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Jan & Dean

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Jan & Dean's Pop Symphony (2010)	Jan & Dean (1996)	Command Performance: Live (1996)
Ride the Wild Surf & The (1992)	Ride the Wild Surf (1990)	Dead Mans Curve (1979)
Save for a Rainy Day (1966)	Folk 'n Roll (1966)	Filet of Soul (1966)
The Little Old Lady From (1964)	Surf City and Other Swing (1963)	Drag City (1963)
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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.