Bad Boy is a song written by
Lil Armstrong and
Avon Long. It became a hit for
The Jive Bombers
The Jive Bombers were an American R&B group from New York City.
The Jive Bombers consisted of members of two previous vocal groups, Sonny Austin & the Jive Bombers and The Palmer Brothers. They first recorded under the name The Sparrows in 1949 f ...
in 1957.
Billboard Singles
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/ref> The song has since been covered by The Escorts, Mink DeVille, Ringo Starr
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, Sha Na Na, Maryann Price
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, David Johansen performing as Buster Poindexter, and others, and was used in the first-season finale of the television show "Crime Story" as well as in the 1990 film '' Cry-Baby''.
The Mink DeVille version was included in the 1983 film Breathless
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* Breathless (1960 film), ''Breathless'' (1960 film) (''À bout de souffle''), a French film directed by Jean-Luc Godard
* Breathless (1982 ...
.
History
Lil Hardin Armstrong originally wrote it as Brown Gal and recorded it for Decca Records
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in 1936, and it had been covered by several artists since, including the Ink Spots in 1938 as Brown Gal, and Benny Calloway with the Four Steps of Jive. Clarence Palmer, the lead singer of the Jive Bombers, had recorded the song earlier in December 1949 as Brown Boy on Decca's Coral Records subsidiary, billed as Al Sears and the Sparrows and released in February 1950.[Marv Goldber]
The Jive Bombers
Retrieved October 12, 2014.
See Also
* '' Bad Boy'' (1978 Ringo Starr album)
References
1957 singles
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