http://mp3.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 SheaSurfen720Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:11:28 -0800 http://static.realone.com/rotw/images/logo_rhapsody_113x22.gif http://mp3.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://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.18197149&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://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.18197149&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.18197149&variant=data&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.18197137&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss Surf Thu, 17 Dec 2009 07:06:39 -0800 Top Tracks by Jan and Dean on Rhapsody Online 18197137 tra.18197137 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 Who Put The Bomp (In The Bomp, Bomp, Bomp) tra.18197137 175000 http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.18197137&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.18197137&variant=data&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.18197135&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss Surf Thu, 17 Dec 2009 07:06:39 -0800 Top Tracks by Jan and Dean on Rhapsody Online 18197135 tra.18197135 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 Palisades Park tra.18197135 118000 http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.18197135&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.18197135&variant=data&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.3234111&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 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 I Get Around tra.3234111 123000 http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.3234111&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.3234111&variant=data&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.18197133&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss Surf Thu, 17 Dec 2009 07:06:39 -0800 Top Tracks by Jan and Dean on Rhapsody Online 18197133 tra.18197133 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 Baby Talk tra.18197133 145000 http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.18197133&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.18197133&variant=data&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss 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http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.18197145&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss Surf Thu, 17 Dec 2009 07:06:39 -0800 Top Tracks by Jan and Dean on Rhapsody Online 18197145 tra.18197145 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 Linda tra.18197145 157000 http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.18197145&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.18197145&variant=data&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.18197139&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss Surf Thu, 17 Dec 2009 07:06:39 -0800 Top Tracks by Jan and Dean on Rhapsody Online 18197139 tra.18197139 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 Barbara Ann tra.18197139 141000 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http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.18197154&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss Surf Thu, 17 Dec 2009 07:06:39 -0800 Top Tracks by Jan and Dean on Rhapsody Online 18197154 tra.18197154 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 Sidewalk Surfin' tra.18197154 157000 http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.18197154&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.18197154&variant=data&rws=%2Fjan-and-dean%2Ftop-tracks.rss http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.18197146&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 18197146 tra.18197146 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 Surf City tra.18197146 149000 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