THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.

811-Jan and Dean-Surf City.

1963-Number 26 single.

Best Bit-At 1.22.Some say three’s a crowd, but not in this case.

William Jan Berry (1941-2004,) and Dean Torrence met while both were students at Emerson Junior High School in Westwood, Los Angeles, California, United States, between 1959-1966 they had 13 top 40 singles on Billboard, including this song which reached Number 1.

Surf Music is a sub-genre of Rock Music,associated with surf Culture,this song is filed under ‘Vocal Surf.’ Instrumental surf is distinguished by ‘Reverb-Heavy’ electric guitars, played to evoke the sound of crashing waves, largely pioneered by Dick Dale (1937-2019.) Dale didn’t like vocal surf,’They were surfing sounds with surfing lyrics, in other words, the music wasn’t surfing music. The words made them surfing songs, that was the difference, the real surfing music is instrumental.’

Jan and Dean had been touring with The Beach Boys (see also best songs 930-180 and 74,) when Brian Wilson told them about a song he hadn’t yet completed, and was struggling with.Jan and Dean contributed additional writing, and it went on to become the first ‘Surf Song’ to get to Number 1 on Billboard.The Beach Boys manager,who was also Wilson’s father Murry, was reportedly angry with his son, believing that Brian had wasted a Number 1 record by letting someone else record it instead of his group, The Beach Boys.

‘And there’s two swingin’ honey’s for every guy, and all you gotta do is just wink your eye.’