Jan & Dean - Dead Man's Curve video free download

Brett Koeshall

Richard Hatch helped the real Jan Berry remember the words a lot better.

George Vreeland Hill

WOW!Jan & Dean belong in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.No question.They helped to create the California surf sound that made millions dream the "California Dream" and gave us countless memories.Their place in music is in cement.By the way, they sold millions of records.Their songs are loved today.To not have them in the Hall of Fame is an injustice to music.Jan & Dean for the Hall.George Vreeland Hill

Joyce S

Thanks for sharing this cool video of Jan & Dean! Too bad Richard Hatch didn't know many words to this awesome song but Jan helped him through! This video just goes to show, nobody could sing Deadman's Curve like Jan Berry !!! RIP Jan,..miss you xx

Mark Lassman

SnakeRiverFishing… I can’t say where THIS concert took place, whether it was the Hollywood Palladium or not, but the Hollywood Palladium is NOT an "open air” stage. It’s a completely enclosed building and is nowhere near any hills. I was not at THIS concert but I was at their first appearance together since Jan’s accident, and which was held at the Palladium, and was called “The First Annual Surfer Stomp”. This was the concert scene that was depicted in the film “Dead Man’s Curve”, where the tape player failed which resulted in the guys being booed by the audience.One of my buddies is the bass player in Papa Doo Run Run (Jan and Dean’s backing band at the time, and who played themselves in the film), that unlike in the film, the tape player did NOT “fail”. He says that Jan was a kind of a practical joker and the “problem” with the playback tape was a trick played by Jan who wanted to show, in his unique way, that he could still sing.

Whitey Brown

Is the one guy the man from Battlestar Galactica?

13sunny

Jan had so much courage. Wow, he went through all this tragic accident and was still able get on stage and sing about it. - amazing guy! RIP Jan, we miss you!

13sunny

Jan- really cool!

bixbybixby

well that's zero out of three for their live performances; obviously they were made for the studio only

Dixie Drifter

Did any of you notice Glen Campbell at the 1:30 marker.

thefaceofthecentury

wow, thankxoxox!!!

SnakeRiverFishing

Yeah I was there at that concert, it was at the Hollywood Paladium, a really neat and secluded feeling open air stage in the hills. We were pretty close and to this day the pedominant memory is the sheer joy Jan showed at being up on stage and performing, he wasn't really singing, he barely got around and had to be helped with pretty much everything it seemed but there are few here among us that will ever experience the joy he portrayed just to be alive, very very cool.

sauquoit13456

On this day in 1964 {May 16th} Jan and Dean performed this song on the late Dick Clark's American Bandstand... Two months earlier on March 7th it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100; eventually it peaked at #8 and spent 14 weeks in the Top 100... The B-sided also charted, "The New Girl In School", it reached #37... Sadly; Jan Berry passed away on March 26th, 2004 at the age of 62... R.I.P. Mr. Barry and Mr. Clark...

Mike Cristino

i think the coolest car song back in the day ! i used to listen to whk am radio cleveland ohio

Henry Ramsey

Jan and Richard seem to have been having a really good time on stage though. Great video. It fansastic that it survives all these 30+(?) years later. Bruce Davison really DOES look like Dean. There's a resemblence even now with Dean older. Richard Hatch doesn't look like Jan at all. Strange since the teleplay really was about Jan and his accident and recover.

willgingart

also, check out glen c on guitar.

Maryw7

I love this piece of footage....it's so neat... thank you for putting it on here. I see you've put lots of special, special video of Jan and Dean on YouTube and I am saying "thank you" for all of it. I am reminded of how fantastic a job Richard Hatch and Bruce Davison did on that depiction....and how important it was....from reading people's reactions... even today. As Dean once said....though Jan never fully recovered....how amazing it was how he worked to regain all that he could...

mrderekevan

@ConchThatCantSurf They definitely deserve to be in it, but at this point I don't think it will ever happen. I think the Hall of Fame has become more of a business than anything else. The Hall of Fame Museum wants to attract as many paying customers as possible, so they induct artists that they feel will attract the most visitors. Therefore, they're inducting more artists from the 70's & 80's who they feel are now more well known and appeal to middle aged people, rather than senior citizens..

ConchThatCantSurf

I agree they are enjoying themselves. I would like this little segment to get them into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame! @mrderekevan

mrderekevan

The spoken segment of this performance is amusing because Richard Hatch barely knows the lyrics of the song and he's being "coached" by Jan Berry, who often struggled with remembering the lyrics and had more trouble talking then he did with singing. At least they were enjoying themselves, and I think the audience really got a kick out of this performance with the real Jan & Dean and the actors who played Jan & Dean. I have the original VHS video with all the songs.

Jan & Dean

Jan & Dean - Dead Man's Curve