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A minor hit in the summer, It's too late now, was followed by the song for which they are best remembered, Hippy hippy shake, which entered the UK charts in December 1963. They recorded this song after hearing the Beatles play it in one of their guest spots at the Cavern club. It made number two in the UK charts and charted in many other countries including the USA. The American rockers, the Georgia Satellites, revived the song in the eighties.
In the spring of 1964, a cover of Good golly Miss Molly (the Little Richard classic) just failed to make the UK top ten, but they were much more successful with You're no good, which made the UK top three in the summer. This song started out as a minor American hit by R+B singer Betty Everett (best remembered for It's in his kiss - the shoop shoop song) but became an American number one hit for Linda Ronstadt in the seventies.
The group had only one more UK hit - it came in 1966, with a cover of Don't make me over (Dionne Warwick) but it failed to reach the top thirty. The group recorded it in 1964 and wanted it to be the follow-up to You're no good but the record label wanted a different song at the time. Maybe it would have been a big hit if it had been released earlier.
While the group played great music, they didn't write their own songs and this may explain their brief run in the charts. Nevertheless, they continued performing for many years afterwards (at least into the nineties - they may even be active still), albeit with line-up changes.
If you enjoy British pop music of the sixties, particularly the Merseybeat groups such as Gerry and the Pacemakers, you will enjoy the music of the Swinging blue jeans.
There are several other fine tracks in a wide array of styles: the latin rhythms of 'Crazy 'Bout My Baby', Wally Whyton's 'It's All Over Now' which sounds like a refugee from the skiffle era, and the brassy 'Tremblin'' from the late 1960s, for instance. 'Shaking Feeling' meanwhile offers a rousing end to the CD. Like many 'Greatest Hits' collections, however, there are a few songs that weren't hits and don't sound as if they ever would have been had they been a-sides.
There are also six covers of songs that are better-known by other artists. Three of these are Little Richard songs and two of them are fairly well done, but 'Tutti Frutti' is strangely lacklustre. Nevertheless, this is a very good collection of largely upbeat, uptempo music.
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