Jan and Dean discography explained

This is the discography for American rock duo Jan and Dean.

Albums

Studio albums

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions
		US ^[1]	US
The Jan & Dean Sound	Released: March 1960		—
Jan & Dean Take Linda Surfin	Released: April 1963	92	—
Surf City (and Other Swingin' Cities)	Released: July 1963 Label: Liberty	32	21
Drag City	Released: November 1963 Label: Liberty	22	17
Dead Man's Curve / The New Girl In School	Released: April 1964 Label: Liberty	80	42
Ride the Wild Surf	Released: August 1964 Label: Liberty	66	26
The Little Old Lady from Pasadena	Released: September 1964 Label: Liberty	40	40
Jan & Dean's Pop Symphony No. 1 (in 12 Hit Movements) (Performed by The Bel-Aire Pops Orchestra)	Released: May 1965 Label: Liberty	—	—
Folk 'n Roll	Released: November 1965 Label: Liberty	145	87
Jan & Dean Meet Batman Last album released before Jan's car accident	Released: March 1966 Label: Liberty	—	—
Filet of Soul - A "Live" One	Released: April 1966 Label: Liberty	127	—
Popsicle	Released: June 1966 Label: Liberty	—	—
Save for a Rainy Day	Cancelled 1966 album	—	—
Carnival of Sound	Cancelled 1968 album	—	—
Port to Paradise	Released: 1986 Label: J&D Records	—	—
Filet Of Soul Redux: The Rejected Master Recordings	Released: 2017	—	—

Live albums

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions
		US	US
Command Performance - Live in Person	Released: January 1965 Label: Liberty	33	42
One Summer Night / Live	Released: November 1982 Label: Rhino	—	—

Select compilation albums

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions
		US	US	NL ^[2]	UK ^[3]
Jan & Dean's Golden Hits	Released: August 1962 Label: Liberty		—	—	—
Jan & Dean Golden Hits Volume 2	Released: September 9, 1965 Label: Liberty	107	71	—	—
Jan & Dean Golden Hits, Volume Three	Released: August 1966 Label: Liberty	—	—	—	—
Jan & Dean Anthology Album	Released: November 1971	—	—	—	—
Jan & Dean - Stars of The 60s	Released: 1973 Label: United Artists	—	—	7	—
Gotta Take That One Last Ride	Released: October 1974 Label: United Artists	—	—	—	—
Deadman's Curve	Released: 1979 Label: Liberty	—	—	—	—
The Jan and Dean Story	Released: 1980	—	—	—	67

Solo albums

Jan Berry album

• Second Wave—One Way 34524 (1997)
  A Memorial edition of this CD was released in April 2004, after Jan's death

Dean Torrence solo projects

• Rock 'N' Roll City—Realistic – 51-3009 (1983)
  Released for Radio Shack as "Mike & Dean" for Mike Love from the Beach Boys and Dean Torrence from Jan & Dean
• Anthology: Legendary Masked Surfer Unmasked—Varèse Sarabande 3020663492 (2002)
• The Bamboo Trading Company - From Kitty Hawk To Surf City—Steelsurf 10221 (2013)
• The Teammates— Omnivore (2022)

Singles

Jan & Arnie singles

A-side/B-side	Year	Label & number	U.S. Charts	Album
			Billboard		Cashbox	Billboard R&B Airplay
"Jennie Lee" b/w "Gotta Getta Date"	1958	Arwin 108	8	3^[4]	4^[5]	Non-album tracks
"Gas Money" b/w "Bonnie Lou"		Arwin 111	81	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
"The Beat That Can't Be Beat" b/w "I Love Linda"		Arwin 113	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
"Jennie Lee" b/w "Gotta Getta Date"	1960	Dot 16116	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-

Jan & Dean singles

A-side/B-side Both sides from same album except where indicated	Year	Label & number	U.S. Charts		Album
			Billboard^[6]	Cashbox		UK^[7]
"Baby Talk" b/w "Jeanette, Get Your Hair Done" First pressings shown as by "Jan & Arnie"	1959	Dore 522	10	7	style="text-align:center;"	-	The Jan & Dean Sound
"There's A Girl" b/w "My Heart Sings"		Dore 531	97	80	style="text-align:center;"	-
"Clementine" b/w "You're On My Mind"		Dore 539	65	88	style="text-align:center;"	-
"White Tennis Sneakers" b/w "Cindy"	1960	Dore 548	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
"We Go Together" b/w "Rosie Lane" (from Jan & Dean)		Dore 555	53	39	style="text-align:center;"	-	Jan & Dean's Golden Hits
"Gee" b/w "Such a Good Night for Dreaming"		Dore 576	81	119	style="text-align:center;"	-	Non-album tracks
"Judy's an Angel" b/w "Baggy Pants"	1961	Dore 583	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
"Julie" b/w "Don't Fly Away"		Dore 610	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-	Jan & Dean
"Heart and Soul" b/w "Those Words" (First pressings), "Midsummer Night's Dream" (later pressings) Both B-sides are non-album tracks		Challenge 9111	25	16	24	Jan & Dean's Golden Hits
"Wanted, One Girl" b/w "Something a Little Bit Different"		Challenge 9120	104	130	style="text-align:center;"	-	Non-album tracks
"A Sunday Kind of Love" b/w "Poor Little Puppet"		Liberty 55397	95	109	style="text-align:center;"	-	Jan & Dean's Golden Hits
"Tennessee" b/w "Your Heart Has Changed Its Mind" (Non-album track)	1962	Liberty 55454	69	83	style="text-align:center;"	-
"My Favorite Dream" b/w "Who Put the Bomp" (from Jan & Dean's Golden Hits)		Liberty 55496	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-	Non-album tracks
"Frosty the Snowman" b/w "She's Still Talkin' Baby Talk"		Liberty 55522	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
"Linda" b/w "When I Learn How to Cry"	1963	Liberty 55531	28	26	style="text-align:center;"	-	Jan & Dean Take Linda Surfin
"Surf City" b/w "She's My Summer Girl" (from Popsicle)		Liberty 55580	1^[8]	1	26	Surf City and Other Swingin' Cities
"Honolulu Lulu" b/w "Someday (You'll Go Walking By)" (Non-album track)		Liberty 55613	11	10	style="text-align:center;"	-
"Drag City" b/w "Schlock Rod (Part 1)"		Liberty 55641	10^[9]	10	style="text-align:center;"	-	Drag City
"Dead Man's Curve"/ "The New Girl in School"	1964	Liberty 55672	8 37	9 26	style="text-align:center;"	-	Dead Man's Curve/The New Girl in School
"The Little Old Lady (from Pasadena)" b/w "My Mighty G.T.O." (from Dead Man's Curve/The New Girl in School)		Liberty 55704	3	5	style="text-align:center;"	-	The Little Old Lady from Pasadena
"Ride the Wild Surf"/ "The Anaheim, Azusa & Cucamonga Sewing Circle, Book Review & Timing Association" (from The Little Old Lady from Pasadena)		Liberty 55724	16 77	23 50	style="text-align:center;"	-	Ride the Wild Surf
"Sidewalk Surfin'" b/w "When It's Over" (from The Little Old Lady from Pasadena)		Liberty 55727	25	28	style="text-align:center;"	-
"(Here They Come) From All Over the World" b/w "Freeway Flyer" (Non-album track)	1965	Liberty 55766	56	50 114	style="text-align:center;"	-	Command Performance/Live in Person
"You Really Know How to Hurt a Guy" b/w "It's as Easy as 1, 2, 3" (from Dead Man's Curve/The New Girl In School)		Liberty 55792	27	42	style="text-align:center;"	-	Jan & Dean Golden Hits, Volume 2
"It's a Shame to Say Goodbye" b/w "The Submarine Races" (from Ride the Wild Surf) Cancelled single		Liberty 55816	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-	Folk 'n Roll
"I Found a Girl" b/w "It's a Shame to Say Goodbye"		Liberty 55833	30	39	style="text-align:center;"	-
"A Beginning from an End" b/w "Folk City"		Liberty 55849	109	110	style="text-align:center;"	-
"Norwegian Wood" b/w "I Can't Wait to Love You" (from Folk 'n Roll) Cancelled single	1966	Liberty 55856	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-	Filet of Soul: A "Live" One
"Batman		" b/w "Bucket T" (from Dead Man's Curve/The New Girl in School) Last single released before Jan's car accident	Liberty 55860	66	60	style="text-align:center;"	-	Jan & Dean Meet Batman
"Popsicle" b/w "Norwegian Wood" (from Filet of Soul: A "Live" One)		Liberty 55886	21	24	style="text-align:center;"	-	Popsicle
"Fiddle Around" b/w "A Surfer's Dream" (from Ride the Wild Surf)		Liberty 55905	93	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-	Non-album track
"School Days" b/w "The New Girl in School"		Liberty 55923	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-	Dead Man's Curve/The New Girl in School
"Summertime, Summertime" b/w "California Lullaby"		J & D Record Co. 001 (July) Magic Lamp 401 (August) J & D Record Co. 401 (August)	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-	Non-album tracks
"Like a Summer Rain" b/w "Louisiana Man" (from Carnival of Sound, cancelled)		J & D Record Co. 402	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-	Save for a Rainy Day (cancelled)
"Yellow Balloon" b/w "Taste of Rain"	1967	Columbia 44036	111	116	style="text-align:center;"	-
"Hawaii" b/w "Tijuana" (Non-album track)		Jan & Dean 10	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-	Carnival of Sound (Cancelled)
"Fan Tan" b/w "Love and Hate"		Jan & Dean 11	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
"Vegetables" b/w "Snow Flakes on Laughing Gravy's Whiskers" Shown as by "The Laughing Gravy"		White Whale 261	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-	Non-album tracks
"Only a Boy" b/w "Love and Hate"		Warner Bros. 7151	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-	Carnival of Sound (Cancelled)
"I Know My Mind" b/w "Laurel and Hardy"	1968	Warner Bros. 7219	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
"Girl, You're Blowing My Mind" b/w "In The Still of the Night" Cancelled single		Warner Bros. 7240	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
"Jennie Lee" b/w "Vegetables"	1972	United Artists 50859	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-	Jan & Dean Anthology
"Gonna Hustle You" b/w "Summertime, Summertime" Shown as by "The Legendary Masked Surfers"	1973	United Artists 50958	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-	Non-album tracks
"Summer Means Fun" b/w "Gonna Hustle You" Shown as by "The Legendary Masked Surfers"		United Artists 270	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
"Fun City" b/w "Totally Wild"	1975	Ode 66111	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
"Sidewalk Surfin'" b/w "Gonna Hustle You"	1976	United Artists 670	107	119	style="text-align:center;"	-
"Ocean Park Angel" b/w "Blue Moon" Cancelled single	1982	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-
"Oh What a Beautiful Morning" b/w "Wa Ishi Nichi Shiow"	1987	Encore Studio	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-

Solo singles

Jan Berry singles

• "Tomorrow's Teardrops"/"My Midsummer Night's Dream"—Ripple 6101 (1960)
  Shown as "Jan Barry"
• "Universal Coward"/"I Can't Wait To Love You"—Liberty 55845 (1965)
  Both tracks from the Jan & Dean album Folk 'n Roll (all other tracks from this list are non-album)
• "Mother Earth"/"Blue Moon Shuffle"—Ode 66023 (1972)
  Jan's first post-accident lead vocal release
• "Blue Moon Shuffle"/"Don't You Just Know It"—Ode 66034 (1973)
• "Tinsel Town (Hitch-a-Ride to Hollywood"/"Blow Up Music"—Ode 66050 (1974)
• "Sing Sang a Song"/"Sing Sang a Song" (Singalong version) -- Ode 66120 (1976)
• "Little Queenie"/"That's the Way It Is"—A&M 1957 (1977)
• "Skateboard Surfin' USA"/"How-How I Love Her"—A&M 2020 (1978)
• "Rock City"/"Its Gotta Be True"—JB (cassette single) (1984)

Dean Torrence related singles

• "Summertime, Summertime"/"Theme from Leon's Garage"—Brer Bird 001 (1965)
  Released as "Our Gang" featuring Dean and Gary Zekley
• "Da Doo Ron Ron"/"Baby Talk"—Hitbound Records – HR-101A (1982)
  Released as Mike & Dean. Recorded by Mike Love and Dean Torrence (Mike & Dean) Single form their Radio Shack LP album Rock 'N' Roll City.
• The Bamboo Trading Company digital EP — "Shrewd Awakening" [lead vocal with Katie & Jillian Torrence]/"Tonga Hut" [intro and backing vocal] (January 21, 2014) ^[10]
• The Bamboo Trading Company digital EP — "Star Of The Beach" [lead vocal]/"Drinkin' In The Sunshine" [backing vocal]/"Tweet (Don't Talk Anymore)" [lead vocal] (July 4, 2014) ^[11]

Reissues

Liberty All-Time Hit Series reissues

• "Surf City" / "Honolulu Lulu"—54534
• "Dead Man's Curve" / "Drag City"—54544
• "The Little Old Lady From Pasadena" / "The New Girl In School"—54546
• "You Really Know How To Hurt A Guy" / "It's As Easy As 1,2,3"—54549
• "Batman" / "Popsicle"—54554

United Artists Silver Spotlight Series reissuesAll released January 1973

• "Jennie Lee" / "Baby Talk"—XW089
  A-side is a re-recorded version of the Jan & Arnie hit, featured on Jan & Dean's Golden Hits
• "Surf City" / "Ride The Wild Surf"—XW091
• "Dead Man's Curve" / "Drag City"—XW092
• "Honolulu Lulu" / "Sidewalk Surfin'"—XW093
• "The Little Old Lady From Pasadena" / "Popsicle"—XW094

Collectables (CEMA Special Markets) reissuesAll released 1993

• "Linda" / "The New Girl In School"—COL 6182
• "Honolulu Lulu" / "Sidewalk Surfin"—COL 6183
• "Popsicle" / "(Here They Come) From All Over The World"—COL 618

Notes and References

1. Billboard 200 chart positions:
   • Jan & Dean Take Linda Surfin: Billboard 200, Week of August 17, 1963. 2021-04-01. Billboard.
   • Surf City (and Other Swingin' Cities): Billboard 200, Week of September 28, 1963. 2021-04-01. Billboard.
   • Drag City: Billboard 200, Week of February 22, 1964. 2021-04-01. Billboard.
   • Dead Man's Curve / The New Girl in School: Billboard 200, Week of June 20, 1964. 2021-04-01. Billboard.
   • Ride the Wild Surf: Billboard 200, Week of January 2, 1965. 2021-04-01. Billboard.
   • The Little Old Lady From Pasadena: Billboard 200, Week of January 16, 1965. 2021-04-01. Billboard.
   • Command Performance - Live in Person: Billboard 200, Week of May 15, 1965. 2021-04-01. Billboard.
   • Jan & Dean Golden Hits Volume 2: Billboard 200, Week of October 23, 1965. 2021-04-01. Billboard.
   • Folk 'N Roll: Billboard 200, Week of January 22, 1966. 2021-04-01. Billboard.
   • Filet of Soul: Billboard 200, Week of June 4, 1966. 2021-04-01. Billboard.
2. Web site: Discografie Jan and Dean. Dutch Charts. Dutch. 2021-04-01.
3. Web site: Jan and Dean full Official Chart History. Official Charts. 2021-04-01.
4. Web site: Cash Box Top Singles 6/21/58. https://archive.today/20120724175503/http://www.cashboxcountdowns.com/archives/50s_files/19580621.html. dead. 24 July 2012. 24 July 2012. Cashboxcountdowns.com. 28 October 2017.
5. Book: Whitburn, Joel . Joel Whitburn

   . Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Joel Whitburn . 2004 . Record Research . 292.

6. Jan and Dean Chart History: Hot 100 . Billboard . Billboard/Internet Archive . July 21, 2024 . May 12, 2018 . Internet Archive. https://web.archive.org/web/20180512073639/https://www.billboard.com/music/jan-dean/chart-history/hot-100/song/572374 .
7. Web site: Jan and Dean Songs and Albums | Full Official Chart History . Official Charts Company . July 21, 2024.
8. Web site: Billboard Staff . 61 years ago this week, Jan & Dean's "Surf City" became the first surf song to hit No. 1 on the #Hot100. . July 21, 2024.
9. Book: Whitburn, Joel . Joel Whitburn

   . Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles, 14th Edition: 1955-2012 . Joel Whitburn . 2013 . Record Research . 425.

10. Web site: iTunes - Music - Shrewd Awakening - EP by The Bamboo Trading Company . Itunes.apple.com . 2014-01-21 . 2014-08-23.
11. Web site: iTunes - Music - Star of the Beach (Music from the Original Motion Picture) - EP by The Bamboo Trading Company . Itunes.apple.com . 2014-07-04 . 2014-08-23.