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3 days ago · Jan and Brian pushed each other and learned from one another, both technically and musically. They made a formidable team, with all of their collaborations being arranged and produced by Jan Berry. While Brian was influenced by Phil Spector, he was never a member of Spector’s inner circle.
3 days ago · • March-April 1963 — Jan arranged and produced “Surf City” and “Gonna Hustle You,” original compositions he co-wrote with friend Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys. These sessions marked the beginning of Jan’s dense production style and signature sound, using two drummers, multiple guitars, and multiple basses.
May 5, 2007 · The album includes 30 tracks and more than 20 artists, highlighting Jan Berry's career as a writer, arranger, and producer. Featured are seven tracks from Jan & Dean's unreleased album...
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- The Birth of California Sound
- Songs with Girls' Names
- Jan & Dean and The Beach Boys: The Ultimate Surf Music Joint-Venture
- "Surf City"? You Can Have It
- Rewriting and Arranging "Surf City"
- The Music Industry Meltdown
- A Nationwide Hit
The Beach Boys! What a great name! But still, a song about surfing? Why would anyone care? We could count on one hand all of our friends who surfed. On a big day in Malibu, there might be fifty guys. How many surfers could there be in California? A couple thousand? At most? Where else do they surf? Not that many places, to be sure. Does anybody car...
So now we started looking for a song about a girl that used a girl's name in the title. Since 60 percent of rock-and-roll record buyers were teenage girls, it seemed like a good idea. Then we would sing all the lead vocals in falsetto, add lots of four-part harmonies, and throw some doo-wops in for good measure. A friend suggested an old fifties so...
A few weeks later, we were given the green light to start a "Linda" titled album. We needed to come up with a concept. The "Baby Talk" album was kind of a girls' names album because the follow-up to the single, "Baby Talk," was titled "There's A Girl." We knew that the title of our new album would have to have the name of our latest hit single, "Li...
After we finished the two tunes, Brian sat down at the piano and asked us if we wanted to hear The Beach Boys' next single. Of course, we did. "If everybody had an ocean across the USA, then everybody would be surfin' like Cala-forn-i-a." Ah, excuse me, Brian, that is a great song, but the melody sounds exactly like "Sweet Little Sixteen" by Chuck ...
So we now focused on "Surf City." All we needed to do was to finish the lyrics, and then the song was ready for the vocals. Once in the studio, Jan, Brian, and I laid down the four-part harmony background vocals first, and then we doubled them. Then Jan did the low bass background part and doubled that. Then Brian and I did the falsetto parts and d...
The record was released on May 17, 1963, and just flat took off. A Capitol Records promotion man was driving in his car when he first heard "Surf City" on the radio. He pulled over, got on a payphone, called Capitol Records' offices in Los Angeles, and demanded to know why he had not been given the new Beach Boys record to deliver to the radio stat...
June 1, Billboard Magazine makes "Surf City" the Spotlight Winner of the Week and a Billboard Pick, with a quote, "Two more swinging sides by the hot West Coast team." June 2, "Surf City" debuts at #7 on LA's KRLA radio station. Jan & Dean play with The Beach Boys in Modesto, California, on June 5, again on June 7 at Veterans Hall in Bakersfield, C...
Jan and Dean reached their commercial peak in 1963 and 1964, after they met Brian Wilson. The duo scored sixteen Top 40 hits on the Billboard and Cash Box magazine charts, with a total of twenty-six chart hits over an eight-year period (1959-1966).
1 day ago · • January-February 1966 — “Barbara Ann'” by the Beach Boys, featuring Dean Torrence doubling the falsetto lead with Brian Wilson, peaked on the national charts: #1 Cash Box and #2 Billboard. On the Run — Jan & Dean’s Second Television Pilot.
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