http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.63233&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rssSurf City's doors may have closed after Jan Berry's death in March of 2004, but the waves of West Coast beaches still pump in rhythmic sets to the surf music that he and his friend Dean Torrence pioneered in the late 1950s, predating the Beach Boys by three years. The duo met in a Los Angeles high school playing football and started singing doo-wop in a short lived band called the Barons. When they graduated and the band broke up, Berry was already spending hours in his garage, which he’d outfitted with some reel-to-reel recording devices. It was in this garage and on this tape machine where some of Torrence's and his demos of "Jennie Lee" and "Baby Talk" (which was a Top-10 hit in 1958) were overdubbed with a band and then became the actual recording pressed onto vinyl and distributed under the Jan And Dean moniker. After that first big splash, the duo began putting the sounds of the Malibu surf and hot rod scene into their music and in 1963 a kid named Brian Wilson, who had just started a band called the Pendletones (his precursor to the Beach Boys) and asked Jan and Dean to see if they could help him finish a song he was writing called "Surf City." Against his father Murray Wilson's wishes, Brian gave the single to Jan and Dean and it became their first (and last) gold record. Borrowing from doo-wop and the hep beach lingo, the surf sound was born. - Eric SheaSurfen720Wed, 9 Dec 2009 05:38:50 -0800 http://static.realone.com/rotw/images/logo_rhapsody_113x22.gif http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.63233&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss Surf City's doors may have closed after Jan Berry's death in March of 2004, but the waves of West Coast beaches still pump in rhythmic sets to the surf music that he and his friend Dean Torrence pioneered in the late 1950s, predating the Beach Boys by three years. The duo met in a Los Angeles high school playing football and started singing doo-wop in a short lived band called the Barons. When they graduated and the band broke up, Berry was already spending hours in his garage, which he’d outfitted with some reel-to-reel recording devices. It was in this garage and on this tape machine where some of Torrence's and his demos of "Jennie Lee" and "Baby Talk" (which was a Top-10 hit in 1958) were overdubbed with a band and then became the actual recording pressed onto vinyl and distributed under the Jan And Dean moniker. After that first big splash, the duo began putting the sounds of the Malibu surf and hot rod scene into their music and in 1963 a kid named Brian Wilson, who had just started a band called the Pendletones (his precursor to the Beach Boys) and asked Jan and Dean to see if they could help him finish a song he was writing called "Surf City." Against his father Murray Wilson's wishes, Brian gave the single to Jan and Dean and it became their first (and last) gold record. Borrowing from doo-wop and the hep beach lingo, the surf sound was born. - Eric Shea http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.802370&variant=play&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss '60s Oldies Tue, 12 Nov 1996 00:00:00 -0800 Top Tracks by Jan and Dean on Rhapsody Online 802370 tra.802370 Jan and Dean art.63233 0.0 All The Hits: From Surf City to Drag City alb.241545 http://image.listen.com/img/170x170/5/5/1/0/420155_170x170.jpg 1996-11-12 00:00:00.0 1996-11-12 00:00:00.0 true Little Old Lady (From Pasadena) tra.802370 166000 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.802370&variant=play&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.802370&variant=data&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.2451500&variant=play&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss Surf Tue, 12 Nov 1996 00:00:00 -0800 Top Tracks by Jan and Dean on Rhapsody Online 2451500 tra.2451500 Jan and Dean art.63233 0.0 All The Hits: From Surf City to Drag City alb.241545 http://image.listen.com/img/170x170/5/5/1/0/420155_170x170.jpg 1996-11-12 00:00:00.0 1996-11-12 00:00:00.0 true Surf City tra.2451500 158000 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.2451500&variant=play&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.2451500&variant=data&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.802361&variant=play&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss Surf Tue, 12 Nov 1996 00:00:00 -0800 Top Tracks by Jan and Dean on Rhapsody Online 802361 tra.802361 Jan and Dean art.63233 0.0 All The Hits: From Surf City to Drag City alb.241545 http://image.listen.com/img/170x170/5/5/1/0/420155_170x170.jpg 1996-11-12 00:00:00.0 1996-11-12 00:00:00.0 true Dead Man's Curve (Single Version) tra.802361 183000 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.802361&variant=play&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.802361&variant=data&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.18197149&variant=play&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss Surf Sun, 26 Jul 2009 06:44:16 -0700 Top Tracks by Jan and Dean on Rhapsody Online 18197149 tra.18197149 Jan and Dean art.63233 1.29 Golden Hits: Volumes 1, 2, & 3 alb.18193933 http://image.listen.com/img/170x170/2/1/1/5/1185112_170x170.jpg 2008-02-12 00:00:00.0 null true Dead Man's Curve tra.18197149 150000 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.18197149&variant=play&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.18197149&variant=data&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.2451501&variant=play&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss Surf Tue, 12 Nov 1996 00:00:00 -0800 Top Tracks by Jan and Dean on Rhapsody Online 2451501 tra.2451501 Jan and Dean art.63233 0.0 All The Hits: From Surf City to Drag City alb.241545 http://image.listen.com/img/170x170/5/5/1/0/420155_170x170.jpg 1996-11-12 00:00:00.0 1996-11-12 00:00:00.0 true Drag City tra.2451501 156000 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.2451501&variant=play&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.2451501&variant=data&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.18197137&variant=play&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss Surf Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:02:48 -0700 Top Tracks by Jan and Dean on Rhapsody Online 18197137 tra.18197137 Jan and Dean art.63233 0.99 Golden Hits: Volumes 1, 2, & 3 alb.18193933 http://image.listen.com/img/170x170/2/1/1/5/1185112_170x170.jpg 2008-02-12 00:00:00.0 null true Who Put The Bomp (In The Bomp, Bomp, Bomp) tra.18197137 175000 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.18197137&variant=play&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.18197137&variant=data&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.802358&variant=play&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss Surf Tue, 12 Nov 1996 00:00:00 -0800 Top Tracks by Jan and Dean on Rhapsody Online 802358 tra.802358 Jan and Dean art.63233 0.0 All The Hits: From Surf City to Drag City alb.241545 http://image.listen.com/img/170x170/5/5/1/0/420155_170x170.jpg 1996-11-12 00:00:00.0 1996-11-12 00:00:00.0 true My Mighty G.T.O. 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Rhapsody Online 802436 tra.802436 Jan and Dean art.63233 0.0 All The Hits: From Surf City to Drag City alb.241545 http://image.listen.com/img/170x170/5/5/1/0/420155_170x170.jpg 1996-11-12 00:00:00.0 1996-11-12 00:00:00.0 true Sidewalk Surfin' tra.802436 162000 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.802436&variant=play&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.802436&variant=data&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.802435&variant=play&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss Surf Tue, 12 Nov 1996 00:00:00 -0800 Top Tracks by Jan and Dean on Rhapsody Online 802435 tra.802435 Jan and Dean art.63233 0.0 All The Hits: From Surf City to Drag City alb.241545 http://image.listen.com/img/170x170/5/5/1/0/420155_170x170.jpg 1996-11-12 00:00:00.0 1996-11-12 00:00:00.0 true Ride The Wild Surf tra.802435 137000 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.802435&variant=play&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.802435&variant=data&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.18197135&variant=play&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss Surf Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:02:48 -0700 Top Tracks by Jan and Dean on Rhapsody Online 18197135 tra.18197135 Jan and Dean art.63233 0.99 Golden Hits: Volumes 1, 2, & 3 alb.18193933 http://image.listen.com/img/170x170/2/1/1/5/1185112_170x170.jpg 2008-02-12 00:00:00.0 null true Palisades Park tra.18197135 118000 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.18197135&variant=play&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.18197135&variant=data&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.3234111&variant=play&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss Surf Mon, 1 Apr 2002 00:00:00 -0800 Top Tracks by Jan and Dean on Rhapsody Online 3234111 tra.3234111 Jan and Dean art.63233 0.99 Surf City: The Best of Jan & Dean [K-Tel] alb.131939 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http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.3234114&variant=play&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss Surf Mon, 1 Apr 2002 00:00:00 -0800 Top Tracks by Jan and Dean on Rhapsody Online 3234114 tra.3234114 Jan and Dean art.63233 0.99 Surf City: The Best of Jan & Dean [K-Tel] alb.131939 http://image.listen.com/img/170x170/7/6/9/3/1413967_170x170.jpg 2002-04-01 00:00:00.0 2002-04-01 00:00:00.0 true Little Deuce Coupe tra.3234114 117000 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.3234114&variant=play&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.3234114&variant=data&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.2829004&variant=play&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss Surf Mon, 1 Apr 2002 00:00:00 -0800 Top Tracks by Jan and Dean on Rhapsody Online 2829004 tra.2829004 Jan and Dean art.63233 0.99 Surf City: The Best of Jan & Dean [K-Tel] alb.131939 http://image.listen.com/img/170x170/7/6/9/3/1413967_170x170.jpg 2002-04-01 00:00:00.0 2002-04-01 00:00:00.0 true Surf City tra.2829004 148000 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.2829004&variant=play&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.2829004&variant=data&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.802159&variant=play&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss Surf Tue, 12 Nov 1996 00:00:00 -0800 Top Tracks by Jan and Dean on Rhapsody Online 802159 tra.802159 Jan and Dean art.63233 0.0 All The Hits: From Surf City to Drag City alb.241545 http://image.listen.com/img/170x170/5/5/1/0/420155_170x170.jpg 1996-11-12 00:00:00.0 1996-11-12 00:00:00.0 true She's My Summer Girl tra.802159 182000 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.802159&variant=play&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.802159&variant=data&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.18197138&variant=play&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss Surf Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:02:48 -0700 Top Tracks by Jan and Dean on Rhapsody Online 18197138 tra.18197138 Jan and Dean art.63233 0.99 Golden Hits: Volumes 1, 2, & 3 alb.18193933 http://image.listen.com/img/170x170/2/1/1/5/1185112_170x170.jpg 2008-02-12 00:00:00.0 null true Heart And Soul tra.18197138 128000 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.18197138&variant=play&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.18197138&variant=data&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.2451499&variant=play&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss Surf Tue, 12 Nov 1996 00:00:00 -0800 Top Tracks by Jan and Dean on Rhapsody Online 2451499 tra.2451499 Jan and Dean art.63233 0.0 All The Hits: From Surf City to Drag City alb.241545 http://image.listen.com/img/170x170/5/5/1/0/420155_170x170.jpg 1996-11-12 00:00:00.0 1996-11-12 00:00:00.0 true Baby Talk tra.2451499 151000 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.2451499&variant=play&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.2451499&variant=data&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.11665861&variant=play&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss Surf Tue, 22 Nov 2005 00:00:00 -0800 Top Tracks by Jan and Dean on Rhapsody Online 11665861 tra.11665861 Jan and Dean art.63233 0.99 Rock Masters: Surfin' Safari alb.11660009 http://image.listen.com/img/170x170/3/0/0/5/905003_170x170.jpg 2005-11-22 00:00:00.0 2005-11-22 00:00:00.0 true Indian Lake tra.11665861 186000 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.11665861&variant=play&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.11665861&variant=data&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.801941&variant=play&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss Surf Tue, 12 Nov 1996 00:00:00 -0800 Top Tracks by Jan and Dean on Rhapsody Online 801941 tra.801941 Jan and Dean art.63233 0.0 All The Hits: From Surf City to Drag City alb.241545 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http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.18197145&variant=play&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss Surf Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:02:48 -0700 Top Tracks by Jan and Dean on Rhapsody Online 18197145 tra.18197145 Jan and Dean art.63233 0.99 Golden Hits: Volumes 1, 2, & 3 alb.18193933 http://image.listen.com/img/170x170/2/1/1/5/1185112_170x170.jpg 2008-02-12 00:00:00.0 null true Linda tra.18197145 157000 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.18197145&variant=play&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.18197145&variant=data&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.18197160&variant=play&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss Surf Sat, 4 Apr 2009 13:04:45 -0700 Top Tracks by Jan and Dean on Rhapsody Online 18197160 tra.18197160 Jan and Dean art.63233 0.99 Golden Hits: Volumes 1, 2, & 3 alb.18193933 http://image.listen.com/img/170x170/2/1/1/5/1185112_170x170.jpg 2008-02-12 00:00:00.0 null true Eve Of Destruction tra.18197160 215000 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