Jan & Dean - Sidewalk Surfin' (Wow!)

[latexkat1]

this was amazing 

[nerole1]

Need to overdub the stereo track.

[BeachBoysJanDean1]

This video shows why they were called "The Crown Prince of Rock and Roll". What a shame they're not in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

[BUZZ4134]

This was one of my favorites! Good video! Looks like Jan and Dean were having a good time at the beach. I liked the Beach Boys, but these guys put out some songs that ruled dude!

[peterp21]

One thing about rewrites/covers. Though the BB and Jan & Dean were tight, in general if a band wants to cover a song they don't really need permission. As long as the royalties are paid, you can cover just about anything. Considering royalties were originally based around selling sheet music. In the old days before radio, the whole royalty business model was based around having other musicians play your music. Of course, things are different now.

[countrypaul]

Amazingly, this was filmed pretty much in one long take! Those guys were GOOD.

Another little-known fact: by the time of Jan's accident in 1966, he'd completed two years of medical school! As this video shows, he certainly was a risk taker.

[hammerbrother]

Brian wrote Catch a Wave and to be nice he let Jan and Dean use it as well. Brian also helped Jan and Dean with Surf City, Dead Man's Curve, Drag City and Ride The Wild Surf. He helped write Surf City, he contributed vocals to the LP version of Dead Man's Curve, he sang background and some Falsetto on Surf City, Drag City and Ride The Wild Surf as well.

[TheBingsTV]

@hammerbrother: And to return the favor - Dean sang lead on the Beach Boys' hit, "Barbara Ann".

[mcgeo52]

Note: those boards had clay wheels and the smallest pebble could cause a nasty wipeout.

[in2food]

@mcgeo52 Ha! Clay wheels? We actually started with metal wheels like cheesy roller skates. Now those things were dangerous! And yes, a pebble or seed pod from a tree spelled doom!

[peasblossom1973]

Could the surf be any flatter - Lololol!!

[cb8034]

is this the real vid or something that was made

[SixtiesPopGold3]

@cb8034 It was part of a show from 1965.

[centralparocker]

ala The Beach Boys' "Catch A Wave"....

[centralparocker]

Crazy Daddyoo....!!!!

[gomezesmorticia]

No tsunami

[TheGuyMullins]

JAN BERRY HAD AN I.Q. NEAR 200... HE WAS A FULL TIME STUDENT STUDYING TO BE A DOCTOR AND HIS HIT MUSIC WAS SECONDARY... TODAY MOST WOULD DROP OUT OF SCHOOL AND BE A ROCKER... WHAT HE DID FOR MUSIC IN WHOLE AS AN ARTIST IS TAKEN FORGRANTED BY MOST... HE BLASTED WALLS THAT OPENNED THE PATHS FOR ALL MUSICIANS OF THE LATE 60'S AND EARLY 70'S... IN OTHER WORDS HE HELPED FUCK UP THE ESTABLISHMENT...

[spacepatrolman]

@TheGuyMullins he had some scope on reality that being a rock star wouldnt last forever so he was studing pre med [ he also did some music study of russell garcias music arranging textbook ]dean was studing graphic design jans draft bourd troubles resulted in a debilitating auto accident and unfinished movies tv shows and records despite all this they made a comeback

[HueyRocks23]

I always thought Calvin Klein invented the skateboard on the streets of Hill Valley.

[nadiemequire]

Is that Playa Del Rey?

[1bountifulinc]

What a great time to be young. Much simpler time; no cell phones, computers, Muslims. Only sluts had tatoos (still do), politically incorrect. What a change!

[Chauchat7777]

@1bountifulinc Amen to that!

[Supergungun]

@1bountifulinc AMEN TO THAT. And back when cars like the 1963 Impala ran free, the stingray bike cruised neighborhoods, and you didn't have to worry about being considered a "racist" for accidentally bumping into someone who's not white.

[NotGood1024]

@1bountifulinc Clearly a religion that has existed for 1440 years before this song ever existed had no followers in the 1960s.

[colindominy]

@1bountifulinc : Friend - you said it all, RIGHT HERE !! My sentiments exactly. Great comments, amongst the best I've read on YT in years !! Cheers from Australia .. there are plenty of us 'Down Under' here who feel exactly the same way you do. Hope to hear from you again on YT .. I'll be on the lookout ... Cowabunga !!

[colindominy]

@1bountifulinc : Right On Brud !! You said in it in nutshell. I agree utterly. What a all-time paradise era it MUST have been to live & to be growing out in in Sthn Calif - early 60s - it must have been to be an outright rage to be teenager .. looking for "Fun, Fun, Fun in hundreds of different ways, in them days !! Beats the shit right out of today's young, dead-beat, drud-ridden, self-destructing young teenage society !! YOU ARE ESPECILLIARY CORRECT ABOUT THE BLOODY MUSLIMS !!

[1bountifulinc]

@colindominy Don't get me started on the Muslims!! What I would like to know is who those 72 virgins are on the other side who get assigned to some moron who blows himself up for Allah. Are they volunteers??? lol

[colindominy]

@1bountifulinc : fabulous point you make about the muslim's & their "virgins on the other side". Here in Oz our biggest problem seems to with gangs of young Lebanese migrants, whose families the authorities let into our country to live - the teens & young 20s age bracket. Their parents seem to have imbued them with a fullness of hate for we white anglo's. Their fathers came from the era of the civil war, the invasion by the Israelis etc, which happened at various stages during the 80s in Lebanon

[shawn6270]

This song was originally..."catch a wave" by the Beach Boys.Jan and Dean took the melody and changed the words..:):)

[Maryw7]

Fabulous! it's true what I've heard them say: Jan & Dean...."clown princes of rock 'n roll"

[latexkat1]

OMG this is amazing ! were did you get this and was this from there show !

[josharniehtafc]

Who had this song first Jan & Dean or The Beach boys?

[SixtiesPopGold3]

@josharniehtafc The Beach Boys.

[ngnnick1967]

@SixtiesPopGold3

The beach boys had it first with catch a wave. Jan and Deans remake sounded better and not as raw

[68enxy]

@SixtiesPopGold3 the beach boys never charted with this song, only jan and dean. Side walk surfin is "catch a wave" with different lyrics. Both were Bryan Wilson written.

[spacepatrolman]

@SixtiesPopGold3 it was originally catch a wave

[lunadagirl]

Jan and Dean were first.

[rockinrobintweets]

@lunadagirl Jan and Dean were first AND better. They certainly had more on thier plate, both Jan and Dean were in college Jan being pre med and they still put out awesome songs and Jan being amazeing as a producer, songwriter etc. Can you image what they would have done if thier time hadnt been divided, have mercy.

[warrioroftheworld01]

@josharniehtafc The Beach Boys originally released this as Catch A Wave with lyrics by Mike Love and music by Brian Wilson. Jan Berry got the idea to change it to a skateboard song and changed the lyrics but kept Brian's music!

[colindominy]

@josharniehtafc : The Following Info is Gospel Truth : the Great Brian Wilson composed the basic song + Melody in 1963. The ORIGINAL TITLE + BW's orig, different lyrics were related to Brian's Song-Title "Catch A Wave" (an all-time classic  BB song in their entire career, by the way). Now .. Brian, The BBs + Jan & Dean were all good buddies, & knew each other well in the recording studio. J&D 'borrowed' Brian's melody of 1 yr earler & then turned it into "Sidewalk Surfin" .. reworked lyric.

[horarwgt]

@josharniehtafc The Beach Boys had this tune first as "Catch A Wave" but as the two acts were close friends and collaborators (even singing on each other's records and onstage together!) The Beach Boys let Jan & Dean rewrite the lyrics into "Sidewalk Surfin." "Catch A Wave" was never a Beach Boys hit (just an album track) but Jan & Dean's "Sidewalk Surfin'" climbed to #25 in 1964.

[peasblossom1973]

@horarwgt

You're right.

[mikehmiller]

what an amazing look, damn

[rocksinger45]

All I can say is this brings a big smile to my face...AWESOME SixtiesPopGold3 you folks are the best.

[ruga666]

amazing!!!

[ILoveLauriePartridge]

One of the best vids I have seen on youtube!!

[markcruiser64]

Where in the world did you get this pristine clip?? AWESOME!!

[ncarolinaluv]

@marAWESOME!!kcruiser64