The Best of Jan & Dean

Description

History brackets Jan and Dean with friends the Beach Boys as stereotypical young Californians – all-American surfers with bikini-clad girls on their arm. Yet they had a history before they fell in with the Wilson brothers, beating Brian and company to the charts by a matter of four years. Their success also helped Los Angeles emerge as a musical centre of the United States. The major labels of the time were based in New York and Chicago, and the city’s major leisure industries were television and cinema. This album focuses on the early years, including a couple of the rare Jan and Arnie songs, to give the fullest possible background to a classic pop partnership.

Tracklisting

Disc 1
1. Baby Talk – Jan & Dean
2. Heart & Soul – Jan & Dean
3. Barbara Ann – Jan & Dean
4. Palisades Park – Jan & Dean
5. Who Put the Bomp – Jan & Dean
6. Poor Little Puppet – Jan & Dean
7. Cindy – Jan & Dean
8. Wanted, One Girl – Jan & Dean
9. Queen of My Heart – Jan & Dean
10. There’s a Girl – Jan & Dean
11. Gee – Jan & Dean
12. Tennessee – Jan & Dean
13. A Sunday Kind of Love – Jan & Dean
14. We Go Together – Jan & Dean
15. Clementine – Jan & Dean
16. (She’s Still Talkin’) Baby Talk – Jan & Dean
17. Jennie Lee – Jan & Arnie
18. Gas Money – Jan & Arnie