The title of K-Tel's Surf City: The Best of Jan & Dean is misleading, since only four of the album's ten songs are original recordings by Jan Berry and Dean Torrence. The remainder are latter-day re-recordings by tangentially related sound-...
Contains 2 LPs on 1 CD: LIVE IN PERSON and JAN & DEAN MEET BATMAN.Two of the duo's late-period Liberty albums on one compact disc. Command Performance is a live show that sounds as if it's been severely doctored. The band covers most of ...
Producers: Lou Adler, Snuff Garrett, Jan Berry.Compilation producer: Ron Furmanek.Includes liner notes by Steve Kolanjian.This is part of the EMI Legends Of Rock & Roll series.Audio Remixers: Larry Walsh; Ron Furmanek.Liner N...
Jan Berry and Dean Torrence took doo wop vocal techniques and grafted them on to the heavily echoed, surf-guitar style, creating, along with Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys, a California beach vocal sound that dominated the pop charts for a...
The two-disc, 42-track THE COMPLETE LIBERTY SINGLES is the ultimate Jan and Dean anthology. It is not exhaustive: the duo's often-charming earlier singles for a series of small Los Angeles labels are missing, as are the Dean Torrance solo t...
Personnel: Donald Peake, Tommy Tedesco , Billy Strange, Bill Pitman (guitar, guitars); Glenn Ross Campbell (guitar); Glen Campbell (guitars); Steve Douglas & the Rebel Rousers, Plas Johnson (saxophone); Ray Pohlman (electric bass); Earl Pal...
Jan Berry and Dean Torrence took doo wop vocal techniques and grafted them on to the heavily echoed, surf-guitar style, creating, along with Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys, a California beach sound that dominated the pop charts for a brief...