2:14
single, 1958
Written by Woody Harris
Listening to this early rocker with its Fats Domino horns and rattling percussion, it's hard to imagine that Darin would develop into a velvet-voiced Sinatra-lite singer of great expression and range. It's a very era-typical paean to a sweet little sixteen, with short shorts, dancing in the bandstand, lollipops, and so forth. Like many songs of the era, it references other hits and dance crazes of the time: "Well you can talk about your Julie and your Peggy Sue / You can keep your Miss Molly and your Mary Lou / When it comes to the chicken or to doing the hop / I've got a girl they call the queen of the hop." The name "Julie" might reference a 1958 hit by the Crescendos, "Oh Julie."
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