On this date in 1964, JAN & DEAN were on American Bandstand performing their single SIDEWALK SURFIN' (Aug 22, 1964).

Written by Brian Wilson (music) and Roger Christian (lyrics), SIDEWALK SURFIN' was recorded as a single and then appeared on the 1964 album Ride The Wild Surf, and later on the Little Old Lady From Pasadena album.

The song reached #25 on the Billboard Hot 100 on October 31, 1964.
Jan Berry, Dean Torrence's partner in the Jan and Dean duo, wanted to write and compose about a sport other than surfing.

He came up with the idea to make music about skateboarding. After trying, unsuccessfully, to come up with a song about that sport by himself, he decided to go with the Beach Boys' song "Catch a Wave," a song drawn from the group's 1963 album Surfer Girl. Berry asked the composer, Brian Wilson and Wilson's thencurrent lyricist associate, Roger Christian, to rewrite it. They complied, and eventually came up with "Sidewalk Surfin'," which is "Catch a Wave" with different lyrics about skateboarding.