BIG BOY PETE

Created on 01/12/2005
Latest update on 27/06/2023

Artist: Don & Dewey
Author: Don Harris/Dewey Terry Jr.
Label: Specialty
Year: 1959

West Coast vocal duo Dewey Terry and Don 'Sugarcane' Harris, who later played electric violin with Frank Zappa and John Mayall.

Covers:

1960:

Olympics [top 10 R&B]

1963:

Allisons [as Surfer Street, hit US; with Darlene Love]

1964:

Ray Sharpe

1965:

Kingsmen [as The Jolly Green Giant; Top 5 US; same tune, different lyrics]

1965:

Paul Revere & The Raiders

1965:

Righteous Brothers

1965:

Goliath et ses Philistins [from Quebec as Le Joyeux géant vert]

1966:

Royal Guardsmen

1994:

Mummies

1996:

Coco Montoya

Contact


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Arnold Rypens
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B-2840 Reet (Rumst)

info@originals.be

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