667 Swinging Blue Jeans “Hippy Hippy Shake” 1963

“Originally a traditional jazz band, the Bluegenes were formed in 1958…After residencies in Hamburg and at Liverpool’s Cavern club, the group signed to HMV as the Swinging Blue Jeans (the name change following their sponsorship by a jeans’ manufacturer) in 1963 in the wake of Beatles hysteria…’Hippy Hippy Shake’ reached No. 2 in Britain (and was a hit a year later in America on Imperial. It set the pattern for their subsequent releases, all revivals of black hits” (The Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music, 2001). 

Swinging Blue Jeans “Hippy Hippy Shake”