The Swinging Blue Jeans: 'Make Me Know You're Mine' -1965

Reaganite Republican ^ | 09 January 2013 | Reaganite Republican

[Reaganite Republican]

Emerging in the wake of the Fab Four's rise to worldwide fame, The Swining Blue Jeans were what was called a 'Merseybeat' band, in the style of other Liverpool groups inspired by American rock, doo-wop, and R -n- B genres and originating along the banks of the River Mersey in NW England.

While not exactly one-hit-wonders, success was considerable -yet brief- for the band, as The Swinging Blue Jeans covered 'Hippy Hippy Shake' (like the Beatles) and scored a British #2 hit single with it (US = #24 on Billboard Top 100). They soon afterward charted with their version of 'Good Golly Miss Molly' (UK #11/US #43) followed by a #3 hit in Britain with
'You're No Good' that did poorly stateside, dying out at #97.

The group released a handful of singles over the next couple years, but commercial success now eluded them- the last noteworthy effort being 'Don't Make Me Over' in 1966, which did nothing in America while managing to crawl up to #31 on the UK singles chart for the Swinging Blue Jeans last hurrah: a shame, as although all the hits were covers the band had a great sound and brought a lot to the material, imho:

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[a fool in paradise]

Mitzi and Charlie spent a lifetime blaming their lack of success on Sullivan’s “make it or break it” television show because of the young audience crammed in for the Beatles’ debut appearance. No Beatles, Mitzi and Charlie become household names.

[Reaganite Republican]

I was born in 1961 so only vaguely remember British Invasion stuff, but have been listening to an online oldies station out of UK and caught the fever... LOVE five you just mentioned, Pete

[csmusaret]

And when they opened for the Beatles in LA the crowd kept wanting encores.

[peteyd]

Please!
What is the station?
Guess I could try and find it.
I’m a tad older than you (maybe 10 tads)
Love the music.
Forgot to mention the ZOMBIES!

[Reaganite Republican]

Well, actually I’ve lately been listening to a Czech one that plays 50% British, 30% American, and 10% Czech (not as bad as you’d think) oldies... they are big on the era we’ve been discussing, and have a good online player...

http://www.oldiesradio.cz/?pageid=168261&song_id=3005577