Jan Berry`s trials have been harsher than most people`s; in 1966 he was involved in a terrible car accident that was an eerie echo of the Jan and Dean hit ”Dead Man`s Curve,” and suffered ...

Jan and Dean are a summer band-they have been since the beginning, more than 30 years ago, back before ”Surf City” went to No. 1 in 1963, back before Jan`s terrible automobile accident in 1966 ...

But Jan And Dean didn’t hit their peak until they met Brian Wilson. The duo played a lot of early-’60s shows with the Beach Boys, with the Beach Boys even backing them up a few times.

Bandleader Dean Torrence is the long-suffering, ever-patient helper to Jan Berry, whose near-fatal car accident in 1966 not only eerily recalled the group's hit Dead Man's Curve but left him with ...

Jan and Dean's meteoric career might have soared higher but for the April 12, 1966, accident in which Mr. Berry's silver Corvette Sting Ray hit a parked truck at 90 mph in Beverly Hills after he ...

Jan & Dean continued to have top 40 singles through mid-1966 with “Popsicle” and released albums that exposed the breadth of Berry’s talent — a symphonic record, a folk rock record, “Jan ...

Jan Berry, of the 1960s pop music duo Jan and Dean, died in a hospital in Los Angeles at age 62 after suffering a seizure in his nearby home.

Jan and Dean ostensibly intended the album to be a reaction to the high-art pretensions of some of their contemporaries, and to produce something lighter, perhaps on a par with Beach Boys Party, a ...

Born William Jan Berry in Los Angeles in 1941, Berry scored his first hit in 1958 with “Jennie Lee,” released under the name Jan and Arnie. He and high school friend Dean Torrence began their ...

But Jan And Dean didn’t hit their peak until they met Brian Wilson. The duo played a lot of early-’60s shows with the Beach Boys, with the Beach Boys even backing them up a few times.