Drag City (song)

"Drag City" is a 1963 song by Jan and Dean, written by Jan Berry, Roger Christian, and Brian Wilson.^[2] It describes the narrator's trip to a drag racing strip. The song was released on the title track of the album Drag City. It was the first of the duo's seven hit songs in 1964, and charted in the top ten in January.^[2]

Personnel

The musicians on the session included:

Earl Palmer, drums^[3]

References

↑ Hoffmann, Frank W.; Bailey, William G. (1990). Arts & Entertainment Fads, Volume 1. Binghampton: Haworth Press. p. 61-62. ISBN 9780866568814.
1 2 Ruhlmann, William. "Drag City". Allmusic. Retrieved 2009-07-28.
↑ Scherman, Tony, Backbeat: The Earl Palmer Story, forward by Wynton Marsalis, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C., 1999 p. 176

Jan and Dean

Jan Berry Dean Torrence

Singles	"Baby Talk" "Clementine" "Gee" "Heart and Soul" "A Sunday Kind of Love" "Who Put The Bomp" "Frosty the Snowman" "She's Still Talkin' Baby Talk" "Linda" "Surf City" "Honolulu Lulu" "Drag City" "Dead Man's Curve" "The New Girl In School" "The Little Old Lady from Pasadena" "Ride the Wild Surf" "Sidewalk Surfin'" "Batman!" "Popsicle" "Norwegian Wood" "School Days" "Louisiana Man" "Yellow Balloon" "Tijuana" "Vegetables" "In The Still Of The Night" "Gonna Hustle You" "Blue Moon" "Oh What a Beautiful Morning"

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