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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — 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 ...

“He was driven,” says Dean Torrence of singer, songwriter and producer Jan Berry — his best friend and the other half of the best-selling surf-rock and hot-rod-pop duo Jan and Dean. “He always knew ...

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 ...