Straight Skirt
1958 single by Gene Summers and His Rebels / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Straight Skirt" (later "Straight Skirts") is a song written by Mary Tarver in 1958 and published by Song Productions, BMI the same year. It was originally recorded by Gene Summers and his Rebels, a rockabilly band from Dallas, Texas and was first released in February 1958 by Jan Records #11-100. On March 8, 1958, Cash Box picked it as their 'Sleeper of the Week'. In Billboard 's 'Reviews of Pop Records' they wrote: "The artist is backed by a chorus and cheerful rockabilly support on this blues. The kids might take to this".
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"Straight Skirt" | |
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Single by Gene Summers and His Rebels | |
A-side | "Straight Skirt" |
B-side | "School Of Rock 'n Roll" |
Released | 1958 |
Recorded | 1958 - Los Angeles |
Genre | Rockabilly |
Length | 1:58 |
Label | Jan Records |
Songwriter(s) | Mary Tarver |
"Straight Skirt" was flipped with "School Of Rock 'n Roll", an upbeat rockabilly song written by James McClung who was a high school friend of Summers. McClung was also the original guitarist for The Rebels and would continue to work with Summers well into the mid-1960s.
In the 1970s, at the beginning of the rockabilly revival in Europe, "School Of Rock 'n Roll" and "Straight Skirt" were re-discovered by a new legion of rockabilly fans and bands. Since that time they have become classic dance floor-fillers and renewed Gene's career to the extent of worldwide concert appearances from 1980 onwards.[citation needed]