WILD ONE
Created on 08/03/2001Latest update on 03/06/2021
Artist: Johnny O'Keefe with The Dee Jays
Author: Johnny Greenan/David Owen/Johnny O'Keefe
Label: Festival
Year: 1958
Australian rockabilly. On his debut ep Shakin' At The Stadium (with fake audience overdubs), differing from his slightly wilder version on Brunswick (US) and Coral (UK).
Covers:
- 1958:
Ivan [alias Jerry Allison from The Crickets (with Buddy Holly on guitar) as Real Wild Child]
- 1958:
Jerry Lee Lewis [not released until '74]
- 1962:
- 1982:
Albert Lee [as Real Wild Child]
- 1986:
Iggy Pop [idem; Top 10 UK; new version in '08 with Aussie rockers Jet]
- 1987:
- 1990:
Christopher Otcasek [in film Pretty Woman]
- 1993:
- 1993:
- 1998:
- 2001:
Paul Mac Bonvin [as Real Wild Child]
- 2003:
- 2005:
Buddy Holly & The Crickets heard this when O'Keefe opened their Australian tour early in '58. Not to be confused with Bobby Rydell's 1959 hit by that name.
