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My baby does the hanky panky
Yeah, my baby does the hanky panky
My baby does the hanky panky
My baby does the hanky panky
Hey, my baby does the hanky panky
My baby does the hanky panky (yeah)
Yeah, my baby does the hanky panky
Hey, my baby does the hanky panky
My baby does the hanky panky
My baby does the hanky panky
I saw her walking on down the line (yeah)
You know I saw her for the very first time
A pretty little girl standing all alone
Hey baby, baby, can I take you home?
I never saw her, never really saw her (oh, yeah)
My baby does the hanky panky
Yeah, my baby does the hanky panky
My baby does the hanky panky
My baby does the hanky panky
My baby does the hanky panky
Ah, let's move it out
Let's go!
Oh, yeah!
I saw her walking on down the line (yeah)
You know I saw her for the very first time
A pretty little girl standing all alone
Hey baby, baby, can I take you home?
I never saw her, never really saw her
Okay, we're low on time, hold on
Yeah, my baby does the hanky panky
Hey, my baby does the hanky panky
My baby does the hanky panky
My baby does the hanky panky
My baby does the hanky panky
Let's knock em dead one time, let's go
Yeah, my baby does the hanky panky
My baby does the hanky panky
Yeah, my baby does the hanky panky
| treatment_bound (Duluth to Madison) | Posted: Dec 08, 2011 - 11:04 ParkerDC wrote: If you are from Minnesota (or anything close to a baseball fan)... all together now: "My baby waves the Homer Hanky!, My baby waves her Homer Hanky!" ...  Sorry, couldn't resist YES, I am glad some of those oldies are mercifully short! Edited By ParkerDC at 9:41 am on 5/20/2003  |
| stkman (Texas) | Posted: Jan 02, 2009 - 21:16 remember it well, ya think Tommy ever forgot the lyrics lol its not that great a song but sure got played alot back then, know I had it |
| capandjudy (Huntington, WV) | Posted: Dec 02, 2008 - 07:17 ghcollins86 wrote: As funny as that sounds, in many ways it's true, but the meteoric rise of Tommy James & the Shondells that summer of '66 was surely one of the greatest "Cinderella Stories" in rock history. Hanky Panky, an obscure single recorded two and a half years earlier by Tommy and his high school rock group THE SHONDELLS, in his hometown (Niles, Michigan) - suddenly out of nowhere became a #1 record in Pittsburgh, PA. At the behest of several local DJ's and promo people, Tommy was tracked down and urged to come to Pittsburgh to perform and do interviews. Unable to put the original band back together, Tommy went alone and chose a Pittsburgh group playing clubs as "The Raconteurs" to be the Shondells. Two weeks later, Tommy and the new group signed a recording contract in New York with Roulette Records... and the rest is history! Hanky Panky became the #1 record of the summer and the dream of a lifetime came true for Tommy and the Shondells! Roulette needed a "HANKY PANKY" album fast, so the group quickly headed for the studio with A&R man Henry Glover at the production helm. The album was finished in a break-neck two weeks with a combination of quickly thrown together group originals and cover material including a re-do of "The Fireballs" "Say I Am", which became their second million-selling single - the album itself going gold a mere four weeks after its release in July of '66. What a great story!! |
| ghcollins86 (Santa Monica, CA (469.84 miles SSW of Paradise)) | Posted: Dec 02, 2008 - 07:04 As funny as that sounds, in many ways it's true, but the meteoric rise of Tommy James & the Shondells that summer of '66 was surely one of the greatest "Cinderella Stories" in rock history. Hanky Panky, an obscure single recorded two and a half years earlier by Tommy and his high school rock group THE SHONDELLS, in his hometown (Niles, Michigan) - suddenly out of nowhere became a #1 record in Pittsburgh, PA. At the behest of several local DJ's and promo people, Tommy was tracked down and urged to come to Pittsburgh to perform and do interviews. Unable to put the original band back together, Tommy went alone and chose a Pittsburgh group playing clubs as "The Raconteurs" to be the Shondells. Two weeks later, Tommy and the new group signed a recording contract in New York with Roulette Records... and the rest is history! Hanky Panky became the #1 record of the summer and the dream of a lifetime came true for Tommy and the Shondells! Roulette needed a "HANKY PANKY" album fast, so the group quickly headed for the studio with A&R man Henry Glover at the production helm. The album was finished in a break-neck two weeks with a combination of quickly thrown together group originals and cover material including a re-do of "The Fireballs" "Say I Am", which became their second million-selling single - the album itself going gold a mere four weeks after its release in July of '66. |
| oldviolin (Esse Quam Videri) | Posted: Dec 02, 2008 - 07:01 I'm 11 again! Wow, this music thing really works!  |
| MJMJ | Posted: Dec 02, 2008 - 07:01 macadavy wrote: stuff about dancing Dictionary: hanky-panky(hăng'kē-păng'kē)
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| ghcollins86 (Santa Monica, CA (469.84 miles SSW of Paradise)) | Posted: Dec 02, 2008 - 07:01 Wow!! Brings me back to 1966 when this first came out!! Bought the single in Lodi, California!! |
| rickhoran (Eastern PA) | Posted: Dec 02, 2008 - 07:00 Way cool RP! its nice to hear this song since i don't listen to "traditional" music radio often. |
| lily34 (lexvegas) | Posted: Dec 02, 2008 - 06:59 LOVE IT! thanks! |
| Zep | Posted: Oct 31, 2008 - 21:08 Hilarious. |
| macadavy (Cascadia's attic, eh?) | Posted: Jun 27, 2008 - 11:45 tracenik wrote: Four questions:
What the heck is the hanky panky? Is it a dance? A euphemism? Whyyyyyyy? ;) You asked for it! 
Donald A. Guarisco at All Music Guide wrote:
The lyrics of this song convey the excitement of a hormonal lad driven mad by a girl who knows how to do the suggestive dance of the title, building themselves around the oft-repeated lyrical hook of "My baby does the hanky panky." The music is equally simple and infectious, building itself on simple verse and chorus melodies that bounce up and down in a pleasant, bouncy fashion. James' version is pure garage rock, a live-in-the-studio effort that layered low-slung guitar riffs over a shuffling stomp of a beat from the rhythm section. James topped it off with amusingly mush-mouthed vocals a la "Louie Louie" and an out-of-control guitar solo that is cheered on by the other band members." |
| rtb (NE corner of Work and Boredom) | Posted: Jun 27, 2008 - 11:45 The Caesars - Jerk It Out Tommy James & The Shondells - Hanky Panky HA! Nice one Bill! Or is mine the only mind in the gutter today?!   |
| nate917 (2,815 miles from home) | Posted: Jun 27, 2008 - 11:45 tracenik wrote: Four questions:
What the heck is the hanky panky? Is it a dance? A euphemism? Whyyyyyyy? Definitely a dance from the 60s. I remember playing the Sham and the Pharaohs' Little Red Riding Hood album, which includes a cover of this song, and asking my (hot) babysitter whether it meant, you know, fooling around. She said it was a dance with a suggestive name, and actually demonstrated the dance step for me. |
| k_trout (Dream State) | Posted: Jun 27, 2008 - 11:44 i always ranked this band right up there with The Archies  |
| Shesdifferent (Just visiting this planet waiting for the ticket home) | Posted: Jun 27, 2008 - 11:43 I think the summer heat or the smoke inhalation has gotten to you  |
| wferrier (Johnson City, New York; Home of the Factory) | Posted: Jun 27, 2008 - 11:43 Great story about this song, a bunch of young teenagers, I think Tommy was 13 at the time, recorded this and played it around their hometown in Niles, Michigan, and then it was shelved, and the band fell apart. The record was found years later by a Pittsburg DJ who played it nonstop day and night. Thats how Tommy James got started. |
| Misterfixit (Nashville) | Posted: Jun 27, 2008 - 11:42 tracenik wrote: Four questions:
What the heck is the hanky panky? Is it a dance? A euphemism? Whyyyyyyy? ;) Back in the day before 6th graders were taught the joys of perversion by the Left Coast, "Hanky Panky" was french kissing your girl or boy friend; it then probably progressed to "second base". In this 21st Century of disgusting Perverted Sexual Connundrums and Frenzied Urgency, it mean, basically, to Fuck. Or as Rev Jerry Falwell would put it "DISgusting Filth!" |
| dc_zee | Posted: Jun 27, 2008 - 11:42 tracenik wrote: Four questions:
His gal is a tart!What the heck is the hanky panky? Is it a dance? A euphemism? Whyyyyyyy? ;) |
| Al_Koholic (Exit 82, NJ) | Posted: Jun 27, 2008 - 11:41 Wow 5 years since this played last. Good every once in a while-will wait in 5 years to hear again. |
| steeler (Staring, blankly, into the abyss) | Posted: Jun 27, 2008 - 11:41 Ah, adolescent thrills! |
| ginniet (Spokane, WA) | Posted: Jun 27, 2008 - 11:40 I thought I left this song back in high school!  |
| blkstd (Champaign, IL) | Posted: May 20, 2003 - 09:40 this song is great. the constant repitition lulls me into a false sense of security. |
| tracenik (Washington, DC) | Posted: May 20, 2003 - 09:40 Four questions: What the heck is the hanky panky? Is it a dance? A euphemism? Whyyyyyyy? ;) |
| ParkerDC (Minneapolis, MN) | Posted: May 20, 2003 - 09:39 If you are from Minnesota (or anything close to a baseball fan)... all together now: "My baby waves the Homer Hanky!, My baby waves her Homer Hanky!" ...
Sorry, couldn't resist YES, I am glad some of those oldies are mercifully short! |
| KevinM (Long Beach (494.4 mi SSE of RP), Ca) | Posted: May 20, 2003 - 09:38 No Thanks |