The Swinging Blue Jeans are a four-piece
60s British
merseybeat band, best known for their proto-rave-up hit single "
Hippy Hippy Shake" (also known as "
The Hippy Hippy Shake"). Intriguingly, while the song sounds rather Beatles-clone like, the Beatles did in fact do a cover version of this song for the BBC. The Swinging Blue Jeans had a spell of moderate success, breaking into the U.S. with the aforementioned hit but also charting again and again in the U.K. such as with the top 5 cover track "
You're No Good". Sadly, they seemed to fly along with t…
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