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Now Jan & Dean on the Banned Wagon

Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 2 May 1964

THEY SOLD over a million copies of 'Linda' and 'Surf City' in the first six months of 1963. And they produce all their disc sessions in a garage in the Los Angeles suburb of Bel-Air, using local coloured musicians to get the right background sounds. "They" are Jan and Dean — and their latest single, 'Dead Man's Curve', on Liberty, has had the thumbs-down sign for BBC broadcasting.

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