Editing Jan and Dean (section)

===1963–66: peak years===
[[File:Jan and Dean - Cash Box 1963.jpg|thumb|Jan and Dean on the cover of ''[[Cashbox (magazine)|Cash Box]]''; August 3, 1963]]
Jan and Dean reached their commercial peak in 1963 and 1964, after they met Brian Wilson. The duo scored sixteen Top 40 hits on the ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' and ''[[Cash Box]]'' magazine charts, with a total of twenty-six [[record chart|chart]] hits over an eight-year period (1959-1966). Berry and Wilson collaborated on roughly a dozen hits and album cuts for Jan and Dean, including "Surf City", co-written by Jan Berry and Brian Wilson <ref name="The Book of Golden Discs">{{Citation
| first= Joseph
| last= Murrells
| year= 1978
| title= The Book of Golden Discs
| edition= 2nd
| publisher= Barrie and Jenkins Ltd
| location= London
| pages= [https://archive.org/details/bookofgoldendisc00murr/page/160 160–161]
| isbn= 0-214-20512-6
| url-access= registration
| url= https://archive.org/details/bookofgoldendisc00murr/page/160
}}</ref> (#1, 1963).  Subsequent top 10 hits included "Drag City" (#10, 1964), the eerily portentous "Dead Man's Curve" (#8, 1964), and "The Little Old Lady from Pasadena" (#3, 1964).

In 1964, at the height of their fame, Jan and Dean hosted and performed at ''[[The T.A.M.I. Show]],'' a historic concert film directed by Steve Binder. The film also featured such acts as [[the Rolling Stones]], [[Chuck Berry]], [[Gerry & the Pacemakers]], [[James Brown]], [[Billy J. Kramer|Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas]], [[Marvin Gaye]], [[the Supremes]], [[Lesley Gore]], [[The Miracles|Smokey Robinson & the Miracles]] and the Beach Boys. Also in 1964, the duo performed the title track for the [[Columbia Pictures]] film ''[[Ride the Wild Surf]]'', starring [[Fabian Forte]], [[Tab Hunter]], [[Peter Brown (actor)|Peter Brown]], [[Shelley Fabares]], and [[Barbara Eden]]. The song, penned by Jan Berry, Brian Wilson and [[Roger Christian (songwriter)|Roger Christian]], was a Top 20 national hit. The pair were also to have appeared in the film, but their roles were cut following their friendship with [[Barry Keenan]], who had engineered the [[Frank Sinatra Jr#Kidnapping|Frank Sinatra Jr.]] kidnapping.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jananddean-janberry.com/sinatra/sinatra-kidnapping.html |title=Mysterious Financier: Dean Torrence and the Kidnapping of Frank Sinatra Jr |publisher=Jananddean-janberry.com |access-date=2012-03-25 |archive-date=2011-10-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111002053226/http://www.jananddean-janberry.com/sinatra/sinatra-kidnapping.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Jan and Dean also filmed two unreleased television pilots: ''Surf Scene'' in 1963 and ''On the Run'' in 1966. Their feature film for [[Paramount Pictures]] ''[[Easy Come, Easy Go (unfinished film)|Easy Come, Easy Go]]'' was canceled when Berry, as well as the film's director and other crew members, were seriously injured in a railroad accident while shooting the film in [[Chatsworth, Los Angeles|Chatsworth, California]], in August 1965.<ref>Movie Call Sheet: Train Wreck Derails Film. Martin, Betty. ''Los Angeles Times'' 11 August 1965, page D12.</ref>

After the surfing craze, Jan and Dean scored two Top-30 hits in 1965: "[[You Really Know How to Hurt a Guy]]" got up to 27 and "[[I Found a Girl (Jan and Dean song)|I Found a Girl]]" got to 30—the latter from the album ''Folk 'n Roll''. During this period, they also began to experiment with cutting-edge comedy concepts such as the original (unreleased) ''Filet of Soul'' and ''Jan & Dean Meet Batman''. The former's album cover shows Berry with his leg in a cast as a result of the accident while filming ''Easy Come, Easy Go''.

In 1966, Jan Berry recorded "The Universal Coward", an angry response to [[Donovan]]’s anti-war single "[[Universal Soldier (song)|Universal Soldier]]"(originally written by [[Buffy Sainte-Marie]]) even though Berry never served in the military.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hickey |first=Andrew |date=2022-02-15 |title=Episode 144: "Last Train to Clarksville" by the Monkees |url=https://500songs.com/podcast/episode-144-last-train-to-clarksville-by-the-monkees/ |access-date=2023-10-07 |website=A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs |language=en-US}}</ref>