The Swinging Blue Jeans

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The Swinging Blue Jeans are a four piece 1960s British Merseybeat band, best known for their proto rave-up hit single, "Hippy Hippy Shake".

Intriguingly, while "Hippy Hippy Shake" sounds rather like a Beatles-clone, in reality The Beatles actually did a cover version of this song. In fact, The Swinging Blue Jeans had already covered it from the original songwriter Chan Romero, who in 1959 reached number three in Australia, and charted with it in the U.S. Later addition Terry Sylvester was not an original band member, and The Swinging Blue Jeans had the standard Merseybeat line-up of two guitars, a bass guitar and drums.

The beat group had a three year spell of moderate success, flying along with the all-pervading merseybeat success story. Once the novelty started to pale, the hits dried up, and the band eventually retired to the oldies circuit.

Sylvester left the group in 1968, and joined The Hollies as a replacement for the departing Graham Nash.

The Swinging Blue Jeans, with some original members, continue to tour to this day.

1 Band members
2 Discography
3 Reference
4 External links

[edit] Band members

Ray Ennis - Vocalist / Guitarist - born Raymond Vincent Ennis, 26 May 1940, in Huyton, Liverpool.
Ralph Ellis - Guitarist - born 8 March 1942, in Liverpool.
Les Braid - Bassist / Keyboardist - born William Leslie Braid, 15 September 1937, in West Derby Road, West Derby, Liverpool. Died on 31 July 2005, at Fazackley Hospital, Liverpool.
Norman Kuhlke - Drummer - born 17 June 1942, in Liverpool.
Terry Sylvester - Guitarist - born 8 January 1945, in Liverpool.
Colin Manley - Guitarist - born Liverpool
John Ryan - Drummer - born 5 April 1953, in Pinehurst Avenue Liverpool.
Bruce McCaskill - Guitarist / Vocalist - born 15 January 1940.