DANNY AND THE JUNIORS
'Let's go to the hop': I'm quite fond of these four high schoolers from the cracked-bell burg who identified themselves as The Juvenairs and then, with success hovering over their heads in 1957, Danny and the Juniors. Their song, as composed by solo singer Johnny Madara and Juniors member David White, had begun as "Do the Bop" but needed a logical alteration (why not take all the eggs out of one basket so as to spread them at least 12 times further?), as Dick Clark and Artie Singer reasoned if the song was going to outlast the dance of that name, already well past its prime assuming a lifespan of half-a-hundred fortnights should denote something beyond the usual music business definition of longevity, which it usually does ... MORE ››
