Your JAN & DEAN Collection

[Moon Dawg]

  Tell us about your Jan & Dean collections - CD, vinyl, rarities. A single CD or a full storage bin.

  Here's mine, all CD:

 1) 10 BEST SERIES - Jan & Dean's Greatest Hits
 2) ALL THE HITS - SURF CITY TO DRAG CITY
 3) DRAG CITY/JAN & DEAN'S POP SYMPHONY
 4) SAVE FOR A RAINY DAY
 5) CARNIVAL OF SOUND
 6) FUN CITY

[jdman]

All the ones you mentioned.
Vinyl: Dore - Jan and Dean Sound, Golden Hits, Linda Surfin, Surf City, Drag City, DMC?NGIS, Little Old Lady, Ride the Wild Surf, Command Performance, Pop Symphony, Golden Hits 2, Folk n Roll, Batman, Filet of Soul, Popsicle, Golden Hits 3, Save For a Rainy Day, Heart and Soul of J&D, Anthology, Gotta Take one last ride, Greatest Hits 2, Deadman's Curve 1979, Live 1982, Several K-Tel type albums like Surf and Drag,Story, and Greatest hits packages( never listen to those anymore)
Odditities, Live(on the DMC record co), - in all, about 35 LPs including all 17 originals

Cassettes: Surfers Dream, I Gotta Drive, California Sound, K-Tel stuff, Port to Paradise, Rock City single and many others ( I bought Port and Rock City from Jan)
CD's: Too many to remember. Pretty much every CD released in the 90's and 2000's. Including Second Wave.

Yes, I'm a fan!!! lol

[Moon Dawg]

All the ones you mentioned.
Vinyl: Dore - Jan and Dean Sound, Golden Hits, Linda Surfin, Surf City, Drag City, DMC?NGIS, Little Old Lady, Ride the Wild Surf, Command Performance, Pop Symphony, Golden Hits 2, Folk n Roll, Batman, Filet of Soul, Popsicle, Golden Hits 3, Save For a Rainy Day, Heart and Soul of J&D, Anthology, Gotta Take one last ride, Greatest Hits 2, Deadman's Curve 1979, Live 1982, Several K-Tel type albums like Surf and Drag,Story, and Greatest hits packages( never listen to those anymore)
Odditities, Live(on the DMC record co), - in all, about 35 LPs including all 17 originals

Cassettes: Surfers Dream, I Gotta Drive, California Sound, K-Tel stuff, Port to Paradise, Rock City single and many others ( I bought Port and Rock City from Jan)
CD's: Too many to remember. Pretty much every CD released in the 90's and 2000's. Including Second Wave.

Yes, I'm a fan!!! lol

 That's quite a collection. Something tells me PORT TO PARADISE deserved more exposure. GOLDEN HITS VOL 2 sums up J&D's classic period as well as any single LP could. GOTTA TAKE THAT ONE LAST RIDE seems the J&D equivalent of ENDLESS SUMMER: a mid 70s comp with a more creative title than "Best of Vol 4".

 Did you buy PORT TO PARADISE at one of the concerts?

[jdman]

Yes. I bought it in New Orleans at the Superdome. Jan had CDs on a table. I told him I had all of them. He said I bet you don't have this one. Of course he was right. He signed it for me. Cool guy!!

[jdman]

 That's quite a collection. Something tells me PORT TO PARADISE deserved more exposure. GOLDEN HITS VOL 2 sums up J&D's classic period as well as any single LP could. GOTTA TAKE THAT ONE LAST RIDE seems the J&D equivalent of ENDLESS SUMMER: a mid 70s comp with a more creative title than "Best of Vol 4".


Good assessment Moon Dawg. It's good to have you back. This board has been silent for awhile.
To be honest, lately I've been listening to the original LPs. You should get some of them. The Greatest hits stuff is good, but check out Drag City, DMC, Little Old Lady, and the rest of them. Those were some great albums and album cuts. With better promotion, I have no doubt Jan & Dean would have had several gold albums.

[Surf Route 101]

Drag City  The Little Old Lady from Pasadena  Golden Hits Vol 2  Batman]  Save for a Rainy Day  Gotta Take That One Last Ride     vinyl

Port to Paradise  cassette

All the Hits Surf to Drag City  Save for a Rainy Day   Carnival of Sound  Drag City/Pop Symphony   CD

[Moon Dawg]

 That's quite a collection. Something tells me PORT TO PARADISE deserved more exposure. GOLDEN HITS VOL 2 sums up J&D's classic period as well as any single LP could. GOTTA TAKE THAT ONE LAST RIDE seems the J&D equivalent of ENDLESS SUMMER: a mid 70s comp with a more creative title than "Best of Vol 4".


Good assessment Moon Dawg. It's good to have you back. This board has been silent for awhile.
To be honest, lately I've been listening to the original LPs. You should get some of them. The Greatest hits stuff is good, but check out Drag City, DMC, Little Old Lady, and the rest of them. Those were some great albums and album cuts. With better promotion, I have no doubt Jan & Dean would have had several gold albums.

  Thanks, I always return to the music of Jan & Dean from time to time. Things have been quiet here, but that's not always a bad thing. The SMILEY SMILE message board can get tense at times.

 Yes, it seems DRAG CITY, DEAD MAN'S CURVE, and THE LITTLE OLD LADY FROM PASADENA are all first rate Jan & Dean albums. Ditto CARNIVAL OF SOUND and SAVE FOR A RAINY DAY. I need to check out FOLK & ROLL.

[1Jay1]

I m always on the lookout for jan and dean records, I need some dore singles,

How about a sections for us fans to trade and buy 45rpm from each other,

[saraackerman]

I've loved listening to Jan & Dean's music for half of my life (I'm 30), and am now really enjoying all the aspects of their songs (J&D together and separate).

My collection:

LPs: Surf City and Other Swingin' Cities, Dead Man's Curve/The New Girl in School, Folk & Roll, Filet of Soul, and The Little Old Lady From Pasadena. I found these at antique shops for $2 a piece. 

CDs: All The Hits From Surf City To Drag City, Port To Paradise, One Summer Dream (CD/DVD set).

[rockngrann]

The only order is the way I take them off the shelves: CD's first:

Port to Paradise     Complete Early Years   Torrence of Berry'd Treasures Vol. 1 and 2
Little Old Lady from Pasadena/Filet of Soul
Drag City/Pop Symphony No. 1       Take Linda Surfin'/Ride the Wild Surf
Dead Man's Curve/The New Girl in School/Popsicle
Command Performance-Live in Person/ J&D Meet Batman
Surf City/Folk 'n Roll       Gotta Take That One Last Ride
Teen Suite 1958-1962 (2 copies)       save for a rainy day
Silver Summer (2 copies)      Legendary Masters Series (2 copies)
Second Wave (2 copies - both signed)
Jan & Dean      The Complete Liberty Singles   
Beach Boys  hang ten   J&D  (in round tin)         Rare Archives 2
Rough City         The Best of J&D        Live at Raging Waters
Live in Concert Surf City        The Ultimate Surfin' Album        Fun Fun Fun
The Batman Album      Encomium in Memoriam Vol. 1       The J&D Story
The Legendary Masked Surfers       The Friends of J&D
L I V E  SURF  CENTER STAGE         one summer dream (2 discs)
Anthology Album           Masters 1168  J&D Favorites
All the Hits from Surf City to Drag City (2 discs)
Golden Hits Volumes 1, 2, & 3   3 LPs on 2 CDs

and   Surfin' on the World Wide Web by Don Altfeld

Old Albums:

J&D Golden Hits Volume 2 (2 copies, one signed)
Jan & Dean (copy of their original album)

Sheet Music (original):

The Little Old Lady (from Pasadena)

A wall full of photos from concerts I attended, and from friends
and 2 Posters, Whisky-A-Go-Go  and 
Noah's Ark Park in Wisconsin (this one from Jim Romelfanger who died in 2001)

Some of these items were gifts from friends.

[Moon Dawg]

  Where is everybody finding PORT TO PARADISE??

[Admin]

  Where is everybody finding PORT TO PARADISE??

I bought my copy from Jan in the late '80s.

[saraackerman]

eBay

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2050601.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.Xjan+%26+dean+port+to+paradise.TRS0&_nkw=jan+%26+dean+port+to+paradise&_sacat=0

[1Jay1]

Brought mine from jan direct,and he sent me a message which I treasure