Teen Suite Best of 1958-1962

Jan & Dean | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 11, 2002)
• Original Release Date: July 4, 1995
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Varese Sarabande
• ASIN: B0000014W9
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #55,440 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #73 in Music > Rock > Oldies & Retro > Surf Rock

Track Listings

1. Jennie Lee

2. Gotta Getta Date

3. Gas Money

4. Bonnie Lou

5. I Love Linda

6. The Beat That Can't Be Beat

7. Baby Talk

8. Jeanette, Get Your Hair Done

9. There's a Girl

10. Clementine [Single Version]

11. White Tennis Sneakers

12. We Go Together

13. Gee

14. Baggy Pants [Read All About It]

15. Heart and Soul

16. Midsummer Night's Dream

17. Tomorrow's Teardrops [Issued as Jan Berry]

18. Wanted, One Girl

19. Something a Little Bit Different

20. Whole Lotta Lovin' [#]

See all 21 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bomp Bomp Bomp Bomp, February 22, 2000

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Derek Blaustein (Parsippany, NJ United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Teen Suite Best of 1958-1962 (Audio CD)

Jan & Dean may be known best for their surf and hot rod songs like "Surf City" and "Deadman's Curve," but they recorded tons of Doo-Wop flavored songs prior to the surf music craze. This great collection contains many of those pre-surf songs, including their hits, other released singles, rare B-sides, and an unreleased track! All the songs are cool songs! They have good melodies, good beats, harmony, unique "echo-soaked" vocals, and lots of "bomp bomp bomps" and "Dip Diddy Dips!" Of course, the classic Jan & Dean humor is evident in many of these songs as well. Furthermore, considering that the songs were recorded about 40 years ago, the sound quality is quite good! I highly recommend this to anyone who is a Jan & Dean fan, or simply likes good classic Doo Wop music.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars the best of Jan & Dean's early work, December 17, 2000

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Bradley Olson (Bemidji, MN United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Teen Suite Best of 1958-1962 (Audio CD)

This collection is essential for all Jan & Dean fans as it contains their early work including the Jan & Arnie tracks. The recordings are all mono and come from master tapes if they existed as of 1995, otherwise disc dubs have been done. The tracks that came from clean disc dubs are Bonnie Lou; I Love Linda; The Beat That Can't Be Beat; Clementine (single version which since this was dubbed from discs as mentioned it comes from a 45); Tomorrow's Teardrops (a solo Jan recording); Wanted, One Girl, She's Still Talking baby Talk. The unreleased track entitled "Whole Lotta Lovin'" was dubbed from an acetate so there are noise and dropouts we have to live with. For top 40 hits collectors, this is worth it just to have Jennie Lee, Baby Talk and Heart and Soul on a single disc to compliment the now out of print CD entitled "Surf City: The Best of Jan & Dean" from 1990, which is the definitive surf era collection for top 40 hits collectors. For completists, this compilation is still essential for the rare singles from the early years that didn't chart very highly and the acetate recording and to add more early recordings to what they already have. In other words, no matter how big a Jan & Dean fan you are whether you are a hits seeker or a completist, this is a must purchase.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Now we're in Echoland., March 15, 2006

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Johnny Heering "trivia buff" (Bethel, CT United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Teen Suite Best of 1958-1962 (Audio CD)

This is a collection of Jan & Dean's pre-Liberty Records recordings. It also includes the Jan & Arnie recordings Jan made before he hooked up with Dean. These songs sound different than the surf & drag Beach Boys influenced recordings Jan & Dean made later. The songs on this CD are closer to doo wop than anything else. The only songs here that were legitimate hits are "Jennie Lee", "Baby Talk" and "Heart and Soul". But there are a lot of other fun songs here besides those. The CD includes an unlisted 22nd track. It features a group of very rare recordings, including: Jan & Arnie writing "Gotta Getta Date" (making up the lyrics on the spot), and Jan fooling around with the echo effect on his home recording unit while he introduces Jan & Arnie's demo versions of "There in the Night" and "Jennie Lee". This is the definitive collection of Jan & Dean's early years.