Oop Shoop, some authorities believe, is Sh-Boom spelled sideways.įurther, the Crew-Cuts emerged a few weeks ago on the glossy four-color cover of an album of eight songs entitled Crew-Cuts on the Campus, a collection which gave early indications of being an immoderate success.Īll this activity has occurred in eight months, which makes the Crew-Cuts the fastest success story in show business since Johnny Ray cried about a cloud. In October Oop Shoop was 17th in record sales in North America and rising with all the majesty a song named Oop Shoop can command. In addition, the Crew-Cuts have two other records, Crazy Bout You Baby, which two of them wrote and which sold 250,000 records in seven months, and Oop Shoop, released just a month before this article was written. Their record of Sh-Boom has sold more than a million copies in the four months after its release, Sh-Boom had paid them $27,500 in royalties and their fee for nightclub and theatre appearances vaulted from $500 to $5,000 a week. The four young men, known professionally as :he Crew-Cuts, were already somewhat disenchanted with the song Sh-Boom but they were aware that they’d continue to sing it three to five times a day for the next six months.
Hey nonny ding dong, a lang a lang a lang, ^ronto last October sang the aria Sh-Boom : the 399th time in public.SH-BOOM! The crazy career of The Crew-Cutsīursting out of the same Toronto choir loft that produced the Four Lads, the scrawny Crew-Cuts soared from cakes-and-coffee to $5,000 a week, top spot in the pops and a life without sleepĪ night club on the northern outsiw.