Jan and Dean

"Little Old Lady From Pasadena" "Dead Mans Curve," Growing up, I listened to Jan and Dean, they were friends of the Beach Boys in L.A. and Brian Wilson wrote a few songs for the duo.
Ironically, Dean Torrance was badly hurt driving his Corvette up Sunset Blvd in an area deemed before as Dead Mans Curve. His car his the back of a parked truck stopped at an intersection. He struggled for years and actually took the stage later on. Sadly, he died a few years ago.
I've read a history, of Dead Mans Curve. There are many such curves all over the country, and more than a few in the L.A. area. Torrance's accident made the one on Sunset famous.