Tommy James & SHONDELLS 7" PROMO 45 "Hanky Panky / Thunderbolt" 1964 Snap102 VG

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34

Description

THE SHONDELLS DJ - Promo 45 "HANKY PANKY" a popular song with garage bands and in 1964,  Tommy James heard it performed by one in a club in South Bend, Indiana. "I only remembered a few lines from the song, so when we went to record it, I had to make up the rest of the song, "I just pieced it back together from what I remembered." His version was recorded at local radio station, WNIL in Niles, Michigan, and released on local Snap Records, selling well in the tri-state area of Michigan, Indiana and Illinois. However, lacking national distribution, the single quickly disappeared. James moved on, breaking up The Shondells, and finishing high school. In 1965, an unemployed James was contacted by Pittsburgh disc jockey "Mad Mike" Metro, who had been playing their version and it had become popular in the area. So James decided to re-release the song, traveling to Pittsburgh where he hired the first decent local band he ran into, The Raconteurs, to be the new Shondells. After some TV appearances and club dates, he took a master of "Hanky Panky" to New York, where he sold it to Roulette Records. - "The amazing thing is we didn't re-record the song, I don't think anybody can record a song that bad and make it sound good. It had to sound amateurish like that. I think if we'd fooled with it too much we'd have fouled it up." It was released promptly taking the top position on Billboard's Hot 100 for 2 weeks in July 1966.- b/w "THUNDERBOLT"

Vinyl is VG  plays  VG+  - vinyl still has lots of sheen left, there's one visible scratch, I played it and it doesn't effect play; some pops and hisses, but that just kinda' goes with the story.

 

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