Surf City: the Very Best of Jan & Dean

Surf City: the Very Best of Jan & Dean Artist: Jan & Dean
Label: EMI Gold
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 094631197529
EAN: 0094631197529
ASIN: B0009LNQTC


Release Date: 2005-11-24

Surf City: the Very Best of Jan & Dean


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Tracks:

  1. Surf City
  2. Little Old Lady
  3. Hang On Sloopu (My Girl Sloopy)
  4. Honolulu Lulu
  5. Surfin' Safari
  6. Dead Man's Curve
  7. Walk Lika A Man
  8. Little Deuce Coupe
  9. Summer Means Fun
  10. Who Put The Bomp (In The Bomp, Bomp, Bomp)
  11. Heart And Soul
  12. Tennessee
  13. Linda
  14. Ride The Wild Surf
  15. Sidewalk Surfin'
  16. New Girl In School
  17. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
  18. Drag City
  19. (Here They Come) From All Over The World
  20. I Get Around (Live)

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Album Description

20 Tracks. EMI GOLD 2005

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Sixties surf music.......2005-08-15

Jan Berry and Dean Torrence made music that was very similar in many ways to the early Beach Boys music. Actually Jan often collaborated with Brian Wilson on songwriting - Surf city, Drag city, Dead man's curve and Ride the wild surf being among the songs they wrote together. Further evidence of their close ties is provided here by the inclusion of several covers of Beach Boys classics. Although not included here, Barbara Ann (originally released on the Beach Boys Party album) features one member of Jan and Dean as lead singer - I've seen different reference source naming Jan or Dean so I can't say which one.

Jan and Dean's music was about more than just surfing as some of their other recordings (Linda, Heart and soul, a cover of Norwegian wood) but if you don't enjoy surf music, you won't find much to get excited about here. The duo's career ended abrubtly when Jan nearly died in a horrific accident. He recovered sufficiently to be able to record again in the seventies but was unable to recapture past glories. Meanwhile, Dean quit music and established a successful career in graphics design, though Jan and Dean re-united to provide the support act for the 1978 Beach Boys tour.

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