Jan & Dean - New Girl In School

[emtschoolteacher]

There was two versions, first one was taken off the air ,for saying they had the hots for the new girl in school. Two weeks later , they had had this version.

[SirBasildeBrush]

@emtschoolteacher ....interesting!

[oldermusiclover]

read a book about a guy who was asked to tour with J&D. he said that after the crash

Dean would have to sing all the song to himself on way to gigs so he could remember the songs, when he was singing live. so sad.

[SirBasildeBrush]

@oldermusiclover yes, sad.

[nerole1]

There's also a stereo remix with J & D on the center channel.

[johnthehulk1]

This was another great song by Jan an Dean. Jan Berry might have been as talented as Brian Wilson, and cerainly they were recording much earleir than "The Beach Boys". The best surfer duo of all time. Brings back great memories of the middle 60's.

[dakpak1951]

this was not the flip side of surf city, it was the flip of dead man's curve.

[coolsweetgroovy]

Backing vocals by The Honeys

[motorcyclelad]

Hi. Could you please post a song by Jan and Dean called "A Beginning From an End"?? I can't find that anywhere, and it was always one of my favorites. I'd appreciate it so much if you or anyone could upload that song. Thanks so much!

[SirBasildeBrush]

@motorcyclelad Sorry, that's not one I have in my collection.

[Ford400truck]

says the song was co written by Brian Wilson, most of the Jan and Dean songs were.

[ssaylor423]

brings back the great days of the surfer muzic 1960s - thanks for the great posts!

on the east coast we pretended we were west-coasters and rode around new jersey with our surfboards (dorks)

[SirBasildeBrush]

@ssaylor423 Thanks. Surfing in NJ, sounds like fun to me.

[drno2150]

I worked for Jan's brother Ken at SIR. Nice Folks great song

[ketefollen1984]

Beach sound!!!!!!!!

[kel77771]

their greatest song .....BOPPA DO RHONDAY RHONDAY ........

[ladbrady]

I have always adored this song. Purchased in 19733 when my classmates were listening to GFR & Led Zep.

[SirBasildeBrush]

@ladbrady About the same time I would have first discovered this.

[joraider08]

Southern California in the 1960's what a time to be a teenager. Wow!!

[bearriver666]

I was going thru a bad break up and all seemed lost .

Then I saw Julia who was new and the rest is history .

[Whipple236]

Excellent arrangement! Why aren't Jan & Dean in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?!!?!

[rockinrobintweets]

@Whipple236 Because they have morons in charge or they would have been LONG before Jan Berry left us.

[surfrider1962]

THE...NGIS. Great !!! Liberty 55672...

[colindominy]

Great post !! The one & only, authentic, originally-released version of this fantastic J & D number (there are several imitation versions running around on YT at the moment). According to the United Artists 1974 vinyl album release I've got .. "The Jan & Dean Anthology Album" .. this single was released in Winter 1963, & reached No. 30 on the charts .. selling 790,000 copies in total. Recorded at Western Studios, LA, using 2 x 4 Track Recorders, & some 14 background vocal overdubs ..

[SirBasildeBrush]

@colindominy Many thanks for all that info. 14 overdubs !!

[1967mustanggta]

@colindominy A friend of mine bought that album out of the blue in 1980 and It just caught on and several of us had it and for a year I swear that is about all we listened to. That and Devo.

[larrydh2]

Great song. I had this album in 1965 at the barracks at US. Naval Hospital in Charleston. SC Saw them live in the late 70's after the car wreck. I still love their old songs.

[paste1952]

"New Girl In School" was actually the flip side of "Dead Man's Curve" a hit in late 1963 early 1964. The flip side of "Surf City" was "She's My Summer Girl". Both sides of the Liberty single were great...

[SirBasildeBrush]

@paste1952 Thanks for the info.

[spacepatrolman]

@paste1952 the original title was gonna hustle you but they thought the title was too raunchy so they pulled that version

[SirBasildeBrush]

@spacepatrolman ...interesting.

[NCTaikoDrumboy]

I think the doo-wop lyrics in the background here properly go:

A-boppa-boppa-boppa

doo-ron-day-ron-day

doo-ron-day-ron-day

doo-ron-day-ron-day-oo!

I could be wrong...

[SirBasildeBrush]

Sounds pretty close to me...

[oldermusiclover]

thanks for my other fav song by J&D.

is that Brian on high harmony?

[galoon]

I think both Brian and Dean sang falsetto on this one. The primary high harmony voice is definitely Dean.

[LQUID8R]

Luvly - I remember Keith Moon playing this when he sat in for John Peel for a few weeks on BBC radio in the 70's. Moon was a big Surf Music Fan - explaining why the Who's did covers of Bucket T and Barbara Ann when they and everyone else mainly covered R&B and blues.

[SirBasildeBrush]

Peely, eh? Takes me back to my late-night 70s radio teenage days. Thanks for the comment, didn't know about the Who and surf music!

[terrafirma91]

Wasn't life so much better for teenagers then? Most songs were about love, hot cars, girls and surfing. All those things young men have a fancy for. I think the nation on a whole was much happier, too. This is my favorite J & D number.

[colindominy]

@terrafirma91 You hit the nail on the head -100% endorse your comments. I was not yet even 12 yo in the earliest of the 60s, but even I had a blast enjoying the awesome songs of the Sthn Calif scene + the social environment of outdoor good times, healthy lifestyle + 'the perpetual good to be alive feeling' + at least I grew a few years between 1962-66. Today's kids know nothing of these fabulously good times. They're warped, addicted to porn, & have become obese coke-bottle-eyed computer nerds

[colindominy]

P.S. - this song is also famous for its first-ever introduction of the fantastic background retro-style doo-wop lyric "apapapapapapadoorundayrondoo-­oo". Real nice! This was the kick-start inspiration for the emergence of the same-genre 'revival' band named "PapaDooRunRun", several years later after J & D's fabulous 60s extensive run on the charts.

[SirBasildeBrush]

Interestng...!

[colindominy]

ngnnick1967 is right-on.The boys originally came up with the version "When summer comes, gonna hustle you" .. plus a few other lyric & prod'n changes in the orig. version. That orig. version is around & about, it's certainly worth a listen-to .. just for the interesting comparison. Nonetheless .. I've always like this 'lyrically-sanitised' version better. The song just 'rolls along' beautifully. I'll bet the wonderful xylophone inclusion was Brian's idea. Vintage stills & graphics, Sir B !!

[galoon]

That's right. After Liberty said no to "Gonna Hustle You" the boys recorded yet another version--"Get a Chance With You" which Liberty Records also rejected.

[wendydale1]

Remember when this came out and it was lots of fun, a great sound, and very hip!!! Thanks for posting.

"Sure was a drag til she transferred here", always liked how they did that line at the end "with a girl".

[SirBasildeBrush]

Thanks, interesting comment.

[50Emerald]

I do remember when this song was released in the fall, 1963... Love the xylophone accompaniment -- just like a high school band -- nice effect... You'll hear the xylophone in the Beach Boys' "Be True to Your School," too.

[SirBasildeBrush]

Good observation, thanks.

[ChetW1950]

Correction, It was theflip side of Dead Man's Curve.... Thank You

 da doo ron da ron da

[ngnnick1967]

Check out "when summer comes gonna hustle you" Wich done oringinaly by Jan and Dean and co written by B wilson. J and d could not say hustle you on the radio in 63-64 so jan changed the words and the production. sound really better that hustle you.

[SirBasildeBrush]

Fascintating, I hadn't heard that story before.

[carlmoore19]

Thanks to this youtube entry, I got to hear the instrumental in a "Stack-of-Tracks" treatment.  I heard a few small things which I hadn't heard previously!

[ratbasket]

Alex Chilton does a cool version of this tune. J and D forever.

[SirBasildeBrush]

Never heard that version, will look out for it.

[Catowner66]

I was fortunate to meet Jan berry on July 4th of 2002 and he was just about the sweetest person alive. Heaven must surely hold a special place for him.

[CrazyCharlieManson]

Sir Basil...In America

Jan & Dean Surf City / She's My Summer Girl

Liberty # 55580 1963

Jan & Dean Deadman's Curve / New Girl in School Liberty # 55672 1964

Two sided hit...Deadman's Curve was the bigger hit ...# 8

BTW...At Costco...french bread with a little "basil" baked in it...Excellent

[SirBasildeBrush]

Thanks Charlie, you are a human computer of musical facts, I'd better go check mine.

Deadman's Curve was always my favourite.

[DaddyBog]

This was originally titled Gonna hustle you, by the Legendary Masked Surfers (Jan and Dean), Brian Wilson to name a few. Check it out, I think there is a version of it on The Tube.

[SirBasildeBrush]

Will do, thanks for the info.

[spacepatrolman]

Gonna hustle you was first recorded by jan and dean the masked surfers was a remake for the deadmans curve movie they couldnt use their real names .

[SirBasildeBrush]

I just did, thanks. Sounds like identical backing, just a different lead voice-over.

[LaVerne37]

The photo of Jan and Dean in the striped sweaters shows the best Flat Top haircuts that I have ever seen...the coolest!!!

Wayne in Texas.

[SirBasildeBrush]

US marine style