Jan & Dean: Official Message Board for Jan Berry

  Regardless of one's assessment of "Universal Coward" - satire, dead on serious, good, bad, or ugly - this may be THE primary reason Jann Wenner has made it his life's mission to keep Jan & Dean out of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Wenner doesn't care for Republicans, Surf music, or 60s L.A. pop in general. Three strikes and J&D are apparently OUT.

 Can I prove any of the above? Nope just conjecture. 

  GOTTA TAKE THAT ONE LAST RIDE is to Jan & Dean as ENDLESS SUMMER is to The Beach Boys.

 Awesome news! 

Quote from: Moon Dawg on June 16, 2017, 06:53:37 PM

  One way or another, J&D are due for a new compilation. They should enlist Mark A Miller to assemble when/if the time comes. Although mine would do the trick as well.

  I think you meant Mark A. Moore.

 That is correct. Mark A. Moore.

Oh yeah, I'd add Blowin My Mind, Easy as 123, Restless Surfer, Surfer's Dream, Surfin Safari, When Its Over, Horace, One Piece Topless Bathing Suit

  Good choices but I don't think there's enough room on one CD.

  Here's an idea for a single CD Jan & Dean compilation. Haven't timed it yet, but I think all 28 songs are within the 80 minute time constraint. I opted not to go in chronological order. (Inspired by The Beach Boys' SOUNDS OF SUMMER and The Rolling Stones' 40 LICKS sets) This set gives the casual buyer every Top 40 hit yet much more, all on one disc. Timespan: 1958-67


 1) Jennie Lee (Jan & Arnie)  2) Gas Money (Jan & Arnie)   3) Surf City   4) Drag City   5) The Little Old Lady from Pasadena   6) Sidewalk Surfin'   7) The Anaheim Sewing Circle, etc    Ride the Wild Surf   9) She's My Summer Girl   10) Schlock Rod Part 1   11) Bucket T   12) Dead Man's Curve   13) The New Girl in School   14) Popscicle   15) Honolulu Lulu   16) Quasimoto   17) Baby Talk   18) Clementine   19) Heart & Soul   20) Linda   21) I Found a Girl   22) I Can't Wait to Love You   23) You Really Know How to Hurt a Guy (alternate longer version)   24) Like a Summer Rain   25) Yellow Balloon (Columbia version)   26) Fan Tan   27) (Here They Come) From All Over the World   28) Batman


 Would a chronological approach better serve this material? Anything missing you'd like to see? Anything included you'd like to omit?

  Not sure if Dean would have been destined to sell a ton of records, but I can only judge Dean solo by his one true solo album: SAVE FOR A RAINY DAY. IMO a minor classic. Shame on Dean for not discussing this groovy record in his autobio.

  Seems like THE JAN & DEAN RECORD is likely the most comprehensive Jan Berry bio we'll ever see. Hard to see how it would be surpassed. It's a reference work foremost, but within that framework it surely tells the story of Jan.