[The Jan & Dean Record: A Chronology of Studio Sessions, Live Performances, and Chart Positions]

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The Jan & Dean Record: A Chronology of Studio Sessions, Live Performances, and Chart Positions
By Mark A. Moore

Foreword by Brian Wilson

168 photos & illustrations; discography; appendices; bibliography; song index; general index; softcover, 454 pp., 8.5" x 11"

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This is Jan Berry's biography. The book chronicles Jan Berry’s career as a songwriter and arranger—and his tenure as producer for Jan & Dean and other acts—with day-by-day entries detailing recording sessions, single and album releases, concerts and appearances, film and television projects, behind-the-scenes business and legal matters, chart positions and more. Extensive commentary from Berry’s family, friends and colleagues is included. Studio invoices, contract details, tape box notes, copyright information and other particulars shed light on how music was made in the Hollywood studio system of the 1960s.

If you're a fan of the Wrecking Crew, this book is for you.

Also included is biographical information, plus full details of Jan's 1966 automobile accident and his return to the studio one year later.

The book is largely based on extensive primary source documentation, but it is fleshed out by commentary from various family members, colleagues, and friends. Many of these people are listed below (but there are also quotes from various others, and information from others in summary form).

JAN BERRY

DEAN TORRENCE

FAMILY: Bill Berry (father), Brian Berry (brother), Clara Berry (mother), Ken Berry (brother), Luana Berry (sister), Jan-Erik Mustad (cousin)

SCHOOLMATES: Dr. Vic Amira, Bob Conley, Sandra Ellsworth, Melanie Block Gottlieb, Tim Naegele, Diane Sappenfield, Dr. Steve Schonfield, Nancy Sinatra, Ernie Wiley

THE BARONS: Ron Kiino, John Seligman, John Venable

CREATIVE ASSOCIATES: Lou Adler, Dr. Don Altfeld, Steve Barri, Roger Christian, Vic Diaz, Jill Gibson, Arnie Ginsburg, Artie Kornfeld, Rob Kuropatwa, Joe Lubin, Jim Pewter, P. F. Sloan, Tom Sumner, George Tipton, Fred Wieder, Brian Wilson, Alan Wolfson

MUSICIANS: Frankie Avalon, Tom Bahler, Hal Blaine, Glen Campbell, Mike Deasy, Micky Dolenz, John Grove, Ron Hicklin, Cliff Hugo, Peter Hume, Al Jardine, Ron Jeffrey, Bruce Johnston, Davy Jones, Carol Kaye, Brian Kilgore, Mike Kowalski, David Loe, Mike Love, Joe Middler, David Marks, Joe Osborn, Earl Palmer, Don Peake, John Pierce, Don Randi, Marilyn Wilson Rutherford, Rick Schlosser, Sid Sharp, Billy Strange, Tommy Tedesco, Pete Townshend, Don Zirilli

ENGINEERS: Dayton "Bones" Howe, Harold "Lanky" Linstrot, Mark Wolfson

INDUSTRY ASSOCIATES: Alvin Bennett, Buzz Cason, Pierre Cossette, Kim Fowley, David Horowitz, Steve Kugel, Stan Oliver, Don Podolor, Irwin Z. Robinson, Gunther Schiff, Fred Vail, Murry Wilson

FILM and TELEVISION: Steve Binder, Dick Clark, Richard Compton, Bruce Davison, Richard Hatch, Lew Irwin, Paul Morantz, Bo Svenson, Dalene Young

MEDIA: Greil Marcus, Dave Marsh, Dougal Butler, Pamela Des Barres

THERAPY and MEDICAL: Vivian Sheehan, Sandy Ward, Dr. Robert Waters, Various Medical Professionals

FRIENDS and ACQUAINTENCES: Bruce Abrams, Jeanette Andersen, Michael Barry, Brian Bruderlin, Jean Stout Burke, Suzanne Graeber, Stuart Hersh, Pam MacGregor, Mitsuru Ondo, Cameron Michael Parkes, Scott Paton, Denise Shannon, Michael Steinberg

And thanks Rocker, for the original post.

Congratulations  Mark!

Thanks Peter.

There's no record of it in Jan's documentation. Nothing on the surviving studio invoices or on the tape boxes. And nothing among his original music charts and scores. I think it's a mistake.

Bruce was a semi-regular at Jan Berry's garage studio in Bel Air, and Jan sometimes played piano at Bruce's house (they lived in the same neighborhood). Bruce played live with Jan & Arnie and Ritchie Valens in Pomona in September 1958.

The Bruce & Jerry "Pearl" session occurred at Goldstar in early March 1959. Bruce played piano.

When I interviewed him, Bruce told me he was not interested in writing a book. But if he did, it would certainly have substance beyond the Beach Boys. In terms of the L.A. rock 'n roll scene, Bruce was there from the beginning.

It's clear that Bruce was not merely chosen at random to join the Beach Boys. He had a good reputation and a body of work as a writer, performer, and producer.

This looks great! I'm a big fan of the Ace Records compilations and another one based around Brian's music is a guaranteed purchase for me. Thank God it doesn't contain The Carpenters tragic cover of Fun, Fun, Fun! I only own a handfull of the tracks on here and have never heard of the song Move Out, Little Mustang - what's the story behind that one?

Move out little Mustang is on Jan & Dean's Little  Old Lady album, although the recording is actually  done by The Fantstic Baggys. I think Jan's Voice is on their somewhere but its been a while since i listened to it. Anyway, its great!

Jan produced it and sang bass in the harmony stack.

The flip, "Bucket Seats," was erroneously credited (on purpose) to Don Altfeld. But Jan wrote the melody . . . "Old Ladies Seldom Power Shift."

The Rally-Packs release on Imperial was one of Jan's side projects, where he tried to sidestep his legal obligations to Screen Gems. He got busted for it, and the release was part of the larger lawsuit by Screen Gems against Jan, Lou Adler, and Dunhill, et al., in 1964.

New discovery for me. You guys ever hear this before? Originally released on NBI records number 100 in 1962. Looks like this was probably one of the poems from Christian's famous notebook and was later adapted by Brian into "Shut Down."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkkstTEvpv8

Note the early reference to "Dead Man's Curve" . . . 

Yeah, Dean had said there were multiple early versions . . . and I just wanted to make sure that White Whale release wasn't throwing on some alternate version, like Dean producing a take with other vocalists in Joe Osborn's garage studio.

Some of the same vocalists who sang on "Yellow Balloon" also did vocals for Carnival of Sound.

Stupid interwebs . . . Ha!

Well, here's the hilarious thing. I just went back and listened at CD Universe, and now it IS playing Cameron's version.

But when I made the original post, it was playing a completely different version. Different arrangement and different voices. I'm so familiar with Cameron's voice, I would have recognized his version immediately when hearing it; and there would have been no reason for the post.

Strangeness . . .

I have no idea who it is.

I've worked with Cameron, and it just doesn't sound like his voice to me, in terms of lead vocal. If it's something he did with his band, I've never heard it before.

Okay, good. I thought I had both versions, but that audio clip gave me a Twilight Zone moment.

That clip is not Cameron, but he did include the "Eat a lot" part on his version.

M.

[In the Garden: The White Whale Story]

Hello all,

Regarding the album In the Garden: The White Whale Story . . . The CD Universe site has an audio preview of "Vegetables" by Laughing Gravy. Click here, scroll down, and listen.

Can anyone confirm that this is indeed the original 1967 White Whale version of the song, based on this short clip? Or is it a mistake? Dean Torrence is clearly not the lead singer on the version linked here.

Dean has told David Beard (his main outlet for public consumption) that he does not remember the differences between the original 1967 version and the later Anthology version with Brian Wilson and Spring singing harmonies along with Dean's lead.

The J&D Anthology album was apparently released in late 1971 (the year listed on the back cover). The album was reviewed in Billboard in January 1972.

Bruce was one of Jan Berry's earliest musical compatriots. Bruce was a year younger, but he was a regular at Jan's garage studio in Bel Air. And Jan and Bruce would also play piano at Bruce's house.

Bruce was a part of Jan's circle during the genesis of Jan & Arnie in 1958. So Bruce was experimenting with Jan musically at least five years before Jan started working with Brian Wilson. Ironic, given that Bruce later became a permanent member of the Beach Boys.

My wife is not a Beach Boys fan. She's more in to Zappa and Randy Newman. But when she heard Bruce sing "Disney Girls" at one of the 50th Anniversary reunion shows, she said, "Wow, they did some really good stuff I never knew about."

I just want to point out that BW does NOT sing the falsetto on Surf City but DOES sing a unison lead with Jan. Same with Ride the Wild Surf.

Correct . . . They doubled the leads.

The session takes of Jan and Brian doubling the lead vocal for "Ride the Wild Surf" survive as part of Jan's personal collection.

A full transcription of their studio dialog between takes will be included in the Sessionography book. It's pretty revealing.

The Carnival of Sound website is a sub-site of the official Jan Berry site. It just has its own URL.

[edit:]

edit:  I forgot to ask a question about your quote "As for the 1978 film Deadman's Curve . . . It's bogus . . . a highly fictionalized and slanted portrayal."  Why were the guys involved?  According to the movie's wiki entry, Jan, himself was in the movie and "Papa Doo Run Run featuring Dean Torrence went into the studio to record some additional songs for the soundtrack."  Was the film an 'authorized biography'?  Have any of the guys ever commented on the nature of the finished film?  I'm curious how they may have felt about it, if it was so inaccurate.

Oh, and the sessionography, will it be published online, or in a book?  It sounds like something fans of both Jan and Dean and The Beach Boys might enjoy.

The film was based on a 1974 "Rolling Stone" article by attorney Paul Morantz. It was a detailed and fairly accurate piece . . . but even Paul's article totally ignored the "Carnival of Sound" sessions.

Dean teamed up with Paul to get the movie made. They were both USC graduates. The film bore little resemblance to the article.

Dean wined and dined the screenwriter and producers. I've interviewed the screenwriter and director, and Richard Hatch (who played Jan).

Jan had little or no input on the film. As others have pointed out, Jan's creative relationship with Brian Wilson and Jan's production of the music were left out completely. Why? . . . Because Dean was the film’s primary consultant.

Dean got clips of his own post-accident music inserted into the film. But when it came to Jan’s post-accident music (which Lou Adler would gladly have allowed), they didn’t use any of Jan’s period solo singles. Instead, they made up a stupid fictional song, and portrayed is as something Jan was never able to finish.  Completely bogus.

Papa Doo Run Run was Dean’s band. That’s how they got into the film.

By the way, Hatch's post-accident portrayal of Jan is powerful and accurate. Jan was on the set daily, and Richard was able to mimic him brilliantly.

Jan was not happy about the film, and neither was his family. He supported it publically (as he should have) for the greater good of Jan & Dean.

The film got them back out on the road as an oldies nostalgia act . . . a money-making venture . . . but it did severe damage to Jan’s actual history in the process.

Any film portrayal will have faults; but the supporting characters in this movie were nearly all fictitious or composite characters.

Jan was in the audience for the film’s final sequence, as was his father and conservator Bill Berry, his mother Clara Berry, and director Richard Compton.

The Sessionography will be published in book form.

[TOP TEN (10)]

Wow . . . The lack of context on this board is amazing.

Jan & Dean had 16 Top-40 hits on the Billboard and Cash Box Charts between 1958 and 1965 (not counting the lesser chart records over their entire pre-accident career).

Jan & Dean had seven Top-10 records, only three of which were co-written by Brian Wilson.

When you look at the total range of Jan & Dean's Top-40 hits, Brian Wilson only co-wrote six of them.

In 1962, Jan & Dean's "Tennessee" peaked slightly higher than the Beach Boys' debut single ("Surfin'").

In all, Jan and Brian wrote nine songs together . . . 11 if you count "Sidewalk Surfin'" and the various incarnations of "Gonna Hustle You."


TOP TEN (10)

1958

     Jennie Lee
     (Jan Berry - Arnie Ginsburg)
     CASH BOX #3 -- R&B #4 -- BILLBOARD #8 -- (JAN & ARNIE)

1959

     Baby Talk
     (Melvin Schwartz)
     CASH BOX #7 -- BILLBOARD #10 -- R&B #28

1963

     Surf City
     (Jan Berry - Brian Wilson)
     BILLBOARD #1 -- CASH BOX #1 -- R&B #3

     Honlulu Lulu
     (Jan Berry - Roger Christian - Lou Adler)
     CASH BOX #10 -- BILLBOARD #11

1964

     Drag City
     (Jan Berry - Roger Christian - Brian Wilson)
     BILLBOARD #10 -- CASH BOX #10

     Dead Man's Curve
     (Jan Berry - Roger Christian - Artie Kornfeld - Brian Wilson)
     BILLBOARD #8 -- CASH BOX #9

     The Little Old Lady (from Pasadena)
     (Jan Berry - Don Altfeld - Roger Christian)
     BILLBOARD #3 -- CASH BOX #5


TOP TWENTY (20)

1961

     Heart & Soul
     (Hoagy Carmichael - Frank Loesser)
     CASH BOX #16 -- BILLBOARD #25

1964

     Ride the Wild Surf
     (Jan Berry - Roger Christian - Brian Wilson)
     BILLBOARD #16 -- CASH BOX #23


TOP THIRTY (30)

1963

     Linda
     (Jack Lawrence)
     CASH BOX #26 -- BILLBOARD #28

1964

     The New Girl In School
     (Jan Berry - Roger Christian - Brian Wilson - Bob Norman)
     CASH BOX #26 -- BILLBOARD #37

     Sidewalk Surfin'
     (Brian Wilson - Roger Christian)
     BILLBOARD #25 -- CASH BOX #28

1965

     You Really Know How To Hurt A Guy
     (Jan Berry - Jill Gibson - Roger Christian)
     BILLBOARD #27 -- CASH BOX #42

     I Found A Girl
     (Phil Sloan - Steve Barri)
     BILLBOARD #30 -- CASH BOX #39

1966

     Popsicle
     (Buzz Cason - Bobby Russell)
     BILLBOARD #21 -- CASH BOX #24


TOP FORTY (40)

1960

     We Go Together
     (Shelly Haims - Perry Stevens)
     Cash BOX #39


B-SIDES & ALBUM CUTS
Co-written with Brian Wilson

1963

     She's My Summer Girl -- (B-Side)
     (Jan Berry - Don Altfeld - Brian Wilson)

     Surf Route 101
     (Jan Berry - Roger Christian - Brian Wilson)

1964

     Surfin' Wild
     (Jan Berry - Roger Christian - Brian Wilson)

     Move Out Little Mustang
     (Jan Berry -  Brian Wilson - Roger Christian)


As for the 1978 film Deadman's Curve . . . It's bogus . . . a highly fictionalized and slanted portrayal.

The official Jan & Dean Sessionpgraphy is nearing completion for publication.

Dean's re-recordings are still being marketed as "Jan & Dean":

http://theseconddisc.com/2012/06/01/surfs-up-jan-and-dean-celebrate-silver-summer-on-new-reissue/

A huge mistake that keeps doing its damage . . .

[JAN & DEAN SESSIONOGRAPHY PREVIEW]

JAN & DEAN SESSIONOGRAPHY PREVIEW — Having already entered the recording session dates and locations, with musicians who played on this song, I just completed the Music Score/Chart entry for "Freeway Flyer." So here's a preview of the vocal and instrumental parts as notated by Jan Berry in the 1964 music score, and thus heard on the record: Voice (Jan - "Me" in the score), Voice (Steve & Flip - Sloan & Barri), Oboe, Trumpets 1-2, French Horn, Trombone, Guitars 1-2 [including Dano six-string bass], Bass, Drums, Piano). Track recorded 12-18-64. (Note: the "voice" parts notated were harmonies only, excluding lead and falsetto lead).

Jan & Dean - Freeway Flyer - 45 rpm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkMbF4pOTlQ

Just for the people who haven't heard it yet.

And here's the Jan & Dean version . . . recorded in March 1963:

http://youtu.be/qKaSlw_TOy8

The musicians are all Wrecking Crew . . . Vocals are J&D plus BB members on backing vocals.

Van Halen (3 times), The Kinks, Heart, and George Thorogood & the Delaware Destroyers.

Mark, thanks for sharing... Definitely some interesting items in that collection. The alternate titles on the Drag City lyric sheet caught my eye and I was hoping you could shed a little light on this:

• Was this just a proposed line-up for the LP or were all of these titles actually recorded?
  
• If, in fact, they were recorded, is Cherry Chevy Coupe a re-worded version of the Beach Boys' Cherry Cherry Coupe?
  

Thanks for the input and hard work, I'm looking forward to sessionography.

I think they were mostly suggestions or working titles, but at least one of the songs listed was recorded . . . (not "Cherry Chevy Coupe").

[Jan Berry — Studio Gallery]

"Gonna Hustle You" — Western Recorders tape log, 1963.

Click through . . . lyrics are on the back side. Compare the handwriting to the alternate lyrics for "Surf City" in this gallery:

Jan Berry — Studio Gallery

Part of the stuff uncovered as I work on the official Jan Berry / Jan & Dean Sessionography.

Enjoy . . .

Cool!

Mark; any news regarding the book on Jan & Dean that I seem to recall you have been working on?

Working heavily on the Sessionography right now. That'll be the first publication — studio sessions, concerts, appearances, and television . . . a reference work that gets published ahead of the Jan Berry biography.

We've added a new image gallery on the Official Jan Berry Website . . .

Studio Gallery:
http://www.jananddean-janberry.com/studio/studio-gallery.html

This area will feature original lyric sheets, music charts, and other items from Jan Berry's personal collection.

More will be added over time.

Enjoy . . .

That's some pretty cool stuff! 
How does one get to Dean's website, and the 1963 history, to compare the lyrics shown?

Go here . . .

http://www.jananddean.com/biochp03/biochp03.html

. . . and then use the slider on the right to scroll down.

We've added a new image gallery on the Official Jan Berry Website . . .

Studio Gallery:
http://www.jananddean-janberry.com/studio/studio-gallery.html

This area will feature original lyric sheets, music charts, and other items from Jan Berry's personal collection.

More will be added over time.

Enjoy . . .