Drag City (song)

"Drag City"
Single by Jan and Dean
from the album Drag City
B-side Shlock Rod Part 1
Released November 8, 1963
Recorded October, 1963
Genre Car song[1]
Length 2:34
Label Liberty Records
Writer(s) Jan Berry, Roger Christian, Brian Wilson
Producer(s) Jan Berry for Screen Gems, Inc.
Jan and Dean singles chronology
"Honolulu Lulu"
(1963)
"Drag City"
(1963)
"Dead Man's Curve"
(1964)

"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:

References

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


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