Jan & Dean: The Complete Liberty Singles
Liberty Singles begins at the tail end of Jan & Dean’s first phase: clean-cut, preppy proprietors of innocuous bomp-bomp-bomp, dip-dip-dip 45’s. “A Sunday Kind of Love” and “Tennessee” are jumpy little larks, but Jan & Dean are already seeming bored and repetitive. Their ballads are yawns (ballads will be an Achilles’ heel throughout), and their self-referential B-sides—-the boastful “We Put the Bomp”, the sequel “She’s Still Talking Baby Talk”—-are silly eye-rollers. By 1963, Jan & Dean sound as though they’re going through the motions, eager for something new.
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