Sorry to dredge this old topic up, but I thought it was interesting. Does anybody know why, if Jan was so against Silver Summer, he would be in a commercial promoting the album? Just his sense of brotherhood with Dean maybe?
And as far as Jan on "Barbara Ann", I read that in the Passmore book, but I sure don't hear him on there.
It's called bullshitting the public for the purpose of making money. Going with the flow.
I've said all this before, but Silver Eagle's attorneys admitted that Jan was not on the record. It was bogus advertising, in terms of crediting Jan as a producer, etc.
It was only after the pre-accident JB/J&D Screen Gems contracts came to an end in 1968 that Dean was finally able to take advantage of Jan's condition and do his own thing, using the J&D name.
It was payback time . . . You have to understand, Screen Gems had legally killed all of Dean's post-accident label and recording endeavors in 1966 and 1967. They busted Dean so hard he had to come up with a new band name for "Vegetables" . . . because Screen Gems would not let him use the J&D name.
After 1968, it was a free-for-all . . . They both worked on their own projects, coming together occasionally for a few tracks. But largely separate.
So in 1977, Dean began a long string of re-recordings and marketed them as Jan & Dean. The movie came out in 1978, and J&D were suddenly relevant again, nationally.
But both Jan and Dean would have been better served to have those re-recordings marketed as Dean and his band(s) singing the hits of Jan & Dean.
In the '50s and '60s, there were contractual successions from Joe Lubin, to Lou Adler, to Jan Berry in terms of official production. No matter the production, the name was Jan & Dean.
Unfortunately for Dean, it didn't work both ways.
