Jan Irvine Dean – known by her loved ones as “Gran Jan,” entered eternal life September 7th, 2015 in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Jan was born on February 18th, 1925 in Jacksonville, Texas – the only child ...

Here’s some appropriate, end-of-summer listening: until 1963, Jan & Dean were an unremarkable duo churning out middling chart-sitters such as “A Sunday Kind of Love” and “When I Learned to Cry.” The ...

Don the Beachcomber may be gone, but there’s a new tiki lounge in Huntington Beach. The 2,000-square-foot slice of Surf City beach culture is called Jan & Dean’s Tiki Lounge, and it’s on the second ...

Many years ago, when I was in my early teens, an odd family experience reunited my cousin with his mother, who lived in a nearby town. This cousin had been living with our family since I was of ...

“Surf City” is part of a proud tradition of songs about imaginary party utopias. It belongs in the same lineage as “Funkytown” and “Love Shack” — starry-eyed dreams about places where everyone is ...

The tall, bushy-haired man who lingered with his ukulele in the doorway might have been mistaken for a stranger — one who had arrived too late for one of the room’s few seats and strummed his ...

Jan and Dean’s Beach Party! featuring Dean Torrence will be presented by Long Man Productions, 7:30 p.m. Sept. 10 at the Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido, Santa Barbara. Jan & Dean’s run in the ...

Jan Berry, a member of the duo Jan & Dean that had the 1960s surf-music hits “Deadman’s Curve” and “Little Old Lady from Pasadena,” has died. He was 62. Berry had a seizure and stopped breathing ...

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Jan Berry, one half of the '60s musical duo Jan and Dean, dies at 62. William Jan Berry and Dean Torrence produced a string of gold records, including "Surf City" and "Little Old Lady from Pasadena." ...