A French traveler bought Big Soul's self-pressed disc on Sunset Boulevard; a DJ at Le Niel's in Paris dropped Hippy Hippy Shake and Sony France soon signed the California trio.
Chan Romero wrote Hippy Hippy Shake in 1959. The Beatles played it on the BBC. The Swinging Blue Jeans took their version to No. 2 on the UK singles chart in 1964. Big Soul's cut, track eight of.