Crystal Jones I like Jan and Dean. They sing the best beach songs since the late1950s& early1960s. They sing good just like the Beach boys. They rock.4-18-2021.
The Beach Boys' original is really a tip of the hat to Jan and Dean's style of West Coast doo wop in the first place. Brian would soon learn the studio tricks of the trade of massive overdubbing from Jan.
The book Nearest Faraway Place has exhaustive details about Jan and Dean and Brian Wilson and the rest of the Beach Boys, collaborated on hits. A little too detailed and invasive for my liking, however---- its ALL there, private life and all.
Brian Wilson, and I believe other Beach Boys, backed up Jan & Dean on this recording (although totally uncredited on the album). That would probably explain why it sounds alot like the Beach Boys.
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