This is one of those oldies you don't hear enough on oldies radio. I was reminded of it recently when I caught a kitschy 1965 film called "Go Go Mania," featuring a bunch of Brit bands. The Honeycombs were a bit of a one-hit wonder, but what a hit it was! Three minutes of pure pop pleasure. But how could they not have been a bigger deal with a female drummer named Honey Lantree! When I went to iTunes to buy the song I noticed there's a cover version by Vampire Weekend, which you can hear below. But, I gotta say, the hipsters kind of sucked the life out of it.
(By the way, the host of the film, seen in the intro above, is Jimmy Saville, who ruled over England's pop scene in the '60s. A year after his death in 2011, he was revelaed to be a serial child molester.)
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