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Dead Man's Curve in Cleveland, Ohio. Dead Man's Curve is an American nickname for a curve in a road that has claimed many lives because of numerous crashes. [1] [2] Examples. A curve on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles memorialized in the hit song "Dead Man's Curve" by Jan and Dean.
"Dead Man's Curve" is a 1964 hit song by Jan and Dean whose lyrics detail a teen street race gone awry. It reached number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and number 39 in Canada. The song was written and composed by Brian Wilson, Artie Kornfeld, Roger Christian, and Jan Berry at Wilson's mother's house in Santa Monica.
- November 27, 1963
- December 4, 1963 (U.S.)
Dead Man's Curve. by Jan & Dean. Album: Dead Man's Curve ( 1964) Charted: 8. License This Song . songfacts ®. songimage. I was cruisin' in my Stingray late one night. When an XKE pulled up on the right. He rolled down the window of his shiny new Jag. And challenged me then and there to a drag. I said "You're on buddy, my mill's running fine.
lyrics. songimage. Songfacts®: "Dead Man's Curve" is about a real stretch of road in Los Angeles. It is on Sunset Boulevard near the UCLA campus, and it is indeed very dangerous. On April 12, 1966, Jan (Jan Berry), crashed his Corvette into a parked truck just blocks away from Dead Man's Curve.
Deadman's Curve is a 1978 American made-for-television biographical film based on the musical careers of Jan Berry and Dean Torrence. The film was developed from a 1974 article published in Rolling Stone by Paul Morantz, who also helped write the screenplay.
