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Two different approaches to '60s music
October 24, 1985
The Morning Call
Allentown, Pennsylvania

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Jan Berry & Dean Torrence, dressed in Hawaiian shirts and beach attire, played an approximate 50-minute set of 16 songs that included all their hits plus several by the Beach Boys. Their voices blended well, with Torrence handling many of the higher parts and Berry the bass parts. They were backed by Jim Armstrong, guitar; Randell Kirsch, bass; Gary Griffin, keyboards; Bill “Honk” Hollingshed, saxophone, and John Cowsill drums. Cowsill was in the family pop/rock group The Cowsills.

The set opened with “New Girl In School.” This song, we well as, “Do You Want To Dance,” “Dance, Dance, Dance” and “Surf City,” was marked by solid drumming, tight rhythms and four and five-part harmonies.

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