Week Forty-Six: Doo-Wop - Ernie Maresca - "Shout! Shout! (Knock Yourself Out)" - The Original Wanderer

This week marks the official beginning of Spring, which marks the time of year that I love driving around town with my windows down, blasting Doo-Wop favorites! The reactions I get from other drivers are definitely varied. Some look at me as if I have lost my mind; others tell me to turn it up, but my favorite is when little kids or old people start boppin' to the beat!!!

I'm not sure why I so closely associate Spring with Doo-Wop... the only thing I can come up with is that the first time I ever went Swing Dancing at Sons of Hermann Hall, it was during Spring Break. If you haven't ever tried it, you are seriously missing out --- it is fuuu-uuun!

I also realized what a fabulous resource this blog has become for me to be able to research artists and musicians I would have most likely never taken the time to learn much about... granted, it doesn't really count for much that I now possess all of this knowledge, but it means something to me, at least!

So what I learned about Ernie Maresca is that he helped with writing many of the songs for Dion & the Belmonts, like "Runaround Sue" and "The Wanderer"!

***Update: I'll also include another one of his tunes called "I Don't Know Why"... They took down "I Down't Know Why", and I can't find another version on YouTube; so I am replacing it with "You're the Only Girl for Me"...

Wop wop wop, wop wop adada dada

Wop wop wop, wop wop adada dada

Wop wop wop, wop wop adada dada

Wop wop wop, wop wop adada dada

Shout Shout knock yourself out...
Come on yell yell loud and swell

You gotta Scream scream you know what I mean,

Put another dime in the record machine...

Hey we're having a party now it's just begun
We're all over here and we're having fun...

Joe's all alone and he wants to be kissed

While Mary's in the corner and she's doing the twist...

So Let's Shout Shout knock yourself out...
Come on yell yell loud and swell

You gotta Scream scream you know what I mean,

Put another dime in the record machine...

Hey Play another song like A Runaround Sue,
Let's do a dance that we all can do...

Turn that jukebox up mighty loud,

Let's liven up this crazy crowd...

Come on Shout Shout knock yourself out...
Come on yell yell loud and swell

You gotta Scream scream you know what I mean,

Put another dime in the record machine...

Every party that I intend
Believe now it's the livin end

Moving and groovin with some friends of mine...

Saturday night now we're having a time ...

So Lets... Shout Shout knock yourself out...
Come on yell yell loud and swell

You gotta Scream scream you know what I mean,

Put another dime in the record machine...

Hey Doing the fly with our hands in the sky...
Yeah, foot stomping baby just a you and I

School was out about a quarter to three

And we're having fun it's plain to see...

So Lets... Shout Shout knock yourself out...
Come on yell yell loud and swell

You gotta Scream scream you know what I mean,

Put another dime in the record machine...