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Dead Man’s Curve: The Rock ’n’ Roll Life of Jan Berry

By Mark A. Moore

Jan Berry, leader of the music duo Jan & Dean from the late 1950s to mid-1960s, was an intense character who experienced more in his first 25 years than many do in a lifetime. As anarchitect of the West Coast sound, he was one of rock ‘n’ roll’s original rebels–brilliant, charismatic, reckless, and flawed. As a songwriter, music arranger, and record producer for Nevins-Kirshner Associates and Screen Gems-Columbia Music, Berry was one of the pioneering self-produced artists of his era in Hollywood. He lived a dual life, reaching the top of the charts with Jan & Dean while transitioning from college student to medical student, until an automobile accident ended his seemingly charmed existence in 1966. Suffering from brain damage a

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JAN BERRY AT A GLANCE
By Mark A. Moore
Author of Dead Man’s Curve: The Rock ‘n’ Roll Life of Jan Berry

1941

• Birth — April 3, 1941, Los Angeles, California

1958

• Jan & Arnie — April-December 1958

• Top 10 Records with Jan & Arnie — 1

• Chart Records with Jan & Arnie — 2

1959-1966

• UCLA — Enrolled in college in 1959

• Jan & Dean — May 1959-April 1966

• Chart Records with Jan & Dean — 26

• Top 10 Songs with Jan & Arnie and Jan & Dean —7, as charted by Billboard and Cash Box

• Top 40 Songs with Jan & Arnie and Jan & Dean —16, including seven Top 10, as charted by Billboard and Cash Box

• Chart Albums — 10, including five Top 40, as charted by Billboard and Cash Box

• Chart Records As A Songwriter Outside of Jan & Arnie and Jan & Dean — 5 — Billy Ward & His Dominoes (1958); the Angels (1963); the Rip Chords (1964); Johnny Crawford (1964); Ronny and the Daytonas (1965); the Who (1966)

• Songwriting and/or Arrangements and Productions Outside o

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JAN BERRY (1941 - 2004)
Surf music legend: Dean's other half
Jan Berry, half of the 1960s surf duo Jan and Dean, has died at 62. The pair recorded hits including their #1 'Surf City' and Berry's personal favourite, 'Dead Man's Curve'. He died Friday at the University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center after suffering a seizure at his home nearby, his wife, Gertrude Filip Berry, said yesterday. His health had been precarious since he suffered brain damage and partial paralysis in a 1966 automobile accident.
While in high school he formed the Barons with his friends Dean Torrence and Arnie Ginsburg. In 1958, while Torrence was serving in the Army Reserves, Jan & Arnie enjoyed a Top 10 hit with 'Jennie Lee', a track recorded in Jan's garage. On Dean's return, Arnie left for the Navy - Jan and Dean were born. They had many hits including 1959's 'Baby Talk' and five in 1963 and 1964 alone; 'Surf City', 'Honolulu Lulu', 'Drag City', 'Dead Man's Curve' and 'Little Old Lady From Pasadena'. Steeped in the surf, sun and sand culture of Southern