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Hully Gully (song)

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Released
  
8 November 1965

Length
  
2:22

Producer(s)
  
Brian Wilson

Genre
  
Rock and roll

Label
  
Capitol

Composer(s)
  
Fred Sledge Smith, Clifford Goldsmith

"(Baby) Hully Gully" is a song written by Fred Sledge Smith and Clifford Goldsmith and recorded by The Olympics. Released in 1959, the song peaked at number 72 on the Billboard Hot 100 in February 1960, and sparked the Hully Gully dance craze.

Cover versions

"(Baby) Hully Gully" was covered by a number of different artists, sometimes under the name "Hully Gully (Baby)", "Hully Gully Baby" or simply "Hully Gully".

  • Buddy Guy, Stone Crazy! 1960–1967 (recorded 1960)
  • Chubby Checker, It's Pony Time (1961)
  • The Ventures, Mashed Potatoes and Gravy (1962)
  • The Dovells, single (1962)
  • Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers (1962) (appears on some bootlegs miscredited as The Beatles)
  • The Searchers, At the Star Club
  • The Beach Boys, Beach Boys' Party! (1965)
  • Jackie Lee, The Duck (1966)
  • Hollywood Argyles, single (1960)
  • Mike Bloomfield, Junko Partner and Prescription for the Blues (recorded 1977)
  • Grateful Dead (Amsterdam, 10-16-1981)
  • The A-Bones, Music Minus Five (1993)
  • Petr Kotvald, Právě tady...Právě teď (2011)

    • The song was covered, with new lyrics by H.B. Barnum and Marty Cooper, under the name of "Peanut Butter" by:

  • The Marathons (The Vibrations) (1961)
  • J. Geils Band (1976)
  • Billy Vera and the Beaters (1987)
  • Mary Kate & Ashley Olsen (1992)

    • References

    Hully Gully (song) Wikipedia
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