Thursday, January 3, 2013

Short Shorts Party part II

Short Shorts song
Royal Teens
The Royal Teens were a New Jersey rock and roll band that formed in 1956, consisting of Bob Gaudio on piano, Tom Austin on drums, Billy Dalton on guitar, and Billy Crandall on saxophone. They are best known for their single "Short Shorts", which was a #3 hit in the United States in 1958. The follow-up single, 1959's "Believe Me", hit #26. They never recorded an album, and broke up in 1965.

The term "Short Shorts" was a description Bob Gaudio and Tom Austin had given to the cutoff jeans teenage girls were wearing during the summer of 1957. On that musically fateful afternoon, Gaudio and Austin were driving up Washington Avenue in Bergenfield, New Jersey in Tom Austin's red and white 1957 Ford Fairlane 500, trying to figure out what to call the latest song they had written for their Rock and Roll band then known as The Royals. Just then, two girls came strutting out of Luhmann's (the local teenage sweet shop) wearing cutoff jeans that were cut so short they were almost illegal. At that point, the song "Short Shorts" was born.

The Royal Teens - Short Shorts Lyrics
Who wears short shorts?
 We wear short shorts
 They're such short shorts
 We like short shorts
 Who wears short shorts?
 We wear short shorts

Who wears short shorts?
 We wear short shorts
 They're such short shorts
 We like short shorts
 Who wears short shorts?
 We wear short shorts

Who wears short shorts?
 We wear short shorts
 They're such short shorts
 We like short shorts
 Who wears short shorts?
 We wear short shorts

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