Hippy Hippy Shake
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| "Hippy Hippy Shake" | ||
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| Single by The Swinging Blue Jeans | ||
| B-side(s) | "Now I Must Go" | |
| Released | December 1963 | |
| Format | 7" | |
| Recorded | 1963 | |
| Genre | Rock | |
| Label | HMV Pop 1242 (UK) ... (U.S.) |
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| Writer(s) | Chan Romero | |
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| The Swinging Blue Jeans singles chronology | ||
| "Do You Know" (1963) |
"Hippy Hippy Shake" (1963) |
"Good Golly Miss Molly" (1964) |
"Hippy Hippy Shake" is a song by the UK-based band The Swinging Blue Jeans. The single was released in December 1963.
It was previously recorded by original songwriter Chan Romero in 1959, who in 1959 reached number three in Australia, and charted with it in the United States but below the Top 40. but was not a commercial hit until The Swinging Blue Jeans' version made the top ten on the United States charts in early 1964. The song was also covered by the band Georgia Satellites in 1988 (from the movie Cocktail).
Intriguingly, while "Hippy Hippy Shake" sounds rather like a Beatles-clone, in reality The Beatles actually did a cover version of this song.
