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"Boom Boom Baby" is a song written by Dave Burgess. It became a number one hit in Australia when it was recorded by Crash Craddock in 1959. It was released on the Columbia label in the United States and was released on the Coronet label in Australia. The flip side of the record, "Don't Destroy Me", reached #94 on the charts in the U.S.
Boom Boom Baby is an album by Billy "Crash" Craddock. The songs were released in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The CD was released in 1992 on Bear Family Records. The only hit song in the United States was "Don't Destroy Me". The song reached No. 94 on the pop charts in November 1959. A few of the songs were hits in Australia.
"Boom Boom" is a song written by American blues singer and guitarist John Lee Hooker and recorded October 26, 1961. Although it became a blues standard, [3] music critic Charles Shaar Murray calls it "the greatest pop song he ever wrote". [4] "Boom Boom" was both an American R&B and pop chart success in 1962 and a UK top-twenty hit in 1992.
"Little Boy Blue" charted on Billboard in 1958, and Eddie Cochran told him it was one of his favourite songs. [3] Duvall recorded "Boom Boom Baby" two years prior to Billy "Crash" Craddock and his version of "Double Talkin' Baby" was sent to Gene Vincent as well as "Modern Romance" to Sanford Clark. [4] Duvall died on May 15, 2019, at age 79. [2]
Billy Wayne "Crash" Craddock (born June 16, 1939) [1] is an American country and rockabilly singer. He first gained popularity in Australia in the 1950s with a string of rockabilly hits, including the Australian number one hits "Boom Boom Baby" and "One Last Kiss" in 1960 and 1961 respectively.
"I've Been Too Long Lonely Baby" 28 — 28 — — — Billy "Crash" Craddock "Don Juan" 57 — — — — — Crash "Hubba Hubba" 14 — 14 — — — Turning Up and Turning On "If I Could Write a Song as Beautiful as You" 4 — 8 — — — 1979 "My Mama Never Heard Me Sing" 28 — 24 — — — Laughing and Crying, Living and Dying ...
"Don't Destroy Me" was his first hit song in the United States, where it stayed on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for one week at No. 94. [1] "Don't Destroy Me" and the flipside of the record, "Boom Boom Baby", were big hits in Australia in 1959-1960. During the 1970s, Craddock became a popular country singer.
John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1912 [1] or 1917 [4] [5] – June 21, 2001) was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. The son of a sharecropper, he rose to prominence performing an electric guitar-style adaptation of Delta blues that he developed in Detroit.