Yet while Jan was recovering from his accident in 1966, you recorded your own Pet Sounds — the rare psych-pop album, Save for a Rainy Day, which you credited to Jan and Dean and released on the ...

Jan Berry`s trials have been harsher than most people`s; in 1966 he was involved in a terrible car accident that was an eerie echo of the Jan and Dean hit ”Dead Man`s Curve,” and suffered ...

But the Jan and Dean engagement for the next two nights called for four separate shows at the fair-6:30 p.m. show, 9 p.m. show-and when duty calls, a responsible band member shows up.

Jan and Dean never won the critical hosannas of the Beach Boys, but over the years, the acts’ paths have crossed repeatedly. Berry and Wilson co-wrote the song “Surf City,” which later gave ...

Jan and Dean’s Beach Party! featuring Dean Torrence will be presented by Long Man Productions, 7:30 p.m. Sept. 10 at the Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido, Santa Barbara.

When We Get to Surf City is Bob Greene's memoir of 15 years spent hitchhiking that road, a series of Americana-fueled snapshots of singing and playing guitar with 1960s surf rock pioneers Jan and ...

Get ready to "Ride the Wild Surf" with Jan and Dean during Frederick's Fourth of July celebration. Held Tuesday, July 4, from noon until dusk in Baker Park, this year ...

Jan and Dean did the odds. Fans have been getting the two singing groups confused since the early ‘60s, and with good reason.