Surf City
Subtitle: the Jan & Dean story
By: Dean Torrence
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: SelectBooks
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9781590793954
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Singers; Jan and Dean; Rock musicians; Biography
Description: Memoir by Dean Torrence, one half of the popular 1960s singing duo, Jan & Dean. Torrence and Jan Berry were famous for 'surf music,' performing hits like Surf City, Little old lady from Pasadena, and Dead man's curve.
Notes: Foreword by Mike Love.
Table of contents: title: The four-car garage band (1957-1958); title: "Baby talk" (1959); title: The Beach Boys (1962-1963); title: Elvis sighting (1964); title: SoCal car culture (1964); title: Going big time (1964-1966); title: The great train wreck (1965); title: Jan & Dean vs. The Monkees (1965); title: Dead man's curve (1966); title: My solo flight : Kittyhawk Graphics (1967-1979); title: A Manson encounter (1969-1972); title: Deadman's curve : the movie (1974-1979); title: Back to Kittyhawk (1979); title: Kick one through the uprights summer tour (1980); title: Apocalypse now summer tour (1981); title: Mike and Dean : this Bud's for you (1982-1983); title: Reuniting? (1983-2004); title: Postscript.