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  • Jan And Dean
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  • Jan And Dean
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  • American musical duos
  • Brian Wilson
  • Musical groups established in 1958
  • Liberty Records artists
  • American psychedelic rock music groups
  • Challenge Records artists
  • Folk rock groups from California
  • Musical groups disestablished in 2004
  • Musical groups from Los Angeles, California
  • Musicians from California
  • Surf music groups
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  • American duo formed in 1959, disbanded in 1966 following Jan Berry’s injury, reunited in early 1970s.
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  • Jan and Dean were an American rock and roll duo consisting of William Jan Berry (April 3, 1941 – March 26, 2004) and Dean Ormsby Torrence (born March 10, 1940). In the early 1960s, they were pioneers of the California Sound and vocal surf music styles popularized by the Beach Boys. Among their most successful songs was %22Surf City%22, which topped US record charts in 1963, the first surf song to do so. Their other charting singles were %22Drag City%22 (1963), %22The Little Old Lady from Pasadena%22 (1964), and %22Dead Man's Curve%22 (1964); the last of which was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2008.In 1972, Torrence won the Grammy Award for Best Album Cover for the psychedelic rock band Pollution's first eponymous 1971 album, and was nominated three other times in the same category for albums of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. In 2013, Torrence's design contribution of the Surf City Allstars %22In Concert%22 CD was named a Silver Award of Distinction at the Communicator Awards competition.
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  • 2004
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  • 1958
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  • Jan And Dean
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  • Rhino Records
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  • Pop Rock
  • Surf Rock
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