Drag City (song) - Misplaced Pages

"Drag City" is a 1963 song by Jan and Dean, written by Jan Berry, Roger Christian, and Brian Wilson. It describes the narrator's trip to a drag racing strip and borrows heavily from an earlier Jan and Dean song "Surf City," also co-written by Berry and Wilson.

"Drag City" was released as the title track from the album of the same name. It was the first of the duo's seven hit songs in 1964, and charted in the top ten in January.

Personnel

The musicians on the session included:

Earl Palmer, drums

Chart performance

Chart (1963-64)	Peak position
Canada CHUM Chart	13
US Billboard Hot 100	10

References

Hoffmann, Frank W.; Bailey, William G. (1990). Arts & Entertainment Fads, Volume 1. Binghamton: Haworth Press. pp. 61–62. ISBN 9780866568814.
^ Ruhlmann, William. "Drag City". Allmusic. Retrieved 2009-07-28.
Scherman, Tony, Backbeat: The Earl Palmer Story, foreword by Wynton Marsalis, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C., 1999 p. 176
"CHUM Hit Parade - January 27, 1964".
Whitburn, Joel (2013). Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles, 14th Edition: 1955-2012. Record Research. p. 425.

v t e Jan and Dean
Jan Berry Dean Torrence
Albums	Carnival of Sound (2010)
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'" "You Really Know How to Hurt a Guy" "I Found a Girl" "Norwegian Wood" "Batman!" "Popsicle" "School Days" "Louisiana Man" "Yellow Balloon" "Tijuana" "Vegetables" "In the Still of the Night" "Gonna Hustle You" "Blue Moon" "Oh What a Beautiful Morning"
Songs	"Julie" "Stay"
Related topics	Discography Deadman's Curve "Barbara Ann"

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