The McCoys - Hang On Sloopy [1965]

Thank you my friend SGT (Join to see) for sharing the music video of Rick Zehringer his brother Randy and the rest of The McCoys performing "Hang On Sloopy" in 1965 in honor of the fact that on October 2, 1965, The McCoys were at No. 1 on the US singles chart with ‘Hang On Sloopy’ (No.5 in the UK when released on Andrew Oldham’s new Immediate label).
Actually the title of the Vibrations song was "My Girl Sloopy," which was written by Bert Berns and Wes Farrell.

The McCoys were a rock group formed in Union City, Indiana, in 1962. It was initially comprised of guitarist Rick Zehringer, his brother Randy on drums and bass player Dennis Kelly. Starting out as Rick And The Raiders, then The Rick Z Combo, the group later added organist Ronnie Brandon, becoming The McCoys soon after Randy Hobbs replaced the college-bound Dennis Kelly. The quartet became a highly popular attraction throughout America's Midwest and gained the attention of producers Feldman/Gottherer/Goldstein who brought them to Bert Berns' Bang Records. The group's very first release was a simple, hard driving tune called "Hang On Sloopy"
In 1969 Rick Zehringer changed his name to Rick Derringer.
In 1971, Rick was featured as lead vocalist on three albums, "Johnny Winter And", "Johnny Winter And - Live" and an L.P. by Johnny's brother Edgar Winter called "Edgar Winter's White Trash".

Background on Hang on Sloopy from ultimateclassicrock.com/the-mccoys-hang-on-sloopy/
"An R&B hit for the Vibrations in 1964, "Hang On Sloopy" was written by Bert Berns and Wes Farrell as "My Girl Sloopy," Berns, who founded Bang Records, also co-wrote or produced such classics as "Piece of My Heart," "Brown Eyed Girl" and "Twist and Shout." In fact, the success of the Beatles' cover of the Isley Brothers' "Twist and Shout" prompted Berns to do the same with "My Girl Sloopy."
The first band to score a hit on Bang was the Strangeloves. Billed as a trio of fake Australian sheepherders, the Strangeloves were really Brooklyn-born producers Richard Gottehrer, Jerry Goldstein and Bob Feldman. The band toured the U.S. in 1965 as "I Want Candy" reached No. 11. "My Girl Sloopy" was part of their repertoire but it was too soon to release it as a follow-up single.

Instead, Berns enlisted the producers to find a group of kids who looked like the Beatles to record what would be retitled "Hang On Sloopy." On the last stop of the tour, the Strangeloves' backing group was Rick and the Raiders, fronted by Rick Derringer.

"Coincidentally, the day that we were going to play as their backup band in Dayton, Ohio, we went out and bought Beatle suits," Derringer told Living Legends Music. "We all had our little Beatle haircuts, we had our Beatle suits on. They hadn’t found the band that looked like the Beatles yet. And we went out there and they said, 'One of the songs we’re gonna play is "My Girl Sloopy"' and we all went, 'Whoa, we love that song.'"
"So we played the heck out of it, because we knew it and loved it. So of course afterwards, it was the last show on their tour and they hadn’t found that band yet. They brought us backstage and they said, 'Would you like to come to New York tomorrow and record 'Hang On Sloopy?'"

He continued, "So we hitched a U-Haul trailer on the back of our car and followed the Strangeloves to New York City the next day and went in the studio the next week and recorded what was soon to become known as 'Hang On Sloopy' and the engineers jumped up and down in the control room and yelled 'Number one! Number one!' and within a few weeks it was."

Due to the popularity of Paul Revere and the Raiders, Derringer's band was renamed the McCoys. But all these years later, no one knows with certainty the real name of the original Sloopy. A St. Louis businessman has said that he sold the song to Berns for a few thousand dollars when he was a teen; another story is that Dorothy "Dottie" Sloop, a New Orleans jazz pianist is the '30s and '40s, was the inspiration.
But Derringer was told by Berns that he picked up the expression in Cuba. "He said 'Sloopy' was a colloquialism, he put it, or a nickname for girls in Cuba," Derringer told Karen Kernan. "He said the guys would go, 'Hey Sloopy, how ya doin'?' And he said he took that and he wrote 'Hang On Sloopy.'"
"Hang On Sloopy" has become a garage rock classic and has been covered by everyone from the Yardbirds to Bruce Springsteen to Smashing Pumpkins. In 1985, "Hang On Sloopy" was named the official rock song of the state of Ohio. The song is regularly played at the home games of Cleveland's sports teams the Indians, Browns and Cavaliers. "Hang on Sloopy" was part of the Rolling Stones' live sets in 1966. When the Stones performed at Ohio Stadium in Columbus on May 31, 2015, Mick Jagger led the crowd through the raucous chorus of "Hang On Sloopy."

"Hang On Sloopy"
Lyrics
Hang on sloopy, sloopy hang on
Hang on sloopy, sloopy hang on

Sloopy lives in a very bad part of town
and everybody else, tries to put my sloopy down
Sloopy I don't care, what your daddy do
Cuz you know sloopy, girl, I'm inlove with you

and so I say now

Hang on sloopy, sloopy hang on
Hang on sloopy, sloopy hang on

Sloopy wears a red dress, yeah
??
but when sloopy wears that red dress, yeah
you know it gives me the chills

Sloopy when I see you walking,
walking down the street
I say don't worry sloopy, girl
You belong to me

and so I say now

Hang on sloopy, sloopy hang on
Hang on sloopy, sloopy hang on
(yeah) (yeah) (yeah) (yeah)

Sloopy let your hair down, ooo
Let it hang down on me
Sloopy let your hair down, girl
Let it hang down on me, yeah

come on sloopy (come on, come on)
oh come on sloopy (come on, come on)
oh come on sloopy (come on, come on)
oh come on sloopy (come on, come on)

well it feels so good (come on, come on)
you know it feels so good (come on, come on)
well shake it, shake it, shake it sloopy (come on, come on)
shake it, shake it, shake it yeah (come on, come on)

hang on sloopy, sloopy hang on
(yeah) (yeah) (yeah) (yeah)
hang on sloopy, sloopy hang on
(yeah) (yeah) (yeah) (yeah)
hang on sloopy, sloopy hang on"

Rick Derringer-PBS A Gulf Coast Journal
For the past five decades, Rick Derringer has been a force in the music industry--producer, singer, songwriter and one of rock n roll's most gifted guitarists.
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I remember singing along to this. SPC Margaret Higgins check this one out.

Great oldie David - thanks.