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"Dead Man's Curve" is a 1964 hit song by Jan and Dean detailing a teen street race gone awry. It reached number eight on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 singles chart. According to the song, the race starts at Sunset and Vine between a Corvette Sting Ray and a Jaguar XKE, traveling on West Sunset Blvd. going west, passing North La Brea Ave., North Crescent Heights Blvd., and North Doheny Dr. The original Schwab's Drug Store was located just east of Crescent Heights on Sunset. The North Whittier Drive curve, a nearly 90° right turn traveling west on Sunset Boulevard just past North Whittier Drive, may be the dead man's curve in the song, but there is debate on the actual location of the curve.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Dead Man's Curve )〕 Jan Berry, of Jan & Dean, would later have a near-fatal incident in 1966 when he crashed his own Sting Ray into a parked truck on North Whittier Drive outside a house once owned by Roman Polanski near (not on) Dead Man's Curve. The song was written by Brian Wilson, Artie Kornfeld, Roger Christian and Jan Berry at Brian Wilson's mother's house in Santa Monica. It's regarded as a teenage tragedy song, one of the most popular of all time. The song ends with the driver of the Sting Ray relating his last memories of the ill-fated race to a doctor. Crash-like sounds as well as screeching brakes are heard in the song. ''Deadman's Curve'' was used as the title for the 1978 biographical nationally televised movie about Jan and Dean.〔(snopes.com: Dead Man's Curve )〕 ==Versions== Three versions of "Dead Man's Curve" were released: *Version #1: Original version from the 1963 ''Drag City'' album *Version #2: Single "hit" version with added horns, strings, additional backing vocals and sounds of a car skidding and crashing; from the 1964 ''Dead Man's Curve/The New Girl In School'' LP *Version #3: An earlier rejected studio mix from the 1966 ''Filet of Soul'' album. Live versions appear on the 1965 ''Command Performance'' and 1971 ''Anthology'' albums There are a few minor lyrical differences between versions #1 and 3 and version #2 listed above: *Versions #1 & 3 - "my frenched tail lights", "the strip was deserted" and "pulled her out and there I was" *Version #2 - "my six tail lights", "the street was deserted" and "pulled her out and there we were" According to Brad Elliott's Surf's Up! There are two basic versions: Version one: Lead and backing vocals: Jan Berry Background vocals: Jan Berry, Brian Wilson, Gary Usher Released: on Drag City LP, Liberty LST 7339, Jan and Dean Jan. 6, 1964 Side one, cut five 3:01 Also on Filet of Soul LP, Liberty LST 7441, Jan and Dean, April 25, 1966, Side two, cut three 3:01 Version two: Jan Berry, Roger Christian, Artie Kornfeld, Brian Wilson Jan Berry: Lead and Backing vocals. Dean Torrence: Backing vocals Released February 17, 1964 Liberty 55672 45 RPM (B-side: New Girl in School) 2:28 (2:21 listing on actual disk—Wiki says 2:27) Released May 4, 1964 Dead Man’s Curve/The New Girl in School LP Liberty LST 7361, Jan and Dean Side one, cut one: 2:28 Also re-released on several compilations, anthologies and 45 RPM records (some timed 2:39) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dead Man's Curve (song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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