This is one of the biggest hits Jan and Dean had before Jan Berry wrecked his car in 1966, just blocks away from the site of the curve immortalized in the song on Sunset Boulevard in LA near Bel Air Estates.

Before the wreck Berry was highly regarded as a record producer, while Dean Torrance was and remains a graphic artist who won a Grammy for best album cover in 1971 and was nominated for three other albums. You might be surprised at the covers he designed. I know I was. I own four or five of them.

Berry died in 2004 of a seizure. He suffered traumatic brain injury as a result of that car crash and never fully recovered. He was 62 years old.