The Swinging Blue Jeans - Shake! The Best of the Swinging Blue Jeans

Title: The Swinging Blue Jeans - Shake! The Best of the Swinging Blue Jeans
Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1986, Merseybeat, British Invasion, Rock and Roll, Liverpool, England 9/26
Matrix #: SP8601SNL
Condition: VG (LM) | Members: The Swinging Blue Jeans (N/A)
Cultural Facts:

1. Booed Into Rock and Roll: The group originally played jazz-influenced skiffle, even after reaching Hamburg's famous Star-Club. German audiences hated it and booed them offstage, pushing the band to ditch much of the acoustic setup, plug in and reinvent themselves as the rock-and-roll Swinging Blue Jeans.

2. Above the Beatles at the Cavern: Before Beatlemania, the Blue Jeans were already a major Liverpool attraction. They held an early residency at the Cavern Club and were established enough that the Beatles sometimes appeared beneath them on local bills, a reminder of how fluid Liverpool's pecking order was before 1963.

3. A Texas Teen Wrote Their Biggest Hit: “Hippy Hippy Shake” wasn't a Liverpool composition. Texas-born Chan Romero wrote and recorded it while still a teenager in 1959. The Swinging Blue Jeans revived the song during the Merseybeat explosion, taking their version to No. 2 in Britain and turning an obscure American rocker into their signature hit.