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The Dovells in 1962. The Dovells were an American doo-wop group, formed at Overbrook High School in Philadelphia in 1957, under the name 'The Brooktones'. [1] The original members were Arnie Silver, Len Borisoff, Jerry Gross (alias Summers), Mike Freda, and Jim Mealey (alias Danny Brooks).
The Dovells as the Dovells; Len Barry as Len Barry (of the Dovells) Mike Dennis as Mike Dennis (of the Dovells) Arnie Satin as Arnie Satin (of the Dovells) Jerry Summers as Jerry Summers (of the Dovells) The Carroll Brothers as the Carroll Brothers; Lang Jeffries as Ted Haver; Mari Blanchard as Dulcie Corbin; Georgine Darcy as Madge Albright
The Dovells added dance themed lyrics and vocals to their cover of the song and it was released in 1963 on their album of the same name. Although unrelated to specifically describing the much later music genre of the same name the song has the first known instance of the phrase "hip hop" in a recording, the lyric "...you gotta slop, bop, flip flop, hip hop, never stop".
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The album was recorded on October 18, 2014 at his sold-out show at The Silver Legacy Casino in Reno, Nevada. The audio CD was released for sale on the show's website [ 1 ] and the digital download of the audio CD was available on iTunes on November 10, 2014 where it has peaked at #3 on the U.S. iTunes Comedy Charts.
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In 1962, The Dovells remade "Mope-itty Mope" as "The Mope-itty Mope Stomp". [ 2 ] In 1983, a ska punk band, calling themselves The Bosstones, was formed in Boston , Massachusetts.
"Baby) Hully Gully" is a song written by Fred Sledge Smith and Cliff Goldsmith and recorded by The Olympics. [1] Released in 1959, it peaked at number 72 on the Billboard Hot 100 in February 1960 [2] and sparked the Hully Gully dance craze.