For Your Hully Gully Party/You Can’t Sit Down

1962 and 1963 albums by this Philly vocal group led by Len Barry! ‘Hully Gully’ built off the dance-craze success of the Dovells’ first hit single, ‘Bristol Stomp’, with a series of dance-oriented tracks (most penned by Parkway’s resident songwriting geniuses, Kal Mann and Dave Appell), three of which (‘Do the New Continental; Hully Gully Baby’, and ‘Jitterbug’) hit the charts. The original liner notes on this one call it “the best party album ever,” and that’s not that big of a stretch! ‘You Can’t Sit Down’, meanwhile, was the group’s lone charting album, thanks to its #3 hit title track. Gene Sculatti supplies the notes to this 24-track, all-mono twofer. Other songs include ‘Kissin’ in the Kitchen; Stompin’ Everywhere; Time for the Madison; Hully Gully Square Dance; Country Club Hully Gully; Cheat; Why Not You; Hully Gully; Stop, Look and Listen; Short Fat Fanny; 36-22-36; Maybelline; Miss Daisy De Lite; Hey, Beautiful; Baby Workout; Wildwood Days; If You Wanna Be Happy; Lockin’ Up My Heart; Summer Job’, and ‘Havin’ a Good Time’.