PROMO W/ PS 45 "Gas Money/Bonnie Lou" Jan & Arnie - Arwin MM-111-45 MINT MINUS
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Description
Artist: Jan And Arnie
Label: Arwin
Country: USA
Catalogue: MM-111-45
Date: Jul 1958
Format: 7"
Genres:
Vocal surf
California Sound
Jan Berry (b. William Jan Berry, 3 April 1941, Los Angeles, California, USA, d. 26 March 2004, Los Angeles, California, USA) and Arnie Ginsburg. Berry later went on to great success with Jan And Dean, one of the most popular vocal duos in rock history. Before that pair’s success, however, Berry and Ginsburg had one US Top 10 single together. Berry, Ginsburg and Dean Torrence were members of a group called the Barons (which at one point included drummer Sandy Nelson and future Beach Boys member Bruce Johnston). When that group split, the three friends recorded, in Berry’s garage, ‘Jennie Lee’, a tribute to a stripper in a local club. While Torrence served briefly in the US Army Reserves, the tape of that song was brought to the attention of Arwin Records, (owned by Marty Melcher, the husband of actress Doris Day) by then-unknowns Herb Alpert and Lou Adler. Credited to Jan And Arnie, the record rose to number 8 nationally in May 1958. Two more Jan And Arnie singles were released, one of which (‘Gas Money’) charted.
In July 1958 Jan & Arnie released "Gas Money" backed with "Bonnie Lou" (Arwin 111) written by Berry, Ginsburg, and Altfeld. Gas Money contained a few elements of what would later become surf music. It entered the Billboard charts on August 24, 1958, and peaked at No. 81 a week later. Jan & Arnie were a featured act on the Summer Dance Party that toured the US East Coast, including Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Connecticut in July 1958. By the end of the month, they traveled to Manhattan to appear on The Dick Clark Show.
On August 24, 1958, Jan & Arnie played in a live show hosted by Dick Clark that featured Bobby Darin, the Champs, Sheb Wooley, the Blossoms, the Six Teens, Jerry Wallace, Jack Jones, Rod McKuen and the Ernie Freeman Orchestra in front of nearly 12,000 fans at the first rock-n-roll show ever held at the Hollywood Bowl.
Record is mint minus as is sleeve. AMAZING BLUE CHIP COLLECTIBLE
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