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The Swinging Blue Jeans: 'Make Me Know You're Mine' -1965
Reaganite Republican ^
| 09 January 2013
| Reaganite Republican
Posted on 01/09/2013 1:26:56 PM PST by 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:
TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History; Music/Entertainment; Society
KEYWORDS: music; oldies; rock; sixties
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To: AdvisorB; ken5050; sten; paythefiddler
To: Reaganite Republican; a fool in paradise
Not as good as the Undertakers!
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posted on
01/09/2013 1:34:02 PM PST
by
Revolting cat!
(Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
To: Reaganite Republican
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posted on
01/09/2013 1:41:03 PM PST
by
Revolting cat!
(Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
To: Reaganite Republican
You could swim in that reverb.
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01/09/2013 1:45:06 PM PST
by
Huskrrrr
To: Reaganite Republican
The boys a little later.
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posted on
01/09/2013 1:45:46 PM PST
by
Revolting cat!
(Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
To: Reaganite Republican
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posted on
01/09/2013 1:50:17 PM PST
by
Fiji Hill
(Io Triumphe!)
To: Revolting cat!
I guess they’re still playing- and still in blue jeans
To: Revolting cat!
Them and Paul Revere and the Raiders had the best outfits, that’s for sure lol
To: Reaganite Republican
I loved the Searchers,Animals ,Freddie and the Dreamers,Gerry and the Pacemakers,Manfred Mann.
Dang,I can go on and on about those groups.
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posted on
01/09/2013 2:00:58 PM PST
by
peteyd
(A dog may bite you in the ass,but it will never stab you in the back.)
To: Reaganite Republican; Revolting cat!
I recently saw a performance by one of The Muleskinners (1965 Twickenham sound)
Back Door Man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tpb9IvVL05k
He later joined The Small Faces, the Faces, and eventually played with The Rolling Stones.
To: peteyd
To: Reaganite Republican
To: Reaganite Republican
I was surprised to read that “Your No Good” only made it to number 97. It is one of my all time favorites.
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posted on
01/09/2013 2:30:49 PM PST
by
yarddog
(One shot one miss.)
To: yarddog
I was surprised to read that You're No Good only made it to number 97. It is one of my all time favorites. I like this version:
You're No Good--Betty Everett (1963)
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posted on
01/09/2013 2:44:42 PM PST
by
Fiji Hill
(Io Triumphe!)
To: a fool in paradise
Pimple faced and greasy hair Eric Burdon,but what a voice.
Baby Let Me Take you Home
and Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood.(2 of my favorites)of course House of the Rising Sun .WOW!
Thanks for the link
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01/09/2013 2:50:51 PM PST
by
peteyd
(A dog may bite you in the ass,but it will never stab you in the back.)
To: Reaganite Republican
A bit of trivia. Terry Sylvester joined the Swinging Blue Jeans in 1966. He left in 1968 to join the Hollies when Graham Nash left.
To: Reaganite Republican
What about Johnny Kidd & the Pirates?
To: Boogieman
I always wonder, if the Beatles never happened, would one of these bands wound up taking their place as the “Big Thing”?
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01/09/2013 3:14:24 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: Fiji Hill
Another of my all time favorites is “Silence Is Golden” by The Tremolos.
I am certain that the Searches did a version of it but I have searched their all time recordings and can’t find it.
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01/09/2013 3:42:29 PM PST
by
yarddog
(One shot one miss.)
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