Jan and Dean were a rock and roll duo, popular from the late 1950s through the mid 1960s, consisting of William Jan Berry (3 April 1941 – 26 March 2004) and Dean Ormsby Torrence (born 10 March 1940). Although Jan & Dean pre-dated The Beach Boys, they became most famously associated with the vocal "surf music" craze inspired by The Beach Boys. Beginnings: 1958-1963 Jan Berry and Dean Torrence, both born in Los Angeles, California, began singing together as a duo after football practice at University High School. Primitive recording sessions followed soon after, in a makeshift studio in Berry's garage. They first performed on stage as The Barons at a high school dance. With the Barons, Jan Berry was experimenting with multi-part vocal arrangements ? five years before he started working professionally with Brian Wilson. Their first commercial success was "Jennie Lee" (1958), a

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