded with fellow Baron
Arnie Ginsburg. "Jan & Arnie" released three
singles in all. After Torrence returned from a
stint in the army reserves, Berry and Torrence
began to make music as "Jan & Dean".
•••
With the help of friend Herb Alpert and record
producer Lou Adler, Jan & Dean scored another
top 10 hit with "Baby Talk" (1959), and then scored
a series of hits over the next couple of years.
Playing local venues, they met and performed with
the Beach Boys, and discovered the appeal of the
latter's "surf sound". By this time, Berry was
co-writing, arranging, and producing all of Jan
& Dean's original material. Berry signed a
series of contracts with Screen Gems to write and
produce music for Jan & Dean,[1] as
well as other artists such as Judy & Jill
(which included Berry's girlfriend Jill Gibson and
Torrence's girlfriend Judy Lovejoy), The Matadors,
and Pixie (a young female solo singer).
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•••
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" (1963), "Drag City"
(1963), "The Little Old Lady from Pasadena" (1964),
and the eerily portentous "Dead Man's Curve"
(1964). Their commercial peak came between 1963 and
1966, and the duo scored an impressive sixteen Top
40 hits on the Billboard and Cash Box magazine
charts, with total of twenty-six chart hits over
eight years.
•••
In 1964, at the height of their fame, Jan &
Dean hosted and performed at The T.A.M.I. Show, an
historic concert film directed by Steve Binder. The
film also featured such acts as The Rolling Stones,
Chuck Berry, Gerry & The Pacemakers, James
Brown, Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas, Marvin
Gaye, The Supremes, Lesley Gore, Smokey Robinson
& The Miracles, and The Beach Boys (whose
sequence was later cut from the film, due to
contract violation issues).
•••
Also in 1964, the duo performed the title track for
the Columbia Pictures film Ride the Wild Surf,
starring Fabian (entertainer), Tab Hunter, Peter
Brown (actor), Shelley Fabares, and Barbara Eden.
The song, penned by Berry, Brian Wilson, and Roger
Christian, was a Top 20 national hit.
•••
In the burgeoning post-surf era, Jan & Dean had
three Top 30 hits in 1965-66 . . . and began to
experiment with cutting-edge comedy concepts such
as the original (unreleased) Filet of Soul and Jan
& Dean Meet Batman.
•••
According to rock critic Dave Marsh, the attitude
and public persona of punk rock can be traced to
Jan & Dean;[2] and their music has been
covered by numerous Punk and alternative bands
since the 1970s.
•••
Along with Phil Spector, Brian Wilson, and Lee
Hazlewood, Berry enjoyed a reputation as one of the
best record producers on the West Coast.[3]
Wilson has cited Berry as having a direct impact on
his own growth as a record producer.[4]
•••
Jan & Dean filmed two unreleased television
pilots: Surf Scene in 1963 and On the Run in
1966.
•••
Jan & Dean's feature film Easy Come, Easy Go
was cancelled when Berry, as well as the film's
director and other crew members were seriously
injured in a railroad accident while shooting the
movie in August 1965.
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On 12 April 1966, Berry received severe head
injuries in a motor vehicle accident. By then,
Berry had separated from his girlfriend of seven
years, singer-artist Jill Gibson, later a member
for a short time of The Mamas and the Papas, who
had also co-written several songs with Berry. As a
result of Berry's accident, Jan & Dean did not
perform again until the mid 1970s. Berry travelled
a long and difficult road toward recovery from
brain damage and partial paralysis.
•••
In Berry's absence, Torrence recorded Save for a
Rainy Day in 1966, a concept album featuring all
rain-themed songs. Torrence posed with Berry's
brother Ken for the album cover photos. Columbia
Records released one single from the project
("Yellow Balloon"), but legal wrangling scuttled
Torrence's Columbia deal, and Save For A Rainy Day
remained a self-released album on the J&D
Record Co. label.[5]
•••
Berry returned to the studio in April 1967, one
year to the month after his accident. Working with
collaborators, Berry began writing and producing
music again. In December 1967, Jan & Dean
signed an agreement with Warner Bros. Records.
Warner issued two singles under the name Jan &
Dean but a 1968 Berry-produced album for Warner
Bros., the psychedelic Carnival of Sound, remains
unreleased.[6]
•••
Berry began to sing again in the early 1970s, and
he arranged and produced a number of singles
between 1972 and 1978 on the Ode and A&M labels
(facilitated by friend and former manager Lou
Adler).
•••
In February 1978, Jan & Dean were reintroduced
to America when the film biography Deadman's Curve
aired on national television. The movie starred
Richard Hatch as Berry and Bruce Davison as
Torrence. Guest appearances included Dick Clark,
Wolfman Jack, and Beach Boys Mike Love and Bruce
Johnston. Upon the success of the film (a ratings
blockbuster), the duo made steps toward an official
comeback that year, touring with the Beach
Boys.
•••
In the early 1980s, while Berry struggled to
overcome drug addiction, Torrence toured briefly as
"Mike & Dean," with Mike Love of the Beach
Boys. But Berry got sober, beating the odds once
again, and the duo reunited for good.
•••
Jan & Dean continued to tour on their own
throughout the 1980s, 1990s, and into the new
millennium &emdash; with 1960s nostalgia providing
them with a ready audience. Sundazed Records
reissued Save for a Rainy Day in 1996, and the
album drew critical praise.[7]
•••
Between the 1970s and 1990s, Torrence issued a
number of re-recordings of classic Jan & Dean
hits. An album titled One Summer Night / Live was
issued by Rhino Records in 1982, and Torrence
collaborated with Berry on Port to Paradise,
released on J&D Records in 1986. In 1997, after
many years of hard work, Jan Berry released a solo
album called Second Wave on One Way Records.
•••
On August 31, 1991, Berry married Gertie Filip at
The Stardust Convention Centre in Las Vegas,
Nevada. Torrence was Berry's best man at the
wedding.
•••
Jan & Dean ended with Berry's death on March
26, 2004, at the age of 62. Berry was an organ
donor, and his body was cremated. On April 18,
2004, a "Celebration of Life" was held in memory of
Berry at The Roxy Theatre on the Sunset Strip in
West Hollywood, California. Celebrities attending
the bash included Dean Torrence, Lou Adler, Jill
Gibson, and Nancy Sinatra. Also present were many
family members, friends, and musicians associated
with Jan & Dean and the Beach Boys.
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[edit]Miscellany
•••
? Jan Berry co-wrote and/or arranged and produced
songs for artists outside of Jan & Dean,
including "I Adore Him" by The Angels (band) (Top
30), the Gents, the Matadors (Sinners), Judy &
Jill, Pixie (unreleased), Jill Gibson, Shelley
Fabares, Deane Hawley, "Three Window Coupe" by the
Rip Chords (Top 30), and Johnny Crawford.
•••
? Torrence doubled the falsetto lead with Brian
Wilson on The Beach Boys' hit single "Barbara Ann."
You can hear his participation on The Beach Boys CD
release Hawthorne California.
•••
? Neil Young's song "Tonight's the Night", is about
the drug-overdose death of Jan Berry's brother
Bruce Berry, with a lyric that includes: "Bruce
Berry was a working man, he used to load that
Econoline van."
•••
? Berry's brother Brian Berry went to Canada during
the Vietnam War, purchased trapping rights to the
North Selkirk Mountains and became a mountaineering
guide, hunter, and fisherman.
•••
? Another brother, Ken Berry, founded Studio
Instrument Rentals (S.I.R) in Los Angeles in 1967,
using Berry's instruments to get started, the
instruments being unused following Berry's
accident.
•••
? Torrence became a graphic artist while Berry
recovered, starting his own company, Kittyhawk
Graphics, and designing album covers and logos for
other recording artists, including Harry Nilsson,
Steve Martin, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Dennis
Wilson, Bruce Johnston, The Beach Boys, Diana Ross,
Linda Ronstadt, Canned Heat, and many others.
Torrence (with Gene Brownell) won a Grammy Award
for Album Cover of the Year, for the group
Pollution in 1971.
•••
? Torrence continues to tour with The Surf City
Allstars. He officially endorses The Official Jan
& Dean Fan Site, and has regular contact with
the website. During 2007 he has been supplying the
site with new photographs of himself on tour with
his band, and with general articles relating to Jan
& Dean.
•••
? Tom Delonge and Mark Hoppus played Jan and Dean
in the TV movie "Shake,Rattle, and Roll." Also they
covered,Dead Man's Curve.
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