Australian singles chart:
At the Hop entered the Kent charts on 5 April 1958 and peaked at #10. The song was #70 on the Top 100 of 1958.
Songwriters:
Artie Singer, John Medora, David White
Producer:
Kim Fowley
Record label of Australian release:
W&G
BONUS CLIP BELOW – At the Hop in the film American Graffiti
Wikipedia:
At the Hop was written by Artie Singer, John Medora and David White when Danny & the Juniors were still called The Juvenairs. Initially called ‘Do the Bop’, the song was heard by Dick Clark, who expressed concern that the dance fad of doing The Bop was on its way out. So he suggested they change the band name to the Juniors and the chorus from “Let’s all do the Bop” to “Let’s go to the Hop”.
After they performed the song on Clark’s show American Bandstand, it gained popularity and went to the top of the US charts, remaining at number one for five weeks.
The song describes the scene at a record hop, particularly the dances being performed and the interaction with the disc jockey host.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_the_Hop
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BONUS CLIP
American retro rock-and-roll band Flash Cadillac & the Continental Kids covered At the Hop as part of the soundtrack for the 1973 film American Graffiti. In the film, the band portrayed a fictional band named ‘Herby and the Heartbeats’. The cover was released as a single in 1973.
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