Editing Jan and Dean (section)

===1959–62: early records===
After Torrence returned from a six-month [[conscription|compulsory stint]] in the [[US Army Reserve]], Berry and Torrence began to make music as "Jan and Dean". With the help of [[record producer]]s [[Herb Alpert]] and [[Lou Adler]], Jan and Dean scored a No.&nbsp;10 hit on the Dore label with "[[Baby Talk (1959 song)|Baby Talk]]" (1959)<ref name=pc20>{{Gilliland |url=https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19770/m1/ |title=Show 20 - Forty Miles of Bad Road: Some of the best from rock 'n' roll's dark ages. [Part 1] |show=20}}</ref> (which was incorrectly labeled as Jan & Arnie when it initially was released), then scored a series of hits over the next couple of years. Playing local venues, they met and performed with [[the Beach Boys]], and discovered the appeal of the latter's "surf sound". By this time Berry was co-writing, arranging, and producing all of Jan and Dean's original material.

During this time Berry co-wrote or arranged and produced songs for other artists outside of Jan and Dean, including [[The Angels (American group)|the Angels]] ("[[I Adore Him]]", Top 30), the Gents, the Matadors (Sinners), Pixie (unreleased), Jill Gibson, [[Shelley Fabares]], Deane Hawley, [[the Rip Chords]] ("Three Window Coupe", Top 30), and [[Johnny Crawford]], among others.

Unlike most other rock 'n roll acts of the period, Jan and Dean did not give music their full-time attention. They were college students, maintaining their studies while writing and recording music and making public appearances on the side. Torrence majored in advertising design in the school of architecture at [[University of Southern California|USC]], where he also was a member of the [[Phi Sigma Kappa]] fraternity.<ref name="ATPS">{{cite book
 | last = Rand
 | first = Frank Prentice
 | author2=Ralph Watts |author3=James E. Sefton
 | title = All The Phi Sigs – A History
 | publisher = Phi Sigma Kappa Fraternity
 | location=Indianapolis, IN
 | pages= 270–275
 | year = 1993}}</ref> Berry took science and music classes at [[University of California, Los Angeles|UCLA]], became a member of [[Phi Gamma Delta]] fraternity, and entered the California College of Medicine (now the [[UC Irvine School of Medicine]]) in 1963.