| (Baby) Hully Gully | |
| Artist: | The Olympics |
| Album: | Doin' the Hully Gully |
| B-Side: | Private Eye |
| Released: | July 1959 |
| Genre: | Doo-wop |
| Length: | 2:03 |
| Label: | Arvee |
| Composer: | Fred Sledge Smith, Cliff Goldsmith |
"(Baby) Hully Gully" is a song written by Fred Sledge Smith and Cliff Goldsmith and recorded by The Olympics.[1] Released in 1959, it peaked at number 72 on the Billboard Hot 100 in February 1960[2] and sparked the Hully Gully dance craze.
According to recollections by the Beatles about their early 1960 and '61 touring years, both in Hamburg and Liverpool the song had also gained a certain notoriety as a popular accompaniment to brawls among the audience, with fights often breaking out as soon as the song started being played.[3] [4]
| Hully Gully | |
| Artist: | The Beach Boys |
| Album: | Beach Boys' Party! |
| Released: | 8 November 1965 |
| Genre: | Rock and roll |
| Length: | 2:22 |
| Label: | Capitol |
| Composer: | Fred Sledge Smith, Cliff Goldsmith |
| Producer: | Brian Wilson |
"(Baby) Hully Gully" was covered by a number of different artists, sometimes under the name "Hully Gully (Baby)", "Hully Gully Baby" or simply "Hully Gully".
The song was covered, with new lyrics by H. B. Barnum and Marty Cooper, under the name of "Peanut Butter" by:
The song was adapted as a commercial jingle for Peter Pan peanut butter in the 1980s.[5]