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"Barbara Ann" is a song written by Fred Fassert that was first recorded by the Regents as "Barbara-Ann". Their version was released in 1961 and reached No.13 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. A more well-known version of the song was recorded by the Beach Boys for their 1965 in-house live album Beach Boys' Party!
Eddie Jacobucci revived the Regents by accident. His group, the Consorts, lacked original songs for an audition, so they recorded a version of "Barbara-Ann". The owner of Cousins Records heard the track and decided to release the original version by the Regents. The original group reunited, and Cousins released "Barbara-Ann" in March 1961.
Fassert wrote "Barbara Ann" for his sister, Barbara Ann Fassert. His brother, Chuck Fassert, was the original 2nd tenor of the Regents. Vince Vance and the Valiants covered it with their 1980 hit song "Bomb Iran", inspired by the Iran hostage crisis of the previous year: this song indeed was set to the same tune, and the band credited Fassert ...
"Bomb Iran" (or "Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran") is the name of several parodies of the Regents' 1961 song "Barbara Ann", originally written by Fred Fassert and popularized in a "party" cover version by the Beach Boys in 1965. The most popular of the parodies was recorded by Vince Vance & the Valiants in 1980.
The group hit the top of the charts in 1964 with "Chapel of Love," a song that Phil Spector, Jeff Barry, and Ellie Greenwich had originally written for The Ronettes. [1] The trio consisted of sisters Barbara Ann and Rosa Lee Hawkins, plus their cousin Joan Marie Johnson, from New Orleans. [2] They first sang together in grade school.
Ann Wilson, who usually performs with her sister Nancy Wilson as Heart, originally sang the song with Loverboy's Mike Reno. The tune reached No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1984 and was one of ...
The record features two original songs by Pete Townshend on one side and three covers on the other, all of which were previously recorded by Jan and Dean: the theme from the Batman TV series, the duo's own "Bucket T", and The Regents' "Barbara Ann". As well as performing "Barbara Ann" with Jan Berry, Dean Torrence had suggested the Beach Boys ...
The song, under the original title "Jock-A-Mo", was written and released in 1953 as a single by James "Sugar Boy" Crawford and his Cane Cutters but it failed to make the charts. The song first became popular in 1965 by the girl group the Dixie Cups, who scored an international hit with "Iko Iko". In 1967, as part of a lawsuit settlement between ...