Hippy Hippy Shake was made famous by the Beatles in the early 1960's the original song writer was Robert "Chan" Romero born July 7th, 1941 in Billings, Montana! "Hippy Hippy Shake", dubbed "the rapid rocker" a blistering 1:43 blowout of white -hot hysteria. "Hippy Hippy Shake" was well received in the United States and shot all the way to #3 in Australia. In early 1960. The single made its way to Liverpool where the Beatles jumped on it and it now appears on "The Beatles Live at the BBC". The Swinging Blue Jeans had a hit with it, #24 in the U.S. and #3 in England, 5 years after Chan recorded it. "Every band in Liverpool had that song in their repertoire", says Rip Masters, longtime rockabilly/boogie-woogie madman.