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Fact #190511

When:

Short story:

Jan And Dean release a new single, Drag City, on Liberty Records in the USA.

Full article:

Dean Torrence (Jan And Dean] : That was prtty calculated. We had just had a major 'city' record (Surf City) and we thought that we could use the same idea but just change the venue. We knew that we had done all we could in terms of surf, so the next thing was cars.
(Source : Steve Kolanjian's sleve notes to the 1990 CD compilation Surf City – The Best Of Jan And Dean]