Jan & Dean - Greatest Hits
Jan Berry and Dean Torrence took doo wop vocal techniques and grafted them on to the heavily echoed,surf-guitar style,creating,along with Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys,a California beach sound that dominated the pop charts for a brief time in the early '60s. Thanks to Jan Berry's songwriting abilities and considerable engineering skills (and with assistance from Wilson),Jan & Dean's singles show a high level of sophistication in both arrangement and sound that was rare for the time. Although they wil