Dean made the save for a rainy day album in my dad's garage studio. The same garage where Karen and Richard developed their sound as " The Carpenters." I never got to meet Jan but I met Dean some 54 years ago and I have a great deal of respect for him. I just sent him a Merry Christmas email a few minutes ago. Surf's up!!!
The day that I first heard Surf City I had to ride 2 miles on my bike to buy the 45 at the local music shop. I was 12 years old and just beginning to identify my own taste in pop music!
I didn't know until now that Johnny Crawford sang. I only knew of him in connection to the TV show The Rifleman (1958 - 1963). Crawford played Mark, son to Lucas McCain, played by Chuck Connors.
In the beginning, Jan & Dean opened for the Beach Boys. Later, they would be a warm up act for the Beach Boys. Dean Torrance also was a graphic designer, designed the Beach Boys logo in the 70's that is still used today by them.
@@garrettdavis6500 goddamn straight. I hearby tell that the reason they're not in the hall is cuz in their heyday they were only part time performers , meaning that it was secondary to their college. & Most'a that to me is malarkey cuz they were crankin' out classics pretty consistently in 63-4. Even tho their formative existence/output gave them a couple years of pavement pounding '63 was The year they solidified themselves easily & '66 was essentially their end in terms of progressiveness but Jan's ordeal obviously explained that; & lastly to me their legacy was/is made an institution because that's what that era was. It Could be debatable but rockNroll had THREE particular half-decade time-frames that encompassed the quality output:: 62-7, 77-2 & 93-7•
My mom played their records on our HiFi stereo. And I remember James Brolin from Marcus Welby MD. You're bringing back fond memories for me. Thank you. You are digging deep in your research.
@@speedingpenguin “Look, having nuclear - my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart - you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world - it’s true! - but when you’re a conservative Republican they try - oh, do they do a number - that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune - you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged - but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me - it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are - nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? - but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners - now it used to be three, now it’s four - but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years - but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible.”
Whoever narrated this video should find a new line of work. Stumbling over one line after another. Why didn't you record it a few times until you got it right?
He also needs to enunciate better. Instead of saying "Jan & Dean" it sounded like he was saying "Jandean". He also needs to get his facts straight...or at least be more specific. He talks about the cancellation of their film "Easy Come Easy Go due to a rail car incident, then he talks about Jan's car accident leaving him partially paralyzed, and later when referring to the "Filet" of Soul" album, he says that Jan can be seen wearing a cast "as a result of the accident" but doesn't point out WHICH accident". Either he was incorrectly referring to Jan's auto accident or he was referring to the rail car incident that caused the cancellation of their film.
Shelley Fabares' last name is pronounced "Fabray" (it's French). "You Really Know To Hurt a Guy" / "The New Girl in School" and "From All Over The World" were several of their final hits and they were big.
This reminds me of another RU-vid channel where the comments frequently bust on the guy because he uses a cheap robot to do the narration. Urging someone to read it themselves may be going from the pot into the fire. Finding someone with a good reading voice is not that easily done. I don't know if it's because schools push kids out and just hand out diplomas to everyone, or because parents aren't interest in raising kids. Maybe it's the water. I work in retail and deal with the public daily. Verbal skills in our society are going to pot. .
CatholicBoy1957, And have you noticed that on RU-vid, it's now hard to find commenters who use ANY punctuation? I don't care what kind of forum RU-vid is. If someone wants their point to be taken seriously, punctuation would help.
Saw Jan & Dean at the City of Torrance Armstrong Theater in the late 1990's. They were hot with an unfortunately partly sour uninspired audience that Dean Torrance tormented as a result. I don't know why, but too many audience members were in black dressy clothes. For Surf Music? I was in suitable surf music attire. (Jeans and sweat shirt & Vans style shoes). Though some were singing with "Jan & Dean" many in the crowd though it was packed, were not responding to their music. Torrance made fun of them about being more like fans a following the next night's venue than his. I, in agreement, yelled a few times at Dean Torrance as I say kind of close to the stage "Hey they are waiting here for tomorrow's show! They are waiting here for tomorrow's show!" I added, "They are spending the night." That was the night of the Chinese troupe "The Peking Acrobats." 🤭😉😏🙃🤢
They were hot as Beach boys in my time,saw Jan and Dean at the Tulare fair grounds not ,i remember after his acciden people got mad because Jan lipped sync,i remember being mad about that,like shit people he is still alive and he showed up to concerts.But because he did not lip sync when i saw them in concert,i grew up in Ventura,Ca. to that's where my cousins lived and i was always there.It's a wonder he was not totally paralyzed,i remember him having a bit of a limp,but i got to see some of my heroes of music,big time stuff at that time.COWABUNGA!!
Although I love Jan & Dean and any biography on them as well, I almost fell asleep listening to the uploader/narrator. He needs to enunciate better. Instead of saying "Jan & Dean" it sounded like he was saying "Jandean". He also needs to get his facts straight...or at least be more specific. He talks about the cancellation of their film "Easy Come Easy Go due to a rail car incident, then he talks about Jan's car accident leaving him partially paralyzed, and later when referring to the "Filet" of Soul" album, he says that Jan can be seen wearing a cast "as a result of the accident" but doesn't point out WHICH accident". Either he was incorrectly referring to Jan's auto accident or he was referring to the rail car incident that caused the cancellation of their film.
Back in the very late 1980's, a bunch of friends went up to "Lake Compounce", allegedly America's oldest running amusement park, to catch a "free" concert by Jan & Dean. Um...? Somewhat SAD, to say the least! Obviously, he was BADLY brain damaged, and could barely sing on key. So other band members literally drown him out with their background vocals, kind of like with Shelley Fabares doing "Johnny Angel". It was, um, "nice" that they let him sing, but, um, not really... 😞
The narrator for this documentary on Jan & Dean sounds like he is STRUGGLING to get the words out! Suggestion…Read the script first, before you hit the record button…😳😳
You're wrong. There is no Tammy show. The T.A.M.I. Show is a 1964 concert film released by American International Pictures. It includes performances by numerous popular rock and roll and R&B musicians from the United States and England. The acronym "T.A.M.I." was used in the show's publicity to mean "Teenage Awards Music International." Jan and Dean emceed the event and performed its theme song. A little research makes you appear 50% smarter.
When they pulled from the wreck, the EMT's thought he was dead & took him to the morgue. On a slab, began to moan, realizing he was alive they rushed him to the hospital. He beat the long odds until he died but he was never the same.
Those guys, reminded me...rigourly bros, both...good looking indivi...both rest.n.peaces today, 2021, both is ol school 81s ol, and 80s both sure had..been rock n..roll hall fames, but..wasn't shown..is just a museum, but won't get pay for..it..
i produced ON E LAST RIDE which i see you have used in your doc the production was shot in 1981 in roslyn long island not NYC with FLO and EDDIE . please fix this real datta I am upset about; this is eppy from my fathers place thank you
