Webit was 56 years ago today (april 12th, 1966), that jan berry of jan & dean suffered a horrendous car crash that left him brain damaged and severely disabled for. As jan and dean rise to the top of the music industry, a horrible car accident leaves jan incapacitated and their dreams shattered. Webnot long after the hit was recorded and became famous, jan barry was driving his own corvette stingray at a high rate of speed very close to the intersection where.

Jan berry, the creative force behind legendary surf rock duo jan and dean, died friday after suffering a seizure at his los angeles home; Webjan berry, a member of the duo jan & dean, which had the 1960's surf music hits ''dead man's curve'' and ''the little old lady (from pasadena),'' died on.